WPS 70 Singapore’s May Fourth Movement and Overseas Print Capitalism

Historians have long portrayed the May Fourth Movement as a seminal period in Chinese history. By the early 1920s, that movement increased in intensity until it reached the overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, newspapers such as the Le Bao (Lat Po) and the Nanyang Shang Bao (Nanyang Siang Pau) became the primary […]

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Historians have long portrayed the May Fourth Movement as a seminal period in Chinese history. By the early 1920s, that movement increased in intensity until it reached the overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, newspapers such as the Le Bao (Lat Po) and the Nanyang Shang Bao (Nanyang Siang Pau) became the primary

Asian Population Studies (Vol. 2 No. 2)

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

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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

Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem

In Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh, the democratisation process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of regionalist sentiment and resentment of the military. The surprising extent of both made Aceh, home to a long-standing independence movement, the next potential candidate after East Timor to break away from Indonesia, and led to

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In Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh, the democratisation process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of regionalist sentiment and resentment of the military. The surprising extent of both made Aceh, home to a long-standing independence movement, the next potential candidate after East Timor to break away from Indonesia, and led to

Viêt Nam: Borderless Histories

Moving beyond past histories of Viêt Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in Viêt Nam: Borderless Histories draw on international archives and bring a range of inventive analytical approaches to the global, regional,

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Moving beyond past histories of Viêt Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in Viêt Nam: Borderless Histories draw on international archives and bring a range of inventive analytical approaches to the global, regional,

Vulnerability and Human Rights

The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars-followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing-has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability,

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The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars-followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing-has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability,

WPS 69 The Management of Migration – An Issue of Controlling or Protecting? Normative and Institutional Developments and their Relevance to Asia

The global debate on migration has experienced a major push toward the “management of migra¬tion” in the form of international cooperation in dealing with migration issues of all countries implicated, related to a number of global initiatives. The main objective of this global agenda is to promote cooperation among states in dealing with various dimensions

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The global debate on migration has experienced a major push toward the “management of migra¬tion” in the form of international cooperation in dealing with migration issues of all countries implicated, related to a number of global initiatives. The main objective of this global agenda is to promote cooperation among states in dealing with various dimensions

WPS 68 International Recruitment of Nurses in India: Implications of Stakeholder Perspectives on Overseas Labour Markets, Migration, and Return

This paper situates the practice of international recruitment of Indian nurses in the model of a ‘business process outsourcing’ of comprehensive training-cum-recruitment-cum-placement for non-traditional destinations like the UK, and USA through an agency system that has gained popularity in India. The small sample survey of trainee nurses and informal interviews of other stakeholders revealed that

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This paper situates the practice of international recruitment of Indian nurses in the model of a ‘business process outsourcing’ of comprehensive training-cum-recruitment-cum-placement for non-traditional destinations like the UK, and USA through an agency system that has gained popularity in India. The small sample survey of trainee nurses and informal interviews of other stakeholders revealed that

WPS 67 Hybrid Identities in the Fifteenth-Century Straits of Malacca

Hybridisation of language, dress, customs, food and material culture is indispensable as a means to understand the formation of identities in the ports of Central Southeast Asia (the Peninsula and adjacent parts of Sumatra, Java and modern central Thailand) before modern nationalist categories took hold. In the period between the last Srivijaya tribute mission to

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Hybridisation of language, dress, customs, food and material culture is indispensable as a means to understand the formation of identities in the ports of Central Southeast Asia (the Peninsula and adjacent parts of Sumatra, Java and modern central Thailand) before modern nationalist categories took hold. In the period between the last Srivijaya tribute mission to

WPS 66 Of Reverie and Emplacement: Spatial Imaginings and Tourism Encounters in Nepal Himalaya

While the concept of the ‘tourist gaze’ has been influential in tourism research, the ‘counter-gaze’ of the host communities and their imagination of the tourists’ places of origin have not been adequately addressed. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Langtang National Park of Nepal, and drawing on Simmel’s theory of sociation, this paper attempts a

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While the concept of the ‘tourist gaze’ has been influential in tourism research, the ‘counter-gaze’ of the host communities and their imagination of the tourists’ places of origin have not been adequately addressed. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Langtang National Park of Nepal, and drawing on Simmel’s theory of sociation, this paper attempts a

WPS 65 Transnational Affect and the Rebellious Second Generation: Managing Shame and Pride in a Moment of Cultural Rupture

In this paper we explore what happens to a tightly bounded translocal village when the second generation rebels. The news story above encapsulates a number of threads we would like to discuss in this paper. The article was published in one of Tamil Nadu’s leading newspapers, the Dina Thandi, which has a readership of some

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In this paper we explore what happens to a tightly bounded translocal village when the second generation rebels. The news story above encapsulates a number of threads we would like to discuss in this paper. The article was published in one of Tamil Nadu’s leading newspapers, the Dina Thandi, which has a readership of some