History, Culture & Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives

A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.

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"Wolters...reproduces his 1982 work intact, and then adds an extended postscript, in which he reinterprets his prior analysis.."...

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A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.

Review

"Wolters...reproduces his 1982 work intact, and then adds an extended postscript, in which he reinterprets his prior analysis.." --New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies

"The revised version of the book, more than double the size of the original, builds on...important themes by integrating --Asian Perspectives

"[W]ill no doubt provide a new source of inspiration for for many readers, including graduate students and instructors... --Journal of Asian Studies

The late O. W. Wolters is regarded by many as the most influential historian of early Southeast Asia writing in the English-speaking world. He served in the Malayan Civil Service from 1938 to 1957 after completing his first degree at Oxford University. When the Japanese occupied Malaysia in 1942, he was imprisoned for three years. He embarked on his academic career as a Southea...

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The late O. W. Wolters is regarded by many as the most influential historian of early Southeast Asia writing in the English-speaking world. He served in the Malayan Civil Service from 1938 to 1957 after completing his first degree at Oxford University. When the Japanese occupied Malaysia in 1942, he was imprisoned for three years. He embarked on his academic career as a Southeast Asian scholar in 1957, when he was nearly fifty years old, and begin teaching at Cornell University in 1964, where he developed the influential concept of "mandala," a paradigm of the premodern Southeast Asian kingdom.

Frontmatter

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. SOME FEATURES OF THE CULTURAL MATRIX
CHAPTER TWO. HISTORICALRequires Authentication 27
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Frontmatter

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE. SOME FEATURES OF THE CULTURAL MATRIX
CHAPTER TWO. HISTORICALRequires Authentication 27
CHAPTER THREE. TOWARDS DEFINING SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
CHAPTER FOUR. LOCAL CULTURAL STATEMENTS
CHAPTER FIVE. LOCAL LITERATURES
CHAPTER SIX. CONCLUSION
APPENDIX A. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON "SOUL STUFF" AND "PROWESS"
APPENDIX B. SIX VIETNAMESE POEMS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
APPENDIX C. KAKAWIN ANDHIKAYAT
POSTSCRIPT
APPENDIX 1. A "HINDU" MAN OF PROWESS
APPENDIX 2. A SAMPLE OF GENDER RELATIONS AT THE APEX OF VIETNAMESE SOCIETY IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES
APPENDIX 3. READING BAS-RELIEF ON Two JAVANESE CANDI
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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