Asian Anthropology (Volume 8 2009)

Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Local History through Popular Religion: Place, People and Their Narratives in Taiwan
Wei-Ping LIN

The De-territorialization of Ritual Spheres in Contemporary Taiwan
Elana CHIPMAN

Circulating Nationalism in the Age of the Korean Wave: Re-Inventing the Nation for Study Abroad
Samuel Gerald COLLINS

REPORTS

"Being Good-Looking Is Capital": Cosmetic Surgery in China Today
WEN Hua

Pakistani Husbands, Japanese Wives: A New Presence in Tokyo and Beyond
Masako KUDO

Pride and Prejudice in a Southeast Asian Refugee Community in New York
Mai Lan GUSTAFSSON

BOOK REVIEWS

Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan
GUAN Kai

Akihiro Ogawa, The Failure of Civil Society? The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan
Simon AVENELL

Hiromi Mizuno, Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan
Wesley SASAKI-UEMURA

Akiko Hashimoto and John Traphagan, eds., Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan.
Lynne Y. NAKANO

Nadia Y. Kim, Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA
Jeong Duk YI

Xin Liu, The Mirage of China: Anti-Humanism, Narcissism, and Corporeality of the Contemporary World
WANG Danning

Yan Hairong, New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
Siumi Maria TAM

C. Julia Huang, Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement
WU Keping

Annuska Derks, Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia
Sochanny HAK

Johan Fischer, Proper Islamic Consumption: Shopping among the Malays in Modern Malaysia
Abdul RAHMAN EMBONG

Kristina Goransson, The Binding Tie: Chinese Intergenerational Relations in Modern Singapore
LIAN Kwen Fee

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