Newsletter 45

Newsletter 45

Autumn 2007

2Building bridges to, from and with Asia. Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

1 & 4Living apart together: cross-border marriage, Riau Islands style / Lenore Lyons and Michele Ford
3Transnational marriage in Asia / Melody Lu
5Muslim transnational families: Pakistani husbands and Japanese wives /
Shuko Takeshita
6Remittances and ‘social remittances': Their impact on cross-cultural
marriage and social transformation
/ Panitee Suksomboon
7‘Daughter-in-law for the second time': Taiwanese mothers-in-law in the
family of cross-border marriage
/ Hsing-Miao Chi
9‘Arranged love': marriage in a transnational work envirnoment /
Michiel Baas
  
10 - 11Making poverty history? Unequal development today / Jomo K. Sundaram (extract from Wertheim Lecture 2007)
12 - 13Goals set for the poor, goalposts set by the rich: Millennium Development Goals and the dumbing-down of development / Ashwani Saith
14Curating controversy: exhibiting the Second World War in Japan and United States since 1995 / Laura Hein
15The ‘Great Game' continued: Central Eurasia and Caspian region fossil
fuels
/ Xuetang Guo and Mehdi P. Amineh
16 - 17Asian New Religious Movements as global cultural systems /
Wendy A. Smith
18From tin to Ali Baba's gold: the evolution of Chinese entrepreneurship in Malaysia / Chin Yee Whah
19Still standing: the maintenance of a white elite in Mauritius / Tijo Salverda
20 - 21No place like home?: Return and circular migration among elderly
Chinese in the Netherlands
/ David Engelhard
22Chinese medicine in East Africa and its effectiveness / Elisabeth Hsu
23Taking traditional knowledge to market: looking at Asian medical traditions through the lens of medicines and manufacturers / Maarten Bode
24 - 25Agarwood: the life of a wounded tree / Gerard A. Persoon
26The unbearable absence of parasols: the formidable weight of a colonial Java status symbol / Liesbeth Hesselink
27Uncovering hidden treasures: establishing the discipline of
Indian manuscriptology
/ Daniel Stender

28 - 29MuXiYuan: a neighbourhood untouched in a changing Beijing / Jikky Lam
30New For Review
31An indispensible tool for the busy Asian Studies scholar / Thomas Voorter
31Bookmarked
32Encapsulate everything, grasp nothing: Russian imperialist discourse in
Uzbekistan
/ Nathan Light
32Intimate Empire: bodily contacts in an imperial zone / Clare Anderson
33Not just nuns and oracles: contemporary Tibetan women / Sara Shneiderman
34Chinese voices on abortion / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
35Getting beyond image to realist in Burma (Myanmar) / Donald M. Seekins
36On the independence of civil society: the case of the Philippines / Niels Mulder
37 - 38The sophisticated aesthetics of Ehon and Ukiyo-e of a Meiji period
Master
/ Patricia J. Graham
38The return of Dr Strangelove or: should we really stop worrying and learn to love India's bomb? / Nadja-Christina Schneider
39 - 40Announcements
41ASÍS - Forging links between distant lands
42ECAF - Leading European institutions launch a consortium for Asian Field Studies
43ICAS update
44IIAS research
45IIAS fellows
46 - 47International Conference Agenda
48Colophon

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