| 2 | Director's note Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS) |
| 3 | Announcements |

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| 1 & 4 | We need to find what we are not looking for / Sheldon Pollock |
| 5-6 | Early modern classicism and late imperial China / Benjamin A. Elman |
| 7 | On Islam and comparative intellectual history / Michael Cook |
| 8 | The problem of early modernity in the Sanskrit intellectual tradition / Sheldon Pollock |
| 9 | The historiography of protest in late Mamluk and early Ottoman Egypt and Syria / Amina Elbendary |
| 10 | Can we speak of an ‘early modern' world? / Peter Burke |
| 11 | Opening the gate of verification: intellectual trends in the 17th century Arab-Islamic world / Khaled El-Rouayheb |
| 12 | Early modern Sanskrit thought and the quest for a perfect understanding of property / Ethan Kroll |
| 13 | Saying one thing, doing another? / Gijs Kruijtzer |
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| 14 | Empires and exact sciences in pre-modern Eurasia / Kim Plofker |
| 15 | Fiction is philosophy: interview with Lulu Wang / Tao Yue |
| 16 | A new research culture for the marginalised in Bangladesh / Jos van Beurden |
| 17 | Beyond economics: transnational labour migration in Asia and the Pacific / Toon van Meijl |

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| 18-19 | Punjabis in East Africa |
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| 20 | Books received |
| 21 | Britain, Southeast Asia and the Korean War / Thomas Crump |
| 21 | China's Tibet: marginalisation through development? / Alpo Ratia |
| 22 | A slow road to regionalism / Mark Beeson |
| 23 | Chinese experience of the Korean War / Adam Cathcart |
| 24 | On archives / Mark Turin |
| 25 | Living heritage: vernacular architecture in China / Marcel Vellinga |
| 26 | Female and single: negotiating personal and social boundaries in Indonesian society / Muhammed Hassanali |
| 27 | State and society in the Philippines / Niels Mulder |
| 28 | Kerala's cashew workers / Manja Bomhoff |
| 29 | Habermas in India / Hans Schenk |
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| 30-31 | ICAS 5 Update and ICAS book prize |
| 32 | IIAS fellows |
| 33 | IIAS research |
| 34-35 | Asia Alliance and Announcements |
| 36-37 | Arts agenda |
| 38-39 | International conference agenda |
| 40 | Colophon |