Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from June 2001

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from June 2001

The Trade in Lakawood Products Between South China and the Malay World from the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries AD.
June 1, 2001... Derek Heng Thiam Soon [*] This article examines the development in the trade of lakawood as an example of the passage of a commodity from its initial introduction to being highly prized by its recipient market from the Song to early Ming...

The Changing Nature of the Red River Delta Villages during the Le Period (1428-1788).
June 1, 2001... Insun Yu [*] Over the 400 years of the Le dynasty (1428-1788), the village in northern Vietnam progressively evolved as an administrative institution. The article traces this process, and analyses the changing relationship between villages...

Opium and Empire: Some Evidence from Colonial-Era Asian Stock and Commodity Markets.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Lan Truong [*] On the basis of a new database of stock and commodity prices, along with measures of government revenues, commodity exports and immigration, the article assesses the impact of the opium trade on the economies of colonial...

The K5 Gamble: National Defence and Nation Building under the People's Republic of Kampuchea.
June 1, 2001... The K5 Plan for the defence of the Cambodian--Thai border was the response of the People's Republic of Kampuchea and its Vietnamese mentors to the threat posed by the resistance forces, particularly the Khmer Rouge, to its efforts to rebuild...

Rules for Rulers: Obscure Texts, Authority, and Policing in Two Malay States.
June 1, 2001... Police manuals produced in the Siak and Riau-Lingga sultanates during the 1890s reveal something of the concerns of each society in an early stage of colonial state formation, and how they dealt with changing understandings of crime and...

Buddhism Unshackled: The Yuan 'Holy Man' Tradition and the Nation-State in the Tai World.
June 1, 2001... Paul T. Cohen [*] Yaun Buddhism is a particular variant of Theravada Buddhism that prevails among the Tai-speaking people of the upper Mekong region. A salient feature of Yuan Buddhism is belief in 'holy men' who gain renown for their...

Practice and Belief in Ancient Cambodia: Claude Jacques' Angkor and the Devaraja Question.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Angkor: Cities and Temples By CLAUDE JACQUES and MICHAEL FREEMAN. Translated from the French by MICHAEL WHITE. Bangkok: River Books, 1997. Pp. 319. Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Angkor: Cities and Temples is a handsome...

The Coming Crisis in Indonesian Area Studies.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Gerry Van Klinken [1] Indonesia beyond Suharto: Polity Economy, Society Transition Edited by DONALD K EMMERSON NY/London: ME Sharpe, 1999. Pp. xxviii, 395. Index. Reformasi: Crisis and Change in Indonesia Edited by ARIEF...

Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia. Edited by KATHLEEN M. ADAMS and SARA DICKEY. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 307. Notes, Index. This volume Consists of...

Die Danen in Indien, Sudostasien and China (1620-1845).(Review)
June 1, 2001... Die Danen in Indien, Sudostasien and China (1620-1845) By STEPHAN DILLER. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (South China and Maritime Asia, 8), 1999. Pp. viii, 430. Tables, Illustrations, Plates, Bibliography, Index. Stephan Diller's...

Sudostasien Handbuch. Geschichte - Gesellschaft -- Politik -- Wirtschaft -- Kultur.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Sudostasien Handbuch. Geschichte - Gesellschaft -- Politik -Wirtschaft -- Kultur. Edited by BERNHARD DAHN and RODERICH PTAK Munchen: C.H. Beck Verlag, 1999. Pp.684. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. This volume is a...

Political Culture and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Study in Southeast Asia.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Political Culture and Ethnicity: An Anthropological Study in Southeast Asia Edited by TOH GODA Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1999. Based on field reports for a 1995-97 Japanese Ministry of Education sponsored project on 'The Social...

Warisan Leluhur: Sastra Lama dan Aksara Batak [The Heritage of the Ancestors: Ancient Batak Literature and Scripts].(Review)
June 1, 2001... Warisan Leluhur: Sastra Lama dan Aksara Batak [The Heritage of the Ancestors: Ancient Batak Literature and Scripts] BY ULI KOZOK Jakarta: Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient and Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 1999. Pp. 158. Maps, Tables,...

The Spell of Power. A History of Balinese Politics 1650-1940.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Spell of Power. A History of Balinese Politics 1650-1940. BY HENK SCHULTE NORDHOLT Leiden: KITLV Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 389. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. This book is a well-researched political history of Bali, Indonesia,...

Visible and Invisible Realms. Power, Magic and Colonial Conquest in Bali.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Visible and Invisible Realms. Power, Magic and Colonial Conquest in Bali. By MARGARET J. WIENER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiv, 459. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. This book aims to supersede post-colonial...

The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya By T. N. HARPER Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 417. Tables, Bibliography, Index. Few Malaysian historians would dispute the central argument of this book that despite...

Orang Asli Now: The Orang Asli in the Malaysian Political World.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Orang Asli Now: The Orang Asli in the Malaysian Political World. By ROY DAVIS LINVILLE JUMPER. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1999. Pp. x, 204. Maps, Tables, Figures, Index. This is a story that continues to unfold. The...

Malaysian Politics under Mahathir.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Malaysian Politics under Mahathir By R.S. MILNE and DIANE K. MAUZY London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp. x, 225. Maps, Notes, Index. Minor inaccuracies and some startling assertions aside, this readable and well-organised book is...

Etudes Birmanes en Hommage a Denise Bernot.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Etudes Birmanes en Hommage a Denise Bernot Edited by P. PICHARD and F. ROBINNE. Paris: Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient 1998. Etudes Thematiques 9. Pp. 449. Maps, Figures, Photographs, Tables. (In French and English) This volume...

Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island. By FILOMENO v. AGUILAR, JR. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 313. Bibliography, Index. Filomeno Aguilar's complex and...

The Philippine War, 1899-1902.(Review)
June 1, 2001... The Philippine War, 1899-1902 BY BRIAN MCALLISTER LINN. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiv, 427. Maps, Photographs, Index. Through the prism of Filipino nationalist and American revisionist historiography, the...

Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy.(Review)
June 1, 2001... Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy By ALFRED W. McCOY New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 425. Photographs, Notes, Index. This book, at first glance, seems anomalous. Academic interest in 'men...

Ho Chi Minh.(Review)
June 1, 2001... DUIKER, WILLIAM J. Ho Chi Minh By PIERRE BROCHEUX Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2000. Pp. 235. Bibliography, Index, Notes. (In French) This new biography of Ho Chi Minh is the latest in a series of biographical studies produced...