New terrains in Southeast Asian history
By: edited by Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee.
Contributors: Abu Talib Ahmad.; Tan, Liok Ee.
Series: Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series -- no. 107.; Research in international studies -- no. 107.
Publisher: Ohio University Press; Singapore University Press/National University of Singapore
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Athens; Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Southeast Asia -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Seeking new perspectives and strategies.  Writing at the interstices: Southeast Asian historians and postnational histories in Southeast Asia / Thongchai Winichakul ; Changing conceptions of space in history writing: a selective mapping of writings on Singapore / Brenda S.A. Yeoh ; Quantifying the economic and social history of Southeast Asia: a quest for new evidence and methods/ M.R. Fernando ; Southeast Asian history, literary theory, and chaos / Yong Mun Cheong ; Country histories and the writing of Southeast Asian history / Paul H. Kratoska; title: Pt. 2. Constructing and deconstructing the national past.  Myanmar historiography since 1945 / Ni Ni Myint ; Our island story: economic development and the national narrative in Singapore / C.J.W.-L. Wee ; History through the eyes of the Malays: changing perspectives of Malaysia's past / Abdul Rahman Haji Ismail and Badriyah Haji Salleh ; Dialogue of two pasts: "historical facts" in traditional Thai and Malay historiography / Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian ; The scripting of Singapore's national heroes: toying with Pandora's box / Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli; title: Pt. 3. Shifting boundaries, moving interstices.  Writing Malaysia's social history from the ecclesiastical records / Abu Talib Ahmad ; Toward an autonomous history of seventeenth-century Phuket / Dhiravat na Pombejra ; Continuity and connectedness: the Ngee Heng Kongsi of Johore, 1844-1916 / P. Lim Pui Huen ; Migrants in contemporary Vietnamese history: marginal or mainstream? / Andrew Hardy ; Locating Chinese women in Malaysian history / Tan Liok Ee.