Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from June 2009

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from June 2009

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fragments of utopia: popular yearnings in East Timor.
June 1, 2009... Six months after the historic August 1999 referendum in which the people of East Timor voted to reject Indonesia's offer of broad autonomy, the newly appointed chief of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, Sergio Vieira...

Cultural construction of illness, festival and music in Southeast Asia.(Acts of Integration, Expression of Faith: Madness, Death, and Ritual in Melanau Ontology / Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival / Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music in Central Java)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Acts of integration, expression of faith: Madness, death, and ritual in Melanau ontology By ANN L. APPLETON Maine: Borneo Research Council Monograph No. 6, 2006, Pp. 361. Appendix, Maps Notes, Bibliography, Index. Bridges to the...

Revisiting the rice deltas and reconsidering modern Southeast Asia's economic history.(A Colonial Economy in Crisis: Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s / King of the Waters: Homan van der Heide and the Origin of Modern Irrigation in Siam)(Book review)
June 1, 2009... A colonial economy in crisis: Burma's rice cultivators and the world depression of the 1930s By IAN BROWN London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005. Pp. 126. Map, Tables, Notes, Bibliography. King of the waters: Homan van der...

Mazu xinyang shi yanjiu.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Mazu xinyang shi yanjiu [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] By XU XIAOWANG [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Fuzhou: Haifeng chubanshe, 2007. Pp. 14 + 340. Bibliography, Some Illustrations. ISBN 978-7-80597-679-2. RMB 38.00. doi:...

Birmanische handschriften, Teil 6: Katalognummern 1016-1200.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Birmanische handschriften, Teil 6: Katalognummern 1016-1200 Compiled by ANNE PETERS Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 370. Indices (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, vol. 23.6) ...

Burma's mass lay meditation movement: Buddhism and the cultural construction of power.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Burma's mass lay meditation movement: Buddhism and the cultural construction of power By INGRID JORDT Athens: Ohio University Press, Southeast Asia Series No. 115, 2007. Pp. 265. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. doi:...

Laskar Jihad: Islam, militancy, and the quest for identity in post-New Order Indonesia.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Laskar Jihad: Islam, militancy, and the quest for identity in post-New Order Indonesia By NOORHAIDI HASAN Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asian Studies Program, Year 2006. Pp. 266. Photos, Figures, Bibliography, Index. ...

Papua: Geopolitics and the quest for nationhood.(Book review)
June 1, 2009... Papua: Geopolitics and the quest for nationhood By BILVEER SINGH New Brunswick, USA: Transaction Publishers, 2008. Pp. 238. Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463409000265 Books on Papua by eminent international...