ASIEN – Nr. 130 Januar 2014 Bengal: A Region with a Pioneering Past and a Uncertain FutureIssue Editor Carmen Brandt und and Kirsten Hackenbroch
Editorial Team Günter Schucher
Editorial Manager Benedikt Skowasch

• Nr. 130 (2014) Editorial 5–7 {:en}Bengal: A Region with a Pioneering Past and an Uncertain FutureThis special issue of ASIEN is dedicated to the region of Bengal, which was the focus of two interdisciplinary “Conferences on Bengal Related Studies for Students and Young Scholars” at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2010 and 2012. The conferences brought together young scholars from different disciplines, primarily the humanities, whose research focuses on … von by Carmen Brandt und and Kirsten Hackenbroch
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• Nr. 130 (2014) Artikel Article 8–23 {:en}Breaking the Cage: Traveling, Freedom, and English Society in Iṃlaṇḍe BaṅgamahilāThis article provides an analysis of Iṃlaṇḍe baṅgamahilā (“A Bengali Woman in England”), a travelogue written in the 19th century by a Bengali woman named Krishnabhabini Das (Kṛṣṇabhābinī Dās) (1868–1919). Despite being the most well-documented travelogue written at that time by an Indian woman, it was eventually forgotten until its recent rediscovery. The travelogue is … von by Sukla Chatterjee
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• Nr. 130 (2014) Artikel Article 24–41 {:en}From Rabīndra Saṅgīt to Doraemon: The Inheritance and Globalization of Children’s Leisure Culture in KolkataThis article looks at some aspects of the contemporary leisure culture of middle-class children in Kolkata, based on interviews conducted with the current generation of children and two older cohorts — in the main their parents and grandparents. It argues that although this leisure culture has been influenced by globalization — particularly by the so-called … von by Hia Sen
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• Nr. 130 (2014) Artikel Article 42–59 {:en}Trade Unions, NGOs, and Transnationalization: Experiences from the Ready-Made Garment Sector in BangladeshThe recent factory collapse in Bangladesh raises questions about the promotion and protection of workers’ rights and about the relevant actors who support workers’ interests. As trade unionism in the Bangladeshi ready-made garment (RMG) sector is very weak, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) recently turned to the factories to provide support. Simultaneously, reports about poor working conditions … von by Elisabeth Fink
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• Nr. 130 (2014) Artikel Article 60–81 {:en}Cyclone-Induced Migration in Southwest Coastal BangladeshThis research investigates the relationship between disasters, migration, and resulting social change in southwest coastal Bangladesh. The focus is on individual households’ adaptation strategies in the aftermath of cyclones. Migration is understood here in the context of Cyclone Sidr (2007) and Cyclone Aila (2009), and is defined as the temporary or even permanent migration of … von by Bishawjit Mallick
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• Nr. 130 (2014) Neuere Literatur 114–21 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden. von by Uwe Kotzel

Konferenzberichte

• Fourth Annual Symposium on Anti-Discrimination: “Problems of Theory and Practice”, Constitutional Research Institute (CRI), China University of Politics and Law (CUPL), Beijing, 26.–27. October 2013 (Astrid Lipinsky)
• Asia-Europe Legal History Forum 2nd Annual Symposium: “Concepts and Processes. Asian-European Legal Exchanges in Modern Times”, Beijing, 04.–06. November 2013 (Astrid Lipinsky)
• 24. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien, Würzburg, 08.–09. November 2013 (Hang Lin)
• Asien und Europa. Auf der Suche nach neuen Horizonten für das 21. Jahrhundert, Chung-Ang-Universität (CAU), Seoul, 21.–22. November 2013 (György Széll)
• Gemeinsame internationale Jahrestagung des BMBF-Kompetenznetzes „Regieren in China“ und des Arbeitskreises Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung (ASC) der DGA, Universität Wien, 22.–23. November 2013 (Eva Wieland und Björn Alpermann)

Rezensionen

• Behrang Samsami: Die Entzauberung des Ostens. Der Orient bei Hesse, Wegner und Schwarzenbach (Doris Decker)
• Mielke, Katja; Schetter, Conrad: Pakistan.Land der Extreme (Pierre Gottschlich)
• Franziska L. Merkel: Berufstätige Mütter in Indien zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Die Rolle von Familie, Wertewandel und Religiosität (Karin Sixl-Daniell)
• Vatthana Pholsena, Oliver Tappe (Hgg.): Interactions with a Violent Past. Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam (Simon Preker)
• Sammelrezension: Music Studies on Indonesia (Amanda Kovacs)
• Kai Vogelsang: Geschichte Chinas (Klaus Mühlhahn)
• Tobias ten Brink: Chinas Kapitalismus. Entstehung, Verlauf, Paradoxien (Laura Gruss, Kai Enzweiler)
• Ling Chai: A Heart for Freedom. The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China’s Daughters (Kristin Shi-Kupfer)
• Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater (Hgg.): Japan Copes with Calamity. Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 (György Széll)
• Zhining Ma: The ACFTU and Chinese Industrial Relations (Günter Schucher)
• Christian Wuttke: Die chinesische Stadt im Transformationsprozess. Governanceformen und Mechanismen institutionellen Wandels am Beispiel des Perlflussdeltas (Philipp Zielke)
• Peter C.Y. Chow: Economic Intgration Across the Taiwan Strait. Global Perspectives (Peter Mayer)
• Hiromasa Ezoe: Where is the Justice? Media attacks, Prosecutorial Abuse, and my 13 years in Japanese Court (Albrecht Rothacher)
• Sonia Ryang: Reading North Korea. An Ethnological Inquiry (Martin Chan)

Forschung / Lehre / Informationen

• Zur Situation der Universitäten in Myanmar (Rüdiger Korff, Sascha Helbardt)

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