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Cross-Currents, June 2015
New Online Content:  Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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June 2015 e-journal (No. 15)
Co-editors' Note to Readers
Articles
Introduction to "Governing Marriage Migrations: Perspectives from Mainland China and Taiwan"
Elena Barabantseva, University of Manchester
Xiang Biao, University of Oxford
Antonia Chao, Tunghai University
 A Tale of a Global Family: Shifts and Connections among Different Streams of Marriage Migrations in Asia
Hongfang Hao, Kyoto University
The Creation of a Nonexistent Group: Sino-Vietnamese Couples in China’s Borderlands
Caroline Grillot, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
>From “Customary” to “Illegal”: Yao Ethnic Marriages on the Sino-Vietnamese Border 
Elena Barabantseva, University of Manchester
The “Fake Marriage” Test in Taiwan: Gender, Sexuality, and Border Control
Mei-Hua Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University
Gender and Power Dynamics in Transnational Marriage Brokerage: The Ban on Commercial Matchmaking in Taiwan Reconsidered
Hsun-Hui Tseng, Chinese  University of Hong Kong
Review Essays
The Japanese Medical Empire and Its Iterations
John DiMoia, National University of Singapore
Hoi-eun Kim. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 272 pp. $55 (cloth/ebook).
Learning to See the City Again: Ethnographic Visions of Gender, Class, and Space in Ho Chi Minh City
Erik Harms, Yale University
Ann Marie Leshkowich. Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace. University of Hawai'i Press, 2014. 272 pp. $55 (cloth), $25 (paper).
Kimberly Kay Hoang. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. University of California Press, 2015. 248 pp. $65 (cloth), $30 (paper/ebook).
Catherine Earl. Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Gender, Career, City. NIAS Press, 2014. 320 pp. £50 (cloth), £18 (paper).
Annette Miae Kim. Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 264 pp. $45 (cloth), $7–$36 (ebook).
Photo Essay
Consistency in an Ever-Changing City: An Old Clock Tower in Contemporary Hong Kong
Catherine S. Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
Readings from Asia
A Japanese Perspective on Late Nineteenth-Century Korean Reform Movements
Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
Watanabe Sōki. Chōsen kaikoku to nisshin sensō: Amerika wa naze Nihon wo Shijishi, Chōsen wo mikagittaka [The opening of Korea and the Sino-Japanese War: Why did the United States support Japan but abandon Korea?]. Tokyo: Sōshisha, 2014. ISBN: 978-4-7942-2098-1. 
Submitted by:
Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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