Asian Religions in Seventeenth-century Dutch Literature

Itinerario ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Edwin J. Van Kley
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Sanskrit Literature ◽  
Asian Religions ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Dutch Literature

What had begun as a respectable stream of information about Asia during the sixteenth century became a virtual flood during the seventeenth. Literally hundreds of books about Asia and its various parts were published during that century, authored by missionaries, merchants, mariners, physicians, soldiers, and independent travellers. At least twenty-five major descriptions of South Asia, appeared during the century; another fifteen on mainland Southeast Asia, about twenty devoted to the Southeast Asian archipelagoes, and sixty or more to East Asia. Alongside these major independent contributions stood scores of Jesuit letterbooks, derivative accounts, travel accounts with brief descriptions of many Asian places, pamphlets, newssheets, and the like. Many of these were collected into the several large multivolume compilations of travel literature published during the period. In addition, several important scholarly studies pertaining to Asia were published during the seventeenth century - studies of Asian medicine, botany, religion, and history- as well as translations of important Chinese and Sanskrit literature.

A new species of the montane lacewing genus Rapisma McLachlan (Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from northwestern Yunnan, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4763 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-443
Author(s):  
XINGYUE LIU
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Northwestern Yunnan

The genus Rapisma McLachlan, 1866 (montane lacewings) is a rare and little known group of the family Ithonidae (Insecta: Neuroptera). There have been 21 described species of Rapisma, and all of them are distributed from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Here I report a new species of Rapisma from northwestern Yunnan, China, namely Rapisma weixiense sp. nov. The new species belongs to a group of Rapisma species with very short antennae. 

English in Asia, Asian Englishes, and the issue of proficiency

English Today ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsley Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
English Learning ◽  
Outer Circle ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Issue

ABSTRACTThe contemporary visibility and importance of English throughout the Asian region coupled with the emergence and development of distinct varieties of Asian Englishes have played an important part in the global story of English in recent years. Across Asia, the numbers of people having at least a functional command of the language have grown exponentially over the last four decades, and current changes in the sociolinguistic realities of the region are often so rapid that it is difficult for academic commentators to keep pace. One basic issue in the telling of this story is the question of what it is we mean by the term ‘Asia’, itself a word of contested etymology, whose geographical reference has ranged in application from the Middle East to Central Asia, and from the Indian sub-continent to Japan and Korea. In this article, my discussion will focus on the countries of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, as it is in these regions that we find not only the greatest concentration of ‘outer-circle’ English-using societies but also a number of the most populous English-learning and English-knowing nations in the world.

NO OBVIOUS HOME: THE FLIGHT OF THE PORTUGUESE “TRIBE” FROM MAKASSAR TO AYUTTHAYA AND CAMBODIA DURING THE 1660s

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Stefan Halikowski Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Racial Composition ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Portuguese Population ◽  
Native Populations ◽  
The Military ◽  
Western Historiography

Western historiography has both turned its back on the Portuguese in the East after their ascendancy during the sixteenth century, and largely misunderstood the changed seventeenth-century realities of that presence. While scholars recognize how the missionary blueprint overtook the military one, the Portuguese population, particularly in areas outside official Crown control, in fact had very little to do with Europe, nowhere more so than in its racial composition. One might think of this entity as a “clan” or “tribe”. The internal social structure of this entity, and the reasons it was able to gain mass allegiance on the part of native populations, remains to be ascertained. This article examines how the “tribe” responded to two successive displacements as a result of the Dutch conquests of Melaka in 1641 and Makassar in the 1660s, considering why it moved to mainland South-East Asia and what this movement tells us about the group's dynamics.

scholarly journals KONTRIBUSI ISLAM TERHADAP MASA DEPAN PERADABAN DI ASIA TENGGARA

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahrul Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Islamic Revival ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Arab Middle East

<p>Abstrak: Beberapa ahli memperkirakan ada sekitar 1,6 miliar orang Muslim di dunia, di mana 62.1 % dari mereka hidup di kawasan Asia. Hanya 15 % adalah Muslim Arab, sedangkan hampir sepertiga hidup di Asia Tenggara. Islam di Asia Tenggara relatif lebih moderat dibandingkan Islam di Timur Tengah. Sifat moderasi ini merupakan bagian yang tidak terpisah dari perkembangan Islam di Asia Tenggara. Islam sampai ke Asia Tenggara melalui jalur perdagangan dan tidak melalui penaklukan militer seperti yang banyak terjadi di dunia Arab, Asia Selatan dan Timur Tengah. Islam juga diwarnai pada paham animisme, Hindu, dan tradisi Buddha di Indonesia, yang memberikan ciri sinkritisme. Islam baru tersebar di Asia Tenggara pada akhir abad ke-17. Kebangkitan Islam telah mengubah wajah politik  Islam di Asia Tenggara. Memang benar bahwa Islam Asia Tenggara termasuk di antara Islam yang sangat minimal corak kearabannya yang diakibatkan oleh proses islamisasi yang pada umumnya berlangsung damai.</p><p><br />Abctract: The Contribution of Islam towards Southeast Asian Future Civilization. By some estimates there are approximately 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, of which 62.1% live in Asia. Only 15% of Muslims are Arab, while almost one third live in Southeast Asia. Islam in Southeast Asia is relatively more moderate in character than in much of the Middle East. This moderation stems in part from the way Islam evolved in Southeast Asia. Islam came to Southeast Asia with traders rather than through military conquest as it did in much of South Asia and the Arab Middle East. Islam also was overlaid on animist, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions in Indonesia, which are said to give it a more syncretic aspect. Islam spread throughout much of Southeast Asia by the end of the seventeenth century. The Islamic revival is changing the face of political Islam in Southeast Asia. It is true that Southeast Asian Islam is among the least Arabicized forms of Islam, largely as a result of a process of Islamization that was generally peaceful.</p><p><br />Kata Kunci: Islam, Asia Tenggara, peradaban</p>

Asian Development Outlook Supplement July 2021

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Asian Development ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Growth Projection ◽  
Development Outlook

This publication provides updated economic projections for developing Asia and the Pacific. It notes that recovery is underway but that regional growth in 2021 is expected to be 7.2%, which is 0.1% lower than was projected in April. Forecast upgrades for Central Asia and East Asia in 2021 partly offset downgrades for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The regional growth projection for 2022 is upgraded from 5.3% to 5.4%.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Jerryson
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Beliefs And Practices

This Handbook examines the transformations to Buddhists, their beliefs, and practices throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Over the centuries, Buddhism changed with modernity. These changes accelerated in diverse manners during the colonial and postcolonial periods. As each tradition offers its own distinctive historical and cultural context, Part I in the Handbook reviews the development of specific traditions. There are seven subsections that demarcate the regions from which various traditions emerged: South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe/Americas, Southern, and Global. Part II tracks patterns and themes that relate to the diverse Buddhist traditions. In this section, chapters address the modes or manners in which Buddhist traditions manifest in the contemporary age.

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