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7190 results in South-East Asian history

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  • 1 - Southeast Asia in the Pacific War

  • Gregg Huff, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    World War II and Southeast Asia
    Published online:
    05 October 2020
    Print publication:
    22 October 2020, pp 22-47

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 deals with two main topics. One is to assess the reasons for the outbreak of war in the Pacific. Japanese economic motivations for war as an investment in building a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere are given particular weight. Second, the chapter analyzes Japan’s economic plans for Southeast Asia at the outset of occupation, how these changed as the war turned against Japan, and the implications for Southeast Asia of Japanese military reversals and heavy merchant shipping losses. Emphasis is placed on Japanese economic weakness compared to American and it is concluded that Japan had no prospect of winning a Pacific War and only limited chances of securing a favourable negotiated peace.

World War II and Southeast Asia
  • Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation
  • Gregg Huff
  • Published online:
    05 October 2020
    Print publication:
    22 October 2020
  • From December 1941, Japan, as part of its plan to build an East Asian empire and secure oil supplies essential for war in the Pacific, swiftly took control of Southeast Asia. Japanese occupation had a devastating economic impact on the region. Japan imposed country and later regional autarky on Southeast Asia, dictated that the region finance its own occupation, and sent almost no consumer goods. GDP fell by half everywhere in Southeast Asia except Thailand. Famine and forced labour accounted for most of the 4.4 million Southeast Asian civilian deaths under Japanese occupation. In this ground-breaking new study, Gregg Huff provides the first comprehensive account of the economies and societies of Southeast Asia during the 1941-1945 Japanese occupation. Drawing on materials from 25 archives over three continents, his economic, social and historical analysis presents a new understanding of Southeast Asian history and development before, during and after the Pacific War.

  • Nostalgia and nationalism: Facebook ‘archives’ and the constitution of Thai photographic histories

  • Clare Veal
  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 November 2020, pp. 372-396
    Print publication:
    September 2020

  • This article considers the implications of the popularisation of Facebook groups that share historical photographs for the writing of Thai national and photographic histories. Rather than dismissing these groups as lacking in historical rigour, I propose that the nostalgic impetus behind their formation indicates an important way through which we may rethink the continued relevance of Thailand's history to its current sociopolitical situation. Drawing from Craig J. Reynolds’ (1992) argument regarding the interrelationship between the ‘plot of Thai history’ and the narrative historical form, I consider how this plot might be challenged or displaced through a movement from text to image, and from the material to the digital.

  • SEA volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 December 2020, pp. b1-b2
    Print publication:
    September 2020
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  • Editorial Foreword

  • Maitrii Aung-Thwin
  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2020
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    26 November 2020, pp. 317-320
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    September 2020
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  • Rewriting Ibsen's Nora: Fiction and the New Woman in Thailand (1920s–1940s)

  • Thosaeng Chaochuti
  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 November 2020, pp. 397-413
    Print publication:
    September 2020

  • Previous research has shown that the New Woman was a global phenomenon and that fiction was crucial to the emergence of this New Woman. One work that was of particular importance was Henrik Ibsen's A doll's house. This article examines the rise of the New Woman in early twentieth century Thailand. It traces the campaigns for gender equality that Thai women waged in local newspapers and magazines. It also examines the reactions towards these campaigns by three major authors, all of whom turned to Ibsen's play in their engagement with the New Woman phenomenon.

  • SEA volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    17 December 2020, pp. f1-f5
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    September 2020
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  • Neither survival nor accumulation: Marketisation and rural livelihood diversification in northern Vietnam

  • Lam Minh Chau
  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / September 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 November 2020, pp. 435-456
    Print publication:
    September 2020

  • Building on ethnographic fieldwork in a northern Vietnamese village, this article explores how rural households have negotiated the opportunities and uncertainties of marketisation (Đổi Mới). I focus on the surprising ways local households have handled the state's push to diversify livelihoods and adopt commercial home-based sidelines: by means of being đa gi năng, a local term that means ‘keeping many livelihood options and never putting all eggs in one basket’. In pursuit of đa gi năng, local households have actively adopted home-based production even when they were doing well with paddy farming and faced no subsistence crisis. However, they have evaded what state officials want most: specialising in a single home-production enterprise in rational maximising ways to accumulate transformational wealth. The idea of đa gi năng calls into question two contrasting universal approaches to rural households’ motivations for livelihood diversification: either a desperate search for survival by passive victims of market forces, or a quest for wealth accumulation by rational maximisers without careful judgement of potential risks to one's family.

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