IIAS NEWSLETTER IIAS Newsletter 28 To read the articles in the IIAS Newsletter you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. Download (free) Index: 2 Editorial / Maurice Sistermans 2 Director's Note / Wim Stokhof (p.2- 3)   Short Biographies of the IIAS Newsletter Regional Editors General 1 The War against Terrorism in Indonesia / Freek Colombijn (p.1, 3- 4) 4 Taipei and/or Beijing? The Vatican's Dilemma / Raymond R.M. Tai Sports in Asia 6 Sports in Asia and Sports Studies in Asian Studies / Wolfram Manzenreiter 7 Sport, History and Asian Societies /James Mills 7 Sports in Korea / Ahn Min-Seok 8 Sports and Politics in Taiwan: Baseball and National Identity / Chien-Yu Lin 8 Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup / John Horne 9 Chinese Sports History Studies / Fan Hong 9 Contested Landscapes of Marine Sports / Carolin Funck 10 Failure in Sport / William W. Kelly 11 The Rise of Women's Sport / Eunha Koh 12 Globalizing Indian Football / Paul Dimeo 12 Urban Tourist: An Interview with the Guest Editor, Wolfram Manzenreiter / Guita Winkel 14 Styles of Lute Playing / Emmie te Nijenhuis 15 François Balthazar Solvyns: A Flemish Artist in Bengal, 1791-1803 / Robert Hardgrave 16 Developments and Movements of New Indonesian Film / Katinka van Heeren 17 Cataloguing Canonical Texts of the Tibetan Bon Religion / Samten Karmay 17 Introduction: The Bonpo Canon / Henk Blezer 17 Tibetological Collections & Archives Series / Henk Blezer 18 The Bonpo Katen Cataloguing Project / Samten Karmay 18 Ferdinand Hamer: Martyr in China / Harry Knipschild 19 Southeast Asia in the Eyes of the Egyptians / Mona Abaza 20 Engaging Burma/Myanmar / David Mathieson 21 Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia - Series / Rogier Busser 21 Decentralization in Thailand / Fumio Nagai 22 Travels in the Past: Photos Alphons Hustinx / Louis Zweers 23 When Executives Chant Dhikr / Noorhaidi Hasan & Ahmad Syaf 'I Mufid 24 Review on the Development of Eurasian Relations / Yu Jianhua 25 The Dutch Connection / Christèle Dedebant 26 Xun Zi in the Intellectual Context of Early China / Masayuki Sato 26 Sri Lanka in the 21st Century: Legacies & Challenges / Karori Singh 27 A Unique University in Northeast India: NEHU and its Possibilities / Jan Brouwer & T.B. Subba 28 Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse / Victor van Bijlert 28 Social Mobility in Kerala / Janaki Abraham 29 Learn Nepali: Talk Later / Mark Turin 29 Editorial / Touraj Atabaki 29 Life After the Soviet Union / Touraj Atabaki 30 What is so Modern about this Southeast Asia History? / Michael Laffan 30 Station to Station / Freek Colombijn 31 Chinese Business Networks / Prema Rajogopalan 31 Red Guards in Mid-Life Crisis / Irmy Schweiger 32 Four New Looks at Japan / Jan van Bremen 33 Yen Bloc: Toward Economic Integration / Marie-Aimee Tourres 34 The Victim as Hero / Margaret Sleeboom 34 The Online Burma - Myanmar Library / David Arnott 35 Books Received 36 Filmed Representations of South Asians / Monica Ghosh 37 (Re)Claiming Space / Talinn Gregor 38 Delving into Shangri La / Sharon Littlefield 38 ASEMUS sidebar 39 ASEMUS Conference 'Marketplace of Museums' / Ken Vos 40 Let's Pause & Talk, Let's Pause & Drink / Youngna Kim 40 Asian Arts Online / Thomas Berghuis 41 Arts Agenda / GATE Foundation (p.41- 42) 43 IIAS Staff 43 IIAS Research Programmes 43 IIAS Agenda 44 IIAS Research Fellows 45 Genomics in Asia / Margaret Sleeboom 45 Media & Public Debate / Shoma Munshi 46 IIAS Publications 46 INIS Publication 46 How Languages Express Time Differently / Kuang Mei 47 Oral History Workshop / Ratna Saptari 47 CLARA Publications Alliance News 48 Europe and Asia - one year after 11 September / Roberta Zavoretti 48 Alliance Short Update / Marieke te Booij & Josine Stremmelaar 48 Asia-Europe Workshop Series Update / Marieke te Booij & Josine Stremmelaar 48 Alliance Partners sidebar ICAS 3 News 49 International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) / Josine Stremmelaar 49 ICAS 3 Call for Proposals 49 European Associations for Asian Studies ESF AC News 49 Travel Grant Recipients ASEF News 49 ASEF 5-Year Anniversary / Jessica Yom 50 ASEM in an Evolving Post-9/11 World Order / Sebastian Bersick General 50 International Security and the Asian Heartland / Paul Meerts 50 School of Foreign Service / Kh J Bayasakh 50 The Caucasus and Central Asia Program / Sanjyot Mehendale TANAP News 51 TANAP - New Scholarships for History Students in Asia / Henk Niemeijer 51 TANAP Diary / Tuan Hoang Ahn en Sri Margana 51 Insects and Power Cuts / Pieter Koenders 51 New TANAP PhD Research / Henk Niemeijer 51 Second TANAP Workshop / Henk Niemeijer 52 2003 Biennial AKSE Conference / Antonetta Bruno 52 Hani-Ahka Culture Conference / Li Qibo 52 Cultures of Masculinity in South Asia / Radhika Chopra & Sanjay Srivastava 52 Environmental History of Asia / Deepak Kumar & Richard Grove 52 Globalizing Media and Local Society in Indonesia / Makoto Koike 53 Fatwas and the Dissemination of Religious Authority in Indonesia / Michael Laffan 53 Centring the Margin / Reed Wadley 53 Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia / Robert Weber 54 International Conference Agenda (p.54- 55) 56 Colofon