Southeast Asia Collection Blog

Tai lands and Thailand : community and state in Southeast Asia / edited by Andrew Walker. Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University Of Hawai’i Press, c2009.
This edited volume, featuring essays by Andrew Walker, Craig J. Reynolds, and Holly High, among other notable scholars, offers a new approach to the study [...]

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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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According to the New York Times and the Telegraph, an American citizen was taken into custody early Wednesday morning in Yangon, Myanmar, for “breaking into” the heavily guarded compound of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The American, identified as John William Yeattaw, apparently swam across Inya Lake and entered the home of Aung San [...]

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Sao Sanda. The moon princess : memories of the Shan States. Bangkok : River Books, 2008.
The Moon Princess is a family memoir, the tale of the Prince of Yawngwe, Sao Shwe Thaike, the first president of the newly independent Union of Burma, his family, and the history of the Shan States from the colonial era [...]

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Sai Aung Tun, U. History of the Shan State : from its origins to 1962. Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009.
This heavy tome of 655 pages is one of the most comprehensive historical accounts of the Shan people ever written. The book traces the political and cultural history of the Shan people from their [...]

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Forgotten captives in Japanese-occupied Asia / edited by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
The wartime Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia has received a good measure of scholarly attention, particularly in the West. Yet many questions remain unanswered. The present volume is an attempt to address some of these questions.
One [...]

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Charney, Michael W. A History of Modern Burma. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Michael W. Charney, a graduate of Ohio University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and now a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of London, is the author of Southeast Asian Warfare, 1300-1900. (Leiden; Boston: Brill, [...]

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The Center for Ethnic Studies and Development (CESD), in cooperation with the Social Research Institute of Chiang Mai University, and the Institute of Research for Development (IRD, France), recently unveiled a new database for researchers with a special interest in ethnic minorities in mainland Southeast Asia. The database contains well over 12,000 newspaper articles, roughly [...]

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The Tripartite Core Group, made up of representatives of the Government of the Union of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and the United Nations, together with the assistance of the international humanitarian and development community, have completed the first systematic review of ongoing humanitarian relief and recovery efforts undertaken in Myanmar since the [...]

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Living in a globalized world: ethnic minorities in the Greater Mekong Subregion / edited by Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha and He Shaoying. Chiang Mai [Thailand]: Mekong Press, 2008.
Much ink has been spilt on the question of globalization. Yet its impact on the ethnic minority populations of the Greater Mekong Subregion of Southeast Asia is a [...]

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