Specialists in Indonesia's politics and culture, most of them at Australian universities, trace some of the main steps in the transformation of the country's government to democracy since the fall of
Anthropologists share insights from conducting research in the Southeast Asian country, inspired by the work there of American anthropologist Ebihara (1934-2005). Among the topics are speculations abo
Maskulinitas is a ground-breaking treatment of the representation of men and masculinity in Indonesian culture, from Suharto's New Order era to the present. It includes critical analysis of Indonesia
The Bandung Conference was one of the great political events of the 1950s. Its glittering array of international stars, including Sukarno, Nehru, and Zhou Enlai, ensured headlines in newspapers aroun
What did the transplants see as they looked over the rails of the ships landing them in India? Was their view tainted by what they had read or heard? Judging from these eight articles, it appears thei
Scholars of literature, religion, history, anthropology, and other disciplines offer an overview of contemporary work in Tibetan research in Australia. Tibetan language and culture have never been tau
In the first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, Narrating the Other provides a broad chronological exploration of Australian writers' representations of the Japanese from t
