The Museum of Modern Art’s International Programme in Southeast Asia (1957–83): The Exhibitions Southeast Asians Appropriated

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Kathleen Ditzig
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
International Programme

Assistance Programs for Refugee Women

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia George
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Secondary Migration ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
The U.S

Women from Southeast Asia have participated in one of the most dramatic influxes of immigrants to arrive in the U.S. Between 1975 and 1983, 283,000 refugees settled in California. By March, 1986, population growth and secondary migration increased the total number of Southeast Asians in California to 350,000.

scholarly journals The spectrum of beta-thalassemia genes in China and Southeast Asia

Blood ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 964-966
Author(s):  
HH Jr Kazazian ◽  
CE Dowling ◽  
PG Waber ◽  
S Huang ◽  
WH Lo
Keyword(s):  
Prenatal Diagnosis ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Point Mutations ◽  
Beta Thalassemia ◽  
Globin Genes ◽  
Beta Globin ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutant Genes

To make possible prenatal diagnosis of beta-thalassemia in China and Southeast Asia by direct detection of mutant beta-globin genes, we have determined the spectrum of mutations producing the disorder in this region of the world. Seventy-eight beta-thalassemia genes from Chinese and Southeast Asians were randomly obtained, and the relevant mutation was characterized in 76 (98%) of them. Seven different point mutations were found among the 78 genes studied. Of these seven beta-thalassemia alleles, two constitute 62%, and two others account for 29% of the total. Since only four alleles make up 91% of the mutant genes, prenatal diagnosis of beta-thalassemia in China and Southeast Asia should be feasible by simplified techniques for direct detection of point mutations.

Warfare in Premodern Southeast Asia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Charney
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Indigenous Literature ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
The 19Th Century

Warfare in premodern Southeast Asia, roughly that fought up until the end of the 19th century, was shaped by the environment across the region. Maritime trade connections brought the introduction and circulation of external models of warfare that would help to frame the way warfare in the region was depicted in some of the indigenous literature and art (including the influence of the Indian epics on shadow puppet theater). Firearms played a more direct role in determining the development of warfare in the region over the course of the early modern period. As a result of better firearms, the elephant declined in battlefield importance and was increasingly replaced by cavalry. In the 18th century, Southeast Asians fielded some of their best-organized armies, and in the early 19th century there was a temporary revival of naval strength in parts of the region, particularly in Vietnam. Nevertheless, the introduction of the steamship and better European military technology from the 1820s ushered in the decline of the remaining Southeast Asian armies by the end of the 19th century. Although indigenous states would attempt to modernize and catch up with Europe militarily, all of Southeast Asia, save for Thailand, fell under European control.

Cultural construction of illness, festival and music in Southeast Asia

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-415
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Mental Images ◽  
Rich Region ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Health Performance

Southeast Asia remains a rich region for students and scholars interested in understanding the place of culture within a variety of human activities. Three recent studies under review, Acts of integration, Bridges to the ancestors and Listening to an earlier Java, particularly demonstrate the ways in which culture plays a pertinent role in the health, performance and music of contemporary Southeast Asians. Although Acts of integration focuses on mental images, Bridges to the ancestors on a festival, and Listening to an earlier Java on musical sound, the studies shared the recognition of the interplay between two opposite yet interactive forces: sacred and secular; inner and outer; order and chaos; male and female. They argue that mental normality, aesthetics and music represent, shape and are shaped by culture characterised by such dichotomous categories. Amidst other studies which try to deconstruct culture as more fluid and hybrid, however, these works serve as a reminder of the place of culture as an underlying persistent force in shaping the views and lives of many Southeast Asian peoples.

Historicising “Modernity” in Southeast Asia

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Watson Andaya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Western Influence ◽  
Economic Control

AbstractThe term “modernity” implies Western influence and the weakening of beliefs and practices associated with traditional culture. Although it is increasingly used in reference to contemporary Southeast Asia because of the region's current economic growth, there seems little room for historical perspectives. This paper takes up the idea that if we broaden our understanding of modernity in Southeast Asia so that it is not restricted to recent history, we may see evidence of a modern spirit in earlier times. Although being modern became increasingly linked to Europe, Southeast Asians never rejected their own past. However the eclectic nature of “modernity” in Southeast Asia was undermined as “modern” ideas and practices came increasingly from Europe, to be inevitably associated with Europe's political and economic control.

Ambiguous Faces of the Canton Trade

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Van Dyke
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Good Percentage ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Because most historians of the Canton Trade have focused on Europeans and Americans, private Asian traders, as well as Armenians, Turks, and Jews, have been marginalized and left out of the conversation. As a result, the picture that has been presented, of Europeans and Americans dominating the private trade, is much distorted. It is very likely that a good percentage of the private ships were financed by persons from India, Southeast Asia and/or overseas Chinese. Given that the Chinese authorities opened the trade to non-Chinese regardless of nationality (except Japanese and Russians), and guaranteed them access to the market in Canton, this should not be surprising.In fact, many of the ships that called at Canton were actually commissioned by Muslims, Hindus, Parsees, Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and Southeast Asians under cover of a European flag. A Jewish trader living in Baghdad might travel on a ship captained by an Englishman. A ship and her cargo might both be owned by Parsees or Armenians but fly a British flag. A Portuguese vessel based in Macau or a Chinese junk based in Guangzhou might actually be commissioned by the Dutch. But because of the scarcity of surviving records from these individuals and the tendency to identify vessels by their flags, the British and Americans have appeared as the dominant private traders at Canton in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Further studies will undoubtedly provide a fuller picture of their importance to the Canton Trade.

The Responsibility to Provide in Southeast Asia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
See Seng Tan
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Responsible Conduct ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Southeast Asian Countries

Are the sovereign states of Southeast Asia responsible actors that care and provide for their own as well as their neighbours? Do they act hospitably towards each other? This book examines an embryonic ‘ethos’ of intraregional responsibility among Southeast Asian countries. Unevenly distributed and more apparent in some states than others, the ethic has been expressed as acts of hospitality shown to victims of earthquakes, typhoons and other natural disasters, and increasingly in conflict situations. This sovereign responsibility to provide, or the ‘R2Provide’ as this book calls it, has manifested as forms of assistance – mediated through ASEAN but also bilaterally – given to neighbours coping with economic difficulties, problems of militancy and terrorism and the like. But unlike the global norm of the responsibility to protect (R2P), the R2Provide is noninterventionist in practice. More indirectly, it has also materialised as a mutual reliance by regional states on pacific and increasingly rules-based approaches to manage and, where feasible, resolve their disputes with one another. The contention is not that Southeast Asians have never, whether by commission or omission, behaved irresponsibly or unethically – the region’s belated and deficient response to the Rohingya refugee crisis is but one of many tragic examples – but that they are misrepresented as void of responsible conduct. By way of Emmanuel Levinas’ concept of ‘responsibility for the other’, the book provides an ethical-theoretical explanation for the R2Provide and sovereign responsibility in Southeast Asia.

Waiting for the real dragon

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-239
Author(s):  
Christian Collet
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
The West ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Strong Linkage ◽  
Change Tolerance ◽  
And Gender

Southeast Asia is the world’s most diverse and rapidly modernizing region, yet one where modernization theory is challenged (e.g. Bell et al., 1995) and where allegiance to authoritarian regimes appears trenchant (Chang et al., 2013; Dalton and Shin, 2014). Using the AsiaBarometer, I consider the influence of modernization and allegiance on potential democratization by analyzing an established indicator of assertive change: tolerance of homosexuality (Inglehart and Welzel, 2005: Ch. 5, forthcoming). The findings reveal differences between Southeast Asians and the West and between citizens in the Sinic and Indic subregions. Exposure to foreign cultures produces a significant increase in tolerance among Sinicized citizens, but has no meaningful effect on those in Indic states. Patriotism and trust in civil society also boost tolerance among Sinicized citizens, but reduce the probability of tolerance among citizens in Indic states. The strong linkage between sexual tolerance and gender equality driven by social factors and secularism in the West does not manifest in Southeast Asia. While the findings suggest potential for change in the Sinicized region, they underscore the different effects that globalization and allegiance may have on citizens living under Southeast Asia’s variety of regimes.

scholarly journals Introduction: Transitions from late prehistory to early historic periods in mainland Southeast Asia, c. early to mid-first millennium CE

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Murphy ◽  
Miriam T. Stark
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
World System ◽  
Selective Adaptation ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
External Events

Studies of early Southeast Asia focus largely on its ‘classical states’, when rulers and their entourages from Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (Thailand), Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar), Champa and Dai Viet (Vietnam) clashed, conquered, and intermarried one another over an approximately six-century-long quest for legitimacy and political control. Scholarship on Southeast Asia has long held that such transformations were largely a response to outside intervention and external events, or at least that these occurred in interaction with a broader world system in which Southeast Asians played key roles. As research gathered pace on the prehistory of the region over the past five decades or so, it has become increasingly clear that indigenous Southeast Asian cultures grew in sophistication and complexity over the Iron Age in particular. This has led archaeologists to propose much greater agency in regard to the selective adaptation of incoming Indic beliefs and practices than was previously assumed under early scholarship of the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century.

“Another Andalusia”: Images of Colonial Southeast Asia in Arabic Newspapers

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Laffan
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Southeast Asians ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
Modern Arabic

This essay discusses changing images of island Southeast Asia and its Muslim populations in the modern Arabic press during the late colonial period. It commences by surveying the general informational letters sent to the largely pro-Ottoman papers of Beirut and Cairo during the 1890s by increasingly vocal local Arabs who were seeking to redress their situation as second-class colonial citizens. Thereafter, it considers the role played by Malays, Javanese, and other Southeast Asians in the globalizing Arabic media. In doing so, it demonstrates that although many Southeast Asians bought into and actively participated in the often Arabocentric program for Islamic reform in their homelands, they were by no means in agreement that their situations were any worse than those of other Muslims or that they could all be treated under one ethnic rubric.

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