Newsletter 51

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Summer 2009

1Cover
2Contents
3From the Director
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

The Study

4-5

‘Forty houses should forbid the girls…’: bride kidnapping amongst the Kazakh of western Mongolia Anna Portisch

6Asian performing arts in the academy Matthew Isaac Cohen
7The future of the Chinese and East Asian musical past Frank Kouwenhoven
8 - 9
The hungry tide: Bengali Hindu refugees in the Subcontinent Rituparna Roy
10
American wars, French borders: Thailand’s acrimonious adjacency to Cambodia (Part 1) Eisel Mazard
11Dances with an Indian ‘tribe’ Markus Schleiter
12 - 13Celebrating life and longings: Bollywood dancing in Amsterdam Dipika Mukherjee
14A trip to Amnye Machen: the diary of Joseph F. Rock Emilia Roza Sulek
15Social capital to alleviate poverty: fi sheries cooperatives in southern Sri Lanka Oscar Amarasinghe
16 - 17The art of realism: painted photographs from India Rahaab Allana
The Focus: Energy Security: Asia/EU
18 - 19Tapping global energy stocks: energy security challenges for the EU and China Mehdi Amineh and Yuang Guang
20Securing China’s oil supply: from Saudi Arabia to Sudan Chen Mo
21China’s energy security and student attitudes Eduard B. Vermeer
22Russia's emerging place: the Eurasian hydrocarbon energy complex Robert M. Cutler
23The energy policy of Iran towards the EU and China Eva Patricia Rakel
24Courting the prize in Pakistan: India, China and the geopolitics of Iranian gas Philip Sen
25Japan-China nuclear energy cooperation Raquel Shaoul
26Transition management and institutional reform Daniel Scholten
27EU-China energy relations and geopolitics: challenges for cooperation Frank Umbach

The Review

28 - 29New For Review
30Bookmarked / Shedding light on Malaysia's special branch Julian C.H. Lee
31Women in the Portuguese colonial empire Michael Pearson
32Tibetan literary movements Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
33The rise of the ‘new rich’ in China Friederike Fleischer
34Re-thinking Christianity in Japan Hans Martin Krämer
35The politics of Islamic instruction Dick van der Meij

The Network

36 - 37IIAS News and comment
38Digitisation at SOAS | Asian cultural actors connect in Bangalore
39Asian governance
40Announcements
41IIAS Research
42IIAS Fellows
43Colophon

The Portrait

44Chinese snuff bottles Vincent Fausone

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