Authors:O. W. Wolters, Craig J. Reynolds,
Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia
Keywords: southeast, asia, studies, selected, essays
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0877277435
ISBN-13: 9780877277439

A collection of the classic essays of O.W. Wolters, reflecting his radiant and meticulous lifelong study of pre-modern Southeast Asia, its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters’s professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and, later, as a scholar.

Author: Franklin E. Huffman
Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia
Keywords: reader, beginning, writing, system, cambodian
Number of Pages: 365
Published: 1992-07-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0877275203
ISBN-13: 9780877275206

This volume consists of four parts: (1) The Cambodian Writing System, a formal description of the relationship between the writing system and the phonology of the language; (2) Programmed Reading Exercises, a series of highly structured reading drills to train the student to read all regular Cambodian word shapes; (3) Beginning Cambodian Reader, fifty reading selections, graded in length and difficulty, ranging from short, simple narratives to essays on various aspects of Cambodian culture; and (4) Cambodian-English Glossary, containing some 2,000 words.

Author: Franklin E. Huffman
Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia
Keywords: reader, camodian, intermediate
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 1988-07-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 087727522X
ISBN-13: 9780877275220

Author: Robert Heine-Gildern
Publisher: Cornell Univ Southeast Asia
Keywords: data, paper, series, asia, southeast, state, kingship, conceptions
Number of Pages: 23
Published: 1970-06-01
List price: $9.00
ISBN-10: 087727018X
ISBN-13: 9780877270188

A brief and concise study of the ideological foundations of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia (specifically those where Hindu-Buddhist civilization prevailed), this study is of theoretical as well as practical interest, since it offers a background to the political thought on the nature of rule. Ideas about government have undergone much change since the religious basis that gave both a foundation and a justification for kingship. Yet, as the author claims, no nation can completely break away from its cultural tradition without disastrous results. Thus, a study of kingship and rule

Author: Ruth McVey
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
Keywords: southeast, asia, studies, capitalists, asian
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1993-01-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0877277087
ISBN-13: 9780877277088

Capitalism seems to have exploded onto the Southeast Asian scene (generating intense excitement on Wall Street and elsewhere), yet traditional Western views of Southeast Asia as a society fueled by agrarian interests has not significantly changed. The essays contained in this collection explore the origins and roles of Southeast Asian business groups, especially as they developed during the 1970s and 1980s. Essays include "Marcos, His Cronies, and the Philippines’ Failure to Develop" by Gary Hawes and "The Chinese Business Elite of Malaysia" by Heng Pek Koon. This far-reaching study of b

Authors:Adriano Di Sancta Thecla, Olga Dror, Lionel M. Jense
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
Keywords: among, sects, treatise, small, chinese, tonkinese, asia, southeast, studies, century, eighteenth, tunkinenses, sinenses, apud, sectis, study, religion, vietnam, north, china, opusculum
Number of Pages: 359
Published: 2002-10
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 087727732X
ISBN-13: 9780877277323

This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars, including those of history, anthropology, and religious studies. Contains full facsimile edition of original 1750 Latin text.

Author: Thak CHALOEMTIARANA
Publisher: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications
Keywords: studies, southeast, asia, revised, paternalism, politics, despotic, thailand
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2006-12-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0877277427
ISBN-13: 9780877277422

In 1958, Marshal Sarit Thanarat became prime minister of Thailand following a bloodless coup. This book offers a comprehensive study of Sarit’s paternalistic, militaristic regime, which laid the foundations for Thailand’s support of the US military campaign in Southeast Asia. The analysis documents the ways in which Sarit shaped modern Thai politics, in part by rationalizing a symbiotic relationship between his own office and the Thai monarchy.