The Newsletter 56 Spring 2011

Guest editors Mark Bray and Julian Dierkes introduce the theme of supplementary education by showing how it has become a huge enterprise, occupying significant proportions of the time of students and the budgets of their families.

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Asian book series as global currency

KITLV series: Deep roots, new shoots

History of Chinese Thought series

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) series

The persistent allure of book series in Asian studies

NIAS Press Gendering Asia series

Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

The State and Society in East Asia series

Dutch source publications series on early modern East and Southeast Asia

Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia (ChATSEA)

The Sussex Library of Asian Studies

Book series at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The birth of the EFEO–Silkworm Series

Asian Studies Association of Australia Book Series

ICAS book prize 2011

The Focus

The Focus

Supplementary education in Asia

Supplementary education in Asia

Buxiban in Taiwan

The policies on supplemental education in Korea: A tug-of-war between government and market

Supplementary education in Cambodia

Facing the shadow education system in Hong Kong

Living on edges: Supplementing education in an Australian mining town

Supplementary education in Japan

A bird’s-eye view of the private tutoring phenomenon in Vietnam

Shadow education with Chinese characteristics

The Study

A Yao Script Project. "Culture", Texts, and Literacy in Contemporary Vietnam

The crown jewels lost and found

The exceptional Asian: The fetish for culture In India and Japan

"Love travels downwards"

BULAC library

Book publishing in Cambodia

Opinion: License to lead

The Review

Gedun Chopel, 20th century Tibet's finest writer

Scientific instruments in pre-modern India and the global circulation of knowledge

Crime as punishment

The Portrait

Three Sanskrit Collections at the Danish Royal Library

From the director

IIAS in 2011