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Symposium report: The three sources of city-country, by Augustin Berque (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

Date : 16/06/2006
Author : Augustin Berque
From the 20th to the 27th September 2004 the symposium « The three sources of city-country» was held at Cerisy-la-Salle,Cerisy-la-Salle, bringing together 28 participants from eight countries (Japan, Korea, China, Netherlands, Italy, France, Canada, United States), and coordinated by Augustin Berque (École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Philippe Bonnin (CNRS) and Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin (CNRS).

From Sovietism to dictatorship. Milestones in a political, social and economic regression by Laurent Bazin, Bernard Hours & Monique Selim

Date : 14/06/2006
Author : Laurent Bazin, Bernard Hours & Monique Selim
Since the dawn of the 1990’s when Uzbekistan becomes an Independent State on the ruins of USSR, all the requirements for the viability of a national democratic State are not met, which brings the Secretary of the communist party, Islam Karimov, to power on a euphoric nationalist project nurtured on expectations of a society made vulnerable by the influence of perestroïka and the progressive decline of the Soviet welfare state.

Some Virtues of Pluridisciplinary and Intercultural Approach by Valerie Gelezeau, Univ. of Marne-la-Vallée, Laboratory of Korean Studies (UMR 8033)

Date : 12/06/2006
Author : Valérie Gelézeau
It is by choosing an apparently run-of-the-mill theme of the region as one of its areas of research, that the social science team of the Laboratory of Korean Studies (UMR 8033 EHESS/Paris VII/EFEO directed by A. Guillemoz) has added a new light to its research orientations.

The success of Asian products in XVIth to XVIIIth century Europe, by <font color=red><b>Philippe Haudrere,</b>, Professor, Univ.of Angers, Membre of Academie de Marine

The success of Asian products in XVIth to XVIIIth century Europe, by Philippe Haudrere,, Professor, Univ.of Angers, Membre of Academie de Marine

Date : 31/05/2006
Author : Philippe Haudrere
Europeans know Asian products for a longtime, even before the XVIth century. The rich Romans appreciated spices, particularly pepper and silk. In the middle ages, the 'silk route' was active, although the technique of silk worm breeding spread in the West thanks to the Byzantines who implemented it in the Eastern Mediterranean countries, before it reached Italy first, followed by France and Spain; but this production did not completely satisfy the local demand both in quantity and quality, and the spices were always sought after, as well as 'curiosities', like Chinese porcelain. This traffic made up the wealth of Venice.

Cambodia at the Crossroads, by <font color=red><b>Grégoire Rochigneux*,</b> Assistant Director of the Institute of Research on Contemporary South-East Asia (IRASEC), based in Bangkok</font>

Cambodia at the Crossroads, by Grégoire Rochigneux*, Assistant Director of the Institute of Research on Contemporary South-East Asia (IRASEC), based in Bangkok

Date : 01/05/2006
Author : Grégoire Rochigneux
The recent amendments to the Cambodian Constitution, which reduced the majority required for a confidence motion for the government in the National Assembly, resulted in a concentration of the Prime Minister’s power that has no precedent since the formation of the Royal Government of Cambodia thirteen years ago. Hun Sen, holding the post from 1985, under the People’s Republic of Kampuchea, had been forced to compromise with the Royalists (Funcinpec) soon after the 1993 legislative elections, and shared the power with them in three successive governments.

Despoiled peasants protest in front of the National Assembly.
(Photo graciously provided by Cambodge soir)

Looking for Asian Connections during the Colonial Period. Reconfigurations from the 'Inside' and 'Outside' by Christopher Goscha, Professor, University of Quebec
Date : 31/03/2006
Author : Christopher Goscha, Web site
It is rare in international relations and colonial studies to talk about Asian connections during the colonial period. Colonial history tends to concentrate on one specific colonial state or on the relationship between the 'colonizer' and the 'colonized'. Most international historians also focus on the colonial states during this period, the sovereign entities of the time (the Dutch Indies or French Indochina).

Photo: Bui Quang Chieu (on the left) et Duong Van Giao (on the right) on the boat taking them to India, 1927

The ‘Great Game’ of Regionalization in Eastern Asia by Bertrand Fort, Deputy Executive Director of the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF, www.asef.org)
Date : 02/03/2006
Author : Bertrand Fort *
Eastern Asia has not been spared from the shock wave that followed the disappearance of the bipolar world and the cold war. Almost 'mechanically', the traditional allies of the ex-Soviet Union in the Far East, Vietnam and Laos in particular, but also the diverse armed insurrections that it supported and, to a lesser extent, it is true, China and North Korea were losing a strong backing.

The Korean of Quality and the Real Meat Extract: Thoughts on the ways of Korea From Orientalist imaginings to scholarly imagination
Date : 09/02/2006
Author : Alain DELISSEN, Associate Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (UMR 8173 EHESS/CNRS Chine-Corée-Japon)
1. Let us feast our eyes on the picture a little. The freshness of lavender blue, marshmallow pink, almond green; these distant fuzziness à la Vinci from where emerge the enigmatic square towers of a fortified castle; the Art Nouveau dividing line that echoes a fortifying dry broth; the daring cut of the frills and flounces under a bobble hat reflecting the curve of the patched-up roofs under the tuft of persimmon trees. Let us give in to its stunning effect a little before the initial words of the caption stand out.

A bridge between Asia and Europe : The Indo-Europeans of Georges Dumézil, by Daniel Dubuisson, Docteur ès Lettres, Senior fellow CNRS, Director of the UMR CERSATES (8529, CNRS section 33/Lille 3)
Date : 01/01/2006
Author : Daniel Dubuisson
The Indo-Europeans were discovered not much more than two centuries ago. In fact, an English scientist (W. Jones), staying in India at the end of the XVIIIth century, put forth the Indo-European hypothesis based on lexical and grammatical resemblances, observed between the classical languages and Sanskrit.

Cover of an English translation of Râmâyana published in India in 1981

Literature and Human Sciences by Emmanuel Lozerand, Professor of Japanese language and literature at Inalco
Date : 01/12/2005
Author : Emmanuel Lozerand
Towards the end of the Middle Ages, the word « literature » denoted the entire gamut of human knowledge. Then from the XVIIIth century only the written works are concerned, insofar as they bear the mark of aesthetic preoccupations. Indeed, as long as the Beautiful remained an essential category, literature retained its prestige for some more time.

The Mongolian nomads: an anthropological alternative?by Jacques Legrand Professor, INALCO, Paris ; IISNC, Ulaanbaatar, President of INALCO
Date : 15/11/2005
Author : Jacques Legrand
Mongolia is a myth, a myth it does not have the privilege of being endowed with. What a number of pictures are jostling each other and naturally, overlapping… Many certainties that would not have to be verified any longer assert themselves. One more than the others: the obvious fact of an eternal mobility.

Oceania : Dream islands or example of new disorders in the world? by Jean-Marc Regnault, Emeritus Senior lecturer at the University of French Polynesia
Date : 10/10/2005
Author : Jean-Marc Regnault, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Développement Insulaire and le Pacifique (IRIDIP)
The political scholar Charles Zorgbibe, in L’Année internationale (1990), (International year) exclaimed: « who is going to ensure the survival of the micro-States of the Pacific? » (Those that are mainly situated in the South of the Tropic of Cancer, this region of the world that one calls Oceania). Ten years later, their situation proved to be terrible.

The RESEAU ASIE - Asia Network, a network of the future, by Maurice Aymard, Professor at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales*
Date : 08/09/2005
Author : Maurice Aymard
The RESEAU ASIE - Asia Network, conceived and created within the framework of the MSH in June 2001, is more than four years old now. And it is going to hold its second Congress at the end of September 2005.

*Maurice Aymard, Administrator of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation from 1993 to 2005, Founder Member of the RESEAU ASIE – Asia Network

The democratization of the Indian democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot, Director of Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI)
Date : 19/08/2005
Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
For a longtime, the Indian democracy was more formal than significant because it functioned in a closed circuit: admittedly the alternation brought new men to assume positions of responsibility, but their sociological profile remained the same. In fact three groups of the Indian elite – all of high caste – shared out the power between themselves: the intelligentsia, largely comprising the Brahmin caste, with a very high presence in the civil service and heading political parties, the business classes, mainly from the trading class (vaishyas), and the land owners from the warrior castes (kshatriyas), at least as far as old princes (Maharajahs) are concerned. These three groups had divergent interests.

The author during field work in Poona in 2001

The political crisis in Nepal and the Maoist insurgency by Gérard Toffin, Senior research fellow, CNRS, Milieux, Sociétés et Cultures en Himalaya (UPR 299)
Date : 01/06/2005
Author : Gérard Toffin
On the 1st of February 2005, the king of Nepal, Gyanendra Bikram Shah, who had acceded to the throne in June 2001 under cover of the massacre of the royal family by his nephew Dipendra, declared a state of emergency in the small Himalayan kingdom.

For an open history of India in Asia by Claude Markovits, Senior Research Fellow CNRS, Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (UMR 8564)
Date : 01/05/2005
Author : Claude Markovits
The attention given in recent times by the media as well as by our political leaders to the rising power of China and India is both welcome and intriguing for an historian of India.

The Chinese Triads in Southeast Asia : From a « total social phenomenon» to a trans-national criminal organisation? by Jean Baffie, director of IRSEA, UMR 6571, CNRS-Université de Provence, Marseille
Date : 01/04/2005
Author : Jean Baffie
The criminal activities of the Chinese Triads are known to have traditionally fired imaginations, provided themes to film producers, to fiction writers and sometimes to authors of very serious journalistic surveys.

Tsunami in Sumatra: questions raised within Indonesian Islam by Andrée Feillard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Date : 01/03/2005
Author : Andrée Feillard
More than two months after the 26th December 2004 disaster, adding more words to the tsunami and its 200 000 dead in Southeast Asia could seem pathetic, as the subject has given rise to a plethora of writing and photos.

Writing on contemporary Vietnam: History and space(s) of a Nation-State by Benoît de Tréglodé – Associate Research Fellow at the Asia Centre, IFRI
Date : 01/11/2004
Author : Benoît de Tréglodé
The historical research on Vietnam has for a long time remained imprisoned by the premise: homogeneity of the Vietnamese nation and the continuity of its history.

A regional and interdisciplinary approach to trafficking in human beings with the purpose of sexual exploitation in Southeast Asia by Pierre LE ROUX & Emmanuel DIALMA
Date : 01/09/2004
Author : Pierre LE ROUX & Emmanuel DIALMA
Trafficking in women and children for purposes of sexual exploitation seen as a total social phenomenon in Southeast Asia. Need to merge interdisciplinary and inter-institutional approach for study and action.

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