Newsletter 33

Newsletter 33

March 2004
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2Editorial / Maurice Sistermans
1, 4-5An Indian Writer in Troubled Times / Thomas de Bruijn
3Brains for Hire: Education and Nation-building in Contemporary Azerbaijian / Irina Morozova

6 The Internet in China: A Symposium / Randolph Kluver
7Mingling Politics with Play: The Virtual Chinese Public Sphere / Guobin YANG
8The Taste of Information: State Attempts to Control the Internet / Lokman TSUI
9Handing over China's Internet to the Corporations / Ian Weber & LU Jia
10Internet and the Fragmented Political Community / Jens Damm

11Everything is not Lost: The Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) / Jennifer Gross & Hanno Lecher
12Mongolia: Who Bridges the Digital Divide? / Margreet van Doodewaard
13A New Approach to the Study of Islamic Activism / Quintan Wiktorowicz
14The Introduction of Biomedicine into the Indo-Tibetan Himalayas / Alex McKay
15The Power of the Stars: Astrology and Divination in the Traditional Indian Society / Audrius Beinorius
16Sexual Discrimination in South India / Stephanie Vella
17The Atoms of Meaning / Cliff Goddard
18-19Poet of Word and Presence: An Interview with Ashok Vajpeyi / Renata Czekalska
20Changing Definitions of Ethnic Boundaries on Mauritius / Tijo Salverda
21Le Malaise Créole / Rosabelle Boswell
22Beating Time: Concepts of Rhythm in the Natyasastra / Narinder Mohkamsing
23Hinduism, Values and Management / Victor van Bijlert
24Local Protectionism: The Bottleneck of China's Economic Development / HOU Yu
25 Countering Purism: The Revitalization of Moluccan Languages / Margaret Florey
26Malaysia and Islamic Modernity / Sigrid Noekel & Georg Stauth
27Cautious Optimism / J.Thomas Lindblad
27 Religious Networks Between the Middle East and Southeast Asia / Michael Feener
28For 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

31The Emergence of a National Economy / William G. Clarence-Smith
32Recalling Malya's Communist Menace: Fact and Fiction on Chin Peng / Andrew Symon
33Min Yong-hwan: A Political Biography / Koen De Ceuster
34From Negritude to Coolitude / Clare Anderson
34Speaking 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

39Art 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
43The Chester Beatty Library: Asia in Ireland / Michael Ryan
44-45Voices from Tundra and Taiga: Vitality and Education / Cecilia Odé (more about this project on Cecilia Odé's website)
47IIAS Research Programmes & New Initiatives
48SOAS: A Brief History and Profile / Colin Bundy
49Social Sciences and AIDS in Southeast Asia: The Challenge of Antiretroviral Treatments / Sophie Le Coeur & Maurice Eisenbruch
50Land as the Key to Urban Development: Housing in Indonesia Cities, 1930-1960 / Freek Colombijn
50Indonesia across Orders / Els Bogaerts
51Response from NIOD / Hans Blom
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

53 Islam and Asia / Rochelle Almazanor-McArthur
53WOTRO Postdoc Project / Renee van Kessel-Hagestijn
53First International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS) / John Hartmann & Catherine Raymond
53EUROSEAS 4 / Guy Faure, Manon Osseweijer, Oscar Salemink & Tomas Sikor
53Connecting Civil Society of Asia and Europe / Bertrand Fort
54-55International Conference Agenda
56Colophon

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