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Looking at Southeast Asian History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

D. G. E. Hall
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In this paper I propose to look at Southeast Asian history for the most part before the era of European political control. My object is on the one hand to avoid the distortions of the picture caused by the wealth of writings on European activities in the area, which have tended to thrust into the background die history of the peoples of the area, and on the other hand to convey some idea of the importance of their history as a field of study today. Incidentally, it is a field in which most of the progress has been made by scholars whose names are largely unknown outside the esoteric circles of orientalism.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , May 1960 , pp. 243 - 253
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960

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References

1 I follow here the descriptions given in Coèdes' Les États hindouisés d'Indochine et d'Indonésie (Paris, 1948Google Scholar) and Groslier's, B. P.Angkor (London, 1957Google Scholar).

2 The Vietnamese movement of expansion in the Indo-Chinese peninsula was to become a factor of major significance in Southeast Asian history, and present-day events suggest it has not yet been exhausted.

3 See Mookerji, Radhakumud, Indian Shipping: A History of the Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times (London, 1912Google Scholar).

4 Eenige beschouwingen betreffende den ouden Asiatischen hamdel (Middleburg, 1934).

5 In the volume Indonesian Trade and Society, Essays in Asian Social and Economic History by J. C. van Leur (The Hague, Bandung, 1955).

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8 French, Pelliot's translation in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême Orient, Vol. II (1902Google Scholar).

9 Pour mieux comprendre Angkor, p. 66.

10 Khoi's, Le ThanhLe Vietnam, histoire et civilisation (Paris, 1955Google Scholar) is the only complete survey of Vietnamese history from the earliest times in a European language. The work of a Vietnamese scholar, it has many valuable features, though marred by the author's Marxist outlook.

11 Incidentally its temple-builders made the city of Pagan blossom with architecture which for sheer beauty is claimed by its admirers to exceed anything else of its kind in Southeast Asia.

12 Luce, G. H., “The Early Syäm in Burma's History,” Journal of the Siam Society, XLVI, 2, (November 1958), p. 136.Google Scholar

13 Possibly a son of Jayavarman VII, himself a Buddhist of die Mahayana persuasion.

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16 Inscripties uit de çailendra-tijd (Bandung, 1950).

17 He has since published a second volume in English entitled Selected Inscriptions from the Seventh to the Ninth Century A.D. (Bandung, 1956).

18 Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême Orient, Hanoi, Vol. XVIII (1918), No. 6.

19 Published in 1931.

20 Geschiedenis van Indonesië ('-Gravenhage, 1949).

21 Schrieke, B., Indonesian Sociological Studies, II, Ruler and Realm in Early Java, (The Hague and Bandung, 1957), pp. 230–67.Google Scholar

22 Schrieke, pp. 237–8.