Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles

Recent articles from Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

An early Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia, 900-1300 CE.(Report)
June 1, 2009... 1. Introduction to the issue One of the most influential theses in Southeast Asian history in recent decades has been that put forward by Anthony Reid in his Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce. (1) In this work, Reid suggests that the age of commerce had its roots in changes which...

Moral order in a time of damnation: the Hikayat Patani in historical context.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2009... Introduction Andries Teeuw and David Wyatt first offered scholars a glimpse of southern Thailand's earliest historical chronicle, the Hikayat Patani, in 1970. (1) Pivotal for understanding the little-studied Malay-Thai border region, their work rooted the chronicle within the political...

Sorapet Pinyoo and the status of pleeng luuk tung.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction: Argument and structure This author's particular point of interest in pleeng luuk tung is the role that it has played in facilitating the rebirth or regeneration of Isan identity and culture. My overall research proposes that the significant involvement of Isan people within...

Mixed up in power politics and the Cold War: the Americans, the ICFTU and Singapore's labour movement, 1955-1960.
June 1, 2009... The Cold War divided not only international politics, but also contributed to the polarisation of the international labour movement. Created in 1945 by unions from countries such as the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) had originally...

Singapore and the Vietnam war.(Report)
June 1, 2009... Introduction This paper attempts to fill two gaps in two sets of historiography, one pertaining to the history of Singapore post-independence, and the other, the Vietnam war or more accurately, the second Indochina war. The two are not unrelated. For a decade or more after Singapore...