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It is difficult to come to grips with the specific issues and problems of Southeast Asia and its sub-regions, since most of the literature on the area remains too descriptive in nature. This applies not only to general works and handbooks such as those of Harrison, Butwell, Hall, Cady, Tate, von der Mehden but also to the books that claim to go much further like, for instance, ‘In Search of Southeast Asia’.1 Many other books, while organized around a particular theme, do not offer more than a mixture of description and general theory and then often in a very broad, universal or Third World context. In this way, little light is shed on typicalSoutheast Asian characteristics in the areas of: religion (e.g. Landon and von der Mehden), Modernization (e.g. Eisenstadt a.o.), ‘national integration’ (e.g. Deutsch, Emerson), economic development/growth/green revolution (e.g. Fryer, Pauker, Myint etc.), the military (e.g. Hoadly, Lissak).2
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Harrison, Southeast Asia; Butwell, Southeast Asia Today; Hall, A History; Cady, Southeast Asia; Tate, Making; von der Mehden, Southeast Asia. See also: Lasker, Peoples of Southeast Asia; Mills, Southeast Asia; Dobby, Southeast Asia; Hunter, Southeast Asia; In Search of Southeast Asia, ed. Steinberg.
Landon, Southeast Asia; von der Mehden, Religion and Nationalism; Modernization, ed. H.D. Evers; Southeast Asia, ed. J.T. McAlistair; Stability and Conflict in Southeast Asia; Shaplen, Time out of Hand; Nationalism, Revolution and Evolution; Pauker, Transition; Myint, Southeast Asia’s Economy; Fryer, Emerging Southeast Asia. (See also: Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia, ed. Shinichi Ichimura; Southeast Asia: Nature, Society and Development); Lissak, Military Roles; Hoadly, Military.
Fryer, Emerging Southeast Asia, pp. 20 ff.
Evers, ‘Group Conflict’, in: Modernization, pp. 108–131; von der Mehden, Southeast Asia, pp. 115 ff.
Scott, Moral Economy; Pelzer, Pioneer Settlement; Rosen, Peasant Socialism.
Thompson and Adloff, Left Wing in Southeast; Thompson, Labor Problems; Marxism in Southeast Asia; Brimmell, Communism in Southeast Asia; Labour in Southeast Asia.
Bastin and Benda, A History, pp. 166 ff.
Id.,pp.85ff.
The extension of irrigation work only had one effect: continuing stagnation. Geertz, Agricultural Involution, p. 151; Fryer, Emerging Southeast Asia, p. 148.
Id., pp. 23 ff; Myint, Southeast Asia’s Economy, pp. 30, 31, 33, 61,129.
Purcal, Rice Economy, pp. 1 ff; Thailand, pp. 404405; Neher, Dynamics; Potter, Thai Peasant Social Structure; Political Economy of Independent Malaya, pp. 169–173; Fryer, Emerging Southeast Asia, pp. 225, 246 ff, 256–269. In the Central Plain where class differentiation is more advanced, particularly near Bangkok, absentee landlordism is rampant. Fryer, Id., p. 145. In the Cheng Mai Valley there is a relatively wealthy landlord class (Potter, Thai Peasant Social Structure, pp. 51 ff). but without a genuine capitalist orientation: the traditional exploitation of tenants on small plots (including usury practices) is the general practice. See also: Ingram, Economic Change, p. 66. An autonomous factor in the development of social contradictions is constituted by the enormous population increase: in 1960 c. 26,000,000, in 1975 ca. 43,000,000. Thailand, p. 31.
Chinese (pre-industrial) capital was established in Thailand long before the (rather slow) penetration of Western capital.
For the labour movement and struggle: AS, Oct. 1977, p. 15; ‘Thailand: Special Issue’, JCA, 8, 1, pp. 63 ff, 121 ff. For the student movement: Darling, ‘Student Protest’, in: PA, 47,1, Spring 1974. dp. 5–19. See also: Thai Information Bulletin.
Ponchaud, Cambodia Annee Zero; Southeast Asian Affairs, 1977, pp. 93–106; Jackson, ‘Cambodia’, in: AS, XVIII, Jan. 1978, pp. 76–90; Boudarel/Brocheux/Hemery, ‘Cambodge’, in: Le Monde Diplomatique, Février 1979, pp. 3–4.
Lissak, Military Roles; Jacobs, Modernization, pp. 320–321 and passim; Riggs, Thailand.
Bastin and Benda,. A History, p. 88.
See Ch. 4, n. 16ff. For the anti-imperialistic period in Indonesia: Soekarno, Guided Indonesia, pp. 89–101. For the post-coup period: the ‘Surveys of Recent Developments’, in: BIES. For liiailand: Paauw and Fei, Transition, Ch. 8; Economic Development, pp. 133 ff. For Burma: Trager and Scully, ‘Third Congress’, in: AS, XVII, Sept. 1977, pp. 830–838; Id., ‘Burma’, in: AS, XVIII, 2, Feb. 1978, pp. 142–152.
Bastin and Benda, A History, pp. 88–89,167 ff.
Only ‘halfheartedly’ the successive South Vietnamese regimes tried to break the stranglehold of large Chinese merchants on the economy’. Turley, ‘Urban Transformation in South Vietnam’, in: PA, 49, 4, Winter 1976–77, p. 616.
Bastin and Benda, A History, p. 78.
Fryer, Southeast Asia, p. 23; Paauw and Fei, Transition, p. 164; Myint, Southeast Asia’s Economy, pp. 32–33, 61.
Bastin and Benda, A History, p. 173.
in this longtime frontier zone subsistence agriculture prevailed; traditional landlordism or Asiatic structures were both absent. In Search of Southeast Asia, pp. 74 ff; Ginsberg and Roberts, Malaya, pp. 218 ff; Fisher, Southeast Asia, pp. 590 ff, 604 ff, 636–638.
Bastin and Benda, A History, pp. 191–193.
Id., pp. 191–192; Moise, ‘Land Reform’, in: PA, 49,1, Spring 1976, pp. 70–92; Dumont, ‘Problemes agricoles’, in: Tradition, pp. 395412; Fisher, Southeast Asia, pp. 559 ff; Pike, ‘North Vietnam’, in: AS, XII, 1, Jan. 1972, pp. 20–22; L’édification d’une économie nationale indépendente, pp. 163–164; Hoang Van Chi, From Colonialism, pp. 163 ff; Trang Tran Nhu, Transformation of the Peasantry, pp. 218 ff.
Bastin and Benda, A History, pp. 197 ff.
See Chapter 7 and following.
Bastin and Benda,,4 ifatory, p. 80.
Id., p. 196.
Id.,p.201.
Id., p. 196.
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Tichelman, F. (1980). Southeast Asia: The Conclusions Reached by Bastin and Benda. In: The Social Evolution of Indonesia. Studies in Social History, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8896-5_7
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