The Newsletter 50 Spring 2009

Guest Editor Chris Goto-Jones guides us through CyberAsia, a brave new world offering new technologies, new knowledge and new ways of thinking about Asia.

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The Focus

The Focus

CyberAsia

CyberAsia

What is a techno-region?

Animalisation, subjectivity and the Internet

Alien autopsy: the science fictional frontier of Asian Studies

Heidi in Japan: what do anime dreams of Europe mean for non-Europeans?

Bloggers, hackers and the King Kong syndrome

In the year 2020: Muslim futurities in Southeast Asia

Chinascape: moving beyond the People's Republic

The Study

The changing order of mobility in Asia

Moral mobility: Return in the Japanese community in Brazil 1908-1955

Guiqiao: returnees as a policy subject in China

Compulsory return: a means of migration control in East Asia

Forced return: the deportation of former Cambodian refugees from the US

Race and empire: Japan, the Hague Convention and the prewar world

Developing fears: environmental conflicts and pollution accidents in China

Kazi Nazrul Islam: Bengal's prophet of tolerance

Eloquent parrots: mixed language and the examples of hinglish and rekhti

The Review

Mind, mayhem and money

The rise of China. Balancing influence and engagement

The cartography of self-assertion

A Japanese Bestiary from 1700 to 1950

Cambodia's religions, in ashes and in ink

Don't forget to remember me

Raise your profile via New Asia Books

The Portrait

Silk Stories. Taisho Kimono 1900-1940

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