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New Developments in Asian Studies is a major new work which explores contemporary research into a number of fields of Asian studies, including anthropology, economics, history, law, political science and ecology. It showcases fresh approaches and original research by an international group of scholars who address the following themes: Minorities in East Asia; Nation and Region - Authors in Indonesia; Chinese History from Within and Without; China - People, Capital and Law; Islam and the Challenge of Modernity, Deconstructing Imperial Images and Environment, Culture and Economy. With a wide spread of papers exploring topics such as Chinese historiography and the Chinese sense of the past, cultural policy as seen in music patronage in the Sultanate of Gujerat, the new Indian Ocean Rim economic grouping, hunting in Japan today in the Context of Buddhist beliefs about life-taking, minority rights of peoples such as the Yao of Southern China, and the myth of Tibetan isolation, this rich and varied work will appeal to all professionals and students working in modern Asian Studies.

Author Biography

PAUL VAN DER VELDE and ALEX McKAY have both published scholarly works on Asia and work at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden.

Book Details

Format: 216 x 138

Binding: hardback

Pages: 740

ISBN: 710306067

Illustrations: 12 b/w plates

Subject: China, Islam, Indonesia, India, Literature, Ritual, Linguistics, Anthropology, Grammar, Philosophy, Religion, Science,

Series / Library: Studies from the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden

Contents

Introduction by Paul van der Velde.

Minorities in East Asia

• A New Interpretation of the Yao Charters:
  Barend J. ter Haar

• Can Kimlicka's Liberal Theory of Minority Right be Applied in East Asia?
  Baogang He

• Historical Consciousness in China: Some Notes on Six Theses on Chinese Historiography and Historical Thought:
  Joachim Mittag

• Politics and Morality in Song China: Sima Guang as a Typical Example:
  Angela Schottenhammer

• Why Sinologists Look East: An Essay on the Prosoprography of Sinology:
  Hans Hagerdal

• Ties and China's Economic Modernisation.
  Cen Huang

• Legal and Illegal Mainland Chinese Emigration during the 1990s:
  Carine Guerassimoff

• The Development of the Chinese Administrate Penalty System - A Comparative Perspective with Japanese and Taiwanese Law:
  Yong Zhang

• The Role of Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Search for a New Social Paradigm:
  Dilip Chandra

• Islamic Book Publishers in Indonesia: A Social Network Analysis:
  Jeroen C.M. Peeters

• Another Document from the funeral Pyre - the Suluk Aspiya or Suluk Endracatur by Raden Mas Atmasutirta:
  Edwin Wieringa

• 'Because I am a Malay'
  Taufik Ikram Jamil

• Between Nation and Region:
  Will Derks

• Indian Languages in the Modernisation Discourse in Colonial India:
  E. Annamalai

• The Construction of the State of Madagascar in the 19th Century - Archaeology of the Religious Legitimacy:
  Rafolo Andrianaivoarivony

• Tibet - the Myth of Isolation:
  Alex McKay

• The Debate on Hunting in Present-day Japan:
  John Knight

• Music Patronage in the Sultanate of Gujerat - A Survey of Sources.
  Francoise Delvoye

• The Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) Economic Association - A Giant in the Making?
  Gwyn R, Campbell