Asian Currents

The October 2013 issue of "Asian Currents" from the Asian Studies Association of Australia is now available from the ASAA web site at http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/ac/2013/asian-currents-13-10.pdf

In This Issue

• Language myths make for bad policy in the Asian Century (Kent Anderson)
• Philippine pork-barrel scam closes in on Aquino (Ronald D. Holmes)
• The power of the past (Walter Hamilton)
• Testing times ahead for Timor-Leste’s hard-won democracy (Damien Kingsbury)
• The numbers game: counting civilian deaths in Sri Lanka’s war (Kath Noble)
• China’s demographic turning point (Zhongwei Zhao)
• China’s growing culture of philanthropy (Elaine Jeffreys and Su Xuezhong)
• Vivekananda and Chicago 1893: bridging East and West (Peter Friedlander)
• LCNAU rallies members to defend language programs (Anya Woods, Colin Nettelbeck and John Hajek)

The index page listing all available issues is at
http://www.asaa.asn.au/publications/asian_current_issues.html

regards
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Stephen Meatheringham