Let me begin with a poem. I composed it in hiding at the house of one of my aunts right after the 6 October 1976 Massacre at Thammasat University in Bangkok, in which the radical […]
To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated its OwnRobert Francis GarciaQuezon City / Anvil Press / 2001 Editor’s Note: To Suffer Thy Comrades describes in detail Bobby Garcia’s life as a New People’s Army […]
Historians in increasing numbers have enthusiastically embraced information technology as a new tool of their trade. It is not unlike a pencil and eraser, a notepad, a typewriter, a calculator, a tape recorder, a camera, […]
An Introduction to the Rekidai Hoan The Ryukyu Kingdom (present-day Okinawa) was located at the intersection of the South China Sea and East China Sea facing South China and Kyushu. Long before the Ryukyu Kingdom […]
A published translation from Japanese by the Editorial Office of Rekidai Hoan, Okinawa Archives, Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education, March 2003.) Origin of the Diplomatic Documents of the Ryukyu Kingdom A 444-Year Record (1414-1867) The […]
China has a long tradition of studying its southern neighbors in the region often called the “Nanyang” (南洋) or Southern Ocean. Writings on Southeast Asia by Chinese envoys and traders can be traced back to […]
This is a select list of Japanese publications on communism in East and Southeast Asia. Doing a keyword search of “共産主義” (communism) in the Kyoto University Library Online Data Base, I initially found too many […]
Three academic institutions in Japan have important holdings of books, journals, magazines, and other printed literature on the Philippines: Sophia University hosts the collection of Filipino historian Mauro Garcia. Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian […]
Two important local research centers provide Southeast Asian historians with important field access, foundations for further research, well-documented local knowledge, and well-informed social networks – the Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies in Kuala Lumpur and […]
Rather than review Rusli Amran’s five books on West Sumatran history, this essay will serve as a brief introduction to Minangkabauist historical debates among so-called amateur historians in Indonesia. (All titles are given in English […]
Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National PastPatricia M. PelleyDurham and London / Duke University Press / 2002 In December 1953, the Central Committee of the Indochinese Communist Party formally established the Research Committee. This […]
Confucianism in VietnamHồ Chí Minh City / Vietnam National University and Hồ Chí Minh City Publishing House / 2002 This interesting collection of papers is the fruit of a series of three international conferences held […]
Diem’s Final Failure: Prelude to America’s War in VietnamPhilip E. CattonLawrence, Kansas / University Press of Kansas / 2003 Ngô Đình Diệm was a dreamer. As ruler of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, Diệm […]
Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan IslandFilomeno V. Aguilar, Jr.Honolulu / University of Hawai’i Press / 1998 This book, based on the author’s doctoral thesis at Cornell […]
Armando J. Malay: A Guardian of Memory(The Life and Times of a Filipino Journalist and Activist)Marites N. Sison and Yvonne T. ChuaPasig City / Anvil Publishing / 2002 This biography of a most distinguished Filipino […]
The Glass PalaceAmitav GhoshNew York / Random House / 2002 (paper)London / HarperCollins UK / 2000 (cloth) Booming sounds break into the lives of people at a food stall in Mandalay. Such jarring noise was […]
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