Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from March 1998

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from March 1998

The Colonial Office and Governor Ord. (first governor of the Straits Settlements Sir Harry Ord)
March 1, 1998... In 1867, when the Straits Settlements passed from the control of the Government of India to the Colonial Office, Britain was on the edge of what is often seen as a new wave of expansion. In the next thirty or so years new territories were added...

For want of rice: Sarawak's attempts at rice self-sufficiency during the period of Brooke rule, 1841-1941.
March 1, 1998... Sarawak has been dependent on imported rice and other foodstuff since the establishment of the Brooke Raj, but became increasingly so from the 1870s. Efforts to promote rice cultivation were consistently overshadowed by the channelling of capital...

Japanese economic activities in Sabah from the 1890s until 1941.
March 1, 1998... Writings on Sabah's socio-economic development tend to focus on the roles played by the British and other Europeans but neglect the contributions of the Japanese, who have played a major part in the economic development of Sabah since the 1890s....

Russian commercial shipping and Singapore, 1905-1916.
March 1, 1998... In the second half of the nineteenth century Russia's political and economic horizons expanded eastwards with the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the building of the Trans-Siberian railway in the 1890s. While the Suez Canal facilitated the...

Protection or partition: Ernest Satow and the 1880s crisis in Britain's Siam policy.
March 1, 1998... In August 1894, commenting on a memorandum presented to the Foreign Office, Sir Edward Grey, currently Under-Secretary for foreign affairs in the government of Lord Rosebery, observed It is rather too bitter and personal in parts, but I don't...

Communal irrigation, state, and capital in the Chiang Mai Valley (Northern Thailand): twentieth-century transformations.
March 1, 1998... In this paper we examine the impact of political and economic changes, at the local, national and international levels, on the traditional communal irrigation systems of the Chiang Mai Valley, northern Thailand. The development of communal...

An alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen kingdom in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
March 1, 1998... The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Nguyen kingdom which controlled the area later known to the West as Cochinchina, had its origins in modern central Vietnam. The Nguyen annals portray Nguyen Hoang, the governor of Thuan Hoa and Quang Nam,...

Regionalism and the nature of Nguyen rule in seventeenth-century Dang Trong (Cochinchina).
March 1, 1998... I. Introduction(1) As efforts to understand the Vietnamese past increasingly venture beyond conventional colonialist or nationalist frameworks, the opaque areas within these older approaches correspondingly emerge as interesting sites for...

Autonomous history and 'The Invention of Politics.'
March 1, 1998... GREG LOCKHART Australian National University The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya. By ANTHONY MILNER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 328. Index, Bibliography. The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya is a...

South China: State, Culture and Social Change During the 20th Century.
March 1, 1998... Edited by L.M. DOUW and P. POST. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Verhandelingen, Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 169. Pp. xvi, 253. Figures, Tables, Bibliography. It has been nearly six decades since Chen Ta...

Far Eastern File: The Intelligence War in the Far East, 1930-1945.
March 1, 1998... By PETER ELPHICK. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. Pp. xvii, 510. Maps, Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. With this latest effort, Peter Elphick establishes himself as an important scholar of the British-Japanese straggle during the Second...

Modernity and Identity: Asian Illustrations.
March 1, 1998... Edited by ALBERTO GOMES. Victoria: La Trobe University Press, 1994. Pp. 285. Notes. A constellation of major themes in western sociology has recently coalesced around the issues of modernity - its nature, characteristics and historically...

Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia: Interpretive Essays.
March 1, 1998... Edited by MARC ASKEW and WILLIAM LOGAN. Geelong: Deakin University Press, 1994. Pp. xii, 252. Maps, Illustrations, Index. This book possesses several important virtues. The better essays accurately depict the maelstrom of changes which have...

Women of Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1998... Edited by PENNY VAN ESTERIK. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Monograph Series on Southeast Asia. Occasional paper No. 17, 1996. Pp. xiv, 229. Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Addendum to Bibliography,...

Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese.
March 1, 1998... Edited by A. REID. St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1996. Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series No. 28. Pp. xxx, 232. This thorough and scholarly book is both a memorial to Jennifer Cushman who died in 1989,...

Southeast Asia in Modern Japanese Thought: Essays on Japanese-Southeast Asian Relationship, 1880-1940.
March 1, 1998... By SHIMIZU HAJIME. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Prefectural University, 1997. Pp. vi, 304. Figures, Tables. This volume contains five papers concerning relations between Japan and Southeast Asia during the 60 years that led up to the outbreak of the...

Angkor Cite Royale. (educational software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 1, 1998... By JULIEN FRYDMAN. Villeurbanne: Infogrames Multimedia/Reunions des Musees Nationaux/UNESCO, 1997. CD-ROM. [In French] The potential of electronic media to expand the boundaries of learning has yet to be fully exploited. In most cases, the...

Performance in Java and Bali. Studies of Narrative, Theatre, Music and Dance.
March 1, 1998... Edited by BERNARD ARPS. London: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993. Pp. xii, 244. Index. This 1993 publication presents selected papers from a symposium held at SOAS in August 1990 on performing arts of Java and...

Popular Indonesian Literature of the Qur'an.
March 1, 1998... By HOWARD M. FEDERSPIEL. Ithaca: Cornell University Modern Indonesia Project, 1994. Pp. v, 166. Appendices, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Federspiel has read, and presents in the present work, sixty Indonesian books that in various ways have...

'Returning to Asia': Japan-Indonesia Relations, 1930s-1942.
March 1, 1998... By KEN'ICHI GOTO. Tokyo: Ryukei Shyosha, 1997. English edition with the collaboration of Henry Frei. Pp. xvi, 496. Index, Tables, Chart. When Japan invaded Southeast Asia at the end of 1941, the Netherlands East Indies was its primary target,...

Kraton and Kumpeni. Surakarta and Yogyakarta: 1830-1870.
March 1, 1998... By VINCENT J.H. HOUBEN. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. Pp. viii, 396. Bibliography, Indexes. Vincent Houben's study of the Central Javanese realms remaining under the rule of the Susuhunan of Surakarta and the Sultan of Yogyakarta during the...

Adjustment and Discontent. Representations of Women in the Dutch East Indies.
March 1, 1998... By TINEKE HELLWIG. Windsor: Netherlandic Press, 1994. Pp. 103. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. In Adjustment and Discontent, Tineke Hellwig introduces turn-of-the-century literature in Dutch and Malay in which the chief characters are women and...

Memoirs of an Indo Woman. Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad.
March 1, 1998... By MARGUERITE SCHENKHUIZEN. Edited and Translated by LIZELOT STOUT VAN BALGOOY. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series Number 92, 1993. Pp. xii, 286. Appendix,...

Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests.
March 1, 1998... By WILLIAM W. BEVIS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. Pp. x, 245. Maps, Figures, Photographs, Bibliography. Borneo Log is a personal account of the impact of logging of montane rainforest in Sarawak, mainly set in 1990, when...

Islam in Malaysia: From Revivalism to Islamic State.
March 1, 1998... By HUSSIN MUTALIB. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 175. Appendices. Bibliography, Index. The distinct phenomenon of Islamic revivalism throughout much of the contemporary world over the past quarter century gives the lie...

Matriliny and Modernity. Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia.
March 1, 1998... By MAILA STIVENS. St. Leonards: Allen and Unwin, 1996. Pp. xvi, 316. Tables, Maps, Bibliography, Index. Matriliny and Modernity is an anthropological study of a rural matrilineal community, Rembau, in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan....

The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of South-eastern Sabah.
March 1, 1998... By CLIFFORD SATHER. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 359. Tables, Figures, Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index. One of Sather's chief purposes in writing this book, he informs us in the preface, has been to locate his...

Politics, Property and Law in the Philippines Uplands.
March 1, 1998... By MELANIE G. WIBER. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Lauder University Press, 1993. Pp. xxii, 164. Maps, Tables, Photographs, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Anthropologists and geographers have studied peoples of the ragged Cordillera mountains of...

Phenomena and Their Interpretation: Landmark Essays: 1957-1989.
March 1, 1998... By JAIME C. BULATAO, S.J. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 338. Bibliography, Index. As is clear from its subtitle, this book brings together the main writings of Father Bulatao, S.J. Their publication was not due...

The Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern Thai Village.
March 1, 1998... By MICHAEL R. RHUM. DeKalb: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, Special Report No. 29, 1994. Pp. vi, 202. Maps, Charts, Diagrams, Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography. Michael Rhum, it seems, does not care for the work...

Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand.
March 1, 1998... By KAMALA TIYAVANICH. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 410. Bibliography, Index. Forest Recollections concerns a lineage of wandering ascetics in the context of the consolidation of Thailand as a nation-state. An...

The Challenges of Highland Development in Vietnam.
March 1, 1998... Edited by A. TERRY RAMBO, ROBERT R. REED, LE TRONG CUC and MICHAEL R. DIGREGORIO. Honolulu: East-West Center Program on Environment; Hanoi: Hanoi University Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies; Berkeley: University of...

Law and Society in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Vietnam.
March 1, 1998... By INSUN YU. Korea: Asiatic Research Centre, Korea University, 1990. Pp. x, 158. Appendix, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Insun Yu's excellent historical study of family and law in northern Vietnam under the Restored Le dynasty...