Abstract
Southeast Asia is not a unit in the geographical, historical, religious or ethnic senses. Although almost all of the region (except for a small portion of Myanmar) falls within the tropics, the Southeast Asian realm is clearly divided into two segments: mainland Southeast Asia comprising Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and insular Southeast Asia comprising the present states of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and the Philippines. Geographical proximity to India and China and the region’s location on the maritime trade route between those two great and large countries have had a profound impact on the region’s culture.
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Reginald Le May, The Culture of South-East Asia (London: Allen and Unwin, 1954), p.9.
Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam, A Political History (New York: Preager, 1968), p.68.
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Sardesai, D.R. (1996). Cultural Heritage of a Diverse Region. In: Dutt, A.K. (eds) Southeast Asia: A Ten Nation Region. The GeoJournal Library, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1748-4_4
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