Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from February 2002

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from February 2002

Localising the universal: Women, motherhood and the appeal of early Theravada Buddhism.
February 1, 2002... Introduction When the doyen of Southeast Asian studies, George Coedes (1886-1969), published his Histoire ancienne des etats hindouises d' Extreme-Orient more than fifty years ago, he identified the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a...

The seizure of the Sta. Catarina revisited: The Portuguese Empire in Asia, VOC politics and the origins of the Dutch-Johor alliance (1602 - c.1616).
February 1, 2002... Introduction When the prize from the [Sta. Catarina] was recently put up for sale, who did not marvel at the wealth revealed? Who was not struck with amazement? Who did not feel that the auction in progress was practically the sale of a...

Doan thi Diem's 'Story of the Van Cat Goddess' as a story of emancipation.
February 1, 2002... ********** This paper is an approach to studying the issue of emancipation in Van Cat Than Nu Truyen (Story of the Van Cat Goddess), written in the 1730s in Han (classical Chinese pronounced in Vietnamese) by Doan thi Diem, a female...

Power and Interest on Sumatra's rainforest frontier: Clientelist coalitions, illegal logging and conservation in the Alas Valley.
February 1, 2002... Introduction The Indonesian archipelago contains the world's second largest expanse of tropical forest and is a major world centre for biodiversity. Yet, Indonesia has one of the highest rates of deforestation, an issue of increasing...

Japanese policy towards Islam in Malaya during the Occupation: A reassessment.
February 1, 2002... Japanese policy towards Islam At the start of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya between 1942 and 1945, the Military Administration adopted a policy of non-interference in local cultural practices, giving due respect to Islamic and Malay...

Identification of leadership among the KMT Yunnanese Chinese in Northern Thailand.(Kuomintang)
February 1, 2002... In this paper I analyse the leader-follower relationship among the Kuomintang (KMT) Yunnanese Chinese in northern Thailand. While applying the theoretical framework derived from various studies of patron-client relations, I argue that the...

Between the global and the local there are regions, culture areas, and National States: A review article.(Critical Essay)
February 1, 2002... ********** In 1999, the late O.W. Wolters released a revised edition of his influential, and still stimulating, History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives. Besides publishing the original 1982 text amounting to 102 pages,...

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Destruction of the Tropical World. (Book Reviews: Asia).
February 1, 2002... By RICHARD TUCKER Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp xiii. 551. Appendix, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Richard Tucker explores how the pull of markets resulted in rampant destruction of natural tropical ecosystems....

O roteiro das cousas do Achem de D. Joao Ribeiro Gaio: Um olhar portugues sobre a norte de Samatra em finais do seculo XVI. (Book Reviews: Southeast Asia).
February 1, 2002... Critical edition and introduction by JORGE M. DOS SANTOS ALVES and PIERRE-YVES MANGUIN. Lisbon: Comissao Nacional para as Comemoracoes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1997. Pp. 112. Maps, Tables, Photographs, Illustrations, Notes,...

An Identity Dilemma: A Comparative Study of Primary Education for Ethnic Chinese in the Context of National Identity and Nation-Building in Malaysia and Singapore. (Book Reviews: Southeast Asia).
February 1, 2002... By INGRID GLAD Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1998. Pp. 352. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography. This book, based not only on wide range of materials but also on interviews with Chinese language teachers, describes and...

Chinese Business Networks in South-East Asia: Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entrepreneurship. (Book Reviews: Southeast Asia).
February 1, 2002... Edited by EDMUND TERRENCE GOMEZ and HSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIANO. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. Pp.205. Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This six-chapter book is the first part of a larger project in search of a better...

Precious Metals in Early Southeast Asia. (Book Reviews: Southeast Asia).
February 1, 2002... Edited by WILHELMINA H. KAL Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1999, Pp. 111. Illustrations, Bibliography. This collection of essays deserves praise as it contains an interesting variety of professional insights as well as timely...

Portugueses e Malaios. Malaca e os sultanatos de Johor e Achem, 1575-1619. (Book Reviews: Southeast Asia).
February 1, 2002... By PAULO JORGE DE SOUSA PINTO Lisbon: Sociedade Historica de Independencia de Portugal, 1997. Pp. 334. Bibliography, Maps, Charts. This book is one of the very few monographs exclusively focusing on Portugal's presence in one...

Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia. (Book Reviews: Indonesia).
February 1, 2002... Edited by BENEDICT R. O'G. ANDERSON Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2001. Pp. 247. Map, Tables. Benedict Anderson opens his introduction to this volume with this bold statement: 'A seventy year old Indonesian woman...

Rebellion to Integration: West Sumatra and the Indonesian Polity. (Book Reviews: Indonesia).
February 1, 2002... By AUDREY KAHIN Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999. Pp. 368. Maps, Photographs, Notes, Bibliography. Had this book appeared in 1997, it might have been tiled with a handful of other excellent histories of West Sumatra, a fine...

Television, Nation, and Culture in Indonesia. (Book Reviews: Indonesia).
February 1, 2002... By PHILIP KITLEY Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000. Pp. xviii, 411. Illustrations, Tables, Bibliography, Index. Indonesian media studies came of age in the 1990s, with the launching of impressive research...

Laos Culture and Society. (Book Reviews: Laos).
February 1, 2002... Edited by GRANT EVANS Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000. Pp. xi, 313. Bibliography, Index. The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975 By GRANT EVANS Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998....

Father Jose Burgos: A Documentary History with Spanish Documents and Their Translation. (Book Reviews: The Philippines).
February 1, 2002... By JOHN N. SCHUMACHER Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 297. Was Fr Jose Burgos a martyr or a victim? This question is at the centre of John N. Schumacher's latest book on the popular but not thoroughly...

Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993. (Book Reviews: Singapore).
February 1, 2002... By NG BENG YONG Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2001. Pp.339. Tables, Photographs, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. From the humble beginnings of the Lunatic Asylum established in 1841, the provision of mental health care...

Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle. (Book Reviews: Thailand).
February 1, 2002... By RYAN BISHOP and LILLIAN S. ROBINSON New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. x, 278. Notes, Bibliography, Index. For several decades the tourism industry has been Thailand's major source of foreign exchange and international sex tourism has...

Politics and the Press in Thailand: Media Machinations. (Book Reviews: Thailand).
February 1, 2002... By DUNCAN McCARGO London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. vii, 205. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. The freedom and vigour of the Thai press have long been a commonplace among both casual observers and serious students of...

The Vietnamese Family in Change. The Case of the Red River Delta. (Book Reviews: Vietnam).
February 1, 2002... By PHAM VAN BICH Richmond, Surrey: Curzon in cooperation with The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Vietnam in Transition series, 1999. Pp.270. Bibliography, Index. This work is about the family and its changes over fifty years...