Recently added articles from Southeast Review of Asian Studies:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Southeast Review of Asian Studies (SERAS) continues to evolve and to become increasingly representative of the high-quality scholarship produced by members of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS). This volume includes contributions by twenty-seven ...
Welcome from the SEC/AAS president.(Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies)
Jan 01, 2008; ... I welcome you to the thirtieth volume of the Southeast Review of Asian Studies (SERAS). In its original manifestation as the Annals of the Southeast Conference, the journal recorded the proceedings of a small regional conference and served as a publication venue for a few selected papers ...
Founding a scholarly journal for the southeast conference.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this invited essay, Howard Federspiel, the founding editor of the journal that today is the Southeast Review of Asian Studies, reflects on the journal's 1979 origins. Origins of the Annals of the Southeast Conference The predecessor journal of the Southeast Review ...
Early modern Chinese reactions to Western missionary iconography.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Although most recent scholarship related to Western imperialism in late Imperial China has centered on conflicts surrounding the Boxer Uprising (1899-1900), this study explores earlier modes of religious representation that contributed to those conflicts. Here, such works as the Bixie ...
Sheikhs and Samurai: Leon Roches and the French imperial project.(Biography)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Although largely unknown today, French diplomat Leon Roches (1809-1901) had a lengthy career in service that delineated the shape of French imperial interests during the nineteenth century. He served during the formation of French control over North Africa and during the dissolution of ...
Ezra Pound's poetic mirror and the "China Cantos": the healing of the West.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Of all non-Asian figures in twentieth-century American literature, Ezra Pound (1885-1972) had the most overt relation to China. Pound made Confucianism an integral part of his project of rethinking the future of the West and committed himself to updating Confucian values to correspond to ...
Jack London's influential role as an observer of early modern Asia.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... For his novels and short stories, Jack London (1876-1916) is regarded as one of America's most popular writers. Less known today is the fact that he was also an astute observer of East Asian politics, societies, and peoples. Working as a journalist for several newspapers and magazines, he ...
Sustainability of India's welfare system in the context of globalization: a comparative study of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.(Maharashtra Employment Guarantee Scheme, Tamil Nadu Pension Scheme)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In the globalization--welfare debate, the key questions are whether and how welfare states sustain themselves in the face of increasing international capital mobility and national competitiveness. This article situates the Indian case within the debate by examining India's sub-national ...
The relationship between Sufis and Inner Asian ruling elites.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Sufism flourished during the thirteenth century in the Middle East and Central Asia. The Mongol conquests have been given much credit, at least for the spread of Sufism, since Sufis immigrated--as did many others--to safer regions to avoid the destruction of war. Afterward, a variety of ...
Chains of elusiveness: Buson and Kito's "Momosumomo" haikai sequences.(Yosa Buson, Takai Kito)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... "Momosumomo" [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Peaches and plums) is a collection of haikai PM linked-verse sequences composed in 1780 by Yosa Buson [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1716-83) and his main disciple, Takai Kito [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (1741-89). Unlike most Japanese ...
The tower of power's finest hour: stupa construction and veneration in the Lotus Sutra.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Saddharmapundarika Sutra , also known as the Lotus Sutra, has a marked devotional orientation, with much of the devotionalism centering on the building of stupas, or Buddhist burial mounds. This article examines several important passages in the Lotus Sutra that center on the ...
Ambiguous and amiss: Li Shangyin's poetry and its interpretations.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... One striking feature of Li Shangyin's [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (ca. 812-58) poetry is its ambiguity, which has fascinated and frustrated generations of critics and scholars, giving rise to widely divergent interpretations. Through an analysis of Li Shangyin's famous poem "Jin se" ...
Placing "Qinghai Studies" in the field of China and Inner Asia.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this scholarly note, Chia Ning argues for the creation of a field of Qinghai [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] studies to recognize the unique historical and cultural contributions of present-day Qinghai Province, China, a multiethnic region in the Chinese hinterlands that has been ...
Digital music success in China: suggested guidelines for Foreign Firms.(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this scholarly note, nine guidelines are recommended to foreign firms seeking to sell digital music in China as firms attempt to access one of the fastest-growing and most significant country markets for entertainment product sales in the world. A complementary piece is Jessica ...
Contagion: thinking about cholera in nineteenth-century Burma.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this scholarly note, Peter Coclanis utilizes fragmentary evidence relating to an outbreak of cholera in Burma in the early 1840s to open up a discussion about issues relating to narrativity and historical method more generally. Introducing a Post-Colonial Inversion ...
Asia in world history: notes on pedagogical scholarship.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... After discussing high school and undergraduate students' problematic perceptions toward world history, Lucien Ellington describes four pedagogical works that can help students better understand the role of Asia in history--and that can help instructors teach about Asia more effectively in ...
The dissonance between culture and intellectual property in China.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this scholarly note, Jessica Gisclair explores various complexities of culture and jurisprudence with respect to intellectual property rights in China. This piece provides a useful supplement to Howard H. Cochran Jr. and David J. Moser's suggestions for foreign firms breaking in to the ...
The consolidation of place and punishment in seventeenth-century Japan: Kanazawa prisons and criminal justice.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this scholarly note, based on archival research carried out for his doctoral dissertation, David Nelson examines the use-and eventual discontinuance-of several methods of capital punishment in seventeenth-century Kanazawa, Japan. The Consolidation & Centralization of Criminal ...
A culture in decline: the Mississippi Delta Chinese.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... John Thornell documents the history of Chinese settlers in the Mississippi Delta in this scholarly note, quoting from, among other sources, interviews carried out in 2000 as part of an oral history project funded by the Mississippi Humanities Council. Chinese in the Mississippi Delta ...
The Tian Zu Hui (Natural Foot Society): Christian women in China and the fight against footbinding.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In this scholarly note, Brent Whitefield suggests that the Christian missionary-led campaign against footbinding in late nineteenth-century China missed the opportunity to create a connection between the Gospel and the ethics of abolition: women were emancipated, but Christianity was not ...