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Prisoners at Kota Cane

Author : Leon Salim
Publisher : Equinox Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6028397547
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Prisoners at Kota Cane written by Leon Salim and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little has been written about the twilight of Dutch rule in the Netherlands East Indies, in the period immediately after the Japanese army swept through Java and parachuted its forces into south Sumatra. When the Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands Indies Army, Lt. General Hein Ter Poorten, surrendered to the Japanese in Kali Jati on March 9, 1942, that incident did not mark the end of Dutch control throughout the Indies. Major elements of the colonial government on Sumatra held out for a further three weeks before finally capitulating on March 28. The following memoir, Prisoners at Kota Cane by Leon Salim, presents the events of these final days in Sumatra from the perspective of an Indonesian arrested by the Dutch shortly after Ter Poorten's surrender. Although this diary was brought together into the form of a memoir shortly after the events it describes, the Indonesian version has never been published. I am grateful to Leon Salim for letting me translate and publish it, and for checking the translation and answering queries on it, for I think the memoir is an important contribution to our understanding of this period of Indonesia's history. - Audrey Kahin, November 1985

Ummah Yet Proletariat

Author : Lin Hongxuan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197657400
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Ummah Yet Proletariat written by Lin Hongxuan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1965 to 1966, at least 500,000 Indonesians were killed in military-directed violence that targeted suspected Communists. Muslim politicians justified the killings, arguing that Marxism posed an existential threat to all religions. Since then, the demonization of Marxism, as well as the presumed irreconcilability of Islam and Marxism, has permeated Indonesian society. Today, the Indonesian military and Islamic political parties regularly invoke the spectre of Marxism as an enduring threat that would destroy the republic if left unchecked. In Ummah Yet Proletariat, Lin Hongxuan explores the relationship between Islam and Marxism in the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and Indonesia from the publication of the first Communist periodical in 1915 to the beginning of the 1965-66 massacres. Lin demonstrates how, in contrast to state-driven narratives, Muslim identity and Marxist analytical frameworks coexisted in Indonesian minds, as well as how individuals' Islamic faith shaped their openness to Marxist ideas. Examining Indonesian-language print culture, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memoirs, letters, novels, plays, and poetry, Lin shows how deeply embedded confluences of Islam and Marxism were in the Indonesian nationalist project. He argues that these confluences were the result of Indonesian participation in networks of intellectual exchange across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, of Indonesians "translating" the world to Indonesia in an ambitious project of creative adaptation.

Rebellion to Integration

Author : Audrey Kahin
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053563953
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Rebellion to Integration written by Audrey Kahin and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study deals with the political history of the Indonesian province of West Sumatra and the Minangkabau people from the late colonial period up to the present, focussing on the course and degree of their integration into the contemporary Indonesian state. The book provides a local perspective on the growth and development of the nationalist movement in Indonesia, the struggle for independence, and the trauma involved for West Sumatra in adapting to an Indonesian state based on very different concepts of government than those that animated the anticolonial struggle in the region. It also helps understand the backgrounds of the recent violent insurgence in several parts of the Indonesian archipelago against the rule of the Javanese-controlled central government.

Death on the Hellships

Author : Gregory F Michno
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682470253
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Death on the Hellships written by Gregory F Michno and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present a detailed picture of the horror.

Muslims and Matriarchs

Author : Jeffrey Hadler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801468698
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Muslims and Matriarchs written by Jeffrey Hadler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural system. The Minangkabau culture of West Sumatra, Indonesia, is well known as the world's largest matrilineal culture; Minangkabau people are also Muslim and famous for their piety. In this book, Jeffrey Hadler examines the changing ideas of home and family in Minangkabau from the late eighteenth century to the 1930s. Minangkabau has experienced a sustained and sometimes violent debate between Muslim reformists and preservers of indigenous culture. During a protracted and bloody civil war of the early nineteenth century, neo-Wahhabi reformists sought to replace the matriarchate with a society modeled on that of the Prophet Muhammad. In capitulating, the reformists formulated an uneasy truce that sought to find a balance between Islamic law and local custom. With the incorporation of highland West Sumatra into the Dutch empire in the aftermath of this war, the colonial state entered an ongoing conversation. These existing tensions between colonial ideas of progress, Islamic reformism, and local custom ultimately strengthened the matriarchate. The ferment generated by the trinity of oppositions created social conditions that account for the disproportionately large number of Minangkabau leaders in Indonesian politics across the twentieth century. The endurance of the matriarchate is testimony to the fortitude of local tradition, the unexpected flexibility of reformist Islam, and the ultimate weakness of colonialism. Muslims and Matriarchs is particularly timely in that it describes a society that experienced a neo-Wahhabi jihad and an extended period of Western occupation but remained intellectually and theologically flexible and diverse.

No Other Road to Take

Author : Nguyen Thi Dinh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718835
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book No Other Road to Take written by Nguyen Thi Dinh and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its seventh printing!The memoir of a woman whose strength, courage, and intelligence had a profound impact on Vietnamese history. Not simply a participant in the Viet Minh resistance against the French, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh was also an active leader who organized the uprising in Ben Tre province against the Diem regime, was appointed to the leadership committee of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and seved as Chairman of the South Vietnam Women's Liberation Association. The oppressive policies of Diem and the problems of civil war and American involvement are described with powerful immediacy-effectively illustrating the patriotic fervor and determination of those she fought with and helped lead.

Vietnam and the West

Author : Wynn Wilcox
Publisher : SEAP Publications
ISBN 13 : 0877277826
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Vietnam and the West written by Wynn Wilcox and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends that a major reason for American difficulties in Viet-Nam has been the failure to appreciate how wide the gulf is between Viet-Nam and the West. Professor Smith first describes Vietnamese political and social traditions and shows how they were challenged by the West after 1858. He examines Viet-Nam's search for independence and modernization in the first half of this century, contrasts the two governments of the partitioned country during the years 1954-1963, and stresses the critical need to reassess attitudes toward Viet-Nam. His sophisticated, ambitious survey of Viet-Nam history will have a lasting value that sets it apart from the scores of ephemeral books on this country.

Cutting Across the Lands

Author : Eveline Ferretti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719130
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Cutting Across the Lands written by Eveline Ferretti and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography focused on Borneo and the Southern Philippines. With over 1,000 citations, this reference work identifies patterns of forestland transformation common to the areas under consideration. A subject index is included.

Golddiggers, Farmers, and Traders in the "Chinese Districts" of West Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Author : Mary Somers Heidhues
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719246
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Golddiggers, Farmers, and Traders in the "Chinese Districts" of West Kalimantan, Indonesia written by Mary Somers Heidhues and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the changing role of the Chinese community of West Kalimantan, particularly its economic and social relationships. Heidhues explores the history of the community from the early nineteenth century establishment of the kongsis to the "Dayak Raids," which uprooted the rural Chinese population in the 1960s.

Young Heroes

Author : Saya Shiraishi
Publisher : SEAP Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877277217
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Young Heroes written by Saya Shiraishi and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the family as a cultural, historical, and political construction in New Order Indonesia. The linkage of family life to politics was an integral part of Suharto's New Order ideology. With extensive fieldwork and research into education, family dynamics, politics, and the media, Shiraishi's work presents an in-depth view of the intricacies of Indonesian society.

Views of Seventeenth-century Vietnam

Author : Olga Dror
Publisher : SEAP Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780877277415
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book Views of Seventeenth-century Vietnam written by Olga Dror and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the region.

Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand

Author : Yoshinori Nishizaki
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732552
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand written by Yoshinori Nishizaki and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful Thai politician Banharn Silpa-archa has been disparaged as a corrupt operator who for years channeled excessive state funds into developing his own rural province. This book reinterprets Banharm's career and offers a detailed portrait of the voters who support him. Relying on extensive interviews, the author shows how Banharm's constituents have developed a strong provincial identity based on their pride in his advancement of their province, Suphanburi, which many now call "Banharm-buri," the place of Banharm. Yoshinori Nishizaki's analysis challenges simplistic perceptions of rural Thai voters and raises vital questions about contemporary democracy in Thailand. Yoshinori Nishizaki's close and thorough examination of the numerous public construction projects sponsored and even personally funded by Banharn clearly illustrates this politician’s canny abilities and tireless, meticulous oversight of his domain. Banharn’s constituents are aware that Suphanburi was long considered a "backward" province by other Thais—notably the Bangkok elite. Suphanburians hold the neglectful central government responsible for their province’s former sorry condition and humiliating reputation. Banharn has successfully identified himself as the antithesis to the inefficient central state by promoting rapid "development" and advertising his own role in that development through well-publicized donations, public ceremonies, and visits to the sites of new buildings and highways. Much standard literature on rural politics and society in Thailand and other democratizing countries in Southeast Asia would categorize this politician as a typical "strongman," the boss of a semiviolent patronage network that squeezes votes out of the people. That standard analysis would utterly fail to recognize and understand the grassroots realities of Suphanburi that Nishizaki has captured in his study. This compassionate, well-grounded analysis challenges simplistic perceptions of rural Thai voters and raises vital questions about contemporary democracy in Thailand.

Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia

Author : Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719041
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia written by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays investigate institutionalized violence in New Order Indonesia and the ongoing legacy Suharto's dictatorship has conferred on the nation. The collection includes papers on East Timor, Aceh, Biak, the police, and the Indonesian military, among other topics.

A Malay Frontier

Author : Jane Drakard
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719084
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book A Malay Frontier written by Jane Drakard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way in which Malays construe ideas about authority and government is the subject of this book. Focusing upon an often-ignored section of the Malay archipelago, Barus, a small kingdom on the coast of northwest Sumatra, the author compares readings based upon the royal chronicles of Hilir and Hulu Barus. She examines the relationship between the upland and the lowland to study the character of Malay political culture in Barus.

Early Southeast Asia

Author : O. W. Wolters
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501731157
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Early Southeast Asia written by O. W. Wolters and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting his radiant and meticulous lifelong study of premodern Southeast Asia, its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters's professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and, later, as a scholar. This volume displays the extraordinary range of Oliver Wolters's work in early Indonesian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Thai history.

Southern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820–1841)

Author : Choi Byung Wook
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501719521
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Southern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820–1841) written by Choi Byung Wook and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Vietnamese king, Minh Mang, and the heterogeneous southern region of the country, which he sought to bring more firmly under state control through a series of polices intended to "Vietnamize" the populace and unite north and south.

The Political Legacy of Aung San

Author : Josef Silverstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501718959
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book The Political Legacy of Aung San written by Josef Silverstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work compiles selected speeches, letters, and statements by the father of Burmese independence, Aung San. The editor's introduction offers an overview of this remarkable man's life, thought, and achievements. The documents included here provide insight into the politics of Aung San—an eminently pragmatic leader focused on attaining both national unity and social harmony—through his own words.