The Newsletter 64 Summer 2013

Ordained by poet W. H. Auden in the 1930s as a city where “nothing serious could ever happen”, and whose citizens were described only thirty years ago as “among the most unrepresented, forgotten people in Asia”, Macao is now experiencing a remarkable resurgence. In this edition of the Focus, guest editor Tim Simpson outlines the Macao of yesterday, today and the future.

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The Study

Norodom Sihanouk and the political agenda of Cambodian music, 1955 - 1970

The painter Willem Imandt revisited

Leonardus Joseph (Leo) Eland, painter of 'Mooi Indie'

Epigraphic restorations of Timurid architectural heritage

Reviving traditions and creating futures

Reexamining human rights discourse after the Jewish and the Chinese Holocausts

The Opinion

Exploring inclusive Chineseness: neighbourhoods

Indian federalism: the need to look beyond coalition politics

The Review

Festive Festschrift

Monograph of a Nepalese town

Walking on the edge: explorers in China's borderlands

Sikhism

Between two worlds: women from pesantren appropriating private and public spaces

Cambodian bronze

Consuming empire in wartime Japan

China experiments

The Focus

The Focus

The ongoing story of Macao

The ongoing story of Macao

Macau in the eyes of a border scholar

Macau's 'sort-of sovereignty' and the contested meanings of cultural heritage

The British presence in Macau (1635-1793)

The voice on the postcolonial stage. Cultural contexts and functions of the creole theatre

Reinterpreting Macao's society, politics and economy

Walking in Macao

Dicionário temático de Macau

The Network

Mosques in Singapore: tapping overt and covert power

Shipwrecked

Sex selection and family patterns across Vietnam

Delft-Jingdezhen: The Blue Revolution, 400 Year Exchange

Reframing my memory of visiting IIAS

The Portrait

A pavilion for Asian art in the new Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam