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Vol. 48 |No. 2 |June 2017 Journal of SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES June 2017 | Number 2 | Published for the National University of Singapore Volume 48 Volume ASIAN SOUTHEAST STUDIES of Journal Contents Ethnicity and social television relations in Indonesian production houses Maria Myutel compared Philippines: sugar production in the Spanish Calamba and Negros Colonial Aguilar Jr. Filomeno V. War during the Cold Police Patrol and the Border Princess Mother Thailand’s Luang: Fah Mae Hyun Sinae Balancing the foreign and the familiar in the articulationThailand of court Brahmans of kingship:The royal McGovern Nathan Reviews Book The two Kronik Tionghua of Semarang and Cirebon: A note on provenanceA and reliability and Cirebon: of Semarang Tionghua The two Kronik Wain Alexander on local television cultures the local: Representing Javanese Mediating in Indonesia Els Bogaerts Editorial Foreword Articles Cambridge Journals Online Cambridge Journals further information about this journal For please go to the journal web site at: journals.cambridge.org/sea 175 179 219 237 283 196 262 304 00224634_48-2_00224634_48-2 25/04/17 7:18 AM Page 1 Page AM 7:18 25/04/17 00224634_48-2_00224634_48-2 00224634_48-2_00224634_48-2 25/04/17 7:18 AM Page 2

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175 Editorial Foreword

Articles 179 The two Kronik Tionghua of Semarang and Cirebon: A note on provenance and reliability Alexander Wain 196 Mediating the local: Representing Javanese cultures on local television in Indonesia Els Bogaerts 219 Ethnicity and social relations in Indonesian television production houses Maria Myutel 237 Colonial sugar production in the Spanish Philippines: Calamba and Negros compared Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. 262 Mae Fah Luang: Thailand’s Princess Mother and the Border Patrol Police during the Cold War Sinae Hyun 283 Balancing the foreign and the familiar in the articulation of kingship: The royal court Brahmans of Thailand Nathan McGovern

Book Reviews Asia 304 Justin Thomas McDaniel and Lynn Ransom From mulberry leaves to silk scrolls: New approaches to the study of Asian manuscript traditions (Jens-Uwe Hartmann)

306 Robert Loeffel The fifth column in World War II: Suspected subversives in the Pacific War and Australia (Joey Long)

Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 26 Sep 2021 at 19:33:48, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463417000017 308 Terence Lee Defect or defend: Military responses to popular protests in authoritarian Asia (Ong Wei Chong)

310 Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Yun-Han Chu Democracy in East Asia: A new century (Pang Yang Huei)

Southeast Asia 312 Peter Borschberg Journal, memorials and letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, diplomacy and commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia (Robert Batchelor)

313 Peter Lee Sarong kebaya: Peranakan fashion in an interconnected world, 1500–1950 (Chang Yueh Siang)

315 Yos Santasombat Impact of China’s rise on the Mekong region (Julia Dinh Thi Hien Luong)

317 Wolfgang Reinhard Empires and encounters 1350–1750 (Brian P. Farrell)

319 Bobby Benedicto Under bright lights: Gay Manila and the global scene 319 Amin Ghaziani There goes the gayborhood? 319 Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies Sex and sexualities in contemporary Indonesia: Sexual politics, health, diversity, and representations (Alicia Izharuddin)

324 David Sunderland British economic development in South East Asia, 1880–1939 (James A. Warren)

Indonesia 326 Kees van Dijk and Nico J.G. Kaptein Islam, politics, and change: The Indonesian experience after the fall of Suharto (Kevin W. Fogg)

Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.139, on 26 Sep 2021 at 19:33:48, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463417000017 328 Christina Sunardi Stunning males and powerful females: Gender and tradition in East Javanese dance (Jennifer Fraser)

Laos 330 Simon Creak Embodied nation: Sport, masculinity, and the making of modern Laos (Stefan Hübner)

Singapore 331 Lily Kong and Vineeta Sinha Food, foodways and foodscapes: Culture, community and consumption in post-colonial Singapore (Nicole Tarulevicz)

Thailand 333 Shane Strate The lost territories: Thailand’s history of national humiliation (David Streckfuss)

334 Shigeharu Tanabe Communities of potential: Social assemblages in Thailand and beyond (Fumihiko Tsumura)

Vietnam 337 Edward Miller The Vietnam War: A documentary reader (Pierre Asselin)

338 K.W. Taylor Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975) (Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox)

340 Vu Hong Lien and Peter D. Sharrock Descending dragon, rising tiger: A history of Vietnam (Mok Mei Feng)

342 Ann Marie Leshkowich Essential trade: Vietnamese women in a changing marketplace (Minh T.N. Nguyen)