Journal of SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

0022-4634 Volume 40 | Number 3 | October 2009

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volume 40 | number 3 | October 2009

Asian Cold War Symposium 441 Introduction: The origins of the Southeast Asian Cold War Karl Hack and Geoff Wade

Articles 449 Did the Soviet Union instruct Southeast Asian communists to revolt? New Russian evidence on the Calcutta Youth Conference of February 1948 Larisa Efimova 471 The origins of the Asian Cold War: Malaya 1948 Karl Hack 497 The Cold War in Indonesia, 1948 Harry A. Poeze 519 ‘It’s time for the Indochinese Revolution to show its true colours’: The radical turn of Vietnamese politics in 1948 Tuong Vu 543 The beginnings of a ‘Cold War’ in Southeast Asia: British and Australian perceptions Geoff Wade 567 ‘Strangers’ and ‘stranger-kings’: The sayyid in eighteenth-century maritime Southeast Asia Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells 593 Common ground: Race and the colonial universe in British Malaya Sandra Khor Manickam 613 Kampong, fire, nation: Towards a social history of postwar Singapore Loh Kah Seng

Book Reviews Asia 645 Foon Ming Liew-Herres & Volker Grabowsky Lan Na in Chinese historiography: Sino-Tai relations as reflected in the Yuan and Ming sources (13th–17th centuries) (Geoff Wade)

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Burma 648 Mikael Gravers Exploring ethnic diversity in Burma (Jane Ferguson)

649 Ian Harris Buddhism, power and political order (Patrice Ladwig)

Thailand 651 Marc Askew Performing political identity: The Democrat party in southern Thailand (Yoshinori Nishizaki)

Indonesia 654 Suzanne Moon Technology and ethical idealism: A history of development in the Netherlands East Indies (Andrew Goss)

655 Jeffrey Hadler Muslims and matriarchs: Cultural resilience in Indonesia through jihad and colonialism (Suryadi)

657 Gerry van Klinken Communal violence and democratization in Indonesia: Small town wars (Michelle Ann Miller)

661 Books Received

673 Index to Volume 40