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Grace Nono
Babaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Native Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial times…

Southeast Asia Program

Joshua Baker and Eric Tagliacozzo
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews.

Southeast Asia Program

By Our Faculty
Roger K. Thomas
Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule. Banished for her political…

East Asia Program

Daniel Alpert
This paper is an overview of the history of, and future prospects for, undesirable levels of price inflation in the U.S. economy. The paper concludes that concerns raised in 2021 by several well-known economists and…

Einaudi Center for International Studies

South Asia Program
The 2021 Bulletin features many original articles, on 50 years of Bangladesh, student’s virtual internships with Oxfam India, the impacts of COVID-19 in India and the US, an unusual Humphrey Fellowship year, palm-leaf…

South Asia Program

Arnout van der Mee
Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the…

Southeast Asia Program

Edited and translated by Wilt L. Idema
The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related "precious scrolls" (baojuan) from the Ming dynasty…

East Asia Program

Edited by Kaushik Basu and Robert C. Hockett
In Law, Economics, and Conflict, Kaushik Basu and Robert C.

Einaudi Center for International Studies

By Our Faculty
Tom G. Hoogervorst
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G.

Southeast Asia Program

KYOKUTEI BAKIN, Translated by Glynne Walley
Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden 南総里見八犬伝 is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has…

East Asia Program