ironies and farce that render our colonial past tender, and therefore open to more flexible and complex readings, rather than forceful. It is this imaginative treatment of historical sources and subjecting them to a conversation on pressing issues of our present day on the legacies of colonialism, that Empires of Vices persuades us of the historiographical and theoretical insights that in depth archival work can still reward us with. If anything, the book compelling demonstrates that global imperial history is not a story that necessarily needs to begin in the colonial metropole. Yet, telling a story of change that emerges from systemic idiosyncrasies can only be achieved if we begin to recognise how important the interpretive dimension of a historian’s craft is to any critical engagement with the colonial past.
讽刺和闹剧使我们的殖民历史变得温柔，因此可以更灵活和复杂地解读，而不是有力的解读。正是这种对历史来源的富有想象力的处理，并让它们就当今关于殖民主义遗产的紧迫问题进行对话，《Vices Empires of Vices》说服了我们对历史和理论的深刻见解，而深入的档案工作仍然可以回报我们。如果说有什么不同的话，那就是这本书令人信服地表明，全球帝国历史并不是一个必然需要从殖民大都市开始的故事。然而，只有当我们开始认识到历史学家技艺的解释层面对任何与殖民历史的批判性接触有多么重要时，讲述一个从系统性特质中产生的变革故事才能实现。
{"title":"Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore 1819-2000 by Jean DeBernardi (review)","authors":"B. Andaya","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"ironies and farce that render our colonial past tender, and therefore open to more flexible and complex readings, rather than forceful. It is this imaginative treatment of historical sources and subjecting them to a conversation on pressing issues of our present day on the legacies of colonialism, that Empires of Vices persuades us of the historiographical and theoretical insights that in depth archival work can still reward us with. If anything, the book compelling demonstrates that global imperial history is not a story that necessarily needs to begin in the colonial metropole. Yet, telling a story of change that emerges from systemic idiosyncrasies can only be achieved if we begin to recognise how important the interpretive dimension of a historian’s craft is to any critical engagement with the colonial past.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"206 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49190689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kingdom of Perak","authors":"J. E. de la Croix","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"169 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46256030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In the early 1900s the zoological staff of the Selangor Museum regularly collected birds in mountainous parts of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, giving hill stations a prominent role in Malaysian ornithology. H. C. Robinson published a synopsis of the Selangor Museum's collections of mountain birds in 1909, drawing connections to the work of other prominent European and American bird collectors. The Selangor Museum made a large donation of specimens to the Liverpool Museums in 1914, and several of these mountain birds are now in the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool. An examination of the provenance of these specimens reveals the synergy between the growth of bird collections from the peninsula, the transition to bird 'watching', and the development of some of these hill stations into enduringly popular resorts.
{"title":"Colonial birding in the Thai-Malay Peninsula: Birds from the Selangor Museum now in World Museum, Liverpool","authors":"John-James Wilson","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the early 1900s the zoological staff of the Selangor Museum regularly collected birds in mountainous parts of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, giving hill stations a prominent role in Malaysian ornithology. H. C. Robinson published a synopsis of the Selangor Museum's collections of mountain birds in 1909, drawing connections to the work of other prominent European and American bird collectors. The Selangor Museum made a large donation of specimens to the Liverpool Museums in 1914, and several of these mountain birds are now in the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool. An examination of the provenance of these specimens reveals the synergy between the growth of bird collections from the peninsula, the transition to bird 'watching', and the development of some of these hill stations into enduringly popular resorts.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"121 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42725882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper examines a 1592 encounter between the British merchant galleon, the Edward Bonaventure, and a sixteen-man canoe on the coast of the Malay Peninsula. The locals are identified as indigenous Orang Asli of the Semang societal tradition. They were friendly and promised to supply the Edward with food. This fresh fruit may have relieved the British sailors of scurvy. On future voyages, the Captain of the Edward, James Lancaster, supplied his men with a daily ration of fruit juice, keeping them healthy. The advice to consume fruit then became part of the standard medical canon of the East India Company. The experience of the first voyage to the Far East may have contributed to this insight. However, this early meeting between the British and the Orang Asli has yet to be mentioned in the history books.
{"title":"'Sixteen Naked Indians': First Contact between the British and the Orang Asli","authors":"T. Lim","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines a 1592 encounter between the British merchant galleon, the Edward Bonaventure, and a sixteen-man canoe on the coast of the Malay Peninsula. The locals are identified as indigenous Orang Asli of the Semang societal tradition. They were friendly and promised to supply the Edward with food. This fresh fruit may have relieved the British sailors of scurvy. On future voyages, the Captain of the Edward, James Lancaster, supplied his men with a daily ration of fruit juice, keeping them healthy. The advice to consume fruit then became part of the standard medical canon of the East India Company. The experience of the first voyage to the Far East may have contributed to this insight. However, this early meeting between the British and the Orang Asli has yet to be mentioned in the history books.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"27 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49164680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability by Gerald Sim (review)","authors":"N. Chan","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"224 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49619801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
second half of the 19th century, Spain fearing European encroachments into their sphere of influence, took civil and military measures to control the territory of the Sulu Sultanate. Warren concluded that Spain’s combination of cruises and blockades led by steam vessels against the Sulu archipelago and the Visayas forced their residents into submission and to adapt to agriculture as Chinese took over the maritime trade. The authors in this book present a strong case for the role of counter piracy in state monopolisation of violence. In the three chapters examined here, whereas Warren has extensively covered his topic over the past several decades, Ota and Satsuma have had more room to explore new material. Ota in particular could have expanded further especially on Raja Akil and the importance of individuals like him given the copious amounts of untouched material on counter piracy in the Dutch East Indies archives. It is debatable, however, that this period saw the conception of the notion that Malay states became responsible for suppressing piracy, though there was more urgency to that mission than before. This volume reinvigorates the discourse on piracy in Asia and hopefully more work will follow by these historians.
{"title":"Revisiting Malaya: Uncovering Historical and Political Thoughts in Nusuntara ed. by Show Ying Xin and Ngoi Guat Peng (review)","authors":"Li Chi","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0045","url":null,"abstract":"second half of the 19th century, Spain fearing European encroachments into their sphere of influence, took civil and military measures to control the territory of the Sulu Sultanate. Warren concluded that Spain’s combination of cruises and blockades led by steam vessels against the Sulu archipelago and the Visayas forced their residents into submission and to adapt to agriculture as Chinese took over the maritime trade. The authors in this book present a strong case for the role of counter piracy in state monopolisation of violence. In the three chapters examined here, whereas Warren has extensively covered his topic over the past several decades, Ota and Satsuma have had more room to explore new material. Ota in particular could have expanded further especially on Raja Akil and the importance of individuals like him given the copious amounts of untouched material on counter piracy in the Dutch East Indies archives. It is debatable, however, that this period saw the conception of the notion that Malay states became responsible for suppressing piracy, though there was more urgency to that mission than before. This volume reinvigorates the discourse on piracy in Asia and hopefully more work will follow by these historians.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"234 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66383627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:There has been extensive trade between Borneo and the outside world for at least 1000 years but there are considerable problems in establishing the precise locations of the major polities that were involved in this trade. One of them, Tanjungpura (with spelling variations), appears in Chinese, Javanese, Malay, and Portuguese records until the end of the 16th century CE and then disappears. The popular view is that it lay on the Pawan river and that Sukadana is its successor, but some maps show Tanjungpura in northerly locations in Borneo or in the south. This issue now deserves attention, particularly because a recently published oral history mentions more than one Tanjungpura in Borneo. This article reviews references to Tanjungpura in early records, to address the question in the title, and wider occurrences of the name in the Indonesian archipelago.
{"title":"How Many Polities Called Tanjungpura Have There Been in Borneo?","authors":"F. Smith","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There has been extensive trade between Borneo and the outside world for at least 1000 years but there are considerable problems in establishing the precise locations of the major polities that were involved in this trade. One of them, Tanjungpura (with spelling variations), appears in Chinese, Javanese, Malay, and Portuguese records until the end of the 16th century CE and then disappears. The popular view is that it lay on the Pawan river and that Sukadana is its successor, but some maps show Tanjungpura in northerly locations in Borneo or in the south. This issue now deserves attention, particularly because a recently published oral history mentions more than one Tanjungpura in Borneo. This article reviews references to Tanjungpura in early records, to address the question in the title, and wider occurrences of the name in the Indonesian archipelago.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47934021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this age of eBooks and digital resources, it is perhaps not surprising to discover that Sutherland’s book has an associated website. This site, portrayed by Sutherland as ‘a digital appendix’, displays maps, drawings and photographs accessed from institutions around the globe. Originally created as part of the contemporary documentary record of archipelagic Southeast Asia, these primacysource visual materials are a genuine complement to Sutherland’s text, giving readers an additional insight to the diversity of the region. In her introduction to the website, Sutherland surveys the many sources used to bring it into being. As well as providing information on where to access historical images and maps, she also outlines the growing number of online sources that provide free access to digital versions of historic texts, including newspapers, articles. and books. This is of great use to the student and researcher, but it should be stressed that the website is an additional resource and not an essential adjunct to the book, which carries forty-seven images of its own and twenty-three maps, the latter created or adapted specially to enhance the text. For such a large book, there are few obvious spelling errors. There is some confusion, however, about modern and historical place names and terminology with, for example, Melaka and Malacca, Sulawesi Sea and Celebes Sea, and turtle shell and tortoiseshell, all used apparently at random. Meanwhile, considering the complexity of the narrative, it appears internally consistent to an astonishing degree, although we are told that Kupang became the Portuguese base on Timor in 1657, and on the next page we learn that the VOC was established there in the same year. Several pages further on, the correct information is given that Kupang was occupied by the Dutch in 1653 (pp. 172–73, 207). The errors here are due to incorrect information contained in secondary sources. Elsewhere, however, in a list of Bima’s trading partners, the Australian-born Sutherland surprisingly identifies Port Jackson as Melbourne (p. 329). Don’t tell that to the people in Sydney. These are all minor quibbles, however. This is an attractive and well-laid-out book. Sutherland’s scholarship has created a masterful work that will be appreciated by all interested in maritime Southeast Asia’s colonial and pre-colonial past. It is to be hoped that Sutherland’s example will encourage others to do more research in this field, but it is beyond doubt that the present work will remain the preeminent study of the subject for many years to come.
{"title":"In the Name of the Battle Against Piracy: Ideas and Practices in State Monopoly of Maritime Violence in Europe and Asia in the Period of Transition by Ota Atsushi (review)","authors":"S. Abel","doi":"10.1353/ras.2021.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2021.0044","url":null,"abstract":"In this age of eBooks and digital resources, it is perhaps not surprising to discover that Sutherland’s book has an associated website. This site, portrayed by Sutherland as ‘a digital appendix’, displays maps, drawings and photographs accessed from institutions around the globe. Originally created as part of the contemporary documentary record of archipelagic Southeast Asia, these primacysource visual materials are a genuine complement to Sutherland’s text, giving readers an additional insight to the diversity of the region. In her introduction to the website, Sutherland surveys the many sources used to bring it into being. As well as providing information on where to access historical images and maps, she also outlines the growing number of online sources that provide free access to digital versions of historic texts, including newspapers, articles. and books. This is of great use to the student and researcher, but it should be stressed that the website is an additional resource and not an essential adjunct to the book, which carries forty-seven images of its own and twenty-three maps, the latter created or adapted specially to enhance the text. For such a large book, there are few obvious spelling errors. There is some confusion, however, about modern and historical place names and terminology with, for example, Melaka and Malacca, Sulawesi Sea and Celebes Sea, and turtle shell and tortoiseshell, all used apparently at random. Meanwhile, considering the complexity of the narrative, it appears internally consistent to an astonishing degree, although we are told that Kupang became the Portuguese base on Timor in 1657, and on the next page we learn that the VOC was established there in the same year. Several pages further on, the correct information is given that Kupang was occupied by the Dutch in 1653 (pp. 172–73, 207). The errors here are due to incorrect information contained in secondary sources. Elsewhere, however, in a list of Bima’s trading partners, the Australian-born Sutherland surprisingly identifies Port Jackson as Melbourne (p. 329). Don’t tell that to the people in Sydney. These are all minor quibbles, however. This is an attractive and well-laid-out book. Sutherland’s scholarship has created a masterful work that will be appreciated by all interested in maritime Southeast Asia’s colonial and pre-colonial past. It is to be hoped that Sutherland’s example will encourage others to do more research in this field, but it is beyond doubt that the present work will remain the preeminent study of the subject for many years to come.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":" ","pages":"232 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49450334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper features the military and political fortunes of a man of Malay origin and called Tuen Phaow/Toàn Phù/Tuan Phâ. Vietnamese, Cam and Khmer historical sources record his activity in the Indochinese Peninsula from 1786 to 1820. After crowning himself king in the region south of today's Central Vietnam highlands, he fought the Vietnamese (1796–97) and then fled, only to reappear a decade later at the Khmer royal court. Promoted to the highest position, he was then used by the Vietnamese imperial court to further their influence over Cambodian politics. His spectacular ascension abruptly ended in 1820 when he was put to death. Celebrated by some as a hero, reviled as a traitor or loathed as a ruthless brute by others, this complex and unique character exemplifies patterns of mobility and political opportunism in mainland Southeast Asian precolonial politics.
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{"title":"Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv2gjx12g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2gjx12g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41598812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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