Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from June 2002

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from June 2002

British policy discussions on the opium question in the Federated Shan States, 1937-1948.
June 1, 2002... British rule in Burma has been examined at many levels; however, the opium policy applied in the indirectly ruled Shan States has not received the same degree of examination. The Federated Shan States formally came into existence as of 1...

From Indra to Maitreya: Buddhist influence in Vietnamese political thought.
June 1, 2002... The Buddhist concept of political authority Although Buddhism was originally conceived as a technique for personal salvation, it was rapidly institutionalised as local rulers adopted it as their official state religion. It goes without...

The colonial state and business: the policy environment in Malaya in the inter-war years.
June 1, 2002... This article will focus on two main issues. The first concerns policy perspectives of the colonial state in Malaya vis-a-vis business, addressing the question of the relationship between the colonial state and Western and Chinese businesses....

Competition, patriotism and collaboration: the Chinese businessmen of Yogyakarta between the 1930s and 1945.(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2002... Yogyakarta's Chinese community in the 1930s Yogyakarta is a Sultanate located in the interior of south-central Java, founded in 1755. By the early twentieth century it had become a densely populated area with a substantial low-income...

The Kwik Hoo Tong trading society of Semarang, Java: a Chinese business network in late colonial Asia.
June 1, 2002... One of the major premises regarding Chinese businesses in pre-war Indonesia is that after the turn of the twentieth century they came to hold a secondary position because they 'were unable to accumulate adequate liquid capital, and, in any...

Opium and the beginnings of Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia.
June 1, 2002... This article deals with the relationship between opium revenue farming and the development of capitalist enterprises in Southeast Asia. It examines the role which opium played in the transformation of all Asian economies during the late...

Actors and arenas, elections and competition: the 1958 election of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
June 1, 2002... This article discusses the socio-political behaviour of the ethnic Chinese business elite of Singapore. Contributing to the discussion of whether or not this behaviour should be understood primarily in cultural terms (along the lines of Chinese...

New thoughts on colonial labour in Indonesia.
June 1, 2002... Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia: A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, c. 1900-1940 Ed. by VINCENT J.H. HOUBEN, J. THOMAS LINDBLAD ET AL. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999. Pp. xiv, 255. Maps, Tables, Notes, Bibliography,...

Ramayana in the Arts of Asia.
June 1, 2002... Ramayana in the Arts of Asia GARRETT KAM Singapore: Select Books, 2000. Pp. xi, 292. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography. The Ramayana has long fostered a specialised field of 'Ramayana Studies', and international conferences...

Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia.
June 1, 2002... Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia Edited by MUSHTAQ H. KHAN and JOMO K.S. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 338. Tables, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This...

Women in the New Asia: From Pain to Power.
June 1, 2002... Women in the New Asia: From Pain to Power YAYORI MATSUI Bangkok: White Lotus, 1999. Pp. x, 194. Illustrations, Index. This work is the sequel to the author's earlier book Women's Asia (London: Zed Books, 1989) and the Japanese...

Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia Edited by BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA Honolulu: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2000. Pp. xviii, 347. Maps, Notes, Index. The...

Defense and Decolonization in Southeast Asia: Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941-1968. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... KARL HACK Defense and Decolonization in Southeast Asia: Britain, Malaya and Singapore 1941-1968. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001. Pg. xiv, 341. Maps, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This book is an important addition to...

Southeast Asian-Centred Economies or Economics?
June 1, 2002... Southeast Asian-Centred Economies or Economics? Edited by MASON C. HOADLEY Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, NIAS Report Series, No. 39, 1999. Pp. 147. This is a small book that makes big claims. The rather clumsy...

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison DAVID CHANDLER Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 238. Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index. In 1999 the...

Bugis Navigation. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Bugis Navigation GENE AMMARELL New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies (Monograph 48), 1999. Pp. xiv, 299. Maps, Tables, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. On the backside of the cover it is written that this...

Secrets Need Words: Indonesian Poetry, 1966-1998. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Secrets Need Words: Indonesian Poetry, 1966-1998 Edited and Translated by HARRY AVELING Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2001. Pp. xiv, 375. Notes. There are still among us people who would argue that...

Parthayana: The Journeying of Partha, an Eighteenth-Century Balinese Kakawin. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Parthayana: The Journeying of Partha, an Eighteenth-Century Balinese Kakawin HELEN CREESE Leiden: KITLV, 1998. Pp. x, 504. Appendices, Bibliography, Indexes. For the publication of the kakawin Parthayana, Helen Creese has chosen...

Forests of Fortune?: The Environmental History of Southeast Borneo, 1600-1880. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Forests of Fortune?: The Environmental History of Southeast Borneo, 1600-1880 HAN KNAPEN Leiden: KITLV, 2001. Pp. xviii, 487. Figures, Tables, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This book deals with a breathtaking array of issues...

Grandchildren of the Ga'e Ancestors: Social Organization and Cosmology among the Hoga Sara of Flores. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Grandchildren of the Ga'e Ancestors: Social Organization and Cosmology among the Hoga Sara of Flores ANDREA KATALIN MOLNAR Leiden: KITLV Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 306. Figures, Maps, Plates, Tables, Index. Anthropologists interested in...

Chinese Business in Malaysia. Accumulation, Accommodation and Ascendance. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Chinese Business in Malaysia. Accumulation, Accommodation and Ascendance EDMUND TERENCE GOMEZ Richmond: Curzon, 1999. Pp. xxi, 234. Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. This meticulously researched book breaks new ground in its...

The Folk-Tales of Burma. An Introduction. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... The Folk-Tales of Burma. An Introduction G. ABBOTT KHIN THANT HAN Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill (Handbuch der Orientalistik III vol. 11), 2000. Pp. xiv, 392. Illustrations, Bibliography, Ethnological Notes, Index. The...

The Making of Modern Burma. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... The Making of Modern Burma THANT MYINT-U Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. 284. Notes, Bibliography, Index. While progress in the historiography of Burma is slow, the last few decades have seen the emergence of new...

The Politics of Policy Making in Singapore. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... The Politics of Policy Making in Singapore HO KHAI LEONG Singapore: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 258. Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. This work is timely and a welcome addition to the international...

Vietnamese Villages in Transition: Background and Consequences of Reform Policies in Rural Vietnam. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Vietnamese Villages in Transition: Background and Consequences of Reform Policies in Rural Vietnam Edited by BERNHARD DAHM and VINCENT J. H. HOUBEN Passau: Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Passau University, 1999. Pp. xiv, 224....

The United States and Australia in Vietnam, 1954-1968: Silent Partners. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... The United States and Australia in Vietnam, 1954-1968: Silent Partners RONALD BRUCE FRANKUM Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 344. Tables, Notes, Annotated Bibliography, Index. In recent years, the most common...

Colonialism Experienced: Vietnamese Writings on Colonialism, 1900-1931. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... Colonialism Experienced: Vietnamese Writings on Colonialism, 1900-1931 TRUONG BUU LAM Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 328. Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Scholars of Vietnam have produced few...