Southeast Asia

"Seeing Sounds": The Role of Vision in the Learning of Thai Tones and Vowels, Susan Holmes and Kathie Carpenter
Teaching Indonesian Literature to Third and Fourth Year Classes, Ellen Rafferty
Does Computerized Language Learning Really Work?, Mari Smith
Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and English Constructions and its Significance in the Teaching-Learning of Indonesian Peter Suwarno

Session 15: ROUNDTABLE: Networking Southeast Asia's History: Prospects and Problems of Digitized Preservation (Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Microfilm Project/CORMOSEA)

Session 36: ROUNDTABLE: Contemporary Politics in Thailand

Session 43: Individual Papers: Cultural Interaction and Innovation in Southeast Asia

Suzerain and Vassal, or Elder and Younger Brothers: The Nature of the Sino-Burmese Historical Relationship, Laichen Sun
The Japanese Policy Toward Christian Churches in the Philippines During World War II, Takefumi Terada
Powerful Connections: Sumbanese Textiles and Global Exchange, Jill Forshee
Understanding "Japayuki" or Japan-bound Entertainers in the Gender Context in the Philippines, Eri Fujieda
The Golden Rules: Reinterpreting Wealth, Class, and Success Through El Shaddai, Katharine L. Wiegele

Session 61: Wanderers, Founders, and Ethnic Encounters: Political Hierarchy and Religious Movements in Highland Southeast Asia

Pedestrian Politics: Upland Migrations, Ritual, and Social Identity in the Sino-Southeast Asian Borderlands, Hjorleifur R. Jonsson
"The Dying God" Revisited: The King of Fire and Vietnamese Ethnic Policy in the Central Highlands, Oscar Salemink
Spiritual Territories: "Owners of the Land," and Migration in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Lorraine V. Aragon

Session 62: International Dimensions of the Vietnam War

China's Attitude Toward Vietnam Peace Talks, 1965-1968, Qiang Zhai Soviet-North Vietnamese Military Cooperation and the Conflict in Indochina, Ilya Gaiduk A Secret War: China's Involvement in Laos, 1963-1975, Xiaoming Zhang

Session 65: Individual Papers: Aspects of Economic Development in Southeast Asia

Why Did Southeast Asia Fail to Industrialize Before World War II? W. G. Huff
Urban Neighborhood Interaction with the Environment: Viewpoints of Local-level Leaders and Residents in Jakarta, Carla Chifos
On the Bangkok Traffic Jam, Sandra Cate
Globalization and Its Effects on Labor Control in the Philippines, Kim Scipes
Mothers, Midwives, and "Modern" Medicine: An Analysis of Midwife Utilization Patterns in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Julie Ann Tumbarello

Session 80: Transforming Crafts in Southeast Asia

Fabricating National Identity: Textiles in Lao P.D.R. Penelope Van Esterik
Interchangeability in Men's and Women's Craft Production in the Upland Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram
Stealing a Good Idea: Innovation and Competition Among Toba Batak Woodcarvers, Andrew Causey
Women at the Center of an Industrializing Craft: Earthenware Production in Northeast Thailand H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr

Session 81: Cambodia: The Uses and Abuses of History

Inheritors of Genocide: The Struggle to Define the "True" Record of Mass Death in Cambodia, 1979-80, Jamie F. Metzl
Voices From S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison, David Chandler
Digging in the Killing Fields: New Evidence About the Internal Security Apparatus of Democratic Kampuchea, Craig Etcheson

Session 82: Decentralization and Democracy: Exploring the Linkages in the Philippines

Decentralizing Democracy: Central-Local Government Relations in the Philippines After Authoritarionism, Emil P. Bolongaita, Jr
Imperial Manila? Assessing Central-Local Government Relations in the American Colonial Period, Paul D. Hutchcroft
"The Last Hurrah" Revisted: Local Bosses, Dynasties, and Machines in the Philippines in the 1990s, John Thayer Sidel
Local Politics in a Decentralized System: The Structural Impact of the 1991 Local Government Code in the Philippines, Gary Hawes

Session 102: Founder's Cults and Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia: Person, Place, and Polity

"Thigh-Eating Chiefs" in an Egalitarian Upland Society, Cornelia Ann Kammerer
The Sacrificial System in Lai (Haka-Chin) Society, Kenneth Van Bik
Authenticity and Variation: Ritual Leaders Among Sgaw Karen, Yoko Hayami
Phraya Sihanatraja and the Founding of Maehongson, Nicola Tannenbaum

Session 103: Constructing the Indochinese Body

French Tropical Medicine and Empire: Medical and Literary Construction of the Indochinese Body Panivong Norindr
Disciplining "Annamites": Colonial Power in Indochina, Peter Zinoman
Eunuch Mandarins, Effeminate "Boys", and "Soldats Mamzelles": The Annamite as Androgyne, Frank Proschan
Deviant Bodies and Dynamics of Displacement of Homoerotic Desire in Vietnamese Literature, Vinh Quoc Nguyen

Session 104: New Area Studies in the Global World: Rethinking Modernity, Identity, Arts, and Post-Colonial Desire in Southeast Asia (Sponsored by SEAC)

Globalism and Identity in Myanmar, Juliane Schober
Signed: A. D. Pirous, Kenneth M. George
Desire and Sexuality in Colonial and Post-Colonial Indonesian Literatures, Laurie J. Sears

Session 123: Vietnamese Politics in Transition: New Conceptions and Inter-Disciplinary Approaches, Part One ( See Session 146)

Postmarital Residence Patterns Amidst Socialist Transformations in a Northern Province of Vietnam, 1948-1993, Daniel Goodkind and Tom Fricke
Contending Approaches to the Role of Law in Vietnam, 1954-1995, Mark Sidel
Renegotiating the Political Space: Local Territory and Central Power in Post-Socialist Vietnam Thaveeporn Vasakavul

Session 124: Early National Elections in Southeast Asia: Political Inclusion, Pacification, and Contestation

Political Stability and Elections in Malaysia: The Legacy of the Emergency and "Late" Independence Francis Loh Kok-Wah
The Rise and Fall of Electoral Politics in Late Colonial Cambodia Stephen R. Heder
Elections in the Early Philippine Republic: The "Showcase of Democracy" in Post-War Southeast Asia Eva Lotta Hedman
Indonesia's Cold War Elections Geoffrey B. Robinson

Session 125: Riau: Central Margin or Marginal Center

Pulau Penyengat: New Views on the Literary and Cultural Center of Riau, Al Azhar
The Timber Trade in Early Modern Siak, Timothy P. Barnard
Reconceptualizing the Tenure of Territoriality: The Indigenous Rights of the Orang Laut (Sea Nomads) in Riau, Indonesia, Cynthia Chou
"Because I am a Malay": The Question of Identity in the Poems and Short Stories of Taufik Ikram Jamil, Will Derks

Session 146: Vietnamese Politics in Transition: New Conceptions and Inter-Disciplinary Approaches, Part Two (See Session 123)

The Regularization of Politics Revisited: Continuity and Change in the Party's Central Committee, 1976-1996, Carlyle A. Thayer
Business Associations and Politics in Vietnam Jonathan R. Stromseth
Broken Mirrors, Shattered Lives: Analyzing the Narratives of the Returning Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese) to Vietnam, Gisele Bousquet

Session 151: Individual Papers: Contradictions in Indonesian History and Society

Never Been to the Indies: A 19th-Century Anthropology of Indonesia by P. J. Veth, Paul van der Velde
The Role of Market Structure in Crop Choice: The Case of Tobacco and Rubber in East Sumatra, Siddharth Chandra
Hazardous Tightrope Walking to Survive Sukarno's Political Testament and the First Months of the Indonesian Republic (1945), Harry A. Poeze
Creation of a New Tradition: Liturgical Music Among the Toba Batak People of North Sumatra, Yoshiko Okazaki
A Political Analysis of Fertility Decline in New Order Indonesia, Jeremy Shiffman

Session 168: Regional Politics and Governance in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines

Fiscal Capacity and Political Struggle of Thai Local Governments Chartchai Norasethaporn
Who is Running the Regions? Regional Political Leadership in Indonesia, 1965-1995, Michael Malley
Democratic Decentralization in the Philippines Steven Rood

Session 169: The Construction of Usable Pasts in Dai Viet

Kao Pien/Cao Bien and the Vicissitudes of Being Remembered in Vietnam, Keith Weller Taylor
Foundational History: The Vietnamese Myth of Genesis and the Construction of the Past, Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Parellel Foundations: Nguyen Trai's Biography of Le Loi, Stephen O'Harrow

Session 182: South Sumatra: Change and Continuity

Attitudinal Changes Among the Youth of South Sumatra, Amran Halim
Malu: Change and Continuity in an Emotional and Cognitive Construct, Elizabeth Fuller Collins
The Discourse and Practice of Gumai Origin Rituals: Modernity in South Sumatra, Minako Sakai
Adaptability vs. Isolation in Rejang Language and Culture, Richard McGinn

Session 183: The Impacts of Global Restructuring on Labor Relations in Textile and Garment Industries in Southeast Asia: Cases of Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Phillipines

Reorganizing the "Rag Trade" in Southeast Asia: Comparative Perspectives on Captial and Labor in Apparel Production, David A. Smith
Impacts of Global Restructuring on Manufacturing and Labor Relations in the Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries, Angie Ngoc Tran
Women Workers in the Philippine Garments Industry Jane Hutchison

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