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ARTICLES STEIN TONNESSON: The South China Sea in the Age of European Decline HARUMI Goro-SHIBATA: Empire on the Cheap: The Control of Opium Smoking in the Straits Settlements, 1925-1939 NORMAN SMITH: ‘Only Women can Change this World into Heaven’ Mei Niang, Mal Chauvinist Society, and the Japanese Cultural Agenda in North China, 1939-1941 YINGHONG CHENG: Ideology and Cosmology: Maoist Discussion on Physics and thx Cultural Revolution LINDA CHELAN LI: Differentiated Actors: Central Local Politics in China’s Rural lax Reforms PETER Ross: Children, Emotion, identity and Empire: Views from the Blechyndens Calcutta Diaries (17g0-1822) MARGOT C. FINN: Colonial Gifts: Family Politicasn d the Exchange of Goods in British India,c . 1780-1820 AUDREY Prost: The Problem with ‘Rich Refugees’ Sponsorship, Capital, and the Informal Economy of Tibetan Refugees ROSINKA CHAUDHURI: Cutlets or Fish Curry?: Debating Indian Authenticity in Lat« Nineteenth-Century Bengal SWARUPA GuPTA: Notionso f Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, 1507 1g05 JAVED MaAJeeEpD: Gandhi, “Truth’ and Translatability JAYABRATA SARKAR: Power, Hegemony and Politics: Leadership Struggl in Congress in the 1930s HENRIKE DONNER: Committed Mothers and Well-adjusted Children: Privatisation, Early-Years Education and Motherhood in Calcutta Nira KuMAR: Provincialism in Modern India: The Multiple Narratives of Education and their Pain AMARJIT Kaur: Indian Labour, Labour Standards, and Workers’ Health in Burma and Malaya, 1QOO—1940 RICHARD G. THomas: Philology in Viet Nam and its Impact on Southeast Asian Cultural History JOHN M. CARROLL: Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place HANS VAN DE VEN: Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Servic RICHARD S. Horowitz: Politics, Power and the Chinese Maritime Customs the Qing Restoration and the Ascent of Robert Hart RICHARD O'LEARY: Robert Hart in China: The Significance of his Lrish Roots ANDREA EBERHARD-BREARD: Robert Hart and China’s Statistical Revolution HANS VAN DE VEN: Robert Hart and Gustav Detring during the Boxer Rebellion FRANK H. H. KinG: The Boxer Indemnity—‘Nothing but Bad’ ROBERT BICKERS: Purloined letters: History and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service FRANK H. H. KinG: Sealing the Mouth of Outrage Notes on the Meaning and Intent of Hart’s These from the Lando f Sinim IAN PHIMISTER: Foreign Devils, Finance and Informal Empire: Britain and China c. 1QOO-1912 Ak1o TANABE: Recast(e)ing Identity: Transformation of Inter-caste Relationships in Post-colonial Rural Orissa DrepaK NAyyAr: India’s Unfinished Journey Transforming Growth into Development J. CHARLES SCHENCKING: Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation: The Fractured Politicso f Reconstructing Tokyo following the Great Kant6 Earthquake of 1923 JANET BORLAND: Capitalisinogn Catastrophe: Reinvigorating the Japanese Stat with Moral Values through Education following the 1923 Great Kant6 Earthquak¢ GREGORY CLANCEY: The Meiji Earthquake: Nature, Nation, and the Ambiguities of Catastrophe go09g RAJESWARY AMPALAVANAR Brown: Indonesian Corporations, Cronyism, and Corruption 953 RICHARD Fox: Strong and weak media?O n the Representation of “Terorisme’ in Contemporary Indonesia E1jyi MURASHIMA: The Commemorative Character of Thai Historiography: The 1942-43 Thai Military Campaign in the Shan States Depicted as a Story of National Salvation and the Restoration of Thai Independence Lisa LAu: Emotional and Domestic Territories: The Positionality of Women as Reflected in the Landscape of the Home in Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writings REVIEW The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India. By Randolf G. S. Cooper (Seema Alavi) rials aSreeks tee RO