ASIEN – Nr. 129 Oktober 2013 Central Asia: Coming to terms with the past – coping in the presentIssue Editor Ingeborg Baldauf
Editorial Team Günter Schucher
Editorial Manager Benedikt Skowasch

• Nr. 129 (2013) Editorial 5–6 {:en}Central Asia: Coming to Terms with the Past — Coping in the PresentIn this special issue of ASIEN, “Central Asia” refers to the newly independent states of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan as well as Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Afghanistan. The papers presented here do not actually cover every part of the area thus outlined, and many other delineations of “Central Asia” also exist in other … von by Ingeborg Baldauf
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 7–21 {:de}Strategies of Social Support and Community Cohesion in Rural XinjiangSituated in China’s northwest, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has often been characterized as one of China’s most notorious “restive” areas. Scholarly enquiries to date have, therefore, often focused on issues of ethnicity, identity, and conflict, demonstrating how the center attempts to control its troubled periphery. In contrast, this paper focuses on the everyday strategies … von by Ildikó Bellér-Hann
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 22–37 {:en}Recalling the Past to Assert Ethnic Rights in the Present: The Case of the Gawars in AfghanistanThis paper studies the production of historical knowledge in modern Afghanistan. It is argued that after the civil war and following the adoption of the new constitution in 2004, where for the first time in Afghan history the ethnic composition of the country was codified by enumerating the main ethnic groups, an ethnically dominated view … von by Lutz Rzehak
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 38–50 {:en}Getting By after Internal Migration. Scenes from the Life of a Day Laborer Family in Mazar-e Sharif, AfghanistanThis article centers around the study of spatial mobility as a response to the uneven distribution of chances and risks. In present-day Afghanistan, moving within the country can be one strategy by which to avoid aggression in certain places and/or to benefit from the better employment opportunities and general life prospects of other locales. The … von by Christoph Wenzel
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 51–72 {:en}The Past as a Burden: Washers of the Dead between Merit and StigmaIn some parts of southwestern Central Asia, washing the deceased before burial was (and to some extent still is) traditionally undertaken by professional corpse washers, a low-status, marginalized group. Against the backdrop of a popular recourse to tradition and the past in these countries as a resource for identity formation after the demise of the … von by Jeanine Dağyeli
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 73–90 {:en}“Unmasking Enemies” Again and Again? The Memoirs of Mordekhay Bachayev and the Revenge of the Soviet PastThe memoirs of Mordekhay Bachayev (1911–2007), a Bukharan Jewish intellectual and poet, are an important document for understanding the history, culture, and everyday life of Bukharan Jews in the first two decades of Soviet rule in Central Asia. Nevertheless, thus far they have been widely excluded from the post-Soviet efforts of the Bukharan Jewish communities … von by Thomas Loy
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 91–99 {:en}Trust and Deception in (Post-)Soviet UzbekistanThe breakdown of the Soviet Union together with the dissolution of the socialist order was experienced as a painful severance from a life people in Uzbekistan had been intimately familiar with. The emotional response aroused by Uzbek independence becomes apparent in oral accounts of trust and deception. The older generation tends to view the past … von by Jesko Schmoller
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 100–14 {:en}Travel Destination: Tibet. Modernizing the Present and Concreting over the PastModernization is understood as the implementation of innovations of various kinds and can happen gradually or very suddenly. After the invasion of China’s People’s Liberation Army in 1951, Tibet was literally catapulted into “modernity.” Transformations took place on various levels. The introduction of the new Communist ideology went hand in hand with the destruction of … von by Diana Lange
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 115–36 {:en}The Successful Life of Qurbon Amirqulov: Memories of Leadership in the Southern Periphery of UzbekistanAutobiographical stories, which are a favorite literary genre in Central Asia today, provide rich source material for a yet-to-be-written cultural history of the region in Soviet and post-Soviet times. “Destiny” is the extended life story of Qurbon Amirqulov, a manager and entrepreneur from the periphery of Uzbekistan who in synopsis rates his lifetime struggles and … von by Ingeborg Baldauf
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Artikel Article 137–50 {:en}Mongolia’s Golden Ages: A Brisk Gallop through Changing Representations“Golden Age” is a trope commonly applied to periods of outstanding prosperity. Concerning Mongolia, it is likely to conjure up images of Genghis Khan1, the Mongol Empire, and the Pax Mongolica. Surprisingly, though, there exists (at least so far) no globally recognized Mongolian equivalent to such widely established concepts as the Danish, the Polish, the … von by Ines Stolpe
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• Nr. 129 (2013) Forschung und Lehre Research and Teaching 181–99 {:de}Einführung in die Sicherheitspolitik Ostasiens Teil 3This introductory article on East Asian security policy will appear in three parts. The first two will sketch important issue areas and outline major developments and trends. The focus will be on questions of regional order: What does security in East Asia depend on? Who creates it? Who threatens it? Part 1 discusses theoretical approaches … von by Martin Wagner
• Nr. 129 (2013) Neuere Literatur 211–15 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden. von by Uwe Kotzel

Konferenzberichte

• DAAD-Alumnitreffen „Beeindruckende Bilanz – Nachhaltiger Ausblick“, Hanoi, 10.–11. Mai 2013 (Kerstin Schiele)
• Indien NRO-Forum, Brot für die Welt, Berlin, 29. Mai 2013 (Jona Aravind Dohrmann)
• Trierer China-Gespräche 2013: Kampfkraft – Wie leistungsfähig sind die chinesischen Streitkräfte? Berlin, 6. Juni 2013 (Matthias Schneider)
• Ursachen, Geschichte und Folgen des Kalten Kriegs im Vergleich: Deutschland und Korea, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 10.–12. Juli 2013 (Robert Kramm-Masaoka)
• International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Manchester, 05.–10. August 2013 (Pierre Gottschlich)

Rezensionen

• Nadine Mensel: Der Entwicklungsprozess der Sozialistischen Republik Vietnam. Erfolge und Herausforderungen durch staatlich gelenkte Entwicklung (Yasmin Koppen)
• Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa B. Welch Drummond, Danièle Bélanger (Hgg.): The Reinvention of Distinction. Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam (Eva Fuhrmann)
• Katharine McKinnon: Development Professionals in Northern Thailand. Hope, Politics and Practice (Felix Anderl)
• Kees van Dijk, Jajat Burhanuddin (Hgg.): Islam in Indonesia. Contrasting Images and Interpretations (Azriansyah Achdiat Agoes)
• Bettina Bauernfeind, Josefine Fokdal (Hgg.): Bridging Urbanities. Reflections on Urban Design in Shanghai and Beijing (Andreas Oberheitmann)
• Richard McGregor: Der rote Apparat. Chinas Kommunisten (Günter Schucher)
• Nele Noesselt: Governance-Formen in China. Theorie und Praxis des chinesischen Modells (Izabella Goikhman)
• Raimund G. Philipp: China. Die zukünftige Weltwirtschafts- und Supermacht? (Volker Stanislaw)
• Herbert Yee (Hg.): China’s Rise. Threat or Opportunity (Ekkehard Kleindienst)
• Peter Matanle, Anthony Rausch et al.: Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century. Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline (Winfried Flüchter)
• Claudia Schmidhofer: Fakt und Fantasie. Das Japanbild in deutschsprachigen Reiseberichten 1854–1900 (Albrecht Rothacher)
• Lim Dong-won: Peacemaker. Twenty Years of Inter-Korean Relations and the North Korean Nuclear Issue. A Memoir (Werner Pfennig)
• Johannes H. Voigt: Geschichte Australiens und Ozeaniens. Eine Einführung (Roland Seib)
• Patrick McEachern: Inside the Red Box. North Korea’s Post-Totalitarian Politics (Roland Hiemann)
• William Dalrymple: Return of a King. The Battle for Afghanistan 1839–1842 (Wolfgang-Peter Zingel)

Forschung / Lehre / Informationen

• Konferenzankündigungen: Dezember 2013 bis Februar 2014
• Serie: Einführung in die Einführung in die Sicherheitspolitik Ostasiens, Teil 3 (Martin Wagener)
• Theses of the Author Liu Zaifu in the Context of Exile Studies (Monika Gaenssbauer)

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