Asian Studies Review, Volume 39, Issue 2 (2015)

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Law, Support Structures and the Realisation of Human Rights in Asia

Contributors

Contributors
Pages: v-vi
Published online: 27 Apr 2015
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Announcement

Announcement
The Wang Gungwu Prize 2014
Page: 179
Published online: 27 Apr 2015
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Special Issue Articles

Introduction
Realising Rights in Low Quality Democracies: Instructive Asian Cases
Andrew Rosser
Pages: 180-193
Published online: 27 Apr 2015
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Law and the Realisation of Human Rights: Insights from Indonesia’s Education Sector
Andrew Rosser
Pages: 194-212
Published online: 27 Apr 2015
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Legal Support Structures and the Realisation of Muslim Women’s Rights in Indonesia
Jayne Curnow
Pages: 213-228
Published online: 30 Mar 2015
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Realising Women’s Human Rights in Malaysia: The EMPOWER Report
Juanita Elias
Pages: 229-246
Published online: 07 Apr 2015
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Constructing SSLM: Insights from Struggles over Women’s Rights in Nepal
Margaret Becker
Pages: 247-265
Published online: 30 Mar 2015
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Realising Rights in Timor-Leste
Laura Grenfell
Pages: 266-283
Published online: 07 Apr 2015
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Rescuing Women, Building the Nation: The Sexual Politics of Rescuing Foster Daughters in Postcolonial Taiwan
Wan-Chen Yen
Pages: 284-304
Published online: 09 Apr 2015
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The Masculinist Security State and Anti-terror Law Regimes in India
Anupama Roy & Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Pages: 305-323
Published online: 07 Apr 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland: Manchus, Manchoukuo, and Manchuria, 1907–1985
Lianying Shan
Pages: 327-328
Published online: 12 Mar 2015
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Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood
Nicolai Volland
Pages: 328-330
Published online: 12 Mar 2015
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Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama and Storytelling
Xiaohuan Zhao
Pages: 330-332
Published online: 12 Mar 2015
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Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages
Timothy Wai Keung Chan
Pages: 332-333
Published online: 17 Nov 2014
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China’s Legal System
Gabriel Garcia
Pages: 333-335
Published online: 27 Nov 2014
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Chinese Perspectives on Globalization and Autonomy
Benjamin Herscovitch
Pages: 335-336
Published online: 27 Nov 2014
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China as a Sea Power 1127–1368: A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People during the Southern Song and Yuan Periods
Tansen Sen
Pages: 336-338
Published online: 27 Nov 2014
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Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Modern China
Paul R. Katz
Pages: 338-339
Published online: 27 Nov 2014
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China’s Left-Behind Wives: Families of Migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s–1950s
James K. Chin
Pages: 339-341
Published online: 17 Nov 2014
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Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia
Barbara Leigh
Pages: 341-343
Published online: 05 Feb 2015
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Strange Tale of Panorama Island
Lucy Fraser
Pages: 343-344
Published online: 27 Nov 2014
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The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
Tamaki Tokita
Pages: 344-346
Published online: 05 Feb 2015
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Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910
Anders Karlsson
Pages: 346-348
Published online: 05 Feb 2015
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The US versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat: Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma
Terence Roehrig
Pages: 348-349
Published online: 05 Feb 2015
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The Japanese Occupation of Borneo, 1941–1945
Joost Coté
Pages: 349-351
Published online: 17 Nov 2014
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Culture, Power, and Authoritarianism in the Indonesian State: Cultural Policy across the Twentieth Century to the Reform Era
Keith Foulcher
Pages: 351-352
Published online: 17 Nov 2014
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Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance
Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Pages: 352-354
Published online: 23 Feb 2015
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Corrigendum

Correction
Corrigendum
Page: 355
Published online: 27 Apr 2015
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