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IIAS Newsletter 29 Autumn 2002

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The 1990s, as the articles in the upcoming pages demonstrate, have witnessed a growth of both Western and Asian scholarly interest in same-sex sexuality in contemporary and traditional Asian societies. We have just begun to scrutinize the wealth of historical documents on the subject, and to reconstruct conceptual models buried underneath modern discourses on health and sexuality largely of Western origin (if often appearing in quite different ideological guises).

 

Editorial Page

IIAS Logo Explanation / Wim Stokhof

Editorial / Maurice Sistermans

Director’s Note on ASEM 4 / Wim Stokhof

 

General News

Al-Qaeda in the Asia Pacific: Origin, Capability, and Threat / Rohan Gunaratna (p. 1, 4-5)

In Memoriam: Hans de Casparis / Dirk Kolff

The Asia- Europe Meeting and the ASEM Research Platform / Paul van der Velde & Rima Sondaite-van Soest

Lectures on the Present, Lessons from the Past: al-Qa`ida as the New Pan-Islam / Michael Laffan (p. 4-5)

 

Theme: Asian Homosexualities

Asians of the Same Intent / Giovanni Vitiello

Restless Longing / Tze-lan D. Sang

Kamingu Auto: Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Japan / Mark J. McLelland

Gay vs. ‘Kathoey’: Homosexual Identities in Thailand / Megan Sinnott (p.7-8)

The Legacy of the Crocodile: Critical Debates over Taiwanese Lesbian Fiction / Fran Martin

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Homosexual Culture in Indonesia / Dédé Oetomo

10 Birthday in Beijing: Women Tongzhi Organizing in 1990s’ China / He Xiaopei

10 Homosexuality in India: Past and Present / Ruth Vanita (p.10-11)

11 The Remaking of a Cambodian-American Drag Queen / Karen Quintiliani

12 New Park: Gay Literature in Taiwan / Chi Ta-wei

12 Who’s That Girl? / Sharon Chalmers (p.12-13)

13 Filtered Voices / Cui Zi’en

14 Queer Mongolians: Is Isolation their Destiny? / Richard Smith

 

Research & Reports

15 A Non-Indian Resident - An Interview with the Poet Sujata Bhatt / Martin Mooij (p. 15-16) 

17 The Gate of Words / Antonetta L. Bruno

18 They are not Humans Anyway / Ward Berenschot (p. 18-19)

19 Between Music, Dance and Ritual / Clara Brakel & Patricia Matusky

20 East is East? / Mona Abaza

21 Troubled Links / Sanjoy Bhattacharya

22 Modern South Asia Conference in Heidelberg / Netty Bonouvrié

22 Tribal Transitions: Cultural Innovation in Arunachal Pradesh / Stuart Blackburn

23 Visualized Space / Martin Gaenszle & Jörg Gengnagel

24 Rethinking Geopolitics in Post-Soviet Central Eurasia / Mehdi Amineh

25 Tibetological Collections & Archives Series / Henk Blezer

25 Preserving Tibetan Heritage / Dory Heilijgers

26 Media Work: Science and the Public / Judith Brandner & Brigitte Steger

26 The Vedas: Texts, Language, and Ritual / Jan Houben

26 ESCAS VIII / Touraj Atabaki

27 Sex, Gender, and Priests / Sharyn Graham

28 Young Japanese Researchers on Southeast Asia - Series / Rogier Busser

28 Indigenizing Colonial Knowledge / Soda Naoki

29 Vietnamese Peasants / Markus Vorpahl

30 Eating GMOs with Chopsticks? / Heng Zhao

31 Intellectuals in Social Development in China / Nora Sausmikat

31 Chinese Communities in the Netherlands / Leo Douw

32 Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development Policy in Macau / Frans-Paul van der Putten

33 Voices from Tundra and Taiga / Cecilia Odé

 

Publications

34 From Austere Wabi to Golden Wabi / Anna Beerens

35 Return to Japan from Pilgrimage to the West / Gérard Siary

35 Gambling with Virtue / Sabine Frühstück

36 The Miracle, a Crisis, and the Future / Benno Galjart

36 Indian Revolutionaries in Central Asia / Touraj Atabaki

37 Korean Multinationals in Europe / Anil Khosla

37 A Free Web Journal / Mark Turin

38 Detective Report or Academic Book? / Noorhaidi Hasan

39 A Cutting-Edge Manual for Spoken Tibetan / Antonio Terrone

39 The Indigenization of Modernity / Toon van Meijl

40 Books Received

 

Asian Art & Cultures

41 Family, Photography and Icon: Vivan Sundaram’s Re-take of ‘Amrita’ / Kristy Phillips

42 Kenro Izu: Photography along the Silk Road / Debra Diamond

43 Asia and the White Cube / Kristy Phillips

44 When was Modernism? / Deepali Dewan

45 xs-XL, Expanding Art / John Gee

45 It ‘May Be’ Fantastic Again / Thomas Berghuis

46 Imagined Workshop / Caroline Turner

47 Art Agenda / Thomas Berghuis (p. 47-48)

 

News

49 Stem Cell Research in China / Margaret Sleeboom

50 IIAS Research Programmes

50 IIAS Publications

51 IIAS Fellows

52 Spaces of Protest / Rachel Silvey

52 South(east) Asian Art & Archaeology at Kediri / Ellen Raven

53 A Balancing Act / Els Bogaerts

53 The Dutch East Indies on Celluloid / Marije Plomp

53 Indonesia Across Orders / Els Bogaerts

54 Asia Alliance / Anne Sey

54 Alliance Partners

55 China as Number One - in Mobiles / Jon Sigurdson

55 Mobility and Mobiles in China / Anders Ravn Nielsen

56 ICAS Secretariat

56 ICAS 3 Singapore / Lynn Tan

56 European Associations for Asian Studies

56 TANAP Extends into Iran / Henk Niemeijer

56 TANAP Diary - Unequalled Success / Nirmal Dewasiri & Anjana Singh

 

Agenda

57 Directors of Urban Change: Mega-Urbanization in Asia / Freek Colombijn & Peter Nas

57 Local Land Use Strategies in a Globalizing World / Reed Wadley

58 International Conference Agenda (p. 58-59)

 

Notices

24 Advertising Information

50 IIAS Information

54 Asia-Europe Workshop Series