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The HAS is expanding slowly, nationally as well as inter nationally. Nationally, 1996 was the year o f the deepening o f the base. HAS Director. Professor W im Stokhof, explains how this has been achieved.
At the tim e o f the French conquest in 1895, Madagascar was already a well-organized political state. When and how was this state born? Dr Rafolo Andrianaivoarivony attempts to answer these questions.
24 The last decade in the run-up to the tw enty-first century has been particularly in trig u in g for its contradictory but concurrent centripetal and centrifugal impulses. As communities grow increasingly interconnected, proclamations o f distinctiveness and exclusivity become more pronounced. Lily Zubaidah Rahim goes in search o f the 'Asian Way’
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CULTURE
I I AS The HAS has opened a new branche office in Amsterdam.
In 1923 young Harm Kamerlingh Onnes joined his uncle D o lf on a voyage to Indonesia. His letters and sketches give us a glimpse o f the colonial world o f Indonesia and East Asia in the 1920’s
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49 ESF A S I A C O M M I T T E E News from the ESF Asia Committee
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News from the Association o f Korean Studies in Europe.
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The i st meeting o f the European Association for South Asian Studies.
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Two recently published books about Tibet are highlighted. Tibet and the British Raj. Thefrontier cadre 1904-1947 by Alex McKay and Russia’s Tibet File: The unknown pa^es in the histoiy o/Tibet’s independence.
2nd Conference o f the European Assoc, for Southeast Asian Studies
The collections o f the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew support the in stitu tio n ’s work into plants and botany, concentrating on the tropical and sub-tropical regions o f the world. Kew has a long standing and on-going interest in the botanical region ofMalesia that covers insular Southeast Asia - the Malay Archipelago including New Guinea.
56 SE A L G An introduction o f the Southeast Asia Library Group
Fengshui, the name o f an ancient form o f Chinese geomancy, literally means ‘wind and water’. Recently this mysterious old subject seems to have attracted the interest o f more and more people, achieving a modern revival after being ignored for a long period o f time.
56 ASEASUK News from the Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the UK.
57 N VAPS The i sc congress o f the Dutch Assoc, for Asia and Pacific Studies.
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According to A m inul Haque Faraizi, development projects ‘stink’ in Bangladesh. Despite the failure o f most development projects to achieve their stated objectives, like poverty alleviation, employment generation, empowering the poor and marginalized people, the development industry has grown even bigger than ever before. Why is this so?
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\ Fifty years ago saw the beginning o f what became known as the first m ilita ry action (eerste politionele actie], the war in which the Netherlands attempted to restore its authority in the East Indies. Photographers captured these actions on film . Photos which showed the harsh reality o f the colonial war were never made available to the public. The historian o f photography Louis Zweers has rediscovered these censored photographs.
The i st International Convention o f Asia Scholars.
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Oda Nobunaga, the prime mover o f Japan’s reunification, has long had a reputation as a brutal warlord. Jeroen Lamers re-evaluates Nobunaga’s policies, not by denying their cruelty but by placing them in the comparative perspective o f the Machiavellian Prince.
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Some highlights o f current exhibitions o f Asian A rt and the Asian A rt Agenda in which forthcoming exhibitions and performances on Asian art are announced.
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VACANCIES Vacancies in the field o f Asian Studies
6 1 AGENDA International Conference Agenda
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