Spring 2010


1 Cover


2 Contents


3 From the Director





The Study


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Engaging North Korea after the Cheonan sinking Timothy S. Rich


5 Working girls in Dhaka, between public and private space Anna Ensing


6 - 7 The effeminacy of male beauty in Korea Roald Maliangkay


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Cigarette counterfeiting in the People�s Republic of China Georgios A. Antonopoulos, Anqi Shen & Klaus von Lampe


9 Negotiating with the Taliban: an Indian perspective Sanjeeb Mohanty


10 - 11 Three dreams or three nations? Rahaab Allana


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Maulana Bhashani and the transition to secular politics in East Bengal Peter Custers


14 - 15 Moving portraits and interactive voices from the British Raj Annamaria Motrescu


16 Provincial globalisation: the impact of reverse transnational fl ows in India�s regional towns Anant Maringanti, Carol Upadhya & Mario Rutten





The Focus - Urbanisation in East Asia


17 - 18 Urbanisation in East Asia Gregory Bracken


19 Architectural iconicity: Malaysia�s Multimedia Super Corridor Leslie Sklair


20 - 21 The metropolis and the capital: Shanghai and Beijing as paradigms of space Jacob Dreyer


22 - 23 The state of cities in China Bogdan Stamoran


24 - 25 National economic reform and rural migration to China�s cities Ana Moya Pellitero


26 - 27 Constituting governance: the US Army in the Philippines, 1898-1920s Estela Duque


28 - 29 Leaping beyond nostalgia: Shanghai�s urban life ethnography Non Arkaraprasertkul


30 - 32 Writing the longtang way of life Lena Scheen





The Review


33 New For Review


34 Bookmarked


35 Cultural forms are like snow, crystal clear when hardened, opaque when soft Jeroen Groenewegen


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The melancholy of Mocha Michael Pearson


38 Who is this �Indonesian Muslim�? Dick van der Meij


39 Race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore Holger Warnk


40 An extremely difficult position Nicholas Tarling





The Network


41 News


42 Opinion � East Asian art history reconsidered Anna GrassKamp


42 Response to review of The Russian Protocols of Zion in Japan Jacob Kovalio


43 A wave to surf on: ICAS Book Prize 2011 Paul van der Velde


44 Announcements


45 IIAS Research


46 IIAS Fellows


47 Colophon





The Portrait


48 �If it is beautiful, it will endure on every level� The Asian Art Society in the Netherlands Rosalien van der Poel