Vamping the stage female voices of Asian modernities

Table of Contents: “…Re-vamping Asia : women, music, and modernity in comparative perspective / Andrew N. Weintraub and Bart Barendregt -- Acoustic ladies : mediating audiovisual modernity in early German and Chinese talkies / Yiman Wang -- On becoming Nora : transforming the voice and place of the sing-song girl through Zhou Xuan / Yifen Beus -- Malay women singers of colonial Malaya : voicing alternative gender identity and modernity / Tan Sooi Beng -- The "comfort women" and the voices of East Asian modernity / Joshua D. …”

The European Union and Japan a new chapter in civilian power cooperation?

Table of Contents: “…EU-Japan political relations in a fluid global order / Hartmut Mayer -- Japan as a "proactive civilian power" : domestic constraints and competing priorities / Hidetoshi Nakamura -- The EU in a changing global order : is emergent German hegemony making the EU even more of a civilian power? …”