The Newsletter | No.51 | Summer 2009
3 Director’s note
The Study
4-5 ‘Forty houses should forbid the girls…’:
bride kidnapping amongst the Kazakh of western Mongolia Anna Portisch
6 Asian performing arts in the academy Matthew Isaac Cohen
7 The 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
11 Dances with an Indian ‘tribe’ Markus Schleiter
12-13 Celebrating life and longings: Bollywood dancing in Amsterdam Dipika Mukherjee
14 A trip to Amnye Machen: the diary of Joseph F. Rock Emilia Roza Sulek
15 Social capital to alleviate poverty: fisheries cooperatives in southern Sri Lanka Oscar Amarasinghe
16-17 The art of realism: painted photographs from India Rahaab Allana
The Focus: Energy Security: Asia/EU
18-19 Tapping global energy stocks: energy security challenges for the EU and China
Mehdi Amineh and Yuang Guang
20 Securing China’s oil supply: from Saudi Arabia to Sudan Chen Mo
21 China’s energy security and student attitudes Eduard B. Vermeer
22 Russia’s emerging place: the Eurasian hydrocarbon energy complex Robert M. Cutler
23 The energy policy of Iran towards the EU and China Eva Patricia Rakel
24 Courting the prize in Pakistan: India, China and the geopolitics of Iranian gas Philip Sen
25 Japan-China nuclear energy cooperation Raquel Shaoul
26 Transition management and institutional reform Daniel Scholten
27 EU-China energy relations and geopolitics: challenges for cooperation Frank Umbach
The Review
28-29 New For Review
30 Bookmarked / Shedding light on Malaysia’s special branch Julian C.H. Lee
31 Women in the Portuguese colonial empire Michael Pearson
32 Tibetan literary movements Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
33 The rise of the ‘new rich’ in China Friederike Fleischer
34 Re-thinking Christianity in Japan Hans Martin Krämer
35 The politics of Islamic instruction Dick van der Meij
The Network
36-37 IIAS News and comment
38 Digitisation at SOAS | Asian cultural actors connect in Bangalore
39 Asian governance
40 Announcements
41 IIAS Research
42 IIAS Fellows
43 Colophon
The Portrait
44 Chinese snuff bottles Vincent Fausone
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