Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Volume 33, 2011

ARTICLES

Special Feature: Taiwanese Fine Art

• Modernity in Agony: Contemporaneity, Landscape, and the Representation of Modern Life in Colonial Taiwanese Art
  ANDREW SHIH-MING PAI

• Self-Portraits, Family Portraits, and the Issue of Identity: An Analysis of Three Taiwanese Painters of the Japanese Colonial Period
  CHUAN-YING YEN

• Icons, Power, and Artistic Practice in Colonial Taiwan: Tsai Yun-yen’s Buddha Hall and Boys’ Day
  CHINGHSIN WU

• Dancing with Degas: Zhang Daqian’s Balletic Lotus
  LI-LING HSIAO & DAVID A. ROSS

China

• Surviving the Japanese Invasion of China: An Englishman in Shanghai in the 1940s
  LAWRENCE KESSLER

• Devotion to Amitāyus Pure Land: An Iconographic Study of Cave 19 at Qixiashan, China
  WEI LIN

SEC Undergraduate Prize–Winning Essay

• Hikikomania: Existential Horror or National Malaise?
  KATHLEEN HUNTER LEA TODD

ESSAYS & IDEAS

• Some East Asian Popular Song Lyrics
  ERIC HENRY

• Xue Tao Stationery: Delivering Love for a Thousand Years
  LI-LING HSIAO

• An Obsessive’s Guide to Tea Obsession
  ALEXIS LITTLEFIELD

• How Bret Harte’s Satirical Poem “The Heathen Chinee” Helped Iname Racism in 1870s America
  DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX

• Locke: The Last Chinese Village in Rural California
  DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX

• Lost – and Found – in Translation: A Memoir of Hard Work
  JASON MORGAN

• Christianity and Inculturated Music in Indonesia
  MARZANNA POPLAWSKA

• Are There Ethical Implications of Karma?
  TOM PYNN

• Mirzā Hādi Ruswā’s Laila Majnūn
  AFROZ TAJ

• Konoe Fumimaro and the Communist Conspiracy
  KAZUO YAGAMI

BOOK REVIEWS

Asia: Comparative & Transnational

• Robert Finlay, The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History
  STEPHEN BARTLETT

• David C. Kang, East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute
  LUCIEN ELLINGTON

• Mary E. Connor, ed., The Koreas
  Lucien Ellington, Japan
  Robert André LaFleur, ed. China
  STEVEN E. GUMP

• Mary Lou Heiss & Robert J. Heiss, The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook: A Guide to Enjoying the World’s Best Teas
  Helen Saberi, Tea: A Global History
  S. Samarasingham, A Complete Book on Black Tea Manufacture
  STEVEN E. GUMP

• Jim Masselos, ed., The Great Empires of Asia
  STEVEN E. GUMP

• Adriana Proser, ed., Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art
  STEVEN E. GUMP

• David Jones & E.R. Klein, eds., Asian Texts, Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions
  JEFFREY S. LIDKE

• A.K.M. Ahsan Ullah, Rationalizing Migration Decisions: Labor Migrants in East and South-East Asia
  SARASIJ MAJUMDER

• Christopher S. Bond & Lewis M. Simons, The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam
  MEREDITH A. MCLAUGHLIN

• Erika Lee & Judy Yung, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
  DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX

• Michael C. Brannigan, Striking a Balance: A Primer of Traditional Asian Values
  TOM PYNN

• Alan Chong & Noriko Murai, eds., Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia
  DAVID A. ROSS

China

• Jason Kuo, ed., Chinese Ink Painting Now
  DAVID A. ROSS

• Zao Wou-Ki, Zao Wou-Ki, 1935–2008
  José Frèches, Zao Wou-Ki: Works, Writings, Interviews
  DAVID A. ROSS

Japan

• Jan Bardsley & Laura Miller, eds., Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan
  ALLISON ALEXY

• Susan D. Holloway, Women and Family in Contemporary Japan
  MASAKO N. RACEL

Vietnam

• Eric T. Jennings, Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina
  ERIC HENRY