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| ISBN
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| 288 pp. |
| Leiden
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| Corporate
Behaviour and Political Risk: Dutch Companies in China
1903-1941 |
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| Frans-Paul
van der Putten |
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How do multinationals respond to political risk? Especially
in non-Western countries, foreign investors are frequently
confronted with political insecurity. This book takes
a close look at the relationship between multinational
corporations and political factors in early twentieth-century
China, when political change in this country was highly
dramatic. Revolutions and war tore apart many of the traditions
of imperial China, and threatened the interests of foreign
companies in one of the world's most promising markets.
This study focuses on the interests of Dutch firms and
their response to political risk in China before the Pacific
War. This includes very large corporations that are again
active in the Chinese market today, such as Shell, Philips,
Unilever, and ABN-Amro. Their behaviour in China up to
1941 is analysed and explained in order to gain a better
understanding of the attitude of foreign investors towards
political developments during a turbulent and formative
phase in Chinese history.
(In English, 288 pp. incl. photogr., bibl. and index) |
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'Teater
Abdulmuluk' in Zuid-Sumatra
Robert M. Dumas
Abdulmuluk-theater is een vorm van
toneel in de regio van Palembang (Zuid-Sumatra). De opvoeringen
worden verzorgd door toneelspelers die, sociologisch gesproken,
tot de lagere sociale klassen behoren. Het repertoire van dit
theater bestaat voornamelijk uit fragmenten van de Syair Abdul
Muluk. Dit is een van de meest bekende werken uit de negentiende-eeuwse
Maleise literatuur. Tegenwoordig zijn de opvoeringen uitgegroeid
tot semi-professionele optredens door lokale toneelgroepen.
Ze vormen een maatschappelijk evenement in de Palembangse samenleving.
Het eerste deel van het boek handelt over het onderzoek en enkele
ervaringen in het veld. Aansluitend wordt in het kort een schets
gegeven van oudere vormen van theater in de Maleise wereld,
zoals het Chinese toneel dat, samen met de Javaanse wayang,
tot de langst bestaande vormen van theater in de Maleise wereld
kan worden gerekend. Daarna wordt een schets gegeven van de
opkomst van Maleistalig theater in het begin van de twintigste
eeuw waarvan, naast het Abdul Muluk, de Ma'yong, Bangsawan en
Komedie Stamboel de meest prominente vormen waren.
In het tweede deel wordt een uitvoerige beschrijving gegeven
van het Abdulmuluk-theater, terwijl in het daarop volgende derde
deel de nadruk ligt op een analyse van opvoeringen die zijn
gegeven in 1990. Het laatste en concluderende hoofdstuk vormt
een pleidooi voor een nauwkeurige bestudering van oudere vormen
van toneel in Indonesië die in de snel veranderende omstandigheden
in de knel zijn gekomen en het waard zijn nader bestudeerd te
worden.
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Dutch, 362 pp. incl. photogr.) |
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| ISBN
978-90-5789-051-2 |
| 306 pp. |
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| Decay
or Defeat? An inquiry into the Portuguese decline in Asia
(1580-1645) |
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| Ernst
van Veen |
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Decay
or Defeat? presents new answers to the question who
or what caused the Portuguese decline in Asia. In the
process, the author explores many of the myths that exist
around the subject.
The vicissitudes of the Portuguese shipping route to India
are discussed against the background of the military and
financial adventures of the Spanish Habsburg monarchs,
who during the 1580-1640 period also ruled Portugal. During
the Habsburg intermezzo the New Christian merchants in
Lisbon played an important role in financing the Carreira
da India and the Spanish troops in Flanders. The withdrawal
of their financial support in 1628 had serious consequences
for Lisbon.
During the 1620s and 1630s political shifts in Asia damaged
the existing alliances of the Portuguese, but worked in
favour of the English and Dutch newcomers in Asia. The
analysis of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie as a
commercial and privateering enterprise and a war machine
shows why.
The inquiry ends with the collapse of the Portuguese presence
in Asia, which began with the restoration of Portuguese
independence and the fall of Malacca in 1641.
(In English, 306 pp., incl. photogr.)
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| ISBN
90-5789-048-9 |
| 188 pp. |
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| Gouden
eiland in de Bandazee. Sociokosmische ideeën op Marsela,
Maluku Tenggara, Indonesië |
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| Toos
van Dijk |
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Gouden eiland in de Bandazee is een studie naar het systeem
van voorstellingen van de inwoners van Marsela, een eiland
behorend tot de Babar-archipel in Oost-Indonesië.
In dit voorstellingssysteem spelen noties zoals die van
de boot, de boom en het menselijk lichaam een belangrijke
rol. Daarmee brengen de Marselanen hun visie op de samenleving
tot uitdrukking. Zo kan de boot de samenleving als geheel
en de relaties tussen dit geheel en zijn samenstellende
delen presenteren. Het onderhouden van deze relaties is
een voorwaarde voor het voortbestaan van de samenleving.
Daarbij zijn niet alleen relaties tussen de levenden van
belang, maar ook die tussen de levenden en de godheid,
de doden en de autochtone wezens. Voor het voortbestaan
van de samenleving is productie van leven noodzakelijk.
Deze komt enerzijds tot stand door het groot maken van
de naam van een huis of persoon door middel van de voorouders
en de zon. Anderzijds is de productie van leven afhankelijk
van autochtone wezens en de maan, die zijn verbonden met
vruchtbaarheid en met een cyclus van dood en nieuw leven.
Deze aspecten van de Marselaanse cultuur worden besproken
in een structureel-antropologische analyse van de landbouwcyclus,
het huis, het dorp, mythen, sociale relaties, betekenis
van kostbaarheden en de levenscyclus. Zij spelen een prominente
rol tijdens de jaarlijkse viering van het lulyaritueel,
dat wordt uitgevoerd met het oog op hernieuwde vruchtbaarheid
van mens, dier en gewas.
(In Dutch, 458 pp. incl. photogr.)
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| ISBN
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| 378 pp. |
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| Het
verbond met de tijger. Visies op mensetende dieren in
Kerinci, Sumatra |
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| Jet
Bakels |
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Weinig dieren hebben de menselijke verbeelding zo geprikkeld
als de tijger. De tijger is gracieus en geheimzinnig,
sterk en angstaanjagend, en bovenal is hij een menseneter.
Waar de tijger voorkomt hebben mensen hem het onderwerp
gemaakt van verhalen, dansen, rituelen, taboes en gedragsregels.
Deze geven, soms op poëtische wijze, uitdrukking
aan een sterke verbondenheid met dit dier, maar dienen
eveneens om het schrikbeeld van een tijgeraanval te bezweren.
Opmerkelijk is dat de tijger zelden wordt beschouwd als
een kwaadaardig wezen. In Kerinci, een streek in het berggebied
van Centraal-Sumatra, is de tijger vooral een voorouder.
Mythen vertellen van een verbond, dat mensen ooit sloten
en dat tot op heden van kracht is. Hierin werd vastgelegd
dat beide partijen elkaar moeten respecteren en elkaar
nooit zomaar mogen aanvallen. Alleen mensen die de traditionele
leefregels overtreden worden door de tijger gestraft.
Zo is de tijger op Sumatra meer een bewaker van de sociale
orde dan een bedreiging voor de mens.
Vanuit een cultureel-antropologische invalshoek wordt
in dit boek een wereld beschreven waarin mythe en realiteit
nauw met elkaar zijn verweven. Het boek is hiermee ook
een schets van een verdwijnende wereld.
(In Dutch, 378 pp. incl. photogr. & ill.)
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| ISBN
978-90-5789-031-4 |
| 354 pp. |
| Leiden
1999 |
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| Chinese
Democracies. A Study of the Kongsis of West Borneo (1776-1884) |
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| Yuan
Bingling |
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In the period between 1770 and 1880, West Borneo witnessed
the rise and demise of the Chinese gold mining settlements
and their remarkable 'kongsi', literally: 'common management'
organization. In time, the different kongsis united into
larger alliances. These were the so-called 'zongting'
(assembly halls) which functioned as the general assemblies
and executive councils of what were in fact autonomous
republics. Their system of government was remarkably democratic,
something that made them oppose the autocratic Dutch colonial
rule. After more than thirty years of conflicts, the all-out
'kongsi-war' of 1850-1854 destroyed the Chinese republics.
It also unmade the flourishing economy of the region.
The present work is the first comprehensive study devoted
to this subject. It examines the history of the kongsi
republics, the nature of these institutions, and their
roots in Chinese traditional society. It aims to contribute
to our knowledge, not only of the political and economic
aspects of the Chinese communities, but also of their
religious organization, as the latter formed the basis
from which the autonomous democracies developed.
(In English, 354 pp. incl. bibl.& appendices) |
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Yuan Bingling studied history at Fudan University in Shanghai
before entering the Institute of Nanyang Research of the
University of Xiamen. She obtained her PhD at the University
of Leiden and is presently engaged in the comparative
study of Chinese institutions in South East Asia and in
China. |
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| Studies
in Caucasian Linguistics. Selected papers of the Eighth
Caucasian Colloquium |
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| Helma
van den Berg (ed.) |
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Studies in Caucasian Linguistics presents an
overview of current linguistic research in the field
of Caucasian languages. The articles in this volume
are a selection of the papers presented at the Eighth
Colloquium of the Societas Caucasologica Europæa,
held in Leiden, 6-8 June 1996. A significant part of
the contributions is dedicated to the problem of genetic
relationship and classification of Caucasian languages.
This includes the
reconstruction of vocabulary, morphemes and phonemes
of North Caucasian languages, the study of diachronic
development of various grammatical categories and elements
in Georgian, as well as the study of contacts between
various languages groups. Research in Caucasian linguistics
is increasingly being facilitated by computer technology,
as is shown by several articles. Topics of synchronic
research in a number of Daghestanian languages can also
be found in this volume, as well as a detailed report
on the viability of the Adyghe language.
(In English, 296 pp.)
Helma
van den Berg, one of the leading Western experts on
Daghestanian languages, passed away in Derbent (Daghestan,
Russia) on 11 November 2003. Helma was only 38 years
old.
Another
book by Helma van den Berg |
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| 416 pp. |
| Leiden
1999 |
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Municipal
Government in Indonesia. Policy, law, and practice of
decentralization and urban spatial planning |
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| Nicole
Niessen |
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In Indonesia there is a two-tier system of regional
government, which dates back to the years of Dutch colonial
rule.
The system is based on the awareness, if only for the
archipelago's wide distances, that government responsibilities
must be parcelled out to sub-national levels. It is
also recognized that a decentralization programme suits
the country's rich variety of cultures and geographic
and socio-economic conditions. Time and again, however,
decentralization policies were sacrificed to central
government control under the pretext of national unity
and development. Yet in many policy fields the disadvantages
of central steering are becoming more obvious.
This book focuses on urban government in the 1990s.
Currently, problems of urban government hold the spotlight
as settlement patterns change rapidly as a result of
ongoing urbanization. Alongside an overview of the relevant
legal-institutional arrangements - emphasizing government
autonomy, representative government and law-making
- special attention is paid to spatial planning as a
specific task of urban government.
For this study, field research was conducted in three
Indonesian cities: Bandung, Padang and Manado. These
research sites, all three of them provincial capitals,
share an almost identical legal-institutional lay-out.
Yet there are significant differences, as for instance
in urban history, level and pace of economic development,
surrounding natural and built-up environment, and
the degree of urbanization.
(In English, 416 pp., incl. bibl. and index)
Another
book by Niessen |
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| ISBN
978-90-5789-014-7 |
| 256
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The
Chinese Sonnet. Meanings of a Form
Lloyd Haft
Since the early years of this century,
when Chinese poets began to search beyond the time-honored forms
of their native tradition for new poetic possibilities, sonnets
have been written, read, and studied in China. Many of the most
famous Chinese poets have written sonnets, and they have showed
great creativity in adapting this form to the sounds and other
features of the Chinese language.
Existing studies of modern Chinese poetry have tended to address
the Chinese sonnet marginally if at all. In this book, Lloyd
Haft shows that the sonnet, far from being a mere curiosity
of cultural borrowing, has actually been one of the most perennially
vital forms of modern Chinese verse. Discussing more than 50
poems spanning the period from the 1920s to the present, Haft
develops analytic strategies which bring out the expressive
dimensions of the Chinese sonnet as well as its legitimate claim
to 'Chineseness.'
The reading procedures applied in this book shed light not only
on sonnets but on modern Chinese poetry in general. Subjects
treated include the rhythms and sounds of Chinese as elements
of the verse line, rhyme in modern Chinese verse and in Chinese
translations of Shakespeare's sonnets, similarities in form
and technique between modern and classical Chinese poetry, and
the parallels between Chinese poetry and modern Western free
verse.
All poems are discussed in English translation as well as in
the original Chinese; they include works by Zhu Xiang, Feng
Zhi, Bian Zhilin, Zhang Cuo and Zheng Min. Some thirty of these
translations have never been published before.
This book will be of interest to readers of poetry in general
as well as to students of 20th-century Chinese literature or
comparative literature and poetics.
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Grammar, texts & Lexicon |
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| Roland
Rutgers |
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The
Yamphu Rai are a Kiranti tribe of the Himalayas of Eastern
Nepal. The Yamphu language belongs to a group of complex-
pronominalising languages of the Tibeto-Burman branch
of the Sino-Tibetan language family. This grammar consists
of a description of the Yamphu dialect of Hedangna,
a collection of oral texts and a lexicon.
The majority of grammatical categories in Yamphu is
expressed by means of suffixes. Nominal morphology includes
number and case markers, postpositions and nominalising
suffixes. Verbal morphology distinguishes auxiliary
verbs, tense and agreement markers, mood suffixes and
postpositions expressing inter- clausal relations. Information
structure, too, is mainly expressed by means of suffixes.
The texts included in this grammar represent various
styles of speech, such as formulaic, mythological and
conversational styles.
Roland Rutgers studied Comparative Linguistics and conducted
his research on the language of the Yamphu Rai as a
member of the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden
University.
(In
English, 632 pp., with appendices and photogr.)
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