| 2 | East-West meeting space / Director's note |
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| 1 & 4 | Introduction: cultures of confinement / Frank Dikötter |
| 5 | Colonial Burma’s prison: continuity with its pre-colonial past? / Thet Thet Wintin and Ian Brown |
| 6 | India: the prisoners’ revolt / David Arnold |
| 7 | In her aunt’s house: women in prison in the Middle East / Anthony Gorman |
| 8 | Blurring the boundaries: prisons and settler society in Hokkaido / Pia Vogler |
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| 9 | Pulau di atas pulau & In-communicado / Sitor Situmorang |
| 9 | Kembara jauh & wayang i / Mohamad Haji Salleh |
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| 10 | The prose of the world: the field speaks for itself / Saskia Kersenboom |
| 11 | Ancient Chinese ritual dances / Nicolas Standaert |
| 12 - 13 | The Great Fifth / Samten G. Karmay |
| 14 | Black Fever and British medical policy in India / Achintya Kumar Dutta |
| 15 | Urban elections in the People’s Republic / Thomas Heberer |
| 16 | Rendering history through the Sinhala novel / Manouri K. Jayasinghe |
| 17 | In the footsteps of Hayam Wuruk / Amrit Gomperts |
| 18 | Asians in Africa: images, histories and portraits / Gijsbert Oonk |
| 19 | The virtual second generation: negotiating ethnicity on the internet / Urmila Goel |
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| 20 - 21 | Warchitecture / Rick Dolphijn |
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| 22 | Women of the kakawin world / Dick van der Meij |
| 23 | Caring for Japan's elderly / Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill |
| 24 | Museums, material culture and performance in Southeast Asia / Sandra Dudley |
| 25 | Bringing Indonesian media history to life / David T. Hill |
| 26 | Language and politics in Mao's China / Manfred B. Sellner |
| 27 | Globalization and local development in India / Hans Schenk |
| 28 | Books received |
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| 29 | IIAS fellows |
| 30 | Hosting major international sports events: comparing Asia and Europe / Wolfram Manzenreiter and John Horne |
| 31 | European Alliance for Asian Studies |
| 32 | IIAS research |
| 33 - 34 | Announcements |
| 35 | A tale of two museums. Indonesia: The Discovery of the Past / Pieter ter Keurs |
| 36-37 | International arts agenda / Carol Brash |
| 38-39 | International conference agenda |
| 40 | Colophon |
