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The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (JOSA) has been published continuously from 1960. It is the oldest journal on Asia currently published in Australia. In 2002, with volume 34, an index of the journal contents covering the 42 year history of the journal was published. That index lists 254 articles: 133 on China, 58 on Japan, 30 on South East Asia, 22 on South Asia, 3 on Korea, 3 on Mongolia, 2 on Tibet, and 1 each on Burma, Cambodia, the Middle East and Sri Lanka. The journal distribution covers 85 academic institutions worldwide.

During the 42 year history of JOSA there have been three editors. The first and founding editor was the late Professor A. R. Davis, formerly Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney which has provided a safe home for the journal during its history. Every year the Oriental Society of Australia honours the memory of its founder by sponsoring an A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture which is printed in the journal.

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Please note that a selection of JOSA volumes is now available for download from Informit.

Note: A selection of articles is available for download as PDF files.

To commemorate the Annual Lecture on Asian Studies, we would like to present an electronic version of the first lecture by Professor Davis at The University of Sydney’s Centre for Asian Studies not long before he died in November 1983:

A R Davis, In search of love and truth

VOL. 44 Special Issue : Memorial Diplomacy and the Asia-Pacific War (2012) Available online at Informit: HERE	2012
Introduction: Roman Rosenbaum	3
The Pacific War and Its Aftermath: A Literary Perspective Yasuko Claremont	7
Postwar-Imagined Australian Soldiers Roman Rosenbaum	27
The Memorial Path from Darwin to Cowra Elizabeth Rechniewski	48
Preparing a Perfect Place To Die: One Soldier’s Engagement with the Requirement for Death under the kokutai Victoria Eaves-Young	65
Reconciliation with His Past as a shōkokumin: Yamanaka Hisashi, Pioneer of Contemporary Japanese Children’s Books Masahito Takayashiki	97

VOL. 44 (2012) Available online at Informit: HERE	2012
A.R. DAVIS MEMORIAL LECTURE, 2011: Ambiguities of Power: The Social Space of Translation Relationships Bonnie S. McDougall	1
Polishing the Jade: xing (Human Nature) and Moral Cultivation in the Analects Shirley Chan	16
Subjectivity and Innovation in Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Part 2) Naikan Tao	41
Before The King and I: Reappraising Anna Leonowens and Her Memoirs of Nineteenth-Century Siam Caron Eastgate Dann	67
Nobuhara Ken and Shinseinen (New Youth) Magazine: The Man Who Introduced Sherlock Holmes Stories to Japan Yuri Takahashi	100
BOOK REVIEWS	122

VOL. 43 —Australasian Sanskrit Conference (2011)— Available online at Informit: HERE	2011
A.R. DAVIS MEMORIAL LECTURE, 2010: Voices from the North: Linguistic connections between Asia and Aboriginal Australia Walsh, Michael
Australasian Sanskrit Conference Special Issue
Introduction Cover, Jennifer
Karma and Karmavipaka in early Buddhist avadana literature Clark, Chris
The world of appearances: A perspective from eighteenth-century India Cover, Jennifer
Field work on the Kula ritual in Orissa Dupuche, John R
Spoken Sanskrit in a Gujarat ashram McCartney, Patrick
Beyond free and literal: Translating a Buddhist text (Bodhicaryavatarapanjika) from Sanskrit Nelson, Barbara
The idea of Hindu law Bilimoria, Purushottama
Oral performance of ancient texts: Presenting stories to contemporary audiences Ananth Rao, CR
Jhulelal, Gorakhnath and the Hindu Sindhi diaspora Ray, Anita C
The Prasannakatha: A contribution to contemporary Sanskrit poetry Clark, Chris
Book Reviews
About the Contributors

VOL. 42 —Global Media Special Issue— Available online at Informit: HERE	2010
A.R. DAVIS MEMORIAL LECTURE, 2009: The Problem of Nationalism and Race: Australia and Japan in World War I and World War II Neville Meaney	1
Global Media Special Issue	31
Foreword Michael G. Carter	32
Introduction Seiko Yasumoto, Guest Editor	34
Cultural Economic Geography and Global Media Studies: The Rise of Asian Media Capitals? Terry Flew	35
Reclaiming China’s Former Soft Power Michael Keane	50
A Critical Appraisal of Media and Cultural Globalisation in East Asia Koichi Iwabuchi	65
New Worlds of Animation: Ulysses 31, The Mysterious Cities of Gold and the Cultural Convergence of Anime in the West Jason Bainbridge	77
Images of Resistance in Manga and Anime’s Improbable Subjects Craig Norris	95
Seeds of Power: Japanese Media Products as Cultural Commodity in the Global Domain Seiko Yasumoto	115
Market, Politics and Media Competition in China: Competing Discourses in TV Industries Xiaoxiao Zhang and Anthony Y. H. Fung	133
Book Reviews	155
About the Contributors	176

VOL. 41	2009
In Memoriam - A.D.Syrokomla-Stefanowska J.T.F. (Jos) Jordens Helen Rousseau S.E.P. James	1-7
A.R. DAVIS MEMORIAL LECTURE, 2008: A Place for Okinawa - Changing Perceptions of Japan's Soutnern Islands. Hugh Clarke	9
The Graves of ‘Three Thousand Soldiers’: A Study and Translation of Oda Makoto’s ‘Sanzen gunpei’ no haka. Roman Rosenbaum	27
Modernism and the City: The Figure of the flaneur in Three Modenrist Literatures Yasuko Claremont Elizabeth Rechniewski Yiyan Wang	57
Radical Conservatism in Japanese Pre-Modern Political Thought Olivier Ansart	74
Is China Opening Up? Shanghai, Its Changing Economy, Historic Identity and Local Media as Anecdotal Test Case Niv Horesh	97
Subjectivity and Innovation in Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Part 1) Naikan Tao	115
Book Reviews	137

VOLUME. 39-40 (Part1)	2007-08
In Memoriam - The Hon. Justice G F K Santow In Memoriam - Dr Andrew Vincent	3 5
A R Davies Memorial Lecture, 2007: China's Islamic Minorities - Contemporary Perspectives Colin Mackerras	7
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
Fiftieth Anniversary Conference Opening Address: World Without Walls The Hon. Justice G F K Santow	31
The Australian Horse Traders Winter in Calcutta, 1930 Margaret Allen	37
The Feudal Threat in the Indian and Australian Colonial Mode of Production: A Comparative Approach Thalia Anthony	50
Are India and China Suitable Customers for Australian Uranium? Richard Broinowski	71
Ayashi no Ceres: Mythological Past and Present in Manga and Anime Mio Bryce	78
Ôe Kenzaburô: 'The Wondrous Healing Power of Art' Yasuko Claremont	96
Walls, Physical and Ideological, and a Soldier's Diary Hugh Clarke	111
A Survey of Chinese and German Family Jokes Peiling Cui	135
Telugu Women and Autobiography in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Padma Durvasula	153
The Greek and Arabic Versions of Aristotel's Poetics, With Special Reference to Chapters 20 and 21 Lutz Edzard	162
Metaphorical Construction of Super Girls in Chinese Internet Media Discourse Chong Han	179
Memsahib and Missus: Transcolonial Constructions of the White Mistress in India and Australia Victoria Haskins	221
Putting the Record Straight: The Memoirs of Private Kiyoshi Wada Carol Hayes	236
Writing Post-Nationalist Histories within the Walls of Nationalism: The Case of Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh Glen Hill and Kabita Chakma	250
Sanstone Arches and Moongates: Internationalisation and Students from China at the Univesity of Sydney Rosita Holenbergh	264

VOLUME. 39-40 (Part2)	2007-08
The Diaries of Ishikawa Takuboku Hiroko Kobayashi	285
Translation and Originality: Reexamining Lu Xun as a Translator Jon Eugene von Kowallis	320
Domestic 'Slaves' and the Rhetoric of 'Protection' in Darwin and Singapore during the 1920s and 1930s Claire Lowrie	334
Soviet Research on Oriental Despotism and the Asiatic Mode of Production: A Note Bruce Mcfarlane	357
Making Heaven Weep: Funeral Laments in Chinese Culture Anne E McLaren	369
The deterioration of Trade and Commerce during the Mamluk Period in Egypt (1468-1517) Wan Kamal Mujani	385
Gyokusai as Metaphor for the History of Suicide Attacks: From the Pacific War to the War in Iraq Roman Rosenbaum	418
Japanese Nationalism and the Internet: An Examination of the 2 Channel Bulletin Board W. Donald Smith	439
Mr. San Shar, The Burmese Detective, Appears Yuri Takahashi	451
The Unseen Strata of Kobayashi Hideo's Nationalism and Homeland James Wada	468
The Vegetarians (ts'ai hui): A 'Secret Society' in Fujian, China, 1895 Ian Welch	488
From Zeus to Apollo and Back Again: A Note on the Changing Face of Western Seleukid Coinage Nicholas L Wright	527
Korean and Japanese Television Drama: Reflections on Global and Transnational Influences Seiko Yasumoto	540
Deconstructing the Dog of Fo: The Lion Statues at the Gates of Sydney's Chinatown Min-Chia Young	562

VOLUME. 38	2006
In Search of Love and Truth (reprint) A.R. Davis	1
Keynote Addresses to Fiftieth Anniversary Conference:
The Place of the Australian State within Asia The Hon R.J. Debus, M.P.	15
A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture: Secrets Behind Walls Frits Staal	23
Anthropology and the Orientalist Debate: The Evidence from Nepal Michael Allen	43
Shared Values: A Sino-Australian Conundrum Geremie R. Barmé	60
Is there an Asian Renaissance? Alison Broinowski	68
The Archaeology of the First Emperor's Tomb Jeffrey Riegel	91
Perspective on Life in a Global Environment: The Reception of Evolutionary Theory in Asia Suzuki Sadami	104

VOLUME. 36-7	2004-5
A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture, 2004: The Outbreak of Occidentalism Alison Broinowski	1
A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture, 2005: Shamans Make History in Okinawa: A Reading of Ôshiro Tatsuhiro's Novel Noro (Mantic Woman, 1985) Leith D. Morton	30
A Re-evaluation of Chen Ziang's "Manifesto of a Poetic Reform" Timothy Wai Keung Chan	56
A Translation of Oda Makoto's '"Aboji" wo fumu" Roman Rosenbaum	86
Mythology in the Fiction of Ôe Kenzaburô Yasuko Claremont	104
Brushes and Booze in the Poetry of Yi Kyubo (1168-1241) Gregory Nicholas Evon	122
The Discourse of Emergence in the Japanese Proletarian Arts league Michael Fitzhenry	150
Book Reviews	176

VOLUME. 35	2003
A. R. Davis Memorial Lecture: The Scholar as Dragoman M. G. Carter	1
On the Symbolic Significance of Chinese Garden Plants Ye Xiaoqing	20
Buddhist Kingship in Sixth-Century Korea Pankaj N. Mohan	38
Translating Shakespeare: The Case of Tsubouchi Shoyo Leith D. Morton	59
Book Reviews	88

JOSA Contents

The index (compiled by Prof. Hugh Clarke) is the first we have attempted in the forty-two year history of the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia. We have provided a chronological list of contents, an index to the authors and a title keyword index. We have included all the volumes of JOSA and Austrina, the commemorative volume published in 1982 to celebrate the first twenty-five years of the Oriental Society of Australia. We have opted for the title keyword index rather than a subject index or one based on geographical region. The articles are predominantly in the areas of literature, intellectual history and philology with a very strong bias towards Chinese studies. Some of the papers deal with two or more regions of Asia. Variation in font style and designation of authors’ names reflects historical changes in the editorial policy of JOSA.