A humanitarian monster : Mizuki Shigeru and Manga as cultural redemption.

Zona libre : conservatism, urban growth, and the rise of the new economy in the San Diego Borderlands.

An artificial and exotic Uyghur Princess- China's internal orientalism and the evolution of the representation of Xiang Fei with a focus on the 21st century.

The seven rivers : empire and economy in the Russo-Qing Central Asian frontier, 1860s-1910s.

"We must mix together" : race, class, and the Chicago Department Store, 1890-1930.

Reconstruction of knowledge on women's body and beauty during the late Ming period : women's knowledge in Fragrant Toilette to embellish beauty.

The Hagiography of Nasir-I Khusraw and the Isma'ilis of Badakhshan.

Fred Wilson's mixed metaphors : the politics of museums in the late twentieth century.

William Gregory Wood-Martin as scientist : exploring the transition from antiquarian to archaeologist at the turn of the 20th century.

Geographies of influence : two Afghan military households in 17th and 18th century South India.

How a successful collecting society can transform an art museum : a history of the Georgia Welles Apollo Society at the Toledo Museum of Art.

The sickly female body in Edvard Munch's The Dance of Life (1899--1900).