Buddhist hagiography in forming the canon in the classical literatures of Indochina / Yuriy M. Osipov -- Myanmar prose writing: tradition and innovation in the twentieth century / Annemarie Esche -- Continuity and change in the Burmese literary canon / Anna J. Allott -- Literature in transition: an overview of Vietnamese writing of the Renovation Period / Dana Healy -- The classics of Tagalog literature / Ruth Eynia S. Mabanglo -- Literary excellence as national domain: configuring the masterpiece novel in the Philippines and Malaysia / Luisa J. Mallari -- Development in Malay criticism / Lisbeth Littrup -- Is there a women's canon? / Christine Campbell -- The construction and institutionalisation of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi as the father of modern Malay literature: the role of westerners / Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir -- The regulation of beauty: J. Kats and Javanese poetics / Bernard Arps -- The emergence of twentieth century Cambodian literary institutions: the case of Kambujasuriya / George Chigas. The canon of Indonesian literature: an analysis of Indonesian literary histories available in Indonesia / E. Ulrich Kratz -- Towards the canonizing of the Thai novel / David Smyth -- Tajus Salatin ('The crown of Sultans') of Bukkhari al-Jauhari as a canonical work and an attempt to create a Malay literary canon / V.I. Braginsky -- Books of search: convention and creativity in traditional Lao literature / Peter Koret -- Shot by foreign can(n)ons: retrieving native poetics / Muhammad Haji Salleh.