Asian Studies Review, Volume 44, Issue 3 (2020)

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Special Focus on Modern Japan

Contributors

Contributors
Pages: 4-6
Published online: 05 Jul 2020
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The Operation and Impact of the American Military’s “R&R” Programme in Japan during the Korean War
Caroline Norma
Pages: 365-381
Published online: 20 Feb 2020
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Silences: The Catholics, the Untouchables and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb
Gwyn McClelland & David Chapman
Pages: 382-400
Published online: 09 Dec 2019
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NGO Capacity Building in the Wake of Japan’s Triple Disaster of 2011: The Case of the TOMODACHI NGO Leadership Programme (TNLP)
Kamila Szczepanska
Pages: 401-421
Published online: 20 Feb 2020
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Transforming an Imperial Frontier: Japanese Knowledge and the Qing Empire’s New Tibet Policy
Fei Chen
Pages: 422-440
Published online: 18 May 2020
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Redefining North China during the Sino–Japanese War: The Jin–Xi Incident, 1939–1940
Qingjun Liu
Pages: 441-458
Published online: 27 Apr 2020
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“Living Ghosts” and how to “Cook” Them: Homo Sacer as a “Sociodicy of (Im)purity” among the Miao of Guizhou, China
Yan Liu & Chris K. K. Tan
Pages: 459-473
Published online: 20 Jan 2020
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Post-political Elections: Opposition Party Rallies as Popular Mobilisations in Singapore
Emily Hui Ching Chua
Pages: 474-493
Published online: 17 Feb 2020
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“English as a Lingua Franca”: Rhetoric or Reality? Attitudes of Prospective English Teachers in Post-colonial Hong Kong
Mee Ling Lai
Pages: 494-514
Published online: 20 Jan 2020
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Bhutan’s Reluctant Democrats and the Challenge of Legitimation
Mark Turner & Anthea McCarthy-Jones
Pages: 515-532
Published online: 12 Dec 2019
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Discourses on the Natural Environment in North Korea: Changing Regime Dynamics in the 1990s
Sunhye Heo & Inhye Heo
Pages: 533-552
Published online: 05 Mar 2020
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Book Review

Book Review
Handbook of East Asian new religious movements
edited by Lukas Pokorny & Franz Winter, Leiden, Brill, 2018, v, 620 pp., US$240.00 (hardback), US$217.00 (eBook)
David W. Kim
Pages: 553-554
Published online: 15 Jul 2019
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A secular age beyond the West: religion, law and the state in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
edited by Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, & Shylashri Dhankar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 422 pp., notes, references cited, index, A$41.95 (paperback)
David Schak
Pages: 554-556
Published online: 19 Apr 2020
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Pentecostalism and politics of conversion in India
by Sarbeswar Sahoo, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, xviii, 205 pp., £75.00 (hardback)
Allan H. Anderson
Pages: 556-557
Published online: 06 Oct 2019
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LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION Professional development of English language teachers in Asia: lessons from Japan and Vietnam
edited by Kayoko Hashimoto and Van-Trao Nguyen, London, Routledge, 2018, 172 pp., A$187.85 (hardback), A$47.45 (eBook).
Kiwan Sung
Pages: 557-559
Published online: 07 Oct 2019
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Education in China: philosophy, politics and culture
by Janette Ryan, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2019, 208 pp., US$64.95 (hardback), US$22.95 (paperback)
Zi Wang
Pages: 559-560
Published online: 27 Apr 2020
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Book Review
EIL education for the Expanding Circle: A Japanese model
by Nobuyuki Hino, New York, Routledge, 2018, 169 pp., US$112.35 (hardback)
James F. D’Angelo
Pages: 560-562
Published online: 13 Oct 2019
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Book Review
A dictionary of Indonesian prepositional constructions
by Totok Suhardijanto & Miel Slager, Zenodo, 2019, 491 pp., online publication (free), available at https://zenodo.org/record/3515813#.Xn_3oUFS82x
Alistair Welsh
Pages: 562-563
Published online: 27 Apr 2020
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Book Review
Talking north: the journey of Australia’s first Asian language
edited by Paul S. Thomas, Clayton, Monash University Publishing, 2019, 284 pp., A$34.95 (paperback)
Samantha Disbray
Pages: 563-565
Published online: 17 Jun 2020
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