IIAS NEWSLETTER IIAS Newsletter 33 about | previous issues | subscribe |contributions | advertise | submit a conference | contact the editors To read the articles in the IIAS Newsletter you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. Download (free) Index: Colophon 2 Editorial / Maurice Sistermans   Short Biographies of the IIAS Newsletter Regional Editors General 1& 4-5 An Indian Writer in Troubled Times / Thomas de Bruijn 3 Brains for Hire: Education and Nation-building in Contemporary Azerbaijian / Irina Morozova Internet in China 6 The Internet in China: A Symposium / Randolph Kluver 7 Mingling Politics with Play: The Virtual Chinese Public Sphere / Guobin YANG 8 The Taste of Information: State Attempts to Control the Internet / Lokman TSUI 8 List of Definitions 9 Handing over China's Internet to the Corporations / Ian Weber & LU Jia 10 Internet and the Fragmented Political Community / Jens Damm 11 Everything is not Lost: The Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) / Jennifer Gross & Hanno Lecher 12 Mongolia: Who Bridges the Digital Divide? / Margreet van Doodewaard 13 A New Approach to the Study of Islamic Activism / Quintan Wiktorowicz 14 The Introduction of Biomedicine into the Indo-Tibetan Himalayas / Alex McKay 15 The Power of the Stars: Astrology and Divination in the Traditional Indian Society / Audrius Beinorius 16 Sexual Discrimination in South India / Stephanie Vella 17 The Atoms of Meaning / Cliff Goddard 18-19 Poet of Word and Presence: An Interview with Ashok Vajpeyi / Renata Czekalska 19 The Wonder that is India: A Farewell Seminar for Dirk Kolff / Jos Gommans 20 Changing Definitions of Ethnic Boundaries on Mauritius / Tijo Salverda 21 Le Malaise Créole / Rosabelle Boswell 22 Beating Time: Concepts of Rhythm in the Natyasastra / Narinder Mohkamsing 23 Hinduism, Values and Management / Victor van Bijlert 24 Local Protectionism: The Bottleneck of China's Economic Development / HOU Yu 25 Countering Purism: The Revitalization of Moluccan Languages / Margaret Florey 26 Malaysia and Islamic Modernity / Sigrid Noekel & Georg Stauth 27 Cautious Optimism / J.Thomas Lindblad 27 Religious Networks Between the Middle East and Southeast Asia / Michael Feener 28 For the Love of Tin: The VOC in Ligor / Supaporn Ariyasajsiskul 28-29 Southeast Asian 'Living Theatre' / Mathew Cohen 30 Myth and the Disciplines / Thera Giezen 31 The Emergence of a National Economy / William G. Clarence-Smith 32 Recalling Malya's Communist Menace: Fact and Fiction on Chin Peng / Andrew Symon 33 Min Yong-hwan: A Political Biography / Koen De Ceuster 34 From Negritude to Coolitude / Clare Anderson 34 Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir / Biswamoy Pati 35 Tribal Communities in the Malay World / Vincent Houben 36 Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China / Evelyne Micollier 36-37 Chinese Media, Global Contexts / Lokman TSUI 37 An Anthology of Mongolian Literature / Maya-Matthea van Staden 38 Books Received 39 Art for the Masses: Revolutionary Art of the Mao Zedong Era 1950-1976 / Alison Hardie 40-41 Asian Art Agenda 42 Sex Workers in Asia / Namiko KUNIMOTO 44-45 Voices from Tundra and Taiga: Vitality and Education / Cecilia Odé (more about this project on Cecilia Odé's website) 47 IIAS Research Programmes & New Initiatives   IIAS Staff 51 The Pitfalls of Independant Historical Research / Herman Bussemakers 52 EU-Vietnam Cooperation in Social Sciences and the Humanities / NGUYEN Duy Quy 52 Sino-European Institute in Beijing / Wim Stokhof & Paul van der Velde ASEMUS News 43 The Chester Beatty Library: Asia in Ireland / Michael Ryan ASEF/Alliance News 48 SOAS: A Brief History and Profile / Colin Bundy 49 Social Sciences and AIDS in Southeast Asia: The Challenge of Antiretroviral Treatments / Sophie Le Coeur & Maurice Eisenbruch NIOD News 50 Land as the Key to Urban Development: Housing in Indonesia Cities, 1930-1960 / Freek Colombijn 50 Indonesia across Orders / Els Bogaerts 51 Response from NIOD / Hans Blom 53 Islam and Asia / Rochelle Almazanor-McArthur 53 WOTRO Postdoc Project / Renee van Kessel-Hagestijn 53 First International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS) / John Hartmann & Catherine Raymond 53 EUROSEAS 4 / Guy Faure, Manon Osseweijer, Oscar Salemink & Tomas Sikor 53 Connecting Civil Society of Asia and Europe / Bertrand Fort   56 Colophon