New developments in Asian studies

The contributors, from a variety of fields within Asian studies, including anthropology, economics, history, law, political science, and ecology, address such topics as Chinese historiography and the Chinese sense of past; cultural policy as seen in music patronage in the Sultanate of Gujerat; the new Indian Ocean Rim economic grouping; hunting in Japan in the context of Buddhist beliefs; minority rights of peoples such as the Yao of Southern China, and much more.