Newsletter 41 - International Institute for Asian Studies

2 Director's note: Asia studies in the 21st century
Wim Stokhof (Director, IIAS)
3 Chinese design – designing Chineseness Jeroen de Kloet
3 Veil Muhammed Hassanali



4 International law: power and participation in the 21st century Suzana Dudic
5 From Tokyo to The Hague Liu Daqun
6 & 8 Can corporations be held legally responsible for serious human rights violations? Ilaria Bottigliero
7 & 9 Civil society and the search for justice: the Tokyo women’s tribunal Tina Dolgopol
8 & 9 Human rights between Europe and Southeast Asia Simone Eysink



1 & 10-11 Wildman Gregory Forth
12 Sex in the city Lena Scheen
13 Whose comrades? Gay festivals in China Remy Cristini
14 Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai: painter of history Adrian Vickers and Leo Haks
15 Engaging cultures across the Timor Sea Georgia Sedgwick
16 Bhutanese Nepalis or Nepali Bhutanese? Satya Shrestha-Schipper
17 Political turmoil in Cambodia Michael Vickery
18-19 Photographing the Ogasawara Islands: thinking with 19th century photographs of Japan David Odo



20-21 British imperial collapse in Asia Bali Sahota
20-21 Nalini by day, Nancy by night Maya Kulkarni
21 To the professional assassin Sarker Amin
22 Beyond state and nation in South Asia Hastings Donnan
23 Social space and governance in urban China Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen
24 Southeast Asia: one or many? Marcus von Essen
25 Autobiography of an Indian indentured labourer Victor van Bijlert
26 Creating the mindset for total war Donald M. Seekins
27 Polite language in modern Japan Manfred B. Sellner
28 Twenty-five centuries of body and face in China Lucien van Valen
29 Books received



30 IIAS fellows
31 IIAS research
32 Voices of Islam in Europe and Southeast Asia Cynthia Chou and Patrick Jory
33 European Alliance for Asian Studies
33 International Convention of Asia Scholars
34-35 Announcements
36-37 International arts agenda / Carol Brash
38-39 International conference agenda

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its main objective is to encourage the study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in this field. The geographical scope of the institute covers South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia. The institute focuses on the humanities and the social sciences and, where relevant, on their interaction with other sciences. The IIAS acts as an (inter)national mediator, bringing various parties together. In keeping with the Netherlands' tradition of transferring goods and ideas, the IIAS works as a clearing house of knowledge and information. This entails activities such as providing information services, constructing international networks, and setting up international cooperative projects and research programmes. In this way, the IIAS functions as a window on Europe for non-European scholars and contributes to the cultural rapprochement between Asia and Europe. The institute organizes seminars, workshops, and conferences, and publishes a newsletter with a circulation of approximately 21,500 copies. Moreover the IIAS has established a database for Asian Studies, which contains information on researchers and research related institutes worldwide.