Week 9/9 What is Southeast Asia?

Required Reading: Osborne 2000, Chapter 1

Recommended Reading:
Hong Lysa. 1996. "History" in Mohammed Halib & Tim Huxley (eds.) An Introduction to Southeast Asia Studies. (London I.B. Tauris), pp. 46-66
Duncan McCargo & Robert H. Taylor. 1996. "Politics" in Mohammed Halib & Tim Huxley (eds.) An Introduction to Southeast Asia Studies. (London I.B. Tauris), pp. 209-223

 

Week 9/16 "Classical" Empires

Required Reading: Osborne 2000, Chapter 2
Keith Taylor. 1999. "The Early Kingdoms," in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. One, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 137-186
R. von Heine-Geldern. 1956. Concepts of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press). Reprinted in 1993
David Chandler. 1990. "Reflections on Cambodian History," Cultural Survival Quarterly, XIV/3, pp. 16-19
Amitav Ghosh. 1993. "Dancing in Cambodia," Granta, XLIV, pp. 127-168
Charles Keyes. 1990. "The Legacy of Angkor," Cultural Survival Quarterly, XIV/3, pp. 56-59

Recommended Reading:
Keith Taylor. 1983. The Birth of Vietnam. (Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press)
Michael Aung-Thwin. 1985. The Origins of the Classical Burmese State: An Institutional History of the Kingdom of Pagan. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press)
I. Mabbet & D.P. Chandler. 1995. The Khmers. (New York: Oxford University Press)
O.W. Wolters. 1967. Early Indonesian Commerce: A Study of the Origins of Srivijaya. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)
O.W. Wolters. 1970. The Fall of Srivijaya in Malay History. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)
Eileen Blumenthal. 1990. "The Court Ballet: Cambodia's Loveliest Jewel," Cultural Survival Quarterly, XIV/3, pp. 35-38
Seth Mydans. 2000. "Khmer Dance in a Lesson for Khmer Rouge," New York Times, May 2nd
Toni Shapiro. 1993. "Dancing in Cambodia," SEAP Bulletin, (Spring), pp. 1-3

 

Week 9/23 "Traditional" Southeast Asian States

Required Reading: Osborne 2000, Chapters 3 & 4
Anthony Reid. 1988. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680: The Land Below the Winds. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), pp. 120-172
Mary Somers Heidhues. 2000. Southeast Asia: A Concise History. (London: Thames and Hudson), pp. 65-86
A.B. Woodside. 1971. Vietnam and the Chinese Model. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). pp. 7-25, 37-50

Recommended Reading:
William Henry Scott. 1994. Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society. (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press)
Leonard Y. Andaya. 1975. The Kingdom of Johor, 1641-1728. (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press)
A.C. Milner. 1982. Kerajaan: Malay Political Culture on the Eve of Colonial Rule. (Tucson, AZ: University of New Mexico Press)
Robert Taylor. 1988. The State in Burma. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press)
William Koenig. 1990. The Burmese Polity, 1752-1819. (Ann Arbor: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia)
O.W. Wolters. 1982. History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives. (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) (Reprinted by Cornell University Press in 1999)
Anthony Reid. 1988. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680: The Land Below the Winds. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press). Remainder

 

Week 9/30 Challenges from Below and Beyond

Required Reading:
Anthony Reid. 1993. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce - Vol. 2: Expansion and Crisis. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), pp. 1-61, 202-266
Mary Somers, 1993. "Chinese Organizations in West Borneo and Bangka: Kongsi and Hui" in David Ownby and Mary Somers Heidhues, eds. "Secret Societies" Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Modern South China and Southeast Asia. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), pp. 68-88
James Scott. 1998. "Freedom and Freehold: Space, People and State Simplification in Southeast Asia," in David Kelly and Anthony Reid, eds. Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 36-64

Recommended Reading:
Carl Trocki. 1997. "Chinese Pioneering in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia," in Anthony Reid, ed. The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900. (New York: St. Martin's Press), pp. 83-101
Anthony Reid. 1993. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce - Vol. 2: Expansion and Crisis. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), pp. 267-325
Li Tana. 1998. Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Southeast Asia Program)
Barbara Andaya & Yoneo Ishii. 1999. "Religious Developments in Southeast Asia, c. 1500-1800" in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. One, Part Two. (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 164-223

 

Week 10/7 Early Colonial Rule

Required Reading: Osborne 2000, Chapter 5
Carl Trocki. 1999. "Political Structures in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" in Nicholas Tarling, ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. Two, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 79-130
Nicholas Tarling. 1999. "The Establishment of Colonial Regimes" in Nicholas Tarling, ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. Two, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-71
J.S. Furnivall. 1991. The Fashioning of Leviation: The Beginnings of British Rule in Burma. (Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University) Originally published in The Journal of Burma Research Society, XXIX, 1: (April 1939). pp. 1-7, 19-29, 47-58, 116-127
Robert Taylor. 1995. "Disaster or Release? - Furnivall and the Bankruptcy of Burma," Modern Asian Studies, XXIX/1 (February), pp. 45-63

Recommended Reading:
Jan Breman. 1980. The Village of Java and the Early Colonial State. (Rotterdam: CASP, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Week 10/14 Colonial States Par Excellence

Required Reading:
Thongchai Winicahkul. 1994. Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press), pp. 1-16, 37-174
Jean Taylor. 1983. The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press), pp. xvii-xxii, 78-158

Recommended Reading:
Edwin Lee. 1991. The British as Rulers: Governing Multiracial Singapore, 1867-1914. (Singapore: Singapore University Press)
Robert B. Cribb. 1994. The Late Colonial State in Indonesia: Political and Economic Foundations of the Netherlands Indies, 1880-1942. (Leiden : KITLV Press)
U Thant Myint. 2001. The Making of Modern Burma. (New York: Cambridge University Press)

 

Week 10/21 Economic Transformations-- Commodities, Cooptation and Coercion

Required Reading: Osborne 2000, Chapters 6 & 7
Ian Brown. 1997. Economic Change in South-East Asia, c.1830-1980. (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press), p. 15-62
R. E. Elson, 1997. The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800-1990s. (London: Macmillan Press), pp. 35-79
Ann Laura Stoler. 1995.Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press), 14-92

Recommended Reading:
R.E. Elson. 1999. "International Commerce, the State and Society: Economic and Social Change," in Nicholas Tarling, ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. Two, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), 127-191
Peter Boomgaard. & Ian Brown. 2000. Weathering the Storm: The Economies of Southeast Asia in the 1930s Depression. (Singapore: ISEAS)
R.E. Elson. 1997. The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800-1990s. (London: Macmillan Press) Remainder
Anne Booth. 1998. The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities. (New York: St. Martin's Press)
Ann Laura Stoler. 1995.Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press), Remainder

 

Week 10/28 Resistance and Nationalism I: Philippines, Indonesia & Malaya

Required Reading: Osborne 2000, Chapter 8
Paul Kratoska and Ben Batson, 1999. "Nationalism and Modernist Reform," in Nicholas Tarling, ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. Two, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), 253-286, 296-299
Harry Benda & Ruth McVey (eds.) 1960. The Communist Uprisings of 1926-1927 in Indonesia: Key Documents. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), pp. xi-xxxi, 1-18, 36-50
Reynaldo Ileto, 1999. "Religion and Anti-colonial Movements," in Nicholas Tarling, ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. Two, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), 195-245

Read one of the following:
Takashi Shiraishi. 1990. An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912-1926. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), 1-90, 127-137, 248-342
Reynaldo C. Ileto. 1979. Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910. (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press), pp. 1-35, 141-319

Recommended Reading:
Benedict Anderson 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. (New York: Verso Books)
William Roff. 1967. The Origins of Malay Nationalism. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press)
José Rizal. 1997 (1886). Noli Me Tangere. Translated by Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin; edited by Raul L. Lo (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press)
Michael Williams. 1982. Sickle and Crescent: The Communist Revolt of 1926. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University)

 

Week 11/4 Resistance and Nationalism II: Vietnam, Burma & Thailand

Required Reading:
Paul Kratoska and Ben Batson, 1999. "Nationalism and Modernist Reform," in Nicholas Tarling, ed. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. Two, Part One. (New York: Cambridge University Press), 286-296
David Wyatt. 1984. Thailand: A Short History. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), Ch. 8
U Maung Maung. 1990. Burmese Nationalist Movements, 1940-1948. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press), Chapter 1

Read one of the following:
Tai, Hue-Tam Ho. 1992. Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), pp. 1-113, 171-263
Huynh Kim Khanh. 1982. Vietnamese Communism 1925-1945. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), pp. 19-54, 90-91, 99-112, 123-171, 179-205, 232-241

Recommended Reading:
David Marr. 1971. Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885-1925. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press)
Khin Yi. 1988. The Dobama Movement in Burma (1930-1938). (Ithaca, NY: SEAP, Cornell University Press)
U Maung Maung. 1980. From Sangha to Laity: Nationalist Movements of Burma, 1900-1942. (Canberra, ANU, South History Asia Section).

Required Reading: Osborne 2000 Chapter 9
Pramoedya Ananta Toer. 2000. The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir. (New York: Penguin Press), pp. 153-191

Recommended Reading:
Paul Kratoska. 1998. The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore: A Social and Economic History. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press)
Nicholas Tarling. 2001. The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia. (London: C. Hurst)
David Marr. 1994. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. (Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press)
Ann Laura Stoler. 1995.Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press), Chapter 4

 

Required Reading: Osborne 2000. Chapters 10 & 11
Benedict Anderson. 1983. "Old State, New Society: Indonesia's New Order in Comparative Perspective," Journal of Asian Studies, 42 (May), pp. 477-498
Clifford Geertz. 1963. "The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States," In Clifford Geertz (ed.) Old Societies and New States: The Quest for Modernity in Asia and Africa. (London, Collier-Macmillan)
Mary Callahan. 1998. "The Sinking Schooner: Murder and the State in Independent Burma, 1948-1958," in Carl E. Trocki (ed.) Gangsters, Democracy and the State in Southeast Asia, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), pp. 17-38

Read one of the following:
Anthony Reid. 1974. The Indonesian National Revolution. (Victoria: Longman) (Reprinted in 1986. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), pp. 1-103, 121-172
Robert Taylor. The State in Burma. (London: South Asia Books), pp. 217-290

Recommended Reading:
Benedict Anderson. 1972. Java in a Time of Revolution, 1944-1946: Occupation and Resistance. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)
Benedict Anderson. 1998. The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World. (New York: Verso Books)
Mochtar Lubis. 1969. "Mysticism in Indonesian Politics," in Man, State, and Society in Contemporary Southeast Asia (New York: Praeger), pp. 179-186
Robert Taylor. 1988. The State in Burma. (London: South Asia Books). Remainder
George Kahin. 1952. Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press)

 

Week 11/25 Revolution & Autonomy: Vietnam & Thailand

Required Reading:
William Duiker. 1981. The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press). pp. 7-24, 45-50, 94-106
David Wyatt. 1984. Thailand: A Short History. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press), Ch. 9
Peter Vandergeest. 1993. "Constructing Thailand: Regulation, Everyday Resistance, and Citizenship," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 35/1 (January), pp. 133-158
Guest Lecturer: Professor Fred Brown

Recommended Reading:
Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian. 1995. Thailand's Durable Premier: Phibun Through the Decades 1932-1957. (New York: Oxford University Press)
Thak Chaloemtiarana (ed.). 1978. Thai Politics: Extracts and Documents, 1932-1957. (Bangkok: Social Science Association of Thailand). pp. 243-260, 541-550

 

Week 12/2 Negotiations: Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines

Required Reading:
Benedict Anderson. 1988. "Cacique Democracy," New Left Review, 169 (May/June), pp. 3-31. (also in 1998, Chapter 9)
T.N.Harper 1999. The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)., Chapter 8
William Pomeroy. 1992. The Philippines: Colonialism, Collaboration, and Resistance. (New York: International Publishers), Chapter 9 & 10

Recommended Reading:
Ben Kerkvliet. 1977. The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press)
Theodore Friend. 1965. Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946. (New Haven: Yale University Press), Chapters 9 & 10
Ruby Paredes, (ed). 1988. Philippine Colonial Democracy. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies)

 

Recommended Country Studies:

Barbara Andaya, & L. Andaya. 2001. History of Malaysia. 2nd Edition. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press)

David Chandler. 1991. The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War and Revolution since 1945. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press)

David Chandler. 2000. A History of Cambodia. 3rd Edition. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press)

M.C. Ricklefs. 1993. A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1300. 2nd Edition, (Stanford: Stanford University Press)

G. Saunders. 1994. A History of Brunei. (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press)

David Joel Steinberg, 2000. The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place. 4th Edition (Boulder,CO: Westview Press)

Martin Stuart-Fox. 1997. A History of Laos. (New York: Cambridge University Press)

C.M. Turnbull. 1989. A History of Singapore. 1819-1988, 2nd Edition. (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press)