...Alan Klima Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora . By Jiemin Bao . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2004 . xxi , 224 pp. $54.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 Book Reviews ASIA...

...Carla Jones The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia . By Tom Boellstorff . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2005 . xiii , 282 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 Tom Boellstorff's book...

... production, articulations of sexuality, and possessive individualism, each examined with ample evidence. Desiring China and the desiring subject produce each other, as much as public cultural imaginary is constitutive of self-representation. However, desiring China only appears to be coherent and inevitable...

...William J. Tyler In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature . By Jim Reichert . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2006 . viii , 282 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 A story...

...Ann Sherif The Demimonde in Japanese Literature: Sexuality and the Literary Karyūkai . By Cynthia Gralla . Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press , 2010 . 300 pp. $114.99 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Starting in the seventeenth century, many...

...Carla Jones Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia . By Nancy J. Smith-Hefner . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . x, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780824878030 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Much...

...Durba Mitra Abstract This essay traces the colonial origins of the concept of endogamy and its history as a foundational idea in the modern study of society in South Asia. The history of the concept of endogamy reveals how the control of female sexuality shaped the overlapping fields of Indology...

...Rachel Rinaldo Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam, and Queer Selves . By Sharyn Graham Davies . London and New York : Routledge , 2010 . xvii, 257 pp. $148.00 (cloth); $42.95 (paper). Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia . By Evelyn...

...Joseph S. Alter Abstract I t is well known that mahatma gandhi felt that sexuality and desire were intimately connected to social life and politics, and that self-control translated directly into power of various kinds, both public and private. Gandhi's enigmatic genius and his popular appeal among...

... K U S H The University of Iowa Zhongguo niixing de xing yu ai (Women's sexuality and love in China). By Li Y I N H E . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 299 pp. Based on excerpts of personal interviews, Li Yinhe's book draws an interesting picture of women's sexuality in mainland China...

...Colin Mackerras Maoist Model Theatre: The Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) . By Rosemary A. Roberts . Leiden : Brill , 2010 . xxii , 285 pp. $132.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010...

...Paize Keulemans Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity . By Keith McMahon . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2010 . vii , 215 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 In Polygamy...

... to Asian Studies was a primer in the history of China-related gender studies (Furth 2012). Then, as Rachel Leow discusses in her paper in this forum, outgoing AAS President Gail Hershatter followed up with an inspirational critique (reprinted in this issue) of the current state of gender and sexuality...

...Michael G. Peletz Abstract My comments in this essay focus on recent scholarship on gender, sexuality, and the state in Southeast Asia and include brief remarks on some of the literature regarding Southeast Asians in the diaspora. In the interests of transparency, I begin by noting that I am...

... notions of human personality as rooted in the “truth” of sexual desire. These scholars placed the study of erotica and the sciences pertaining to human bodies within structures of teaching-learning with very long historical pedigrees. List of References Ali Azra Asghar . 2000 . The Emergence...

...Yoon Sun Yang Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence, and Representation in Industrializing Korea . By Ruth Barraclough . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . x, 186 pp. $36.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 Ruth...

...Soyoung Suh Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea . By Eunjung Kim . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . xii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780822362777 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...David Desser Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club . By Anne Allison . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 . xiii, 213 pp. $37.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK...

...William D. Wilder Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things . By Ann Laura Stoler . Durham, N. C : Duke University Press , 1995 . xiv, 237 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Jeannette L. Faurot Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction . By Keith McMahon . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 1995 . xii, 378 pp. $49.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 444...