scholarly journals Psychiatry and mental health in Malaysia

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 14-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Parameshvara Deva
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
East Asia ◽  
First Century ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Tropical Country ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
East West

Malaysia is a tropical country in the heart of South East Asia, at the crossroads of the ancient east–west sea trade routes. Although independent from British colonial rule only in 1957, it has a recorded history dating back to at least the first century CE, when the region was already the source of valuable mineral and forest produce that found markets in China, India and further west.

Ancient south east Asian maritime trade.

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
James F. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
East Asian ◽  
First Century ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The South ◽  
Trade Network

Abstract This chapter entails fourteen subchapters that detail the course of the South East Asian maritime trade. The subsections are about the beginning of Indonesian trade, the origin of trade between India and South East Asia, maritime trade of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, the Indianization of Indonesia, China's slow entry into the South East Asia trade network, Java becomes the nucleus of Indonesia, the Chinese Pilgrims - Chroniclers of the ancient spice and silk routes, early trade in the outer reaches of Indonesia, the Golden Peninsula, the first great trading empire: Funan, South East Asian trading spheres in the early first century CE, European connections, the two ways to Rome, and finally, the first direct contact between Rome and China.

Education and Mental Health in South East Asia

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-62
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Priestley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia

scholarly journals Four Colonies and a Kingdom: A Comparison of Fiscal, Trade and Exchange Rate Policies in South East Asia in the 1930s

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Booth
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
World Economy ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Crucial Difference ◽  
Trade And Exchange ◽  
The Impact

In the latter part of the 1990s, several of the major economies in South East Asia underwent one of the worst economic crises in living memory. It is thus not surprising that economic historians with an interest in the region are re-examining the experience of the 1930s. One crucial difference between the crisis of the late 1990s and that of the early 1930s is that the latter was preceded, and in large measure caused, by problems in the world economy. When the industrial world fell into a severe economic depression in the early 1930s, most parts of Asia were affected, mainly through falling export receipts which in turn affected colonial budgets. A second difference was that most parts of South East Asia in the 1930s were still under colonial rule, and had little autonomy in framing or implementing economic policy. Only Thailand remained nominally independent, but even there the influence of foreign, especially British, economic advisers was considerable. Given the very different economic interests which the colonial powers (Dutch, French, American and British) had in their South East Asian colonies, and given the widely differing nature of the economic links between colony and metropole, it was to be expected that the impact of the 1930s slump, and the policy responses which it provoked, would vary. This indeed turned out to be the case.

scholarly journals COVID-19 mental health prevalence and its risk factors in South East Asia

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vimala Balakrishnan ◽  
Kee Seong Ng ◽  
Wandeep Kaur ◽  
Zhen Lek Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia

scholarly journals The origin of Oxalis corniculata L.

PeerJ ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. e6384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin J. Groom ◽  
Jan Van der Straeten ◽  
Ivan Hoste
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Unknown Origin ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
The 19Th Century

Background Oxalis corniculata L. is a weed with a world-wide distribution and unknown origin. Though it belongs to a section of the genus from South America, the evidence that this species came from there is weak. Methods We reviewed the evidence for the origin of O. corniculata using herbarium specimens, historic literature and archaeobotanical research. We also summarized ethnobotanical literature to understand where this species is most used by humans as a medicine. Results Despite numerous claims that it is native to Europe there is no strong evidence that O. corniculata occurred in Europe before the 15th century. Nor is there reliable evidence that it occurred in North or South America before the 19th century. However, there is direct archaeobotanical evidence of it occurring in south–east Asia at least 5,000 years ago. There is also evidence from historic literature and archaeobotany that it reached Polynesia before European expeditions explored these islands. Examination of the traditional use of O. corniculata demonstrates that is most widely used as a medicine in south–east Asia, which, while circumstantial, also points to a long association with human culture in this area. Discussion The most likely origin for O. corniculata is south–east Asia. This is consistent with a largely circum-Pacific distribution of section Corniculatae of Oxalis. Nevertheless, it is likely that O. corniculata spread to Europe and perhaps Polynesia before the advent of the modern era through trade routes at that time.

Elphinstone and the Afghan-Pathan Elision

2019 ◽  
pp. 299-318
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Leake
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Order ◽  
First Century ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Regional Politics ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Great Game

Mountstuart Elphinstone's writings on Afghanistan have had lingering effects throughout the twentieth (and into the twenty-first) century. Even with the end of British colonial rule in 1947, western interest in Afghanistan, and particularly the Pathan borderlands spread across southern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, has remained. Both British and American observers have continued to value this region for its strategic locale, even as both have wrestled with the "tribal" nature of the local Pathan population and its longstanding autonomy from neighboring states. While Cold War competition replaced the rivalry of the Great Game, colonial-era understandings of Afghanistan and local and regional politics continued to color western policies towards this region. This chapter reflects on the legacies of Elphinstone's work for western policymakers, particularly in the aftermath of partition and in the emergent Cold War. Using the works of Olaf Caroe and James W. Spain, it considers how Elphinstone's ideas and rhetoric concerning Afghan politics and tribal society and organization have resounded in western conceptualizations of Afghanistan, and neighboring Pakistan. It compares British and American understandings of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and their relative reliance on Elphinstone's ideas. Ultimately it considers the similarities and differences in the ways that British and American officials have perceived and valued Afghanistan's place in a broader world political order.

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