Newsletter 48

Newsletter 48

Summer 2008

2Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

1, 4 & 5Sex, love and revolution / Vina A. Lanzona
3Women warriors in Asia / Vina A. Lanzona & Tobias Rettig
5Lady Sinn: a 6th century woman warrior / Geoff Wade
6 - 7Re-fashioning the warrior Hua Mulan: changing norms of sexuality in China / Louise Edwards
7 - 8Whispered confidences: articulating the female in the PNTL (police) and FDTL (military) in Timor Leste / Jacqueline Siapno
8 - 9Warrior queens: the Rani of Jhansi Regiment / Tobias Rettig
10 - 11Images of the past, realities of the present: Aceh's Inong Balee /
Elsa Clavé-Çelik
12 - 13The forgotten women warriors of the Malayan Communist Party /
Adrianna Tan
14 - 15The aftermath for women warriors: Cambodia and East Timor /
Susan Blackburn
16Social networking in pre-modern Asian history / Stewart Gordon
17Exorcising the curse of the Khmer Rouge / Benny Widjono
18 - 19Wertheim 2008: Asia from ‘Down Under': regionalism and global cultural change / Ien Ang
20Modern times: the meaning of dates and calenders in Modern China,
1895-1935
/ Lane J. Harris
21‘No false echoes': polyphony in colonial and post-colonial times /
Edwin Jurriëns
22 - 23Bogus sadhus and famous rhinos: early modern Dutch scholars, artists and missionaries on South Asia / Lennart Bes
24In praise of repetition / Alessandro Graheli
25From ‘Doghouse' days to ‘Limitless Space': independent filmmaking in Malaysia / Gaik Cheng Khoo
26 - 27‘Life as it ought to be': propaganda art of the PRC / Stefan Landsberger
28New For Review
29Bookmarked
30 - 31Photography, archaeology and afternoon tea / Upinder Singh
32Dutch resilience: maintaining a distant colony during world war / Nicholas Tarling
33Thinking like a man / Anna Beerens
34 - 35Enchanting tales of Jodha-Akbar / Rituparna Roy
36The Internet in China: a liberating force? / Ruth Cherrington
38Bombay on the brink of modernity / Hans Schenk
39Against all odds: vanquishing smallpox in far-flung Japan / Penelope
Shino
40 - 41Network Asia
42 - 43Announcements
44IIAS Research
45IIAS Fellows
46International Conference Agenda
47Colophon
48Poster

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