Asian Studies Review, Volume 45, Issue 2 (2021)

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Special Issue: Chasing Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Lightening in East Asia. Guest Editors: David Henley and Nathan Porath

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Contributors
Pages: iv-vi
Published online: 05 May 2021
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Introduction

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Body Modification in East Asia: An Introduction
David Henley & Nathan Porath
Pages: 189-197
Published online: 05 May 2021
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Body Modification in East Asia: History and Debates
David Henley & Nathan Porath
Pages: 198-216
Published online: 30 Nov 2020
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Deracialisation or Body Fashion? Cosmetic Surgery and Body Modification in Japan
Laura Miller
Pages: 217-237
Published online: 25 May 2020
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Media, Cosmetic Surgery and Aspirational Beauty Aesthetics of the Ageing Body in South Korea
Joanna Elfving-Hwang
Pages: 238-252
Published online: 19 Mar 2020
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Gentle yet Manly: Xiao xian rou, Male Cosmetic Surgery and Neoliberal Consumer Culture in China
Hua Wen
Pages: 253-271
Published online: 05 Apr 2021
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The Duty to Transform: Properly Refining the Body and (Re)defining Oneself in Thailand
Dredge Byung'chu Kang
Pages: 272-289
Published online: 25 Apr 2021
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Male Dan and Homoeroticism in Beijing during the Ming and Qing Periods
Chao Guo
Pages: 290-305
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Hong Kong’s Constructive Identity and Political Participation: Resisting China’s Blind Nationalism
Stephan Ortmann
Pages: 306-324
Published online: 01 Jun 2020
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“Mandarin Fever” and Chinese Language-learning in Brunei’s Middle Schools: Discrepant Discourses, Multifaceted Realities and Institutional Barriers
Sin Yee Koh, Chang-Yau Hoon & Noor Azam Haji-Othman
Pages: 325-344
Published online: 24 Aug 2020
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Flâneur, Popular Culture and Urban Modernity: An Intellectual History of New Order Jakarta
Sony Karsono
Pages: 345-363
Published online: 07 Jul 2020
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BOOK REVIEW

Book Review
Kingship and polity on the Himalayan borderland: Rajput identity during the early colonial encounter
by Arik Moran, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2019, 248 pp., €95.00 (hardback)
Nilamber Chhetri
Pages: 364-365
Published online: 10 Aug 2020
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A sense of Viidu: the (re)creation of home by the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia
edited by Niro Kandasamy, Nirukshi Perera & Charishma Ratnam, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xxiii, 168 pp., €49.99 (hardback), €42.79 (e-Book)
Anoma Pieris
Pages: 365-367
Published online: 10 Aug 2020
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Ishtyle: accenting gay Indian nightlife
by Kareem Khubchandani, University of Michigan Press, 2020, 286 pp., $34.95 (paperback)
Rohit K. Dasgupta
Pages: 367-368
Published online: 03 Mar 2021
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ASIAN HISTORY Mr. Smith goes to China: three Scots in the making of Britain’s global empire
by Jessica Hanser, Yale University Press, 2019, 240 pp., US$45.00 (hardback)
Donna Brunero
Pages: 368-369
Published online: 04 Nov 2020
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The affect of difference: representations of race in East Asian empire
edited by Christopher P. Hanscom & Dennis Washburn, Honolulu, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2016, 365 pp., US$68.00 (hardback)
Paul Howard
Pages: 369-371
Published online: 27 Apr 2020
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Sovereignty in China: a genealogy of a concept since 1840
by Maria Adele Carrai, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 274 pp., US$110.00 (hardback)
Sung Hee Ru
Pages: 371-372
Published online: 21 Mar 2021
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