A commitment to new and innovative work on South East Asia.
Editor: Dr Rachel Harrison,
Dept of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia, SOAS, University
Of London
Other Sites Of Interest:
AAS Association of Asian Studies
ASEASUK Association of South-East
Asian Studies
Cornell University Publications: Southeast Asia Program
Royal Asiatic Society
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Published three times per year by IP Publishing on behalf of SOAS
(increasing to quarterly in 2010), South East
Asia Research includes papers on all aspects of South East Asia within
the disciplines of archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history,
language and literature, law, music, political science, social anthropology
and religious studies. Papers are based on original research or field
work.
SOAS is the leading centre in this field in Europe and one of the
most prestigious centres of South East Asian Studies in the world.
Please send papers to Dr Rachel Harrison, Dept of the
Languages and Cultures of South East Asia, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street,
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK. E-mail:
rh6(at)soas.ac.uk.
South East Asia Research includes articles on all aspects
of South East Asia, from history, archaeology, language and culture
to economics, politics and law. Articles should be based on original
research or fieldwork. Unless otherwise indicated, it is understood
that articles submitted for publication are original contributions and
have not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
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Papers may be submitted as e-mail attachments in Word or in hard
copy. The text should be double-spaced and, for hard copy submissions,
an electronic copy in Word should also be supplied on a disk or CD.
The title page should contain the full names and addresses of the
authors, their professional status or affiliation and the mailing address
to which correspondence should be sent. As this page will not be forwarded
to referees, the title of the article (without author names) should
be repeated on the first page of the text.
An abstract should be provided, comprising 80-100 words. Between
3 and 6 keywords should appear below the abstract, highlighting the
main topics of the paper. The text should be organized under appropriate
cross-headings (not numbered paragraphs).
A citation should preferably be by footnote, but the Harvard system
may be used. The following style should be applied to references:
- Books:Peter Zinoman (2001), The Colonial Bastille: A History
of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940, University of California
Press, Berkeley, CA.
- Journal articles: Martin van Bruinessen (2002), 'Genealogies
of Islamic radicalism in post-Suharto Indonesia', South East
Asia Research, Vol 10, No 2, pp 117-154.
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first (Zinoman, Peter) and textual citation should take the form '(Zinoman,
1990)'.
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the use of 'supra': for example, 'Zinoman, supra note
9, at p 90'.
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the end of the text: they will be placed as close as possible to the
first textual reference to them.
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Editor: Dr Rachel Harrison, Dept of the Languages and Cultures of
South East Asia, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H
0XG, UK. E-mail:
rh6(at)soas.ac.uk.
Editorial Advisory Board
- Professor Peter Boomgaard
KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Professor Anne Booth
SOAS, University of London, UK
- Professor Chua Beng Huat
National University of Singapore
- Professor Penny Edwards,
University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Professor Michael Herzfeld
Harvard University, USA
- Dr Peter Jackson
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Professor Benedict J. Kerkvliet
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Professor V.T. King
University of Leeds, UK
- Dr Gerry van Klinken
KITLV, The Netherlands
- Professor E. Ulrich Kratz
SOAS, University of London, UK
- Dr Tamara Loos,
Cornell University, USA
- Professor Bambang Purwanto
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- Professor Vicente L. Rafael
University of Washington, USA
- Dr Konstantinos Retsikas
SOAS, University of London, UK
- Dr J.D. Rigg
University of Durham, UK
- Professor Henk Schulte Nordholt
KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Professor John T. Sidel
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Professor Thongchai Winichakul
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
- Professor Peter Zinoman
University of California at Berkeley, USA
We are pleased to announce that, due to its growing international
reputation and high submission rate, South East Asia Research will
be increasing frequency to four issues per year with effect from
2010.
Volume 17, Number 1, March 2009
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Title:
‘My neighbour’s blooming flower garden’: the image of the British in
modern Malay writing
Author(s): Jan van der Putten
Abstract: This article discusses works of four Malay authors who
deal with Malaya’s colonial past through parody, and expressions of
admiration and disillusion when portraying British characters or describing
travel to Britain. It seems that only a few Malay authors have tried
to ‘write off’ their colonial past in the very obvious way of depicting
and subverting colonial masters and systems. This may be due to the
use of the Malay language, which provides the authors with an ‘easy
way out’ of tackling the perhaps sensitive issue head-on – a similar
suggestion has been made in relation to Indonesia.
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Title:
Turning the Pahang colonial page: narratives of definition in three
phases
Author(s): Muhammad Haji Salleh
Abstract: This article compares the colonial and post-colonial narratives
of writers of Pahang. It begins with Hugh Clifford who, in Saleh: A
Prince of Malaya (1926), demeans the English-educated Malay hero who
resists colonial domination. On the next narrative page, in the early
post-colonial work The Prince of Gunung Tahan (1934) by Ishak Haji Muhammad,
the colonial plot is reversed when British explorers are deceived and
a Malay hero ‘conquers’ an English woman. Finally, in Jungle of Hope
(1986), Keris Mas refutes the British view that Malays were lazy, without
ambition and disorganized as his characters struggle to cultivate new
land and explore their identity and life’s meaning.
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Title:
‘Winning hearts and minds’: representations of Malays and their milieu
in the films of British Malaya
Author(s): Hassan Abd. Muthalib
Abstract: A comparison of Malay films produced in the 1950s in the
Chinese-owned, Singapore-based Malay film industry with those produced
in the Kuala Lumpur-based, government-supported Malayan Film Unit (MFU)
exposes many similarities in how Malays were represented on film in
the lead-up to Malayan independence in 1957. While the social realist
films produced in Singapore urged ordinary Malays to accept changes
that were occurring in society and the films produced by the MFU reinforced
government propaganda and helped develop new heroes for the nation,
both traditions portrayed Malays as being very comfortable and prosperous
in an idyllic rural environment.
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Title:
Decolonization
and the nation in Malay film, 1955–1965
Author(s): Timothy P. Barnard
Abstract: This article uses films made between 1955 and 1965 in the
Chinese-owned, Malay- dominated, Singapore-based film industry as texts
to analyse the attitudes of Malay activists in the film industry towards
merdeka, or independence, in Malaya. It is argued that these activists
were rarely interested in the process of political decolonization in
the nation-state. Instead, the films made during this period used traditional
local texts to promote Malay attitudes towards modernity, individualism
and ethnic pride. This era of film-making ended in the mid-1960s as
many of their hopes surrounding the possibilities of this new era did
not come to fruition.
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Title:
British performances
of Java, 1811-1822
Author(s): Matthew Isaac Cohen
Abstract: This article looks at the reception of the British interregnum
of Java (1811–1816) in the theatre through a comparison of Jane Scott’s
pantomime The Poison Tree (1811), George Colman the Younger’s melodrama
The Law of Java (1822) and the case of ‘Princess Caraboo’, a Devonshire
serving girl who posed as a princess from ‘Javasu’ in Bristol in 1817
and later performed the story of her career as an impostor on stage
in America. The author examines these productions in their historical
contexts, as well as later stagings, including the film Princess Caraboo
(1994) starring Phoebe Cates, and the 2006 Royal Holloway production
of The Law of Java. He suggests that not only did stage interpretations
of Java offer a ground for imperial fantasy and virtual travel, but
they also presented opportunities for the articulation of a range of
contemporary issues related to class, gender, human rights and modes
of governance.
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