Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from September 2000

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from September 2000

The Ming shi-lu as a Source for Thai History -- Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.
September 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The use of Chinese sources to re/construct the pasts of polities and societies which today form part of the Kingdom of Thailand is certainly not a new endeavour. [1] However, despite the attention that over the years has been...

The Road to Bo Ra: Travel, Settlement and Contact on a Vietnamese Upland Frontier.
September 1, 2000... To see fieldwork as travel practice highlights embodied activities pursued in historically and politically defined places. James Clifford, Routes, Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...

"Manufacturing Consensus": The Role of the State Council in Brunei Darussalam.
September 1, 2000... Introduction A state council was formed in Brunei following the introduction of the British Residency system in 1906. [1] The Council provided a constitutional basis for the management of a protected state administered by British officers,...

Books and the Nation: The Making of Thailand's National Library.
September 1, 2000... The transformation of the Thai "Buddhist kingdom" into a "modern nation-state" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is a well-trodden field in Thai studies. [1] Scholars have singled out for particular attention the creation of...

Trade and Traders: Local Becomes National.(acculturation of a town in Thailand)
September 1, 2000... This article is concerned with the residents of Khun Yuam, a small town in northwestern Thailand, and their integration into the country as a whole. Interaction with outsider traders and the consumption of non-local products are increasing....

Correspondence.
September 1, 2000... Sir, I am grateful to Karl Hack for putting me in touch with my historical sub-conscious ("Iron Claws on Malaya", JSEAS [March 1999]). I am , of course, flattered to be bracketed with Professor Northcote Parkinson, but was hitherto unaware...

New Lands, Old Ties and Prostitution: A Voiceless Voice.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Sandakan Brothel No. 8 An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women. By YAMAZAKI TOMOKO. Translated by KAREN COLLIGAN-TAYLOR. Armonk and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999. Pp. xxix, 215. Index. The role of prostitution overseas in...

China and the South China Sea Dialogues.(Review)
September 1, 2000... China and the South China Sea Dialogues. By LEE LAT TO. Praeger: Westport, Connecticut and London, 1999. Pp. x, 168. Preface, Bibliography, Index. This volume is a major contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the South China...

East Asia by the Year 2000 and beyond: Shaping Factors.(Review)
September 1, 2000... East Asia by the Year 2000 and beyond: Shaping Factors. Edited by WOLFGANG PAPE. Richmond: Curzon, 1998. Pp, xvi, 268. Appendices. Completed in 1996 and published in 1998, much has transpired since Wolfgang Pape first edited these...

ASEM: A Window of Opportunity.(Review)
September 1, 2000... ASEM: A Window of Opportunity. Edited by WIM STOKHOF and PAUL VAN DER VELDE. London: Kegan and Paul in association with the International Institute for Asian Studies, 1999. Pp. vi, 179. This collection of essays is the based on a conference...

Asian Forms of the Nation.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Asian Forms of the Nation. Edited by STEIN TONNESSON and HANS ANTLOV. London: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp. iv, 362. Bibliography. The plural in the title of this excellent "panoptic" collection of essays is central to its purpose. Arguing -- and...

Les Missionaires Francais au Tonkin et au Siam, [XVII.sup.e]--[XVIII.sup.e] Siecles. Analyse Comparee d'un Relatif Succes et d'un Total Echec.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Les Missionaires Francais au Tonkin et au Siam, [XVII.sup.e]--[XVIII.sup.e] Siecles. Analyse Comparee d'un Relatif Succes et d'un Total Echec. By ALAIN FOREST. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. 3 vols.: Pp. 302, Pp. 302, Pp. 495. Bibliography. Of...

Singapore and the Indonesian Revolution 1945-50: Recollections of Suryono Darusman.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Singapore and the Indonesian Revolution 1945-50: Recollections of Suryono Darusman. By SURYONO DARUSMAN. Introduction by MOCHTAR KUSMAATMADJA. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992. Pp. x, 73. This is a small addition to...

The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. 2 Volumes. Edited by NICHOLAS TARLING. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Vol. 1, Part 1: xx, 358; Vol. 1, Part 2: xx, 297; Vol. 2, Part 1: xvi, 345; Vol. 2, Part 2: xx, 360. Maps, Tables,...

Le Socialisme et le Paysan Cambodgien: La Politique Agricole de la Republique Populaire du Kampuchea et de l'Etat du Cambodge.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Le Socialisme et le Paysan Cambodgien: La Politique Agricole de la Republique Populaire du Kampuchea et de l'Etat du Cambodge. By VIVIANE FRINGS. Preface by DAVID CHANDLER. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1997. Pp. 189. Tables, Bibliography. ...

The Guritan of Radin Suane. A Study of the Besemah Oral Epic from South Sumatra.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Guritan of Radin Suane. A Study of the Besemah Oral Epic from South Sumatra. By WILLIAM A. COLLINS. Leiden: KITLV, 1998. Pp. vii, 548. Bibliography, Index. Due to O.L. Helfrich's articles (among others, "Bijdrage tot de letterkunde van...

Katalog Induk Naskah-Naskah Nusantara Jilid 5A. Jawa Barat: Koleksi Lima Lembaga (Union Catalog of Archipelagic Manuscripts, Volume 5A.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Katalog Induk Naskah-Naskah Nusantara Jilid 5A. Jawa Barat: Koleksi Lima Lembaga (Union Catalog of Archipelagic Manuscripts, Volume 5A. West Java: The Collection of Five Institutions). Compiled by EDI S. EKADJATI and UNDANG A. DARSA. Edited by...

Beneath the Volcano. Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Beneath the Volcano. Religion, Cosmology and Spirit Classification among the Nage of Eastern Indonesia. By GREGORY FORTH. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 369. Bibliography, Index. This volume is the first major account of the Nage, a...

Old World Places, New World Problems: Exploring Resource Management Issues in Eastern Indonesia.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Old World Places, New World Problems: Exploring Resource Management Issues in Eastern Indonesia. Edited by SANDRA PANNELL and FRANZ VON BENDABECKMANN. Canberra: Australian National University, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies,...

Die Meereskonigin des Sudens, Ratu Kidul. Geisterpolitik im Javanischen Alltag.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Die Meereskonigin des Sudens, Ratu Kidul. Geisterpolitik im Javanischen Alltag. By JUDITH SCHLEHE. [Berlin]: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1998. Pp. 306. Photographs, Maps, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography. In this book the author focuses on...

In Service and Servitude. Foreign Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project.(Review)
September 1, 2000... In Service and Servitude. Foreign Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project. By CHRISTINE B. N. CHIN. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 299. Tables, Bibliography, Index. In this challenging, complex, and...

Malaysia and the Original People. A Case Study of the Impact of Development on Indigenous Peoples.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Malaysia and the Original People. A Case Study of the Impact of Development on Indigenous Peoples. By ROBERT KNOX DENTAN, KIRK ENDICOTT, ALBERTO GOMES and M. B. HOOKER. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. Pp. xv, 175. References. As...

Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Sun Kyi and the National League for Democracy.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Sun Kyi and the National League for Democracy. By GUSTAAF HOUTMAN. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1999. ILCAA...

Eleven Mon Dhammasat Texts.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Eleven Mon Dhammasat Texts. Collected and Translated by NAI PAN HLA in Collaboration with RYUJI OKUDAIRA. Tokyo: The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco. The Toyo Bunko, 1992. Bibliotheca Codicum Asiaticorum 6. Pp. xxxvi, 620....

The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier. By YANG LI (JACKIE YANG), with an introduction by JOSEF SILVERSTEIN. Sydney: Bookpress, 1997. Pp. xvi, 149. Maps, Chart, Chronology, Bibliography, Index. Perhaps no area of Myanmar has...

Whispers at the Pagoda: Portraits of Modern Burma.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Whispers at the Pagoda: Portraits of Modern Burma. By JULIE SELL. Bangkok: Orchid Press, 1999. Pp. 150. Photographs. Julie Sell, an American author and former journalist, promises readers of her first book a look at a "little known country"...

Itneg (Tinggian) Justice and Conflict Resolution.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Itneg (Tinggian) Justice and Conflict Resolution. By FAY L. DUMAGAT. Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines: New Day, 1996. Pp. x, 202. Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index This work portrays how the processes of conflict resolution are...

Face of Empire: United States-Philippine Relations, 1898-1946.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Face of Empire: United States-Philippine Relations, 1898-1946. By FRANK HINDMAN GOLAY. Madison: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1998. Pp. xvi, 549. Bibliography, Index. This is a special book for two...

Inside Philippine Society. Interpretations of Everyday Life.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Inside Philippine Society. Interpretations of Everyday Life. By NIELS MULDER. Quezon City: New Day, 1997. Pp. xii, 154. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. This book emerged out of the author's "investigations" of the Philippines between...

The Sulu Zone. The World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Sulu Zone. The World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination. By JAMES F. WARREN. Comparative Asian Studies, no. 20. Amsterdam: VU University Press for Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam, 1998. Pp. 71. Map, Plates, Bibliography....

Heroic Images of Ming Loyalists: A Study of the Spirit Tablets of the Ghee Hun Kongsi Leaders in Singapore.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Heroic Images of Ming Loyalists: A Study of the Spirit Tablets of the Ghee Hun Kongsi Leaders in Singapore. By DAVID K.Y. CHNG. Singapore: Singapore Society of Asian Studies, 1999. Pp. vii, 157. Illustrations, Tables, Appendices, Bibliography,...

Innovations in Higher Education. Singapore at the Competitive Edge.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Innovations in Higher Education. Singapore at the Competitive Edge. By VISWANATHAN SELVARATNAM. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1994. Pp. ix, 115. Bibliography, Appendix, Annexes. This publication is about the success story of the small...

Wechselseitige Erhellung der Kulturen: Aufsatze zur Kultur und Literatur.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Wechselseitige Erhellung der Kulturen: Aufsatze zur Kultur und Literatur [Mutual Illumination of Cultures: Articles on Culture and Literature]. By CHETANA NAGAVAJARA. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999. Pp. 158. This is a collection of...

Ban Amphawan et Ban Han. Le Devenir de Duex Villages Rizicoles du Nord-Est Thailandais.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Ban Amphawan et Ban Han. Le Devenir de Duex Villages Rizicoles du Nord-Est Thailandais. Edited by BERNARD FORMOSO. Paris: Editions Rechereche sur les Civilisations, 1999. Pp. xiv, 754. Tables, Graphs, Maps, Illustrations, Figures, Bibliography,...

Karnsuksa Kham Nai Silacaruk Lak Thi 1 Khong Pho Khun Ramkhamhaeng Maharat.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Karnsuksa Kham Nai Silacaruk Lak Thi 1 Khong Pho Khun Ramkhamhaeng Maharat [Lexicological Study of the Ramkhamhaeng Inscription (Inscription I)]. By RATREE THANWARACHON. Bangkok: Thammasat University Press, 1998. Pp. 110. [In Thai] For...

The Chiang Mai Chronicle.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Chiang Mai Chronicle. Translated by DAVID WYATT and AROONRUT WICHIENKEEO. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 1995. Pp. xxxvi, 225. Maps, Tables, Index, Revised Index, Insert. David Wyatt and Aroonrut Wichienkeeo offer in this...

Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: A Historical Perspective.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Authority Relations and Economic Decision-Making in Vietnam: A Historical Perspective. By DANG PRONG and MELANIE BERESFO D. Copenhagen: NIAs Publications, 1998. Pp. 128. Bibliography, Index. Research on decision-making in non-democratic...

Peasants on the Move: Rural-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Peasants on the Move: Rural-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region. By LI TANA. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1996. [Occasional Paper Series No. 91]. Pp. 80. Appendix, Bibliography, Tables. This 1996 monograph on rural to...

Ho Chi Minh a Paris (1917-1923).(Review)
September 1, 2000... Ho Chi Minh a Paris (1917--1923). By THU TRANG-GASPARD. Preface by PHILIPPE DEVILLERS. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan, 1992. Pp. 271. Bibliography, Index. This book addresses an important topic, namely the period that the late Vietnamese...

The American War in Vietnam.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The American War in Vietnam. Edited by JAYNE WERNER and DAVID HUNT. Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1993, Pp. 124. This volume contains the American contributions to a conference held in Hanoi in 1988. Hosted by Vietnam's...

British and Communist Crises in Malaya: A Response to Anthony Short.(Malayan history)
September 1, 2000... What if Henry Gurney had not been killed? Didn't the Mentri Mentri Besar ask to exclude Chinese from a meeting? By such questions, Anthony Short evokes a counterfactual world in which Gurney survived and struggled. The implication: he had to...