| 2 | Building bridges to, from and with Asia. Director's note Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS) |

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| 1 & 4 | Living apart together: cross-border marriage, Riau Islands style / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford |
| 3 | Transnational marriage in Asia / Melody Lu |
| 5 | Muslim transnational families: Pakistani husbands and Japanese wives / Shuko Takeshita |
| 6 | Remittances and ‘social remittances': Their impact on cross-cultural marriage and social transformation / Panitee Suksomboon |
| 7 | ‘Daughter-in-law for the second time': Taiwanese mothers-in-law in the family of cross-border marriage / Hsing-Miao Chi |
| 9 | ‘Arranged love': marriage in a transnational work envirnoment / Michiel Baas |
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| 10 - 11 | Making poverty history? Unequal development today / Jomo K. Sundaram (extract from Wertheim Lecture 2007) |
| 12 - 13 | Goals set for the poor, goalposts set by the rich: Millennium Development Goals and the dumbing-down of development / Ashwani Saith |
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| 14 | Curating controversy: exhibiting the Second World War in Japan and United States since 1995 / Laura Hein |
| 15 | The ‘Great Game' continued: Central Eurasia and Caspian region fossil fuels / Xuetang Guo and Mehdi P. Amineh |
| 16 - 17 | Asian New Religious Movements as global cultural systems / Wendy A. Smith |
| 18 | From tin to Ali Baba's gold: the evolution of Chinese entrepreneurship in Malaysia / Chin Yee Whah |
| 19 | Still standing: the maintenance of a white elite in Mauritius / Tijo Salverda |
| 20 - 21 | No place like home?: Return and circular migration among elderly Chinese in the Netherlands / David Engelhard |
| 22 | Chinese medicine in East Africa and its effectiveness / Elisabeth Hsu |
| 23 | Taking traditional knowledge to market: looking at Asian medical traditions through the lens of medicines and manufacturers / Maarten Bode |
| 24 - 25 | Agarwood: the life of a wounded tree / Gerard A. Persoon |
| 26 | The unbearable absence of parasols: the formidable weight of a colonial Java status symbol / Liesbeth Hesselink |
| 27 | Uncovering hidden treasures: establishing the discipline of Indian manuscriptology / Daniel Stender |

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| 28 - 29 | MuXiYuan: a neighbourhood untouched in a changing Beijing / Jikky Lam |
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| 30 | New For Review |
| 31 | An indispensible tool for the busy Asian Studies scholar / Thomas Voorter |
| 31 | Bookmarked |
| 32 | Encapsulate everything, grasp nothing: Russian imperialist discourse in Uzbekistan / Nathan Light |
| 32 | Intimate Empire: bodily contacts in an imperial zone / Clare Anderson |
| 33 | Not just nuns and oracles: contemporary Tibetan women / Sara Shneiderman |
| 34 | Chinese voices on abortion / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner |
| 35 | Getting beyond image to realist in Burma (Myanmar) / Donald M. Seekins |
| 36 | On the independence of civil society: the case of the Philippines / Niels Mulder |
| 37 - 38 | The sophisticated aesthetics of Ehon and Ukiyo-e of a Meiji period Master / Patricia J. Graham |
| 38 | The return of Dr Strangelove or: should we really stop worrying and learn to love India's bomb? / Nadja-Christina Schneider |
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| 39 - 40 | Announcements |
| 41 | ASÍS - Forging links between distant lands |
| 42 | ECAF - Leading European institutions launch a consortium for Asian Field Studies |
| 43 | ICAS update |
| 44 | IIAS research |
| 45 | IIAS fellows |
| 46 - 47 | International Conference Agenda |
| 48 | Colophon |