ESF ASIA COMMITTEE WORKSHOPS

By Paul van der Velde


In the following pages you will find descriptions of the workshops which
have been approved of the ESF Asia Committee during a meeting in Paris in
November 1994 and which will be funded by the Asia Committee. The workshops
offer a cogent sample of the scope of research on Asian Studies in Europe
or, should we say, the world because lots of particpants are from Asia,
America, and Australia. It is an unmistakable sign of the increasing
international cooperation in the field of Asian Studies.
The workshops are included chronologically. All the presentations follow
the same order. After an introduction the scientific objectives are stated,
followed by expected participation in the workshops which are planned for
the spring of this year. In the next issue of the newsletter an update,
with a programme and a list of participants, will be given for the autumn
workshops. Under each contribution you will find the names of the
initiators of the workshops and the addresses of the organizing
institute(s). The initiators of each of the workshops plan to publish the
papers either in the form of a book or as special issues of journals in
their particular field of research. 
These contributions are slightly edited versions of the original proposals
to the ESF Asia Committee. For the sake of brevity footnotes have been
omitted.