TOPICS THIS ISSUE:

Book Reviews:

Think Global Fear Local: Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan

reviewed by: HELEN GRINSHPUN 

Histories of the Borneo Environment: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity

reviewed by: AKIKO MORISHITA

Ukkil: Visual Arts of the Sulu
Archipelago

reviewed by: MARIA TERESA MARTINEZ-SICAT

Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World

reviewed by: WU XIAO AN

Reprints:

Sister Christine Tan – Her Story
Introduction by COELI BARRY

The Disintegration of Octobrist Ideology
by KASIAN TEJAPIRA

Audio:

Imagined Communities

by BENEDICT ANDERSON

Representations::

Japanese Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia: Time for a Regional Paradigm?

by NISSIM KADOSH OTMAZGIN

Museum as Representation of Ethnicity.The Construction of Chinese Indonesian Ethnic Identity in post-Suharto Indonesia

by YUMI KITAMURA

Music:

Singing Islamic Modernity: Recreating Nasyid in Malaysia

by TAN SOOI BENG

Soeara NIROM and Musical Culture in Colonial Indonesia

by TAKONAI SUSUMU

Literature:

Literature and Contemporary Philippine Politics

by JOSE DALISAY JR.

Ethnicity and Kinship in Filipino Centennial Novels

by SHIRLITA A. ESPINOSA

Thai Literary Trends: From Seni Saowaphong to Chart Kobjitti

by HIRAMATSU HIDEKI

Media:

Kuwaresma (1997)

 

Review Essays:

Tracing The Roots of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals: A Bibliographical Survey

by KAMARUZZAMAN BUSTAMAM-AHMAD

Why I “Mengaji” (Study) Malay: Developments in Malay Culture in South Thailand

by ABDUL RAZAK@ ABDULROYA PANAEMALAE

Theater::

A Choice to Review: Encountering Krishen Jit in Talking Drama with Utih

by CHARLENE RAJENDRAN

Staging Asia

by SUMIT MANDAL

Interview with AZUZAN JG

by JAFAR SURYOMENGGOLO

Collaboration Experiences in PETA

by RODOLFO VERA

He-Me-She-It (Help me see it)

reviewed by: JAFAR SURYOMENGGOLO