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| 2 | Editorial / Maurice Sistermans |
| 2 | Director's Note of Appreciation / Wim Stokhof |

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| 1 | A Journey of Research in Asia: Crossing between Old and New Nations / Prasenjit Duara (p.1&3) |
| 4 | Whither North Korea? / Koen De Ceuster |

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| 6 | The Future of Asian Studies / Frits Staal (p. 6-7) |
| 8 | The Poverty of Regionalism: Limits in the Study of Southeast Asia / Robert Cribb |
| 9 | Writing Indian History from an Asian Perspective / Om Prakash |
| 10 | Where From, Who For? Modern Korean Historical Studies / Ken Wells |
| 11 | Comprehensive Vietnamese Village Studies: From Ten Years of Research in a Small Village / Yumio SAKURAI |
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| 12 | Understanding Elderly Vulnerability in Indonesia / Philip Kreager |
| 13 | Patterns of Kin and Community Support: ‘Oh, it's nothing, I've just cooked too much' / Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill |
| 14 | Pensions for Widows in Indonesia: 'You can bite it, but it's tough!' / Ruly Marianti |
| 15 | Growing Old in the City / Peter van Eeuwijk |
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| 16 | A Post-Colonial Poet with a Quest for Identity: Interview with Malaysian Literary Laureate, Muhammad Haji Salleh / Mohammad Salleh Yaapar (p.16-17) |
| 18 | India: Caste Stronger than Religion? / Christophe Jaffrelot |
| 19 | Cultures of Confinement / Frank Dikötter |
| 20 | The Swami and the Sister / Narasingha Sil |
| 21 | The Invention of India in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy / Neelam Srivastava |
| 22 | Islamic Youth Movements in Indonesia / Ken Miichi |
| 22 | Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia Series / Rogier Busser |
| 23 | Liberalism, Communism, Islam: Transnational Motors of 'Nationalist' Struggles in Southeast / John Sidel |
| 24 | Time, Space, and Music in the Kathmandu Valley / Richard Widdess |
| 25 | Notes on the Opaque Seduction of (Canto)pop: Sonic Imaginations / Jeroen de Kloet |
| 26 | Bali's Last Resort: Writing Ethnography of Balinese Adat / Kiyoshi NAKAMURA |
| 27 | The Making of a Myth: The Amazing Life and Death of the Sixth Dalai Lama / Simon Wickham-Smith |
| 28 | In Service of Growth: Legal Regimes, FDI, and Taiwan's Economic Development / HO Ming-Yu |
| 29 | New Perspectives in Word-Prosodic Typology / Bert Remijsen |

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| 30 | Books Received |
| 31 | Politics By Other Means: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India / Thomas Blom Hansen |
| 32 | Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity / Stanislaw Meyer |
| 32 | Dodonæus in Japan / Guita Winkel |
| 33 | The Burdens of Economic Growth / Benno Galjart |
| 33 | Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs in Late Imperial China / Kenneth Hammond |
| 34 | Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory / Julia Lovell |
| 34 | The Buddha's Moon Reflected on a Thousand Rivers / Allard Olof |
| 35 | The Ca Mau Shipwreck, 1723-1735 / John Kleinen |
| 36 | A New Focus on the Caspian Region: Turning the Periphery into the Centre / Frédéric Grare |
| 36 | Khams pa Histories: Visions of People, Place and Authority / Audrey Prost |
| 37 | Fertility and Familial Power Relations: Procreation in South India / Nita Mathur |
| 37 | The House in Southeast Asia / Catherine Allerton |
| 38 | The Anatomy of Betrayal / S. Eben Kirksey |
| 38 | Malaysia, the Making of a Nation / Marie-Aimée Tourres |
| 39 | The Chinese Minority in Southern Vietnam / Volker Grabowsky |

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| 40 | Examining the Urban Body in South Asia / Peter Nagy (p. 40-41) |
| 42 | Asian Ceramics in the Netherlands / Jan van Campen |
| 43 | Asian Art Agenda / Carol Brash (p. 43-44) |
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| 45 | Maritime Piracy in Asia / Derrek Johnson & Erika Pladet |
| 45 | Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World: Shaping Sustainable Social and Natural Environments / Reed L. Wadley, Ole Mertz, Andreas Egelund Christensen |
| 46 | India's Ship-Scrapping Industry: Monument to the Abuse of Human Labour and the Environment / Rupa Abdi |
| 47 | The Return to the Laggai / Myrna Eindhoven |
| 48 | IIAS Research Fellows |
| 49 | Dealing with Socio-Genetic Marginalization in Asia / Margaret Sleeboom |
| 49 | Rethinking Geopolitics in Central Eurasia / Mehdi Parvizi Amineh |
| 50 | Alliance Partners |
| 50 | SOAS in the European Alliance |
| 50 | Transnational Exchanges: Business Relations and Identity Formation Emanating from Asia / Heidi Dahles (p.50-51) |
| 51 | Asia and South Africa: A Missing Link of Nearly Seven Million Words / Helena Liebenberg |
| 51 | Asia's Past Secured / Henk Niemeijer |
| 52 | Indonesia across Order / Els Bogaerts |
| 52 | The Predicament of Commissioned Research / Hans Blom |

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| 53 | The Impacts of Space Technology in Southeast Asia / David Soo |
| 53 | Orality and Improvisation in East Asian Music: Ninth International CHIME Meeting / CHIME |
| 53 | The Life and Work of the Sixth Dalai Lama / Simon Wickham-Smith & Per Sörensen |
| 53 | Lies, Conspiracy and Propaganda / Robert Cribb |
| 54 | International Conference Agenda (p. 54-55) |
| 55 | ICOPHIL 2004 |
| 56 | Colophon |