South East Asia – February 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2014|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA General Buddhist narrative in Asia and beyond : in honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on her fifty-fifth birth anniversary / edited by Peter Skilling and Justin McDaniel. Ceramics of seduction : glazed wares from Southeast Asia / Dawn F. Rooney ; editors: Narisa Chakrabongse, Alice Williamson ; photography: Andrew Smart. Gambling with the land : the contemporary evolution of Southeast Asian agriculture / Rodolphe De Koninck, Jean-François

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Southeast Asian Studies – an open access journal published by Kyoto University

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|February 5, 2014|South East Asia|0 comments

Southeast Asian Studies is an open access journal published by Kyoto University. The journal engages in wide-ranging and in-depth discussions that are attuned to the issues, debates, and imperatives within the region, while affirming the importance of learning and sharing ideas on a cross-country, global, and historical scale. Being an open access journal, it means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users

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Art and Archaeology – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 22, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

‘Archaeologizing’ heritage? transcultural entanglements between local social practices and global virtual realities / Michael Falser, Monica Juneja, editors. InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia / Parul Dave Mukherji … [et al.]. Things done change : the cultural politics of recent Black artists in Britain / Eddie Chambers. Architecture in Burma : moments in time / Lorie Karnath. The figurative works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) : authentic voices/expanding markets / Tamara Heimarck

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Art and Archaeology – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 9, 2014|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

A great court painter of 18th-century Korean : the art of Kim Hong-do / Oh Ju-seok ; [translated by Lim Seon-young, Yang Ji-hyun ; revised by Mark S. Turnoy]. Archives, museums and collecting practices in the modern Arab world / [edited] by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz. Archaeological theory today / edited by Ian Hodder. Embellished reality : Indian painted photographs : towards a transcultural history of photography /

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South East Asia – September 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|October 8, 2013|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA/Pacific general Cosmopolitan sex workers : women and migration in a global city / Christine B.N. Chin. The longest journey : Southeast Asians and the pilgrimage to Mecca / Eric Tagliacozzo. Brunei Post-war Borneo, 1945-1950 : nationalism, empire, and state-building / Ooi Keat Gin. Burma/Myanmar The era of general Ne Win : a biographical approach of his military and political career considering Burmese traditions of political succession / Larah Wessendorf.

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Myanmar Peace Monitor

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|March 27, 2013|South East Asia|0 comments

Following the 2010 elections, Myanmar/Burma has seen rapid political and economic reforms with the installation of a democratic government. Major parts of these reforms include the new Ceasefire Agreements singed between the government and the armed ethnic groups. The setback, however, is that, despite the ceasefire agreements, fighting between the government’s Burma Army and the armed ethnic groups is still going on particularly in Kachin State and Shan State. Nevertheless,

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China and Inner Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Database updates China Academic Journals (CAJ) 中国期刊全文数据库 now includes masters theses and doctoral dissertations The popular Chinese language database now includes access to masters theses (1999-2012) and doctoral dissertations (2000-2012). These can be searched or browsed individually or cross searched with all of our other CAJ packages. A small percentage of the articles are images which can be converted to text-based articles by using the OCR button. http://oversea.cnki.net/ [On-campus] http://bit.ly/CAJTheses

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Religions – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 4, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-Journals Journal of Religion in Japan Vol.1 (2012) onwards [Available to all users on-campus, and SOAS Students/Staff off-campus] Journal of Hindu Studies. Volume 1 (2008) onwards. [Available to all users on-campus, and SOAS Students/Staff off-campus] Books The Almohad revolution: politics and religion in the Islamic West during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries / Maribel Fierro Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China / edited by Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig. Citizens

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Music, Media and Film Studies – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Music, Media and Film Studies|0 comments

Dancehall : from slave ship to ghetto / Sonjah Stanley Niaah. Can’t stop won’t stop : a history of the hip-hop generation / Jeff Chang. The music of Jōji Yuasa / Luciana Galliano ; edited by Peter Burt Kyeʺ lakʻ to rvā teʺ kabyā / Ūʺ Soʻ Jaṅʻ pru cu saññʻ. ʼAlaṅkā Kyoʻ Cvā Ūʺ Hanʻ Pa / Nanʻʺ Ññvanʻʹ Chve. Unearthing gender : folksongs of North India / Smita

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Art and Archaeology – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 3, 2012|Art and Archaeology|0 comments

Vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century : theory, education and practice / edited by Lindsay Asquith and Marcel Vellinga. Damien Hirst / edited by Ann Gallagher with contributions by Ann Gallagher … [et al.]. Ancient interactions : east and west in Eurasia / edited by Katie Boyle, Colin Renfrew & Marsha Levine. The search for immortality : tomb treasures of Han China / [edited by] James C.S. Lin. Chinese architecture

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