The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) is a leading refereed scholarly journal which publishes social and cultural anthropological research with a focus on the Asia and Pacific region, including Australia. This region has been a crucible for significant advances in the discipline and remains an important site for the development of concepts and debates. …
Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research, and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies …
Generations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a “Walled Kingdom”, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached out to the maritime world far more actively than historians have acknowledged, while …
China On the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China Read More »
The emergence of diverse forest governance arrangements during the last two to three decades is changing forest tenure patterns in developing countries. An aspect of these arrangements that has yet to be studied adequately is the conferral of forest tenure to shifting cultivators and the rural poor in the interest of social equity. This conferral …
In recent times both China and India have challenged the hegemony of developed countries in global news and information flow. Indian software and entertainment companies have tapped the large diaspora in overseas markets (Straubhaar, 2010). The Chinese news media have made international inroads through foreign investment for greater voice in the global platform (Shambaugh, 2010; …
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As a significant ‘moment’ in twentieth-century international diplomacy, the Bandung Conference of 1955 is replete with symbolic meanings. How can we delve deeper into understanding the symbolic? To this end, ‘diplomacy as theatre’ as a conceptual framework enables us to re-interpret the Bandung Conference acts of symbolic performance, where ‘actors’ perform on the ‘stage’ to …
Population change and migration have long been hallmarks of the vast territory now bounded by the political borders of Kazakhstan.The Silk Road network of trade and cultural exchange routes and nomadic pastoralist economies were early dynamics whose cultural imprint persists today.Profound demographic changes also followed the expansion of the Russian empire and the incorporation of …
This paper explores the impact of migration for domestic work on two categories of children. The first category is of children who have been ‘left-behind’ by mothers migrating overseas to undertake paid domestic work. The second category is of children whose mothers employ foreign domestic workers to care for them since early childhood because they themselves are …
Most modern states have policies for the management of religion. For those with diverse religious communities, how to ensure the peaceful coexistence of the various religions becomes an important challenge for the governments involved. Hence, modern secular states often delineate a proper “domain” for religion in society in order to properly regulate it. In response, …
