IIAS Newsletter 44 Summer 2007

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Accounts of colonial photography in the Dutch East Indies focus on European photographers and exceptional figures like Kassian Cephas, the first (known) native Javanese photographer. Yet photography was not simply a ‘European’ technology transplanted from the European metropole to the Asian colony. Decentring European photographers from the history of photography in the Indies reveals the more circuitous - and Asian - routes by which photography travelled to and within the archipelago.

Contents #44
2 Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

 

Asia's Colonial Photographies
1, 4 & 5 Photography’s asian circuits / Karen Strassler
3 Asia’s colonial photographies / David Odo
6 - 7 Photography in China: a global medium locally appropriated / Oliver Moore
8 - 9 Moving pictures: postcards of colonial Korea / Hyung Gu Lynn
10 - 11 Photograpy in India / Sophie Gordon
12 - 13 Side streets of history: a Dutchman’s stereoscopic views of colonial Vietnam / John Kleinen
14 - 15 Photographic encounters in the Philippines, 1898 – 1910 / Melissa Banta
16 - 17 Postcards from the edge of empire: images and messages from French Indochina / Janet Hoskins

 

Research
18 - 19 Chinese performing arts: from communist to globalised kitsch / Dragan Klaic
20 - 21 What is immediate perception? The Buddhist answer / Victoria Lysenko
22 -23 The future of the East Asian political economy: China, Japan and regional integration / Maaike Heijmans
23 Rituals, pantheons and techniques: a history of Chinese religion before the Tang / John Lagerweij
24 - 25 Equalisation as difference: Zhang Taiyan’s Buddhist-Daoist response to modern politics / Viren Murthy
26 Colonial or indigenous rule? The black Portuguese of Timor in the 17th and 18th centuries / Hans Hagerdal
27 Remarkable liaisons among the well-to-do / Wu Cuncun

 

Portrait
28 - 31 ‘Danzanravjaa is my hero!’: the transformation of tradition in contemporary Mongolian poetry / Simon Wickham – Smith

 

Book Reviews
32 New For Review
33 Southeast Asia: an additional bibliographical tool / Jurg Schneider
34 The really forgotten Korean war / Sem Vermeersch
35 Music and manipulation / Bob van der Linden
36 Japanese apologies / Gerhard Krebs
37 Parting the mists / Lucien van Valen
38 - 39 Lucknow: city of illusion / Gerda Theuns – de Boer
40 Eyes on the prize / Kerry Brown
41 Negotiating the state in Mughal India / Karuna Sharma

 

Institutional News
42 - 43 Announcements
44 - 45 Beyond binaries: sociological discourse on religion in South Asia / Sujata Patel
46 The generosity of artificial languages / Frits Staal
47 ASEF
48 Asia Alliance
49 ICAS update
50 IIAS fellows
51 IIAS research
52 - 53 Arts agenda
54 - 55 International conference agenda
56 Colophon

 

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Asia's Colonial Photographies

Photography's Asian Circuits

Asia's colonial photographies

Photography in China: a global medium locally appropriated

Moving pictures: postcards of colonial Korea

Photograpy in India

Side Streets of History: A Dutchman's stereoscopic views of colonial Vietnam

Photographic encounters in the Philippines, 1898 - 1910

Postcards from the edge of empire: images and messages from French Indochina