Newsletter 27

Newsletter 27
March 2002
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2Editorial / Tanja Chute
2A Word about the EC’s New Document, Europe and Asia / Wim Stokhof

1 Enhancing the EU’s Partnership with Asia / Chris Patten (p.1, 3 - 4)
4IIAS Annual Lecture: The Question Round East Asia
5 An Interview with Professor Chenmain Wang / Masayuki Sato
6 Uighur Muslims and Separatism in China / Sean Yom
7 The WWF in China and Chinese Environmentalism Today / Marloes Rozing

8Introduction / Tanja Chute & Ellen M. Raven
8Ancient Afghanistan through the Eyes of Charles Masson (1800-1853) / Elizabeth Errington
9Travelogue of an Ethnomusicologist / Jan van Belle
11Ethnomusicological Research in Afghanistan / John Baily
12On Kings and Nomads / Nicholas Sims-Williams
13The Destruction of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage / Osmund Bopearachchi
14The Chaman-i-Hazuri Hoard / Ellen M. Raven
15 It is Time to Pick up Stones / Victor Sarianidi
15 The Buddhas of Bamiyan (continued) / Juliette van Krieken
16 Ellen M. Raven: Guest Editor
Josephine Powell
Kern Institute & Gerda Theuns-de Boer / Tanja Chute
General
23

The Life of Hindus in Britain / Shalini Sharma

24Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia / Mario Rutten & Srilata Ravi
24New Global Networking in the Automobile Industry / Yuri Sadoi
25Renegotiations of the Public and the Private in the Netherlands / Rajni
Palriwala
25Asian Artisans and Small-Scale Producers in the Global Economy / Mario Rutten & Tim Scrase
Southeast Asia
18 Rethinking the Islamization of the Malay World / Farish Noor
21The Religious Factor in Recent Political Transformations in Southeast Asia / Johan Meuleman & Andrée Feillard
26Media, State, & NGOs and the Imagining of the Mentawaian Community / Myrna Eindhoven
26 Coping, Adapting, Thriving / Matthew Isaac Cohen
27Caught between Three Fires / Muhamad Hisyam
28 Overcoming Terminological Ethnocentrism / Cliff Goddard
29Madame Butterfly in a Robinson Reading / Doris Jedamski
30The Leviathan’s Military Arm / Tobias Rettig
30Indonesia across Orders / Evelien Buchheim, Remco Raben & Peter Post
31 Decolonizations, Loyalties and Nations / John Kleinen & Remco Raben
32Java through the Eyes of Van Kinsbergen / Gerda Theuns-de Boer
33New Horizons for Social Research using Digital Media in Southeast Asia / Aileen Toohey and Roxana Waterson East Asia
19Japan as Imagined by Arabs / Mona Abaza
20Xun Zi in the Intellectual Context of Early China / Masayuki Sato
21 In Search of the Chinese Muslim Diaspora / Eric Germain
22Moving toward a Mature, Balanced Stage of Studying Christianity in China / Peter Chen-main Wang

General
42Books Received
52CLARA Publications
Central Asia
40Tibetan Pilgrimage Texts / Toni Huber
41Kantanjur and Tibetan Information Technology / Tashi Tsering
South Asia
39 Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance / Thomas de Bruijn
39Agniyuger Agnikatha “Yugantar” / Victor van Bijlert
39Bengal: Rethinking History / Victor van Bijlert
40A Journalist’s Encyclopaedia on the Democratic Movement in Nepal / Mark Turin
Southeast Asia
36Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man / Andras Hernadi
36The Rise and Fall of a Javanese Saint / Michael Laffan
37 Atlas of Laos / Loes Schenk-Sandbergen
East Asia
34 The Logic of Japan’s Mori-bund Politics / Richard Boyd
35 Tak-Wing Ngo’s Hong Kong’s History / Angela Schottenhammer
38 Fictions of Desire / Leith Morton

43Editorial / Kristy Phillips
43Empty Hands: Iranian Feminists Reach Out / Alisa Eimen
44A Serendipitous Sojourn / Thomas Cooper
45Afghanistan: Iconoclastic Fury Unleashed Again / Sebastian López
46Signs of Artistic Times in China / Thomas Berghuis
46Asian Art Online / Thomas Berghuis
47Art Agenda / The Gate Foundation (47 - 48)
IIAS News
49IIAS Staff
IIAS Research Programmes & Projects
IIAS Agenda
50IIAS Research Fellows
51A Giant’s Step to Sri Lanka / Ellen Raven
“Syntax” Update: A Postverbal Modal in Cantonese and Mandarin /
Rint Sybesma
52Reconstructing the Historical Tradition of 20th-Century Indonesian Labour / Ratna Saptari
53Islam in Indonesia: First Annual Programme Seminar / Johan Meuleman
Short Update: Islam in Indonesia / Sabine Kuypers
52The KNAW Programme
BIORIN: Biotechnological Research Indonesia-the Netherlands / Huub
Löffler
General News
58 ASEF 5-Year Anniversary
TANAP News
54First TANAP Workshop held in Singapore / Henk Niemeijer
Dutch Gold in Madras / Lennart Bes
TANAP Diary / Mahesh Gopalan & Muridan S. Widjojo
Asia Alliance News
55 Asia Alliance Short Update / Sabine Kuypers
The Alliance Partners
The Annual Asia-Europe Workshop Series
ICAS 3 News
56 International Convention of Asia Scholars
Announcing ICAS 3
ESF Asia Committee News
European Associations for Asian Studies
57The ESF Asia Committee
The European Science Foundation
Asia Committee after 2001
/ Sabine Kuypers
ESF Asia Committee Travel Grants 2001 - 2002
58Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Network / Maria Jaschok & Cecilia Milwertz
ASEMUS News
58 Asia-Europe Market Place of Museums / Willem Vermont

59 Chewing the West/ Doris Jedamski
Asian Contributions to the Formation of Modern Science / Frits Staal
Contextualization of Christianity in China / Peter Chen-main Wang
Global E-Quality / Jeroen de Kloet
60Mountain Populations & Their Vision for the Future / Peter Schachenmann & Hanta Rabetaliana
Burma-Myanma(r) Research and its Future / Gustaaf Houtman
ESCAS VIII/ ESCAS
Fourth Avignon Conference on Slavery and Forced Labour / Gwyn Campbell
62International Conference Agenda (62 - 63)

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