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Editorial Foreword and Forthcoming Articles

Asia Beyond the Headlines

Adriana Erthal AbdenurChina in Africa, Viewed from Brazil

Trends

Kiri Paramore“Civil Religion” and Confucianism: Japan’s Past, China’s Present, and the Current

Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism

Reflections

Vicente L. RafaelThe War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English and

Tagalog Slang in the Philippines

Research Articles

Doreen LeeA Troubled Vernacular: Legibility and Presence in Indonesian Activist Art

Karin ZitzewitzLife in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critique

in the Art of Naiza Khan

Faridah ZamanColonizing the Sacred: Allahabad and the Company State, 1797–1857

Benjamin D. HopkinsThe Frontier Crimes Regulation and Frontier Governmentality

Margherita ZanasiFrugal Modernity: Livelihood and Consumption in Republican China

Tessa Morris-SuzukiPrisoner Number 600,001: Rethinking Japan, China, and

the Korean War 1950–1953

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THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES

EDITORIAL BOARD

EditorJeffrey N. Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine

Associate EditorsCHINA Haiyan Lee, Stanford University

Deborah Davis, Yale University INNER ASIA Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University

JAPAN Jordan Sand, Georgetown UniversityKOREA Seungsook Moon, Vassar College

SOUTH ASIA Bernard Bate, Yale-NUS College, National University of SingaporeSamira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University

SOUTHEAST ASIA Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania

Book Review EditorsGENERAL John K. Whitmore, University of Michigan-Ann

Arbor

ASIA: COMPARATIVE AND

TRANSNATIONAL David Porter, University of Michigan-Ann ArborCHINA Pär Cassel, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Liang Luo, University of KentuckyJoshua Goldstein, University of Southern CaliforniaBrett Sheehan, University of Southern California

INNER ASIA Rian Thum, Loyola University New OrleansJAPAN Mark J. Ravina, Emory University

KOREA Sun Joo Kim, Harvard UniversitySOUTH ASIA William Glover, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Matthew Hull, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor SOUTHEAST ASIA Anne Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mike Cullinane, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Advising EditorsIan Johnson, Independent ScholarAngilee Shah, Independent Scholar

EDITORIAL STAFF

Managing Editor Digital EditorJennifer H. Munger Matthew T. Combs

Liaison to SponsorsPenny Portillo, Assistant Dean, School of Humanities;

Marc Kanda, Department Manager, History Department

Sponsoring Institutions:School of Humanities, History Department and Center for Asian Studies,University of California, Irvine; University of Michigan

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THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIESVOLUME 74 • NUMBER 2 • May 2015

CONTENTS

Editorial Foreword and Forthcoming Articles 253

ARTICLES

Asia Beyond the Headlines

China in Africa, Viewed from Brazil 257

Adriana Erthal Abdenur

Trends

“Civil Religion” and Confucianism: Japan’s Past, China’s Present,and the Current Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism 269

Kiri Paramore

Reflections

The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English, andTagalog Slang in the Philippines 283

Vicente L. Rafael

Research Articles

A Troubled Vernacular: Legibility and Presence in IndonesianActivist Art 303

Doreen Lee

Life in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critiquein the Art of Naiza Khan 323

Karin Zitzewitz

Colonizing the Sacred: Allahabad and the Company State,1797–1857 347

Faridah Zaman



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The Frontier Crimes Regulation and Frontier Governmentality 369

Benjamin D. Hopkins

Frugal Modernity: Livelihood and Consumption inRepublican China 391

Margherita Zanasi

Prisoner Number 600,001: Rethinking Japan, China, and theKorean War 1950–1953 411

Tessa Morris-Suzuki

BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

JAPAN

How to Tackle a Nue (aka Anime)

Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity andJapan’s Media Success Story 433

Yokota and Hu, eds., Japanese Animation: East Asian Perspectives 433

Shiro Yoshioka

Stage and Page in Early-Modern Japan

Kimbrough, trans., Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight BuddhistTales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater 437

Kimbrough and Shimazaki, eds., Publishing the Stage: Print andPerformance in Early Modern Japan 437

David Gundry

Japanese Party Politics at a Crossroads?

Kobayashi, Malfunctioning Democracy in Japan: QuantitativeAnalysis in a Civil Society 443

Schoppa, ed., The Evolution of Japan’s Party System: Politics andPolicy in an Era of Institutional Change 443

Shinoda, Contemporary Japanese Politics: Institutional Changesand Power Shifts 443

Benjamin Nyblade



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SOUTHEAST ASIA

The Challenges of Writing Vietnamese History

Taylor, A History of the Vietnamese 449

George Dutton

BOOK REVIEWS

ASIA COMPARATIVE/TRANSNATIONAL

Airlie, Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of SirReginald Johnston 453

Paul J. Bailey

de Bary, The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for aWorld Community 455

Matthew D. Walker

van der Veer, The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and theSecular in China and India 456

Norman Girardot

CHINA

Cassel, Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and ImperialPower in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan 459

Philip Thai

Chin, Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and UrbanCitizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong 460

David Strand

Dardess, A Political Life in Ming China: A Grand Secretary andHis Times 462

Ann Waltner

Horesh, Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic JuncturesBetween 600 BCE and 2012 463

Elisabeth Kaske

Hsia, Li, and Kao, eds., The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama 466

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Kiely, The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison inChina, 1901–1956 467

Emily Baum

Kieschinick and Shahar, eds., India in the Chinese Imagination:Myth, Religion, and Thought 469

Tansen Sen

Lorenzo, Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen,Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo 471

Rana Mitter

Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China 472

Matthew W. Mosca

McGuire, Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu 474

Benjamin Brose

Moskowitz, Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game ofWeiqi in China 476

Wenqing Kang

Richter, Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China 477

Sujane Wu

Robinson, Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studioto the Street 478

Paola Iovene

Shaughnessy, Unearthing the Changes: Recently DiscoveredManuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts 480

Uffe Bergeton

Sheng and Zhao, China’s State-owned Enterprises: Nature,Performance and Reform 482

Carsten A. Holz

Wensheng, White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates:Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire 484

Pamela Kyle Crossley

Xiao, Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary ChineseLiterature and Visual Culture 485

Deborah Davis



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Xu, ed., The Political Economy of State-owned Enterprises inChina and India 486

Carsten A. Holz

INNER ASIA

Chopel (trans. Jinpa and Lopez), Grains of Gold: Tales of aCosmopolitan Traveler 489

Derek F. Maher

Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm CloudsDescend, 1955–1957 491

Benno Ryan Weiner

KOREA

Chung, Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema 492

Hyangjin Lee

Horlyck and Pettid, eds., Death, Mourning, and the Afterlifein Korea: From Ancient to Contemporary Times 494

Jungwon Kim

Kim, DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Alongthe Korean Border 496

David C. Kang

Kim, ed., New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Sillato Koryo 497

Maya Stiller

Pate, From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogiesof Korean Adoption 499

Eleana Kim

SOUTH ASIA

Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and theFortunes of Migration 500

Scott S. Reese

Chandra, The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste andDesire in Colonial India 502

Deepti Misri



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Collett, ed., Women in Early Indian Buddhism: ComparativeTextual Studies 504

Uma Chakravarti

Cross, Schopenhauer’s Encounter with Indian Thought:Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels 506

Milinda Banerjee

Gamburd, The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics afterSri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster 508

Neena Mahadev

Guha, Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia,Past and Present 510

V. Geetha

Hussain, Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress onthe Bangladesh-India Border 511

Dina Siddiqi

Malhotra and Mir, eds., Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture,and Practice 514

Timothy S. Dobe

Nair, Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partitionof India 516

Nikhil Rao

Salgado, Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of theFemale Renunciant 517

Kim Gutschow

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Barker, Harms, and Lindquist, eds., Figures of SoutheastAsian Modernity 519

Charles Keyes

Harms, Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City 521

Michael Herzfeld

Kepner, A Civilized Woman: M.L. Boonlua Debyasuvarn and theThai Twentieth Century 519

Charles Keyes



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Metcalf, The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity 523

Laura Steckman

Santasombat, The River of Life: Changing Ecosystems of theMekong Region 525

W. Nathan Green



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