Southeast Asia Collection Blog

Wolters, O. W. Early southeast asia : selected essays / O.W. Wolters ; edited by Craig J. Reynolds. Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University c2008.
This is an important work, though not for reasons one might suspect. It is a collection of scholarly essays on early Southeast Asian history and culture, all of [...]

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Di cư và chuyển đổi lối sống. English. [Migration and change in the way of life : an anthropological introduction to the Vietnamese community in Laos] / Nguyen Duy Thieu, editor. Hanoi : Thế Giới Publishers, 2008.
This is a collection of ethnographic essays on the Vietnamese population in Laos. It is the fruit of a [...]

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Nguyen, Nathalie Huynh Chau. Memory is another country : women of the Vietnamese diaspora. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2009.
One of the most well documented events of the American war was the mass exodus of South Vietnamese (as well as political dissidents from the north) following the fall of Saigon in 1975. Drawing largely from [...]

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Phan Chau Trinh and his political writings / translated and edited by Vinh Sinh. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.
Phan Châu Trinh (1872-1926) is often credited for being the first and most articulate champion of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam. Like his contemporary Phan Bôi Châu, Phan Châu Trinh was a staunch Vietnamese nationalist [...]

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Heather, David. Vietnam posters : the David Heather collection / David Heather, Sherry Buchanan. Munich ; New York, N.Y. : Prestel, c2009.
Several years ago David Heather, a British businessman, curator and voracious collector of Vietnamese and North Korean art, stumbled upon an enormous collection of Vietnamese propaganda posters in a small, run-of-the-mill shop in the [...]

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Tingley, Nancy, 1948-. Arts of ancient Viet Nam : from river plain to open sea / Nancy Tingley ; with essays by Andreas Reinecke … [et al.].Houston : Asia Society and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2009.
This well-written and beautifully illustrated volume represents the culmination [...]

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Michaud, Jean, 1957-. ‘Incidental’ ethnographers : French Catholic missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan frontier, 1880-1930. Leiden, Netherland ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2007.
This is a rather interesting book. In this monograph, Michaud, an anthropologist by training, examines colonial missionary ethnography written around the turn of the 20th century by French Catholic missionaries posted in upland northern [...]

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The Middle Mekong River Basin : studies in Tai history and culture / edited by Constance M. Wilson. DeKalb, Ill. : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, c2009.
The essays in this collection, two of which (those written by John Hartman and Constance Wilson) were originally presented as papers at the International Convention of [...]

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M̄ækhōng-Sālawin : phūkhon, ph̄ưnnam, læ Suwannaphūm kh̨ōng ʻUsākhanē = Mekong-Salween : peoples, waters and the golden land of Suvarnabhumi/Southeast Asia / [bannāthikān, Chānwit Kasētsiri]. Samut Prākān : Mūnnithi Tōyōtā Prathēt Thai ; Krung Thēp : Mūnnithi Khrōngkān Tamrā Sangkhommasāt læ Manutsayasāt, 2551 [2008].
The two volumes pictured here cover a wide range of topics related to [...]

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Smith, R. B. (Ralph Bernard). Communist Indochina / R.B. Smith ; edited by Beryl Williams. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
This title, a companion volume to the late R. B. Smith’s Pre-Communist Indochina, which was introduced in a previous post, is a collection of previously published and unpublished articles and conference papers on the [...]

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