The Rohingya Crisis and the Practices of Erasure

The essay utilized two concepts, lawfare and spacio-cide, to place different facets of “belonging” into conversation with one another. The concepts highlight how the progressive erasure of citizenship shapes the progressive erasure of home and vice-versa, with the result being the largest cross-border humanitarian crisis in Asia today. The first section of the essay situates the Rohingya crisis within the broader politico-military context. It illustrates the ways in which the patterns of violence are and are not consistent with the practices the state’s armed forces have used against different ethnic populations in other parts of the country. The second section traces how successive laws and policies transformed the Rohingya into the largest stateless population in the world. The final section summarizes the tactics used to segregate, dispossess, and, ultimately, drive Rohingya from the countryside. The practices of erasure, the essay concludes, are the most recent iteration of an ongoing cycle of persecution that began forty years ago and will likely continue in the future.     

Lead anchor-stock cores from Tektas Burnu, Turkey

Four sets of lead anchor-stock cores have been found recently on the 5th-century BCE Greek shipwreck at Tektag Burnu, Turkey. The anchor type these cores represent was the earliest departure from the use of stone in anchor construction. Scholars have dated this technological advance to c . 400 BCE, but the Tektas Burnu cores now indicate that the anchor type already existed in the third quarter of the 5th century BCE.     

Book reviews

AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMAT. Alan Watt. Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0207–12354–3. 329 pp. $8.50.

AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR. W. R. Crocker. Sun Books, Melbourne, 1971. 211 pp. $1.95 paper.

THE POLITICS OF DEPENDENCE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1968. A. L. Epstein, R. S. Parker, Marie Reay (eds.). Australian National University Press, 1971. 0–424–06270–4. 398 pp. $8.95.

AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA. W. J. Hudson (ed.). Sydney University Press, 1971. 0–7081–0188–7. 198 pp. $6.50 hard cover, $4.00 paper.

AUSTRALIA IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: NATIONAL DEFENCE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Ian Bellany. Sydney University Press, 1972. 0424063107. 144 pp. $6.00.

THE CRISIS OF LOYALTY: A STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY. Bruce Grant. Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0–207–12472, 0–207–12423‐X. 107 pp. $3.25 hard cover, $2.50 paper.

THE AUSTRALIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1968–1969. H. B. Connell (ed.). Butterworth (Australia), 1971. 409–3940–9. 244 pp. $12.50.

KENT HUGHES. A BIOGRAPHY. Frederick Howard. The Macmillan Company of Australia, Melbourne, 1972. 0–333–13909–7. 255 pp. $6.50.

THE MAKING OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. J. A. La Nauze. Melbourne University Press, 1972. 05–2284016–7. xi, 369 pp.

RICHARD BOURKE. Hazel King. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971. 312 pp. $10.95.

INDIA, PAKISTAN AND THE GREAT POWERS. William J. Barnds. Pall Mall Press, London, 1972. 269–67199–4. 388 pp. £4.25 (stg).

THE INDIAN OCEAN: TOWARDS A PEACE ZONE. Devendra Kaushik. Vikas, Delhi, 1972. 7069–0173–8. 225 pp. 24 Rupees.

INDIA, RUSSIA, CHINA AND BANGLA DESH. J. A. Naik. S. Chand & Co., New Delhi, 1972. 163 pp. 20 Rupees.

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN THE 1970s: THE ROLES OF THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Bruce Brown (ed.). Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1971. 0–7081–0087–2. 253 pp. $5.

THE ASIAN NEWSPAPERS’ RELUCTANT REVOLUTION. John A. Lent (ed.). Iowa State University Press, 1971. 08138–1335–3. 373 pp. $US12.50.

AN INTRODUCTION TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN POLITICS. J. R. E. Waddell John Wiley and Sons, Sydney, 1972. 0471–91301–4, 0471–91300–6. 305 pp. $6.50 hard cover, $4.50 paper.

THE INDONESIAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND LAND REFORM 1959–1965. Rex Mortimer. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, Number One, 1972. 78 pp. $1.50.

INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN MALAYA. PRELUDE TO THE COMMUNIST REVOLT OF 1948. Michael Stenson. Oxford University Press, London, 1970. 19–212957–0. 271 pp. $7.80.

NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Michael Leifer (ed.). Ag Zug, Switzerland, Inter Documentation Company, 1970. 175 pp. Swiss Fr. 28.50.

THE PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY OF SINGAPORE: EMERGENCE OF A DOMINANT PARTY SYSTEM. Thomas J. Bellows. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, New Haven, 1970. Distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. 195 pp. $US5.75.

THE INNOVATORS. THE ROLE OF FOREIGN TRAINED PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Mary C. Hodgkin. Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1972. 0424–063808. 118 pp. $3.00 Paper.

JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA IN THE SEVENTIES. J. A. A. stockwin (ed.). Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0–207–12395–0. 223 pp. $4.00 hard cover, $3.25 paper.

THE FEDERATION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Leo Marquard. Oxford University Press, 1971. 142 pp. £2 (stg.).

AMERICA THE DUTIFUL: AN ASSESSMENT OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. Philip W. Quigg. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1971. 223 pp. $6.95.     

企業統治システムの構築--日米独との比較からみた中国の企業統治

はじめに 中国と日本は一衣帯水で2千年以上の友好交流の歴史を持つている.戦後60年、特に中·日国交正常化以来、中国の改革開放の進展につれて両国間の経済協力と交流が益々深まり、両国の学術界の連携はもつと緊密になりその交流も益々盛んになつてきた.     

Recognising values of China’s scenic and historic interest areas as world heritage cultural landscapes: Lushan case study

ABSTRACT

China’s Scenic and Historic Interest Areas are a major contributor to the State’s World Heritage lexicon. However, understanding of their values has led to confusion internationally and in China, not least with controversy over China’s latest promotion of the Natural Protected Areas System. This paper discusses values of China’s Scenic and Historic Interest Areas from the cultural landscape perspective through an in-depth case study of Lushan. A theoretical framework for recognising values of China’s Scenic and Historic Interest Areas has been set up and tested at Lushan, including exploring stakeholders’ understanding of its values as a world heritage site by using semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The findings reveal that Lushan clearly represents cultural values inextricably associated with Scenic and Historic Interest Areas, and also need for supplementary advice on its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). It suggests that the ideology driving management of China’s Scenic and Historic Interest Areas as national parks or natural parks focusing mainly on objective nature-related conservation without regard to the traditional Chinese philosophy of the culture-nature binary will adversely affect China’s Scenic and Historic Interest Areas as cultural landscapes and their community values.