| 2 | Confucius Inc., Plato & Co. / Director's note |
| 3 | Letters |
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| 1, 4 - 5 | The changing art of seduction: ritual courtship, performing prostitutes, erotic entertainment / Bart Barendregt |
| 6 | The seductive voice / Wim van der Meer |
| 7 | Love songs and temple festivals in northwest China / Frank Kouwenhoven |
| 8 | Indian courtesans: from reality to the silver screen and back again / Jolanda
Djaimala Boejharat |
| 9 | Beauty of seduction in a Tokyo host club / Akiko Takeyama |
| 10 | The art of no-seduction: Muslim boy-band music in Southeast Asia and fear of the female voice / Bart Barendregt |
| 11 | Dance floor politics in easternmost Java / Ben Arps |
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| 12 | The Indonesian conundrum: entrenched corruption and failing reform /
Peter King |
| 13 | Corruption, collusion and nepotism after Suharto: Indonesia’s past or future? / Richard Robison |
| 14 | The price of uncertainty: kampung land politics in post-Suharto Bandung /
Gustaaf Reerink |
| 15 | Land and authority: the state and the village in Pasir, East Kalimantan /
Laurens Bakker |
| 16 | Colonial rivalry and the partition of Timor / Hans Hägerdal |
| 17 | Living on the Line of Control: changing family and kinship networks in Devipur Camp / Abha Chauhan |
| 18 | Contemporary Taiwanese women’s arts: curating a movement into art / Ming-Hui Chen |
| 19 | The way of the world / Simon Wickham-Smith |
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| 23 | Books received |
| 24 | Islamic banking in Southeast Asia / Muhammed Hassanali |
| 25 | The Kyoto School, American empire and the post-white world / Kenn Nakata
Steffensen |
| 26 | In pursuit of inclusive democracy for a multi-ethnic state: Nepal at the crossroads / Alpo Ratia |
| 27 | Khmer identity: a religious perspective / Carolina Ivanescu |
| 28 | Dynamics of social inequality in Vietnam / Phuong An Nguyen |
| 29 | Piracy in Southeast Asia / Stefan Eklöf |
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| 30 | Pensioners on the move: social security and trans-border retirement migration in Asia and Europe / Mika Toyota, Anita Böcker, Elspeth Guild |
| 31 | ICAS 5 in Kuala Lumpur |
| 32 | IIAS fellows |
| 33 | IIAS research |
| 34 - 35 | Announcements |
| 36 - 37 | International arts agenda / Carol Brash |
| 38 - 39 | International conference agenda |
| 40 | Colophon |
