| Issue 1 | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | _ | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | I | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | II | 
            
              | Table of Contents | III | 
            
              | Article: Organisation eines Feldzugs nach einer mittelasiatischen Quelle | 1 | 
            
              | Article: The "great debate" of bSam yas : construction and deconstruction of a Tibetan Buddhist myth | 15 | 
            
              | Article: Tibetan triangle : German, Tibetan and British relations in the context of Ernst Schäfer's expedition, 1938-1939 | 57 | 
            
              | Article: Qāsim Shaykh al-Qazānī : a Muslim saint in Tatar and Bulghar tradition | 115 | 
            
              | Article: Schriftlichkeit und mündliche Rechtstradition : Überlegungen zum Gebrauch mongolischer Rechtsaufzeichnungen im 16.-18. Jahrhundert | 131 | 
            
              | Article: Wehrhafter Städter : Belagerungen von Herat, 1448-1468 | 163 | 
            
              | Article: Narrative Strukturen des Erzählers über heilige und ihre Gräber in Afghanistan | 195 | 
            
              | Book review: Rezensionen = Comptes rendues = Reviews | 231 | 
            
              | Rubric: Autoren = Auteurs = Authors | 281 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Issue 2: Das Bild der Schweiz in Japan : Rezeptionsformen im 20. Jahrhundert | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | _ | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | 283 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | 284 | 
            
              | Table of Contents | 285 | 
            
              | Preface | 289 | 
            
              | Article: Der Wandel des Schweiz-Bildes und sein Einfluss auf die japanische Gesellschaft der Nachkriegszeit | 293 | 
            
              | Article: "Ehre und Not der Schweiz" : Japans Rezeption der schweizerischen Neutralität | 317 | 
            
              | Article: Die Rezeption der Schweizer Politik in Japan | 343 | 
            
              | Article: Das Image der Schweizer Wirtschaft in Japan : wirtschaftspolitische Selbstbildnisse im Zuge eines Modernisierungsprozesses | 365 | 
            
              | Article: Switzerland and the Swiss in Japanese textbooks | 389 | 
            
              | Article: La réception de la pensée politique de Rousseau dans le Japon du 20e siècle | 413 | 
            
              | Article: Die reformiert-presbyterianische Kirche im Japan der Meiji-Zeit : eine Keimzelle der Demokratie | 439 | 
            
              | Article: Eine Haiku-Reise durch die Schweiz : über das Buch "Suisu ginkō" von Ekuni Shigeru und über den Haiku-Dichter Takaha Shugyō | 451 | 
            
              | Article: Die Rezeption der deutschschweizerischen Literatur im gegenwärtigen Japan | 467 | 
            
              | Article: Mushanokōji Saneatsu : Luzern | 479 | 
            
              | Article: Recruitment and employment practice of Swiss corporations in Japan : Do past achievements equal future success? | 491 | 
            
              | Book review: Rezensionen = Comptes rendus = Reviews | 519 | 
            
              | Rubric: Autoren = Auteurs = Authors | 541 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Issue 3: Performing cultures in East Asia : China, Korea, Japan | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | _ | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | 543 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | 544 | 
            
              | Table of Contents | 545 | 
            
              | Preface: Introduction | 547 | 
            
              | Article: Performing craftsmanship : the practice of painting in pre-modern China | 555 | 
            
              | Article: Performed spontaneity : the bureaucratization of shamanic ways in the Qianlong-era | 567 | 
            
              | Article: "Who wants to be a bureaucrat?" : the performative dimensions of civil examinations in late imperial China | 581 | 
            
              | Article: Some random (and very preliminar) notes on performative dimensions of Buddhist commentaries written in China and Korea | 597 | 
            
              | Article: Dramatic art and performativity in Pak Chiwŏn's travel narrative | 613 | 
            
              | Article: Stone bridge : a pilgrimage performed | 631 | 
            
              | Article: Performing the craft : medieval Japanese craftsmen (shokunin) - reality, images, and literary topoi | 645 | 
            
              | Article: Performing urban memory : the Sumida river as mnemonic site in Kimura Shôhachi's Tôkyô hanjôki (report about the prosperity of Tokyo, 1958) | 667 | 
            
              | Article: Performing the avant-garde : the adaptation of Dadaism in Japan | 687 | 
            
              | Article: Floating signs : art as life, life as art in contemporary Hong Kong | 701 | 
            
              | Article: Staging good taste, staging "Japaneseness" : consumer culture, the department store Mitsukoshi and performance of modern identities in Japan | 717 | 
            
              | Article: Performing to increase turnover : a study of Japanese manuals for shop vendors | 739 | 
            
              | Article: Performing the nation : discourses and displays of sporting bodies in modern Japan | 761 | 
            
              | Rubric: Autoren = Auteurs = Authors | 783 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Issue 4 | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | _ | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Front matter | 785 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | 786 | 
            
              | Table of Contents | 787 | 
            
              | Article: La grammaire et les débuts de la philosophie Indienne | 791 | 
            
              | Article: Die Hermeneutik der Nationalkultur : Tang Junyi (1909-1978) über das Exil | 867 | 
            
              | Article: Agriculture vs. ascesis : late antique pagan asceticism in an anti-ascetic tractate from around 900 A.D. | 895 | 
            
              | Article: In search of creativity : agony and ecstasy in Gao Xingjian's Lingshan | 931 | 
            
              | Article: Im Goldtal-Park : Struktur und Hintergründe eines Gedichts von Du Mu | 963 | 
            
              | Article: Ein Klassiker in einer neuen Welt | 995 | 
            
              | Article: Architectural decoration of the Artuqids of Mardin during the 12th and the 13th centuries : between antique and Islamic style | 1013 | 
            
              | Article: On the pertinence of a capability-based assessment of well-being : the Indian example | 1031 | 
            
              | Article: Le protagoniste nomaïen sous l'angle de la "rupture" | 1041 | 
            
              | Article: The uses of modernity in a Chinese craft tradition | 1047 | 
            
              | Article: Der Hof Sa īd Paşas : konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu einem kulturellen und sozialen Phänomen | 1055 | 
            
              | Article: Le régime de l'organisation mondiale du commerce et son influence sur l'économie du développement en Inde | 1065 | 
            
              | Article: Where mountains fly : the honji-suijaku mechanism in Japan | 1073 | 
            
              | Article: Reconfiguring the political role of museums in post-communist China : the case of Shanghai | 1085 | 
            
              | Article: Un corps déchiré dans la littérature chinoise moderne (1911-1949) | 1097 | 
            
              | Book review: Rezensionen = Comptes rendus = Reviews | 1107 | 
            
              | Rubric: Autoren = Auteurs = Authors | 1147 | 
            
              | Miscellaneous | _ | 
            
              | Table of Contents | 1 |