VOLUME XXX (2008)
The Southeast Review of Asian Studies (SERAS) is an annual, peer-reviewed publication of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS). Beginning with Volume 16 (1994), the SERAS (ISSN 1083-074X) replaces the Annals (ISSN 0883-8909), published by the SEC/AAS since 1979.

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Steven E. Gump, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Daniel A. Mètraux, Mary Baldwin College
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CONTENTS

Editor's Note

Welcome from the SEC/AAS President

Instructions for Authors

The Volume at a Glance:  Invited Essay, Articles & Scholarly Notes

Contributors

INVITED ESSAY
Founding a Scholarly Journal for the Southeast Conference
HOWARD M. FEDERSPIEL

ARTICLES

Interactions & Reactions: Asia & the West

Early Modern Chinese Reactions to Western Missionary Iconography
ANTHONY E. CLARK 

Sheiks and Samurai: Léon Roches and the French Imperial Project
DANA IRWIN 

Ezra Pound’s Poetic Mirror and the “China Cantos”:  The Healing of the West
QINGJUN LI 

Jack London’s Inuential Role as an Observer of Early Modern Asia
DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX 

Sociopolitical Dynamics in Asia

Sustainability of India’s Welfare System in the Context of Globalization:
A Comparative Study of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu
SAI MA 

The Relationship between Sus and Inner Asian Ruling Elites
TIMOTHY MAY 
Language: Construction & Interpretation

Chains of Elusiveness: Buson and Kitō’s “Momosumomo” Haikai Sequences
CHERYL A. CROWLEY 

The Tower of Power’s Finest Hour:  Stupa Construction and Veneration in the Lotus Sutra
JOHN M. THOMPSON  

Ambiguous and Amiss: Li Shangyin’s Poetry and Its Interpretations
LI ZENG 

SCHOLARLY NOTES
 
Placing “Qinghai Studies” in the Field of China and Inner Asia
CHIA NING  

Digital Music Success in China: Suggested Guidelines for Foreign Firms
HOWARD H. COCHRAN JR. & DAVID J. MOSER 

Contagion: Thinking about Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Burma
PETER A. COCLANIS 

Asia in World History: Notes on Pedagogical Scholarship
LUCIEN ELLINGTON

The Dissonance between Culture and Intellectual Property in China
JESSICA GISCLAIR

The Consolidation of Place and Punishment in Seventeenth-Century
Japan: Kanazawa Prisons and Criminal Justice
DAVID NELSON

A Culture in Decline: The Mississippi Delta Chinese
JOHN G. THORNELL
 
The Tian Zu Hui (Natural Foot Society):  Christian Women in China and the Fight against Footbinding
BRENT WHITEFIELD
BOOK REVIEWS
[BOOK REVIEWS as a single file]

Asia: Comparative & Transnational

Baroowah, Tea: Legend, Life and Livelihood of India
Gautier, Tea: Aromas and Flavors around the World
Heiss & Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
Hohenegger, Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West
Martin, Tea: The Drink That Changed the World
STEVEN E. GUMP

Esposito & Mogahed, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims
Really Think
Moaddel, ed., Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics
GORDON L. BOWEN

Hershock, Buddhism in the Public Sphere:  Reorienting Global Interdependence
TOM PYNN

Jones, ed., Buddha Nature and Animality
JIM DEITRICK
China

Chandler & Littlejohn, eds., Polishing the Chinese Mirror:  Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, Jr.
JEFFREY L. RICHEY

Chen & Wu, Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants
DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX
Japan

Dalby, East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons
Muller, Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
Williamson, A Year in Japan
STEVEN E. GUMP 

Kawabata, The Old Capital (trans. Holman)
JONATHAN THORNDIKE

Keene, Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841
LUCIEN ELLINGTON

Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians
Believe in the Church of World Messianity
DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX
Korea

Armstrong, The Koreas
DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX

Robinson, Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History
DURHAM JOEL IZLAR
South Asia

Jaffrey, Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
STEVEN E. GUMP
Southeast Asia

Kwon, After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
ALLISON J. TRUITT
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 47TH ANNUAL MEETING
Program of the 47TH Annual Meeting
Minutes of the 4TH Annual Business Meeting
SEC/AAS Executive Committee, 2008–2009











   



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