Routledge Library Editions: Modern East and South East Asia, 7-Volume Set

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This 7-volume set reissues a range of classic out-of-print texts that cover a host of issues that have contributed to the development of modern East and South East Asia. With titles covering economics, politics, history, anthropology and security, this set provides the researcher with an essential resource on the region. Cover Volume1 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Preface 1: The End of an Era A Reluctant Farewell The Asean Way When Bad News is Good News Watch What We Say, Not What We Do No Shortage of Shooting Commodity Windfalls Chinese Financiers and Footloose Factories Second Time Around: Japan's Regained Ascendancy Industrial Images, Industrial Mirages Sub-contracting or Substitution? Cutting Down a Resource Commodity Con Games Projectitis Overlooking Maintenance A Primitive Business Culture The Chinese Connection The Shadow of Debt The Blunt Side of the East Asian Edge An Indigenous Technological Culture? Home Movies The End of an Era References 2: Full Circle in the Philippines Portent of Things to Come? Behave or Go Home Drawing Comparisons No Portent from the Philippines The Cojuangco Factor Specific Charges The Arrastre Business Gambling Dens, Barter Trade and Other Diversions Plus ça Change . . . Plus C'est La Même Chose What's in a Name? Early Gains Duty-Free Duppies Broadcasting Blues Full Circle in the Philippines? References 3: Malaise in Brunei and Malaysia I: Toll Gates: A Cautionary Tale Political Troubles The Racial Conundrum Banking Problems Commodity Markets Crumble Scandal of Scandals Nep-otism at the Share Market Sultans Galore Move over Mat Salleh? Damned Dams Other Bright Ideas 'Looking East' II: The World's Richest Man Bribes, Backhanders and Favours Bank Scandals The Shell-Fare State CONTRA-Dictory Generosity III: Malay Economics: Getting it Right Malay Business Culture: Getting it Wrong Longer-Term Problems The Religious Conundrum The Educational Time Bomb Ruminating About the Malay Malaise References 4: ABRI-Culture: Dual Functioneering in Indonesia Number Games New Order, Old Habits The Archipelagic Reach The Curse of Oil Khaki Commerce Technocratic Influence Cukong Friends The First Family Hidden Costs of Business Favouritism Runs on Rupiahs The Oil Future Revenue Loss Harbouring Thieves Musical Pirates Bogus Notes of Another Kind The Bright Side Urgent Needs, Slow Corrections Intimations of Change But No Easy Way Out References 5: Boomtime in Bangkok Southeast Asia's Brightest Star Foreign Fund Managers Flock to Bangkok Mass Capitalism? Looks Good on Paper Earlier Growth Models Foreign Investment Invasion Resourceful Thailand The Newest NIC? Rocketing Corporate Profits The Mid-1980s: A Trial Run of Trouble Financial Frights Siam City's Travail Problems for Krung Thai Boardroom Bedlam Risky Whisky Superbike Racer and Santa Claus Another Early Warning Signal: Foreign Debt A Narrowly-based Success Story Once Again, the Chinese Addictive Habits Looming Uncertainties First Uncertainty: The Monarchy Second Uncertainty: The Military Third Uncertainty: Regional Conflicts Fourth Uncertainty: Will the Domestic 'demand Base' Be Rich Enough? The Parasitic City The Fast-baht Crowd Fifth Uncertainty: Disappearing Forests Sixth Uncertainty: The Wrong Skills Let's All Be Lawyers (or Civil Servants) Seventh Uncertainty: Infrastructure Eighth Uncertainty: Laggard Farmers Vulnerable Miracle? Free Riders After All Korean Comparisons References 6: Singapore: The Exception That Rules the Proof Success Story Crossroads or Revolving Door? A Glance at the Recent Past 1985 Entrepreneurs' Lament Reversing Gear The Financial Centre of Asean The Pan-el Shock Home Truths or Awkward Facts? Meddling Foreign Journalists An Unhappy Episode Trading in a Protectionist World Political Uncertainties Internal Politics Hong Kong's Future Whither the Yen? Whither the State? Politics and Confidence References 7: Chinatown The Chinese Puzzle High Turnover, Quick Return Straight Talk at the Banquet Awkward Opinions A Recent Exodus A Less Than Enthusiastic Welcome Thailand: Easiest for Chinese Muddling Through in Malaysia Indonesian Chinese: The Region's Wealthiest Different Kinds of Chinese Ali on the Lookout for Baba Trying to Explain the Sino Magic Community Values Chinese Gain from New Policies Chinese Corporatism The Cukong's Cukong A Royal Tiff Foreign Bankers Beware Other Alarums and Excursions Chinese Credit Lines The Chinese Juggernaut in Perspective Renewed Nervousness Chinatown's Corporate Future References 8: Wellsprings of Wealth: Southeast Asia's Commercial Crucibles Asean Share Markets: Much 'aduh' About Rather Little? 1987 and All That Second Thoughts About the Bourses Immature Markets Yes, We Have No Fundamentals Baubles, Bangles and . . . Bangkok Abortive Paper Markets Mice That Roar? But Qualified Praise Is Due Banking: Whirlwind Growth Big Banks . . . and Bigger Banks Where's the Money Going? A Vogue for Private Banking Hong Kong Jitters Looking Ahead Some Thing New: Asean's Multinational Corporations The Richest of Them All? Astra Group's Growth Another Crucible: Industrial Whistle Stops Spilling Over? No 'open Skies' Shipping: No Open Waters Rust Bucket Labour Market Investment Incentives: Another Distortion Corporate Management: Form and Substance In the Family Way Book-keeping Illiteracy Product Piracy: Another Free Ride? Apart from (someone Else's) Ships, No Free Labour Market Business Education: How Good Really? References 9: Commodities: Glutted Cornucopias Commodities: First and Foremost Commodities Today Still a Regal Earner. . . . . . But Prices Badly Faltered in the 1980s The End of the Golden Weather? When Boom Goes Bust: Sabah's Experience Sabah's Lament: into the Valley of Debt Falling Prices Hurt Many Others Star Commodities Also Falter Disappearing Forests Back to the Futures Following OPEC . . . into the Sunset Longer-Term Trends The 1990s: Vulnerable Markets, or Reborn Hope? 'Downstream Processing': A Way Out? Outlook References 10: Development Bunk An Asian Birthday Signs of Age Poor Little Rich Bank Mid-Life Crisis A Question of Quality Boardroom Wrangling Procurement is the Game A Question of Control Sour Grapes References 11: Reluctant Regionalism Swords into Bonus Shares False Starts Towards a Regional Club An Enduring but Overrated Framework Regional Realism The Myth of the Evolving Regional Market Bureaucratic Smoke and Mirrors No Substance but Plenty of Suitors A Diplomatic Merry-Go-Round A Record of Failure The Asean Finance Corporation The Bankers' Acceptance Scheme A Lack of Energy Swaps Serious Proposals Ignored Industrial Complementation Fizzles Out Praise Where Praise is Due? Asean Trade Diplomacy: How Successful Really? The Reasons Why Asean Be Damned: When Necessary Preparations for the 1987 Summit Some Straight Talk The Manila Summit: So What? Another Charade? Invest Now, If . . . The Japanese Dimension The Regional Vacuum Game Playing Others Play Games Too The Future as an Extension of the Past References 12: The Clouded Future Steady as She Goes? The World in Flux Inexorable Growth of Another Kind Who's in Charge Here? Neglected Agriculture, Neglected Land More Giveaways Debt Valley Loans Unwisely Spent Who Needs Maintenance? Asean Economies: How Resilient? Who Gains? Education: Quantity, Not Quality Lacking: A Culture of Innovation Industrialisation Without Technology Market Moves of Another Kind Let the Market In, Get the Governments Out? For All That, an Achievement The Second Time Around: Japan in Southeast Asia Is Japan Irresistible? Practising What They Don't Preach Trade Disputes China Is Eyeing the Same Markets So Are Other Eyes Politics, Politics A Crippled Culture? Underlying Potential Bigger Stakes References Glossary Further Reading Index Volume2 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Return to South-East Asia 1: Wartime Planning and Diplomacy 2: The Dilemma of Peace in South-East Asia 3: ‘Famine Averted’: The Special Commission in Singapore 4: Regional Cooperation and Regional Defence Part II: Asian Nationalism 5: India, Vietnam and the Limits of Colonial Cooperation 6: Singapore and the ‘Radiation of British Influence’ 7: Regional Competition: India and Australia 8: Regional Competition: The United Nations and ECAFE 9: Western Union and South-East Asia Part III: Communism 10: Cold War and Commonwealth 11: Enter the Dragon: South-East Asia and the Chinese Civil War 12: Regional Cooperation and Regional Containment 13: The Final Stages of Regional Planning 14: To Colombo and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index Volume3 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Editorial Preface Abbreviations Communism in East Asia: The Production Imperative, Legitimacy and Reform The Reform Process in the People’s Republic of China Reform, Local Political Institutions and the Village Economy in China China: The New Inheritance Law and the Peasant Household North Korea: The End of the Beginning Ideology and the Legitimation Crisis in North Korea Vietnam: The Slow Road to Reform The Mongolian People’s Republic in the 1980s: Continuity and Change The Soviet Union and the Pacific Century China and the Asia–Pacific Region Volume4 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Introduction Translator's note Table of Contents Illustrations Part I: The Pattern of Settlement in Indochina 1: The Geographical Framework 2: Prehistory Part II: The Founding of the First Indochinese States 1: The Chinese Conquest of the Red River Delta and the Birth of Viet-Nam 2: The Introduction of Indian Culture into Indochina 3: The spread of Indian Cultural Influence in the Peninsula 1. In the South: Fu-Nan 2. The Spread of Indian Influence in The East of The Peninsula: Champa 3. The Spread of Indian Influence in The Centre and The West of The Peninsula: Shrikshetra and Dvaravati Part III: The Indochinese States from the Sixth to the Thirteenth Century 1: Viet-Nam 2: Cambodia 3: Burma Part IV: The Crisis of the Thirteenth Century and the Decline of Indian Cultural Influence Part V: The Indochinese States after the Thirteenth Century 1: Siam or Thailand 2: Laos 3: Burma 4: Cambodia 5: Viet-Nam Conclusion Notes Index Volume5 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction I: The Scene Revolution and Intervention in South East Asia Communist Revolts: 1948 Sino-Soviet Dispute: (People’s) War and Peace US Reaction: The Vietnam Commitment Indonesian Reversal: New Balance of Power? Domino-Land II: The Model China: Conditions for Success Peasant Revolt: Mao’s Separate Course Protracted War: (1) Contradictions (2) Mass Support (3) Base Area (4) Guerrilla Warfare National Appeal: (1) Resistance to the Enemy (2) United Front Tactics Downfall of the Régime: (1) America’s Dilemma (2) The Débâcle III: Success Struggle for Vietnam August Insurrection Resistance War Unity and Organization Vietminh-Vietcong IV: Failure China in Maphilindo Lessons from Malaya and the Philippines Indonesian Exception United States in lndo-China Post-War Policy Confusion in Laos Backing into Vietnam: (1) Commitment and . . . (2) Credibility Peace—and the Tet Offensive Annotated Bibliography Index Volume6 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter I: Introduction Chapter II: Theoretical Framework Chapter III: The Impact of Globalization on Human Rights Chapter IV: Prospects for a Regional Human Rights Regime in East Asia Chapter V: Conclusions Appendix A: A Cover Letter Appendix B: A Questionnaire Sent to Nongovernmental Organizations Appendix C: A Questionnaire Sent to Individuals Notes Bibliography Index Volume7 Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction Book One: The Foundations of Southeast Asia 1: The Origins of Southeast Asia 2: Invasion from the West 3: Imperialism at the Flood 4: The Birth of Nationalism in Southeast Asia 5: Two Colonial Cases Book Two: War and Revolution 6: Invasion from the North 7: Transient Empire 8: An Unforeseen Peace 9: The Nationalist Revolt Book Three: The Future of Southeast Asia 10: United Nations and Divided Counsels 11: The Bad Conscience of the West 12: The Economic Mainspring 13: Capitalist Adventurers and Communist Agitators 14: Voluntary Association in Southeast Asia Index