Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from October 2003

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from October 2003

Genealogy of a rebellion narrative: law, ethnology and culture in colonial Burma.
October 1, 2003... ********** The depth and breadth of scholarship devoted to Asian resistance and rebellion have grown in recent years, benefiting from the efforts of scholars who have challenged the ways in which we approach the study of popular revolts...

Decolonisation, modernisation and nation-building: political development theory and the appeal of Communism in Southeast Asia, 1945-1975.
October 1, 2003... Introduction: ideologies of Western dominance and ideologies of modernisation Michael Adas, in his important study of 'ideologies of Western dominance', questions the idea that the influential theories of modernisation that emerged during...

Chinese opera in Singapore: negotiating globalisation, consumerism and national culture.
October 1, 2003... It has often been argued that the spread of a Western consumer monoculture destroys traditional societies and their cultures. The strength of this argument stems mainly from the dichotomy between 'local culture' and 'global culture'. Local...

Buddhism and Christianity in competition? Religious and ethnic identity in Karen communities of Northern Thailand.
October 1, 2003... ********** 'Which religion do you think is the best?' During fieldwork in Karen villages, it is not uncommon to be asked questions like this. Karen take religion quite seriously, though not in a fanatical way. In a world of increasing...

Foreign military transfers in mainland Southeast Asian wars: adaptations, rejections and change (Introduction).
October 1, 2003... As in Europe, the transfer, adaptation and utilisation of foreign military knowledge and techniques have contributed greatly to the development of Southeast Asian states. However, it has not always been easy to write about such military...

Military technology transfers from Ming China and the emergence of northern mainland Southeast Asia. (c. 1390-1527).
October 1, 2003... ********** Scholars of Southeast Asian history and Sino-Southeast Asian relations need to make a significant shift from a maritime to an overland perspective. Around 60 years ago, attacking the Eurocentric approach to Southeast Asia...

The transfer of western military technology to Vietnam in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the case of the Nguyen.
October 1, 2003... Vietnamese rulers of the Nguyen Dynesty showed considerable interest in foreign military technology. Their adoption and adaptation of this technology constitute an important chapter in the history Vietnam's relations with the West. The...

Building force: Asian origins of twentieth-century military science in Vietnam (1905-54).
October 1, 2003... ********** This article examines the Asian channels through which foreign military knowledge flowed into Vietnam during the first half of the twentieth century, in spite of or even because of the creation of the European colonial state...

Australia's ambivalence towards Asia: Politics, neo/post-colonialism and fact/fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By J.D. D'CRUZ and WILLIAM STEELE Baugi: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2000. Pp. 399. Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403210481 This long book has at its heart Blanche D'Alpuget's Turtle Beach (New York: Simon and...

Cultural crisis and social memory: Modernity and identity in Thailand and Laos.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by SHIGEHARU TANABE and CHARLES F. KEYES London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. Pp. xii, 312. Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403220488 'Social memory' has been the subject of recent attention within anthropology, history...

Making blood white: Historical transformations in early modern Makassar.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By WILLIAM CUMMINGS Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 257. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403230484 In this study, William Cummings sets out to identify and examine the social, cultural and political...

Dependence on green gold: a socio-economic history of the Indonesian coconut island Selayar.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By CHRISTIAN HEERSINK Leiden: KITLV Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 371. Maps, Notes, Bibliography. DOI: S0022463403240480 The 'green gold' of this history is the windfall profits from the copra trade that brought a substantial degree of prosperity...

Voices of the puppet masters: the wayang golek theater of Indonesia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By MIMI HERBERT Honolulu and Jakarta: University of Hawaii Press and Lontar Foundation, 2002. Pp. ix, 251. Photographs, Appendices, Bibliography. DOI: S0022463403250487 The author, Mimi Herbert, describes the book as 'an account of a...

Duo Donggo justice: conflict and morality in an Indonesian society.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By PETER JUST Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2001. Pp. xi, 263. Photographs, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403260483 In his lively ethnography of morality and dispute settlements among highlanders on Sumbawa...

Puspakrema: a Javanese romance from Lombok.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By TH. C, VAN DER MEIJ Leiden: CNWS, 2002. Pp. 230. Tables, Notes, Bibliography. DOI: S002246340327048X The Puspakrema is a Javanese text from Lombok which relates the story of a prince of supernatural powers who is kidnapped as a young...

Cross-cultural encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Malaysia By ROBERT HAMPSON Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 248. DOI: S0022463403280486 This book is written primarily for those interested in literary criticism, and would be appreciated most of all by someone who has read...

Making merit, making art: a Thai temple in Wimbledon.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Thailand By SANDRA CATE Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 218. Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403290482 This is the first major study by a non-Thai academic of the murals at Wat Buddhapadipa in...

Opusculum de sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A small treatise on the sects among the Chinesse and Tonkinese)--a study of religion in China and North Vietnam in the eighteenth century.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Vietnam By FATHER ADRIANO DI ST. THECLA. Translated and annotated with introductory essay by OLCA DROR, Latin translation in collaboration with MARIYA BERZOVSKA. Forward by K. W. TAYLOR; preface by LIONEL M. JENSEN. Ithaca: Southeast Asia...

All the way with JFK: Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... By PETER BUSCH Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 240. Maps, Plates, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography. DOI: S0022463403310483 Death of a generation: How the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War By HOWARD...

The country of memory: Remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Edited by HUE-TAM HO TAI Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiii, 271. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403330486 The seven essays in this collection are concerned with public memory in Vietnam. Framed by...

Books received: JSEAS 2003, 3.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2003... Asia China and Southeast Asia: Changing socio-cultural interactions. Edited by MELISSA G. CURLEY and HONG LIU. Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, 2002. ISBN 962 8629 39 9 Shifting communities and identity formation in early modern...