{"title":"Eunuchs in Vietnam: what’s missing?","authors":"Katherine A. Bowie","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In comparison with other historical courts of South East Asia, in which eunuchs had minimal presence, Vietnamese courts were outliers in the large numbers, in-country origins, administrative importance and long duration of their use of eunuchs, lasting into the early twentieth century. Given their importance in Vietnamese courts, it is remarkable that eunuchs have received little explicit attention. For scholars who are not specialists of Vietnam, it would be easy to overlook the important historical role eunuchs have played. Divided into four sections, this essay provides an overview of the literature on eunuchs in the Vietnamese court. The first section describes the importance of eunuchs within the palace, in national administration and in international relations. The second section discusses the sourcing of eunuchs, noting possible differences in the Vietnamese and Chinese patterns with regard to age, social status and hermaphrodism. The third section reviews the evidence of historical shifts over time. The final section suggests that the more deliberate inclusion of eunuchs presents additional avenues by which to better understand the political logics and dynamics of Vietnamese history.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"409 - 425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48693764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first Vietnam War: violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the South, 1945-1956","authors":"Bruce Lockhart","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2155398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2155398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"506 - 507"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44162197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local social movements and local democracy: tin and gold mining in Indonesia","authors":"A. Savirani, I. Wardhani","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2148553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2148553","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the strategies used by local social movements to respond to increased extractive industry activities in decentralized Indonesia since 2001. Using tin mining in Bangka Belitung (Sumatra) and gold mining in Banyuwangi (East Java) as case studies, this article explores how local democracy, including political decentralization that gives power to local government and societal organizations, has contributed to local social movements’ strategies to advocate the interest of local people, and what type of outcomes they have reached. This article argues that local democracy has indeed created spaces for citizens and social movements to express their grievances. However, results have been mixed, in part due to power relations within local governments, social movements’ chosen strategies and the features (history and scale of involved capital) of mined commodities.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"489 - 505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47494472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore: reading J. G. Farrell's The Singapore Grip","authors":"P. Maurya, Nagendra Kumar","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2140069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2140069","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The brothel business flourished parallel to industrial and commercial growth in colonial Singapore during the early twentieth century. This article explores the British Empire's role in proliferating prostitution in colonial Singapore as depicted in James Gordon Farrell's historical novel, The Singapore Grip (1978). It argues, as the novel describes, that the British administration in Singapore played a vital role in promoting prostitution for its ulterior economic and political motives. Fuelled by a fallacious notion of racial supremacy, the British authorities in colonial Singapore compromised the lives – social, economic and physical – of girls and women inducted into prostitution. The article concludes with a section on the role and contribution of the prostitutes in the making and sustaining of Singapore, which has been overlooked in traditional, patriarchal historiography.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"472 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44018801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic hedging: a case study of nineteenth-century Siam","authors":"Gustavo Mendiolaza, Ben Rich, A. Muraviev","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2138777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2138777","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A longstanding view in realist studies of international relations has been that within the context of great power competition, lesser states must choose between balancing or bandwagoning. However, a third option is also available: strategic hedging, which provides a means of explaining foreign policy strategies that do not traditionally fit within this standard binary. This article seeks to explain the Kingdom of Siam’s (modern-day Thailand) foreign policy during the nineteenth century when growing competition between European powers, namely France and Britain, manifested itself in aggressive and competitive intervention into South East Asia. Siam presents a unique case study, as it is one of only two states in Asia to resist direct colonization during that period. This article explores how, through a flexible foreign policy of strategic hedging in which complementary and mutually counteracting actions were undertaken within a wider context of great power competition, Siam maintained independence as a sovereign state.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"434 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42720421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting to local markets and political changes: Chinese businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia","authors":"Lee Kean Yew, J. D. Tan","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2145989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2145989","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The economic prosperity of Asian tigers is largely dependent upon the role of ethnic Chinese in forming an economic elite across the countries. The emerging countries of Asia are a diverse group, but Malaysia and Indonesia have a shared history that results in a familial bond between these two countries, with embedded similarities in language, culture and religion. Both countries have experienced an important structural shift in Chinese Malaysian and Chinese Indonesian businesses. Studies have also shown that these ethnic businesses function successfully in their home countries, resulting in inter-ethnic business partnerships between Chinese and Bumiputera or Pribumi, to the extent that collaboration is seen as one of the strategies for business survival. This has led to changing perceptions of ethnic ties. However, scholars have often neglected the relationship between ethnic businesses and political changes with regard to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia and Indonesia across generations. To shed some light on the issues and challenges of ethnic Chinese businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia, especially SMEs, we investigate cultural assimilation and adaption process to demonstrate how an ethnic enterprise functions following the emergence of political changes across generations in terms of its targeted market and the types of goods and services it provides.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"452 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46314894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding eunuchs in imperial Vietnam: questions and sources","authors":"B. Davis","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Written as a response to Katherine Bowie's essay (‘Eunuchs in Vietnam: What's Missing?’), this piece presents some introductory research on the role of eunuchs in the court culture and the everyday administration of imperial Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). In addition to explaining the role of eunuchs in Vietnamese historiography, this essay critically evaluates claims about eunuchs in nineteenth-century Vietnam through Vietnamese sources, including secondary research and primary sources.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"426 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49565146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirit possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: worlds ever more enchanted","authors":"W. Keeler","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2022.2114710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2022.2114710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"514 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41824109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unsettled frontiers: market formation in the Cambodia–Vietnam Borderlands","authors":"S. Rumsby","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2116159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2116159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"397 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48455839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single mothers and the state’s embrace: reproductive agency in Vietnam","authors":"M. Hakkarainen","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2115649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2115649","url":null,"abstract":"zenith of its influence and the heightened anxiety over the upcoming succession crisis, the anti-democratic urban intellectual middle-class emerged, not once but twice, to call for military coups to overthrow democratically elected governments in 2006 and again in 2014. Then, less than a year following the passing of Bhumibol, the incident described in the first page of Amnesia’s introduction came to pass,","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"406 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43231438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}