Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Volume 31, 2009

• Front Matter including Editor's Note, Table of Contents and Contributors

• Full Report

      Invited Essay

• My Tenure as Annals Editor, 1984-1988

     Articles
     Special Feature: "Korean Wave"

• Introduction: Conceptualizing the Korean Wave

• Japanese Surfng the Korean Wave: Drama Tourism, Nationalism, and Gender via Ethnic Eroticisms

• Image Is Everything: Re-imaging Traditional Music in the Era of the Korean Wave

• No "Korean Wave" Here: Western Classical Music and the Changing Value System in South Korea

• Transnational Korea: A Critical Assessment of the Korean Wave in Asia and the United States

      Finds, Encounters & Relations in Asia

• "You Are the Clever One": A Semantic Contest in a Transient Host/Tourist Community in Nepal

• Tudi Gong in Taiwan

• Philologist of an Abandoned Classic: Coterie Reading, Comic Commentary, and the Topos of the Found Manuscript in Ueda Akinari's Kuse Monogatari

• Extramarital Relationships, Masculinity, and Gender Relations in Vietnam

      Visions of Empire, East & West

• Victim of Colonialism or Model of Colonial Rule? Changing Japanese Perceptions of Egypt, ca. 1860-1930

• Runner-up: Japan in the German Mass Media during the 1936 Olympic Games

• Engineering the Empire of Images: Constructing Railways in Asia before the Great War

      Interview

• Interview with Sichan Siv

      Scholarly Notes

• Using World History to Teach about Premodern Japan

• Science Innovation during the Cultural Revolution: Notes from the Peking Review

• East Asia in Survey Courses: Assessment and Comparative Digital Resources

• Gandhi's Grandchildren: The Legacy Continued

• The Southern Dynasties (420-589) Buddhist Caves at Qixiashan, China

• Japanese Simplification of Chinese Characters in Perspective

• Hosting the World: Perception Management and the Beijing Olympics

• The Nagayama Criteria for Assessing the Death Penalty in Japan: Reflections of a Case Suspect

• Yin-Yang in Snow Country

• Democratic Paradox: What Has Gone Wrong in Thailand?

• Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Gar Alperovitz and His Critics

      Retrospective Review Essay

• Liza Dalby's Geisha: The View Twenty-five Years Later

      Book Reviews

• Asia: Comparative & Transnational
  Gupta, ed., Going to School in South Asia
  Postiglione & Tan, eds., Going to School in East Asia
  STEVEN E. GUMP

• China
  Chen, ed., Fu Baoshi quanji [The complete works of Fu Baoshi]
  DAVID A. ROSS
  Littlejohn, Daoism: An Introduction
  JIM DEITRICK

• Japan
  Corson, The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket
  Issenberg, The Sushi Economy:
  Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
  SCOTT W. NAGEL
  Samuels, Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
  DANIEL A. METRAUX

• South Asia
  Metcalf, Husain Ahmad Madani: The Jihad for Islam and India's Freedom
  M. RAISUR RAHMAN
  Pinto, Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India
  RACHEL NEWCOMB

• Southeast Asia
  Van Esterik, Food Culture in Southeast Asia
  STEVEN E. GUMP