New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies
Volume 11, No. 1, June 2009
THEMES FOR THOUGHT ON SOUTHEAST ASIA
A FESTSCHRIFT TO
EMERITUS PROFESSOR NICHOLAS TARLING
ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 75th BIRTHDAY
OOI Keat Gin
Guest Editor
Bawa resmi padi, semakin berisi, semakin tunduk
Makin berilmu makin merendah diri
Follow the ways of the rice stalk, the more
laden it gets the more it bows its head
The more one acquires knowledge,
the more humble one becomes
Articles
Information about the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies iv
Preface 2
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Foreword 5
ANTHONY REID
The Festschrift 8
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Peter Nicholas Tarling: A Tribute 15
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Seventy-Fifth Birthday Speech 31
NICHOLAS TARLING
Keynote Address 36
WANG GUNGWU
Articles
British Trade to Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries Revisited 49
DIANNE LEWIS
Dropping Artillery, Loading Rice and Elephants: A Spanish
Ambassador in the Court of Ayudhya in 1718 60
FERDINAND C. LLANES
Prince Cường Để (1882-1951) and his Quest for Vietnamese
Independence 75
MY-VAN TRAN
Woolley and the Codification of Native Customs in Sabah 87
DANNY WONG TZE KEN
British Colonial Rule, Japanese Occupation, and the Transformation
of Malay Kingship 1930s-1957 106
KOBKUA SUWANNATHAT-PIAN
The Communist Insurgency and the End of Empire in Malaysia, 1948-
90: Contesting the Nation-State and Social Change 132
CHEAH BOON KHENG
Lenin and Sneevliet: The Origins of the Theory of Colonial Revolution
in the Dutch East Indies153
he Economic Decolonization of Sumatra 178
J. THOMAS LINDBLAD
Charles Alma Baker’s Uneasy Role in the Expansion of the Malayan
Economy 1890s-1910s 189
SIVACHANDRALINGAM SUNDARA RAJA
Bung Karno and the Bintang Muhammadiyah: A Political Affair 208
STEVEN DRAKELEY
Revivalism and Radicalism in Southeast Asian Islam: A Pattern or an
Anomaly? 222
IIK A. MANSURNOOR
Has the Past got a Future in Local Politics in Indonesia? Pilkada 2005
in Bali 263
GRAEME MACRAE
Labour Crossings in Southeast Asia: Linking Historical and
Contemporary Labour Migration 276
AMARJIT KAUR
Employment Relations in Malaysia: Past, Present and Future 304
MAIMUNAH AMINUDDIN
Singapore’s State-Guided Entrepreneurship: A Model for Transitional
Economies? 318
ANTHONY SHOME
Peninsular Malaysia in the Context of Natural History and Colonial
Science 337
J. KATHIRITHAMBY-WELLS
Indian Mutiny in Singapore, 1915: People who Observed the Scene
and People who Heard the News 375
SHO KUWAJIMA
New Zealand Diplomatic Representation in Southeast Asia: The
1950s and 1960s 385
JAMES KEMBER
History Making in Singapore: Who is Producing the Knowledge? 402
NICOLE TARULEVICZ
Southeast Asian Studies in Southeast Asia: Agenda for the Twenty-
First Century 426
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