Asian futures, Asian traditions/ edited by Edwina Palmer

Part 1: Tradition and History --1 The Invention and Reinvention of Tradition in Japan; 2 The Kojiki as Japan's National Narrative; 3 Structural Features of the Organization of Imperial Women in China's Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); 4 The State and the Historians in the Construction of Nationalist Historical Discourse in Indonesia and the Philippines: A Preliminary Consideration; 5 National History vs Japanese History: Yamaji Aizan's View of Japan and the World; 6 Religious Internationalism in Imperial Japan? The Case of Omoto; 7 Change and Continuity in China; 8 Deconstructing the Diaspora: The Construction of Chinese-Indonesian Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia.

Part 2: Politics, Economics and Gender Studies -- 9 Politics in Vietnam's Red River Delta in the 1970s and 1980s (and why it is relevant to the 2000s); 10 Regimenting the Public Mind: The Modernization of Propaganda in the PRC; 11 Whose Model City? Poverty, Prosperity and `Progress' in Quezon City, the Philippines; 12 Indonesian Law Reform in the Post-Soeharto Era; 13 The Making of Jonker Walk: Night Market, Pedestrian Mall or Culture Street?; 14 How Informal Enterprises Coped with the Asian Economic Crisis: The Case of Pedagang Kakilima in Bandung, Indonesia; 15 Financial Crisis and Micro-level Coping Strategies: A Case Study of Low-income Households in Malaysia; 16 `Comfort Women', National Apology and Feminist Politics; 17 The Impact of Reserved Seats on Women's Representation in the Bangladesh Parliament; 18 Japanese Lone Mothers and Family-friendly Work Policies.

Part 3: Language, Performing and Visual Arts -- 19 Malay and Japanese Idioms Denoting Human Emotions and Attributes; 20 Transforming and Inventing Koto Notations: Constructing Tradition and Identity from the Meiji Era; 21 The Struggle for Traditional Performance Survival in Southeast Asia; 22 Lat's The Kampung Boy: Rural Malays in Tradition and Transition; 23 Nostalgia and Dissatisfaction: Reading Zhang Yimou's The Road Home and Not One Less as Postmodern Texts; 24 Music for the Black-necked Cranes of Bhutan.