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: Daniel S. Lev; Ruth McVey
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program
Keywords: asia, southeast, studies, sosea, indonesia, making
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0877277192
ISBN-13: 9780877277194

This collection examines the genesis and evolution of the modern Indonesian nation-state. Essays range from a study of the nation’s imaginative conception to a study of the Suharto government’s political and financial infrastructure. Contributing authors include Ruth McVey, Takashi Shiraishi, Fred Bunnell, and Benedict R. O’G Anderson (whose fascinatingly original contribution is entitled Language, Fantasy, Revolution: Java 1900-1950). The works study such varied topics as the independence leader Sjahrir, Indonesian Communism, nationalist movements and the Indonesian revoluti

Authors:Alastair Morrison,  Hedda Morriso,
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publicatio
Keywords: studies, southeast, asia, official, expatriate, land, sarawak, recollections, fair
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1993-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0877277125
ISBN-13: 9780877277125

A personalized account by an expatriate of British colonial disengagement from Sarawak. Alternately light-hearted and serious, it is both personal narrative and history. Morrison explains the daily bureaucracy of colonial life from an inside perspective (he often criticizes the British bureaucracy which he is a member of) and details the changes that occurred during his years in Sarawak: the growth and expansion of Communist movements (and the reaction of British officials to this growth), the emerging modernization of the various districts Morrison visited, and the formation of Malaysia (and

Author: Li Tana
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publicatio
Keywords: centuries, studies, southeast, asia, eighteenth, seventeenth, cochinchina, southern, vietnam, nguyen
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0877277222
ISBN-13: 9780877277224

A historical reassessment of southern Vietnam and its distinct culture. The author illuminates the resourceful qualities of the -Da’ng Trong pioneers, develops a meticulous analysis of the Nguyen trade and taxation systems, and, in the process, redefines the chief cause of the Tay Son rebellion. The author argues that two Vietnamese states with distinctive characteristics existed from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. The southern part, under the rule of the Nguyen dynasty, represented a land of possibility and expansion to northerners. Li Tana’s study focuses upon the socio

Author: John U. Wolff; Ma. Theresa C. Centano; Der-Hwa U.
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publicatio
Keywords: volume, instruction, pilipino
Number of Pages: 362
Published: 1991-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0877275254
ISBN-13: 9780877275251

A completely new edition of Wolff’s classic text. This SEAP Language text has accompanying audio tapes, available separately from: The Language Resource Center, Tape Sales, Room G11, Noyes Lodge, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. Tel:(607)255-5542

Author: Craig J. Reynold
Publisher: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publicatio
Keywords: thai, studies, southeast, asia, feudalism, face, radical, discourse, real
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 1987-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0877277028
ISBN-13: 9780877277026

Using as a basis Jit Poumisak’s The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today (1957), Reynolds both writes Thai history and critiques the historiography relevant to that history. He is markedly concerned with epistemology and historiography (who writes history and what form it should take, questions of revision and rewriting). Exploring the problems of imperialism, feudalism, and the nature of power, Reynolds argues that comparisons between European and Thai premodern social formations can be useful in characterizing Thai social formation (especially the present one) as historical, contingent, a