Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from February 2006

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from February 2006

Cambodia's Muslim King: Khmer and Dutch sources on the conversion of Reameathipadei I, 1642-1658.
February 1, 2006... In the early 1640s the Cambodian court at Oudong was the scene of a remarkable string of events. It began with the bloody usurpation of the throne by a prince of the royal line, Chao Ponhea Cand; initially he ruled under the name...

Meditations on a portrait from seventeenth-century Batavia.
February 1, 2006... There is a painting in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam by J. J. Coeman entitled 'Pieter Cnoll and His Family'. It draws together many histories into one moment in time and suggests complex interactions between Asians and Europeans in Asia in the...

A precocious appetite: industrial agriculture and the fertiliser revolution in Java's colonial cane fields, c. 1880-1914.
February 1, 2006... A few years before the outbreak of the First World War, the newly established International Institute for Agriculture in Rome (the precursor of the present-day Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) began collecting data on...

Local knowledge, dynamism and the politics of struggle: a case study of the Hmong in Northern Thailand.
February 1, 2006... It's possible to find knowledge from any place in the world when we humans learn from one another. Throughout the generations we Hmong have learned from many diverse sources. In order to fulfil our lives, we young Hmong still learn from the...

A view from the sea: perspectives on the northern and central Vietnamese coast.
February 1, 2006... An interesting observation about Vietnamese historiography is that although the coast comprises roughly one-third of Vietnam's territory, historians have consistently regarded it as second only to landlocked Laos as a solidly land-based polity...

The rise of the coast: trade, state and culture in early Dai Viet.
February 1, 2006... To consider the extent and impact of trade between Song China and other parts of Asia, we need to examine political and cultural aspects as well as the economic. Stretching from the Song epoch through the Yuan and into the Ming, increasing...

Re-thinking the sea in Vietnamese history: littoral society in the integration of Thuan-Quang, seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.
February 1, 2006... The typical village of Viet Nam is enclosed within a thick wall of bamboo and thorny plants; the villagers used to live behind a kind of screen of bamboo... perhaps it was more like living in the magic ring of a fairy tale... Paul Mus...

Forgotten armies: The fall of British Asia 1941-1945.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Forgotten armies: The fall of British Asia 1941-1945 By CHRISTOPHER BAYLY and TIM HARPER London: Allen Lane. 2004. Pp. xxxiii, 535. Maps, Photos, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405470472 It is no longer common to include colonial...

Chinese Overseas: Comparative cultural issues.(Chinese and Indian diasporas: Comparative perspectives)(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Chinese Overseas: Comparative cultural issues By TAN CHEE-BENG Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 260. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Chinese and Indian diasporas: Comparative perspectives Edited by WONG SIU-LUN Hong Kong:...

Civilizing the margins: Southeast Asian government policies for the development of minorities.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Civilizing the margins: Southeast Asian government policies for the development of minorities Edited by CHRISTOPHER R. DUNCAN Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 278. Maps, Illustrations, Index. doi:...

Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of knowledge and politics of space Edited by PAUL H. KRATOSKA, REMCO RABES and HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT Singapore and Athens, OH: Singapore University Press and Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xi, 326. Index....

Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Women of the Kakawin World: Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali By HELEN CREESE Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. Pp. xii, 357. Appendix, Glossary, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405510476 This study...

Islam and the State in Indonesia.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Islam and the State in Indonesia By BAHTIAR EFFENDY Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003. Pp. xii, 265. Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405520472 This book elucidates the uneasy and shifting political...

Menggugat historiografi Indonesia.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Menggugat historiografi Indonesia By BAMBANG PURWANTO and ASVI WARMAN ADAM Yogyakarta: Ombak, 2005. Pp. ix, 148. Notes, Bibliography, Index. [In Indonesian] doi: 10.1017/S0022463405530479 Since the fall of Suharto in 1998 scholars have...

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Life is not complete without shopping: Consumption culture in Singapore By CHUA BENG HUAT Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2003. Pp. 209. Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405540475 Singapore has long been at the crossroads of different...

Making Democracy: Leadership, Class, Gender, and Political Participation in Thailand.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Making democracy: Leadership, class, gender, and political participation in Thailand By JAMES OCKEY Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 233. Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405590477 This book is the...

Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Imagined ancestries of Vietnamese communism: Ton Duc Thang and the politics of history and memory By CHRISTOPH GIEBEL Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2004. Pp. xxii, 256. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi:...

Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Beyond the bronze pillars: Envoy poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese relationship By LIAM C. KELLEY Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press and Association for Asian Studies, 2005. Pp. xiii, 267. Notes, Glossary, Works Cited, Index. doi:...

Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Ho Chi Minh: The missing years By SOPHIE QUINN-JUDGE London: Hurst, 2003. Pp. xii, 356. Illustrations, Maps, Notes Bibliography, Biographical Appendix, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405570474 This book leaves the reader stunned by Sophie...

The Kim Van Kieu of Nguyen Du (1765-1820).(Book review)
February 1, 2006... The Kim Van Kieu of Nguyen Du (1765-1820) Translated by VLADISLAV ZHUKOV Canberra: Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 2004. Pp. xii, 170. doi: 10.1017/S0022463405580470 Vladislav...