MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Board of Management ARI is embarking on its second five-year development cycle. Much has been accomplished in the first five years. It is now a recognized research centre in disciplines of interest and importance to scholars of Asia, and it has played a visible role in promoting collaboration among researchers in …
After more than three decades of the introduction of the Green Revolution with high crop productivity as the main objectives and results, yet with various unintended negative consequences, various parties have now seriously taken steps to counter the Green Revolution’s negative consequences on people and environment. One among others was the introduction of the Integrated …
Much use has been made of Chinese texts in re/constructing the history of Champa. However, the scholars who have done such work have generally not had access to the text translated in this paper –the account of Champa contained in the Song Hui-yao ji-gao ( 宋會 要 輯稿 ), or “Draft of the Collected Statutes …
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In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an …
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This article shows how Arab geographical conceptualizations of insular Southeast Asia came to be placed under the rubric of ‘Jâwa’ in the 13th century. It does so after examining echoes of another toponym of far greater longevity in greater depth, namely Zâbaj. It outlines how this earlier term served from the mid-9th century to mark …
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 …
In both academic scholarship and the popular imagination, the globality of modern society has been represented by global cities as the corporate and financial epicenters for capital accumulation, cosmopolitan cultures and innovative change. This has created an image of the globalized world as empty beyond cities which make it into the global league as paradigmatic …
In the mid-fourteenth century, two empires dominated Southeast Asia: Majapahit in Java, and Ayudhya in Thailand. The 14th century was an important era in Asian history. The first known overseas Chinese settlements formed during this period. Little is known of them. Archaeological research over the past 20 years has shown that Singapore experienced its first …
