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The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies fo"r,r,"[oy",t{ EDITED BY PARK SEUNG WOO VICTOR T. KING The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) u,as established as an autonomous olganization it 1968. lt is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-polirical, securiry aud economic trends and development.s in Southeast Asia and its wicler geostrategic and ecouomic environment. The Institute's research programmes are the Regional Ecotrornic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS)' and Regional Social and Culturai Str,rdies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an establishec{ academic press, has issued rnore thar-r 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from rvithin thc region. ISEAS Publishing u'orks with many other academic and trade publishels and distributors to dissen-rinate impoltant research and analyses fi'oln and about Soutl-reast Asia ro the resr of the rvorld. INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Singapore CONTENTS First published in Singapore in 2013 by ISEAS Publishing Insritute of Southeasr Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang List of Tables vll SingapoLe 119614 List of Figures ix E-mailt [email protected]' \Tebsire: bookshop.iseas'edu'sg Foreword. xi No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval A1l rights reserved. Acknouledgements xiii system, or transmitted in any fbrm or by any neans, electronic, mechanical, photocopyilg, recording or othcrwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian About the Connibutors rV Studies. 1. Introduction: The Historical Construction of Southeast 1 O 20 1 3 lnstitute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Asian Studies and the Emergence of a Region fhe responsibility for ficts and opinions in dris publication rests exclusively wirh the authors Park SeungWoo and Victor T. King and their interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy ofthe publisher or its supporters. PART I: NORTHEAST ASTA ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data 2. Southeast Asian Studies in China: Progress and Problems 45 Park Sa-Myung The historical coflsrrucrion ofsoutheast Asian studies : Korea and beyond / edited by Park Seung !iloo and Victor 11 King. ). Scudies of Southeasr Asian History in Contemporaty Japati 73 1. Southeast Asia-Study and teaching' The 1990s and 2000s 2. South Asia-Research. Yu Insun I. Park, Seung Woo. II. King, VictorT. 4. The Historical Construction of Southeast Asian Studies in Korea t12 D5524.7 H67 2013 Park Seung Woo iSBN 978-98l '4414-58-6 (sofc cover) PART II: SOUTHEAST ASIA ISBN 978-9s I -4414-59-3 (E-book PDF) 5. Conrentious Development: Southeast Asian Studies in r59 Singapore Kook Typeset by International Typcsetters Pte Ltd Lee Sang Printcd in Singapore by Oxtbrd Graphic Printers Pte Ltd VI Contents 6. TI-re Construction and Institutionalization of Southeast 191 Asian Studies in Vietnam: Focusing on Insiders' Perceptions and Assessrnent Choi Horim 7. Popular Culture for a Nerv Southeast Asian Studies? 226 Ariel Heryanto LIST OF TABLES PART III: EUROPE 8. British Perspectives on Southeast Asia and Continental 265 European Comparisons: The Maliing of a Region Victor T l{hry 2.1 Mass Media on International Affairs, 2005 52 9. It is Hard to Teach an Oid Dog New Tlicks, But There is ))+ Li[e in It Yet: The Decolonization of Indonesian Studies 2.2 Major Institutes and Journals on Southeast Asian Studies 55 Netheriands in the 2.3 Pubiication oFBooks on Southeast Asia 56 Fraek Colotnbijn 2.4 Objects of Southeast Asian Studies 57 PART IV: AUSTRALIAAND THE U.S. 2.5 Subjects of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000-05 59 10. A Geneaiogy of Southeast Asian Studies in Australia: 349 3.1 Books 1990-99 B6 Scholars and Their \7orks 3.2 Academic Papers 1990-99 87 James J. Fox 3.3 Books 2000-07 88 11. Southeast Asian Studies in the U.S.: Constrllction of 399 Ti'aditions of an Autonornous History, Its Limitations, 3.4 Academic Papers 2000-07 90 Futr.rre Thsks and 3.5 Books 1990*99 (1800*1945 related) 9), Song Seung-rYon 3.6 Academic Papers 1990-99 (1800-1945 related) q) hdex 427 3.7 Books 2000-07 (1800-i945 r:elated) 92 3.8 Academic Papers 2000-07 (1800-1945 relarcd) 93 4.1 Themes of the Confciences Organizedby the Korean 133 Association of Southeast Asian Studies (KASEAS), 2001-12 4.2 Korea-ASEAN Acaden-ric Conferences Jointly Organized 135 by KASEAS and AUN (ASEAN Universiry Nerwork), 2003-11 6.1. List of Interviewees (July 2009) t93 vll Popular Culture for a New Southeast Asian Studies? cultural fows to the future of a locally based area studies of the regi its people and its historical trajectory, as one possible form of successor the old Southeast Asian Studies from the Cold War era. Unlike most analyses of prominent Southeast Asian Studies in ot regions, we are faced with a rather limited range of locally publisl 7 and accessible ideas when examining the case within the otherwise r intellectual traditions of the region itself. Instead of foilowing the us practice of looking back to milestones, key texts, authors, and deb: of area studies in the past, local conditions have led me to focus on POPUTAR CULTURE TOR A NEW present potentials and possible future. Instead of confining the select ASIAN STUDIES? of materials for analysis to published academic works on locally produ SOUTHEAST Southeast Asian Studies, I take the liberry to consider various non-acadel materials, especially popular cultural products that bear witness ro the ferv of contemporary cross-regional networks, offering one potential basis Ariel Heryanto a future region-based area studies. Needless to say' such an approact far from adequate. It is my hope, nonetheless, that the discussion bel shows persuasively that post-Cold \Var areas studies has no or little chc but to go beyond its "regnant paradigm" (McVey 1995, p. 6) of the p' especially if it is to survive this century and particularly in the regi INTRODUCTION itself. It is neither possible nor desirable for a home-grown Southeast As Focusing on the prospecr of a locally based Southeast Asian Studies in Studies to produce a replica of the exemplary models from the colonial ; th. ,r."i furure, this ihapter necessarily takes a different approach and Cold \Var eras. Southeast Asian Studies in the present and future canr framework from most of the other chapters. For political and historical afford to overlook the vibrant development of new media and popu reasons, Southeast Asian Studies, as we know it today, has for the past several cukures. Substantial sections in the middle of this chapter will be devo decades had its major centres of excellence half a globe away from Southeast specifically to a close examination of samples of what such cross-regio Asia, no rrratrer how one might define the region. \rith the exception of cultural flows look like and how they may be helpful in the formation Singapore, formal training and research in southeast Asian studies in the a locally-based area studies. ..g[r, *r. fairly new and small in size and impact in comparison both to I will look at some of the dominant streams in the recent intra-regio ,crde*ic activities in other fields of enquiry, as well as in comparison to popular cultural products, of which the so-called "Korean \rave" is a salit area studies in several counrries outside the region. understandably, most part. To complement that discussion, I will examine selected alternat historical analysis of area studies has referred largely to key texts, ideas, samples of intra-regional popular cultural circulation that are politica \Mhile persons and institutions from other regions. such an exercise is highly sensitive to majoriry grouPs in the region' I refer to ethniciry and religi ud,l"ble, it raises a number of intellectual, political and ethical issues as I in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. Both the dominant and the alterr have explored them elsewhere (Heryanto 2002). Building on that article, tive intra-regional popular cultural flows in this new millennium sigr I wish io consider below the prospecrs for a home-grown Southeast Asian new desires and anxieties among millions of people in this politically a Studies in the rwenry-first century, and speculate what such studies might economically dynamic region as they attempt to redefine their self-idendti look like. I must admit from the start, I do not have any ready answers and also a common commitment to embrace a modernity that better I ro rhese important yet difficult questions. However, I hope this modest their specific, if diverse and fluid, historical circumstances and aspiratic arrempr is a worrhy step. More specifically, this is a preliminary attemPt for their future. AII these new developmenrs require reconsideration r to consid.r the initial and poterrtial contribution of intra-Asian popular only ofthe selected conrenrs or exrernal conrexrs ofSoutheast Asian stud 226 Popular Culture for a New Southeast Asian Studies? )', 224 Ariel Hervanto good thing for everyone in the region, as they are never meant to be. from the past century, but also its dominant presuppositions, and its overall is also worth noting that the new media might not have been so effectir structural and defining framework. in integrating the region until they were accompanied by the recent boot in the production, circulation and consumption of popular culture acro. AREA STUDIES RECONSIDERED the national borders of North, East and Southeast Asia. Ironically, th took place not long after the infamous 7997 econonic crisis and ir-r tt Centuries old commerciai, religious, artistic and political links among the early 2000s.' various states and people of what is cutrently called Southeast Asia have As Southeast Asian Studies waned in mar.ry parts of the world followin been well documented.