Newsletter 48

Newsletter 48

Summer 2008

2 Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

1, 4 & 5 Sex, love and revolution / Vina A. Lanzona
3 Women warriors in Asia / Vina A. Lanzona & Tobias Rettig
5 Lady Sinn: a 6th century woman warrior / Geoff Wade
6 - 7 Re-fashioning the warrior Hua Mulan: changing norms of sexuality in China / Louise Edwards
7 - 8 Whispered confidences: articulating the female in the PNTL (police) and FDTL (military) in Timor Leste / Jacqueline Siapno
8 - 9 Warrior queens: the Rani of Jhansi Regiment / Tobias Rettig
10 - 11 Images of the past, realities of the present: Aceh's Inong Balee /
Elsa Clavé-Çelik
12 - 13 The forgotten women warriors of the Malayan Communist Party /
Adrianna Tan
14 - 15 The aftermath for women warriors: Cambodia and East Timor /
Susan Blackburn
16 Social networking in pre-modern Asian history / Stewart Gordon
17 Exorcising the curse of the Khmer Rouge / Benny Widjono
18 - 19 Wertheim 2008: Asia from ‘Down Under': regionalism and global cultural change / Ien Ang
20 Modern times: the meaning of dates and calenders in Modern China,
1895-1935
/ Lane J. Harris
21 ‘No false echoes': polyphony in colonial and post-colonial times /
Edwin Jurriëns
22 - 23 Bogus sadhus and famous rhinos: early modern Dutch scholars, artists and missionaries on South Asia / Lennart Bes
24 In praise of repetition / Alessandro Graheli
25 From ‘Doghouse' days to ‘Limitless Space': independent filmmaking in Malaysia / Gaik Cheng Khoo
26 - 27 ‘Life as it ought to be': propaganda art of the PRC / Stefan Landsberger
28 New For Review
29 Bookmarked
30 - 31 Photography, archaeology and afternoon tea / Upinder Singh
32 Dutch resilience: maintaining a distant colony during world war / Nicholas Tarling
33 Thinking like a man / Anna Beerens
34 - 35 Enchanting tales of Jodha-Akbar / Rituparna Roy
36 The Internet in China: a liberating force? / Ruth Cherrington
38 Bombay on the brink of modernity / Hans Schenk
39 Against all odds: vanquishing smallpox in far-flung Japan / Penelope
Shino
40 - 41 Network Asia
42 - 43 Announcements
44 IIAS Research
45 IIAS Fellows
46 International Conference Agenda
47 Colophon
48 Poster

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