The Journal of Asian Studies
Volume 67 - Number 2 - May 2008
Contents
Photography, Ideology, the “Authentic” and the “Real”

Power Made Visible: Photography and Postwar Japan’s Elusive Reality
Julia Adeney Thomas

Cosmopolitan Visions: Ethnic Chinese and the Photographic Imagining of Indonesia in the Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Periods
Karen Strassler

Politics in Rural Thailand

Suphanburi in the Fast Lane: Roads, Prestige, and Domination in Provincial Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki

Vote Buying and Village Outrage in an Election in Northern Thailand: Recent Legal Reforms in Historical Context
Katherine A. Bowie

History and the Politics of Culture

The Persianization of Itihasa: Performance Narratives and Mughal Political Culture in Eighteenth- Century Bengal
Kumkum Chatterjee

How Chinese Turkestan Became Chinese: Visualizing Zhang Zhizhong’s Tianshan Pictorial and Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe
Justin Jacobs

Empire of the Chinese Sign: The Question of Chinese Diasporic Imagination in Transnational Literary Production
Kuei-fen Chiu

Verbal Hygiene

China Expands Its Courtesy: Saying “Hello” to Strangers
Mary S. Erbaugh