Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Happy Friday to all! This week, we highlight something a little different – a forum covering a roundtable discussion at the Association for Asian Studies’ Boston meeting in 2023.

This week’s , “Paving The Road Ahead: Women in (post) colonial Southeast Asia” by Barbara Watson Andaya, Christina Firpo, Chiara Formichi, Chie Ikeya, Guo-Quan Seng and Taomo Zhou, is centred on the position of women in competing visions of modernity in Southeast Asia. The discussion branches out from this core theme and ties it with various social and political forces. Lastly, the forum’s contributors also take the opportunity to reflect on their trajectory in the study of women’s history.

To read the article, click on the link here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/paving-the-road-ahead-women-in-post-colonial-southeast-asia/4B603746784ACA07BB152616E7296E09

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JSEAS is proud to announce that Volume 55 Issue 2 has been electronically published and is now accessible via Cambridge University Press!

We kick the week off with this volume, which examines modern and contemporary Southeast Asia from a socio-political perspective. The themes of memory, movement, gender and religion are explored, making for an interesting, diverse repertoire.

Volume 55 closes with a series of book reviews on recent contributions and publications in the field. We appreciate all authors and reviewers for your support of the journal.

Read the articles here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/latest-issue

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Happy Monday from JSEAS!
We’re happy to announce that select articles have been electronically published and now available via FirstView.

Kicking this week off with : Mayhem in May: A Social History of the 1957 Asian Flu Epidemic in the Colony of Singapore by Liam Hoo

Given how our world has been rocked by the global COVID-19 pandemic over the last few years, Hoo’s article is a timely discussion of the 1957 Asian Flu outbreak in the Colony of Singapore. Consulting various underutilised primary sources, Hoo constructs a compelling socio-historical narrative that seeks to understand Singapore’s response to the outbreak and offer new insights into Singapore’s state-society relations.

To read the article, click on the link here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/mayhem-in-may-a-social-history-of-the-1957-asian-flu-epidemic-in-the-colony-of-singapore/F835F3443652E7BF14A942B82198A226

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A Happy New Year from JSEAS!
We’re happy to announce that select articles are now electronically published and available via FirstView.

Bringing you this week’s highlight: Remittance Letters from Manila: The Gendered, Individual and Emotional World of Chinese Diaspora by Huifen Shen

In this article, Shen uses qiaopi, remittance letters sent by overseas Chinese to their families, as her primary source. In particular, she examines the qiaopi Huang Kaiwu, a textile merchant in the Philippines, supporter of China’s modernist reforms and a leader of the Chinese community in Manila, sent to his wife between 1903 to 1916 to gain some insight into the changing family values and gender norms in the years leading up to the Chinese revolution and republic.

To find out more, click on the link here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/remittance-letters-from-manila-the-gendered-individual-and-emotional-world-of-the-chinese-diaspora/3A6D514EE3775531602ADD7727A355D4

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Ending the week with one final , Chinese Soldiers in Laos: Covert Revolutionary Support during the Second Indochina War

“It is an irrefutable fact that China’s involvement in Laos was an important factor in the Pathet Lao’s military victory.” – Cui Feng

It is only in recent years did China’s clandestine campaign in Laos came to light. China provided military support to the Pathet Lao for its own geopolitical security, It is these very same Chinese soldiers who fought in Laos that became the main advocates of the declassification of China’s secret war in Laos. To learn more about China’s involvement in the Second Indochina War, click on the link below:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/chinese-soldiers-in-laos-covert-revolutionary-support-during-the-second-indochina-war/A8F24DADC43F3E8AC21AD5963551D8DC

Bringing you another ,
Transnationalizing Malay Cinema – P. Ramlee in Hong Kong

“Luminously cast in film history narratives, P. Ramlee is frequently touted as the most outstanding film star in Malay and Malaysian cinema, bar none.” - Yeo Min Hui

To learn more about the well-known P. Ramlee's little-known attempt at transnationalizing Malay cinema in the early 1960s – from the star’s earliest direct contact with Hong Kong cinema, his plans to make Malay films in Hong Kong, the controversy that ensued, and the outcomes of these grand plans – click on the link below.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/transnationalising-malay-cinema-p-ramlee-in-hong-kong/68B9F75A5BCC7CD6337B21EB1520ED8A

Kicking the week off with an :
A Burning Issue: Spirits of land and capital in Thailand’s agricultural haze crisis

“In thinking about a cosmologically-loaded epistemology that operates on the same literal ground as more local spiritual forces, we may be able to move past the almost taken-for-granted binaries of centre and periphery to see the tense co-existence of multiple forms of spirits in the fields of Northern Thailand.” - Julia Cassaniti

In her article, Cassaniti demonstrates a correlation between contract farming and a decrease in agricultural spirit rituals. Using the haze crisis in a small community in Northern Thailand as a lens, she examines the cosmopolitical ecology of the region as well as the hidden forces of large agricultural businesses. To read about it, click on the link below.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/burning-issue-spirits-of-land-and-capital-in-thailands-agricultural-haze-crisis/18D8368D77E375374EF899697B849072

Happy Friday! We are proud to announce that our first issue of Volume 55 has been electronically published. Volume 55 Issue 1 is now accessible via Cambridge University Press FirstView!

We bring you 7 new articles that engage primarily with modern Southeast Asia, ranging from the colonial era to contemporary times. Of particular interest is mainland Southeast Asia. In this issue, colonial legacies are a key theme – from the immediate impacts of colonial rule in Southeast Asia to the later trans-regional reverberations. Examining notions of nationalism, revolution and state-building, this issue sees several meaningful contributions to current scholarship.

Volume 55 closes with a series of book reviews on recent contributions and publications in the field. We appreciate all authors and reviewers for your support of the journal.

Read the articles here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies

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Important insights raised on the many genres of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia with the Henry Luce Foundation.

In partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation, a supporter of Asian Studies for over 80 years, ARI National University of Singapore recently co-hosted a series of roundtables as part of the newly launched Southeast Asian Studies Collaboratory.

The Collaboratory, described as ‘a centre without walls’, brings together regional-based scholars, research centres, current/former Luce grantees, practitioners, and Luce representatives to discuss how future initiatives by the Luce Foundation can help facilitate scholarly exchange, networking, training, knowledge production and capacity-building opportunities for stakeholders in the broader region.

Colleagues from NUS Asian Studies NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS Law and NUS Press, together with representatives from the East Asian Institute (Thailand), SEASREP Foundation (Philippines), School of Foreign Languages (China) and the Institute for ASEAN Studies (South Korea) discussed the state of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia and prospects for future development.

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Drug Harms Amongst Youth in Shan State, Myanmar: Community Responses and Increased Vulnerabilities by Sai Aung Hla and Sai Kham Phu

The authors dissect the issue of increasing drug use among the youth of Shan State, exploring its history and causal factors, as well as evaluating the desperate measures families have adopted in the context of the ineffective state response. Finally, they reflect on how this problem could pose challenges in the wider context of the government and other states, as well as suggest some solutions.

To read the article, click on the link here:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/article/drug-harms-amongst-youth-in-shan-state-myanmar-community-responses-and-increased-vulnerabilities/1F3DEFB9080476DE316DB278959AC28F

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: Buddhist Kingship and Governance in the Dali Kingdom, 1140s - 1200 by Christian Daniels

Moving up north this week, Daniels explores the Dali Kingdom of Yunnan. He provides a new lens to view the relationship between the Duan monarchs and the Gao Ministers of State, urging the viewers to see the relationship as collaboration rather than conflict. He then delves into the politico-religious ideology of the then-monarch, Duan Zhi Xing and how this ideology was promulgated.

To read the article, click on the link here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-southeast-asian-studies/issue/1E3EB21AF2FE37894A59584BFF69EA6C

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