SEA Volume 40 Issue 2 Cover and Front Matter

0022-4634 Volume 40 | Number 2 | June 2009

Journal of SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

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volume 40 | number 2 | June 2009

Articles 221 An Early Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia, 900–1300 CE Geoff Wade 267 Moral order in a time of damnation: The Hikayat Patani in historical context Francis R. Bradley 295 Sorapet Pinyoo and the status of pleeng luuk tung James Mitchell 323 Mixed up in power politics and the Cold War: The Americans, the ICFTU and Singapore’s labour movement, 1955–1960 S.R. Joey Long 353 Singapore and the Vietnam war Ang Cheng Guan 385 Fragments of utopia: Popular yearnings in East Timor Douglas Kammen

Review Articles 409 Cultural construction of illness, festival and music in Southeast Asia Muhamad Ali 417 Revisiting the rice deltas and reconsidering modern Southeast Asia’s economic history Michael J. Montesano

Book Reviews Asia 431 Xu Xiaowang 徐晓望 Mazu xinyang shi yanjiu 妈祖信仰史研究 (Roderich Ptak)

Burma 432 Anne Peters Birmanische handschriften, Teil 6: Katalognummern 1016–1200 (Tilman Frasch)

Indonesia 435 Noorhaidi Hasan Laskar Jihad: Islam, militancy, and the quest for identity in post-New Order Indonesia (Jemma Purdey)

437 Bilveer Singh Papua: Geopolitics and the quest for nationhood (Denny Yomaki)