{"title":"Economic Cold War: Chinese economic aid to Vietnam, 1954–1975","authors":"Lu Hong","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2125337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2125337","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In both the first and second Indochina wars, Vietnam had a wide range of support from socialist countries, especially from its neighbour China, which was called the ‘elder brother’. From the 1950s, China assisted Vietnam in its resistance against the United States and its allies. By comparing changes in Chinese grants and loans to key moments in the anti-American war in Vietnam, this article argues that Beijing’s assistance was tied to US actions in South East Asia. The view from Vietnamese archival materials shows shifts in Chinese support that coincide with Beijing’s strategic calculation in dealing with the US in the global conflict. Although both Vietnam and China were in the socialist camp and had a shared ideology, there were profound contradictions in Chinese assistance to Hanoi. The article reveals that while supporting Vietnam, China pursued its own benefits, leading to Vietnam’s suspicion about China’s real intentions in Indochina. This perspective can explain why the war between China and Vietnam happened in 1979, soon after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45823275","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":"Film is dangerous: ten years of censorship in Thailand’s cinema, 2010–2020","authors":"Sudarat Musikawong, Malinee Khumsupa","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2129429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2129429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The passing of the Cinema Act of 1930 marked the enforcement of the first official cinematic censorship measures in Thailand. However, it was constitutive censorship combined with official and expansive censorship practices enforced by the Film Censor Board that created an environment of self-censorship which is most dangerous for freedom of speech in cinema. The justification for banning films was that they constituted a threat to the nation – national security, unity, culture, religious values or good morality. In Thailand, the paramount framing of censorship is nationalism. Even in contemporary times, these nationalist formations of censorship are put into effect in the 2008 National Film and Video Act. This article analyses the expansive and subjective interpretation of national threat, especially the term of ‘morality’, which is not exclusive to film production, but extends into curatorial exhibitions and audiences’ access to cinema, an art form which is constrained by the censor/rating boards.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44908209","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 Filipino migration experience","authors":"Sharmila Parmanand","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2083823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2083823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43143779","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":"Enunciating ambiguity: Thailand’s phi and the epistemological decolonization of Thai studies","authors":"Benjamin Baumann","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2064761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2064761","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Why are ostensibly paradoxical statements so common when villagers in Thailand’s lower Northeast are asked to recount their personal encounters with the nonhumans known as phi in local language games? Inspired by the anthropology of ontology and drawing on Wittgenstein’s linguistic phenomenology, I set out to explore the epistemic appropriateness of the paradox in ethnographic accounts of villagers’ narratives about these encounters. In an attempt to epistemologically decolonize the debate on Thailand’s phi, I use interlocutors’ ostensibly paradoxical narratives about their encounters to reflect upon the multiple worlds that intersect in villagers’ everyday lives. While an analytic reconstruction of the various language games this multiplicity produces and their partly irreconcilable ontological registers may help to dissolve the paradox of villagers’ accounts analytically, I ask whether the scholarly inclination to identify and resolve paradoxes through the acknowledgment of epistemological multiplicity reproduces the hegemony of naturalism. An outline of animist collectivity and its identification as the social ontology of everyday village life finally suggests that the ostensible paradoxes that encounters with phi produce are not only what makes them socially meaningful, but also enunciations of the concept phi itself.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48036499","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 phantom world of Digul: policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926–1941","authors":"V. Houben","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2081306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2081306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44709703","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":"Imperial borderlands: maps and territory-building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885–1914)","authors":"Eric Tagliacozzo","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2022.2066859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2022.2066859","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46691484","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":"Tản Đà (1889–1939) and the making of new literature in colonial Vietnam","authors":"Cam Thi Doan","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2065215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2065215","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In addressing the emergence of the modern writer in the north of Vietnam at the dawn of the twentieth century, this article offers a reading of the itinerary of Tản Đà (1889–1939), a Confucian scholar who became one of the founders of the new literature movement. Caught midway between the end of the literature-as-sacred era and the colonial period where it became a consumer product, without having completed his studies in Chinese or in French, he embraced quốc ngữ (romanized script) as an opportunity to innovate and discovered his vocation for the pen. To what extent can his work be considered an indictment of the mandarin recruitment system and a plea in favour of the emancipation of literature in relation to political power? How did Tản Đà articulate his own destiny with historical events to create the fable of the modern writer? In his case, what does ‘modern’ mean? How and in what way does his commitment allow us to consider the literature of his generation in terms of transition rather than hiatus?","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48947210","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":"Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic cleansing: the dark side of ‘Myanmar way’ democracy","authors":"I. Zahed, B. Jenkins","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2086062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2086062","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After more than half a century of military rule in Myanmar, a democratic transition started in 2011. General Thein Sein established a civilian government from 2011 to 2016, and then in 2016 Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of the ‘father of the nation’, came to power. But Suu Kyi’s government had to share power with the military, as the constitution provided them vital privileges. Subsequently, following brutal actions against the Rohingya ethnoreligious group during Suu Kyi’s tenure, the international community accused her government of doing nothing to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide. This article examines why Aung San Suu Kyi, as leader of a fledgling democracy, failed to protect the Rohingya from ethnic cleansing. The arguments centre on the countrywide anti-Rohingya sentiment, Myanmar’s unstable democracy, Suu Kyi’s election process, the power imbalance between military and civilian governments and Suu Kyi’s policy tilt towards the military, and how these factors contributed to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Michael Mann’s theory on the ‘dark side’ of democracy, here applied to Myanmar’s democracy under Aung San Suu Kyi, examines how it connects with repression, ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Rohingya minority.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42296433","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":"Thai politics in translation: monarchy, democracy and the supra-constitution","authors":"Tomas Larsson","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2066858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2066858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42851004","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":"On creoles and technologies of nation-making: Nick Joaquin as a theorist of nationalism","authors":"Lisandro E. Claudio","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2067003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2067003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article compares the historical work of Filipino fictionist Nick Joaquin with Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. It contends that Joaquin developed ideas comparable to Anderson’s roughly the same time. Joaquin, like Anderson, traces the origins of modern nationalism to creoles (Europeans born in the colonies) and views nationalism as a product of technological change. In comparing Joaquin’s work with one of the twentieth century’s most important historical works, this article makes a case for Joaquin as an important theorist of nationalism.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48835068","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}