Chapter 1 New Developments in Asian Studies: an Introduction, Paul van der Velde; Part 1 Minorities in East Asia, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 2 A New Interpretation of the Yao Charters, Barend J. Ter Haar; Chapter 3 Can Kymlicka’s Liberal Theory of Minority Rights be Applied in East Asia?, Baogang He; Part 2 Chinese History from Within and Without, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 4 Historical Consciousness in China: Some Notes on Six theses on Chinese Historiography and Historical Thought, Achim Mittag; Chapter 5 Politics and Morality in Song China: Sima Guang as a Typical Example, Angela Schottenhammer; Chapter 6 Why Sinologists Look East: an Essay on the Prosopography of Sinology, Hans Hägerdal; Part 3 People, Capital, and Law in China, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 7 Qiaoxiang Ties and China’s Economic Modernization, Cen Huang; Chapter 8 Legal and Illegal Mainland Chinese Emigration During the 1990s, Carine Guerassimoff; Chapter 9 The Development of the Chinese Administrative Penalty System, Yong Zhang; Part 4 Islam and the Challenge of Modernity, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 10 The Role of Islam in Contemporary Indonesia : Search for a New Paradigm, Dilip Chandra; Chapter 11 Islamic Book Publishers in Indonesia: A Social Network Analysis, Jeroen Peeters; Part 5 Between Nation and Region: Authors in Indonesia, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 12 Another Document from the Funeral Pyre: The Suluk Aspiya or Suluk Éndracatur by Radén Mas Atmasutirta, Edwin Wieringa; Chapter 13 ‘Because I am a Malay’ Taufik Ikram Jamil between Nation and Region, Will Derks; Part 6 Deconstructing Imperial Images, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 14 Indian Languages in the Modernization Discourse in Colonial India, E. Annamalai; Chapter 15 The Construction of the State of Madagascar in the Nineteenth Century: Archaeology of the Religious Legitimacy, Rafalo Andrianaivoarivony; Chapter 16 Tibet: The Myth of Isolation, Alex McKay; Part 7 Environment, Culture, and Economy, Paul van der Velde, Alex McKay; Chapter 17 The Debate on Hunting in Present-day Japan, John Knight; Chapter 18 Music Patronage in the Sultanate of Gujarat: A Survey of Sources, Françoise Delvoye; Chapter 19 The Indian Ocean Rim (IOR): Economic Association: A Giant in the making?, Gwyn R. Campbell;
