Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
State–state ties, power elites, and state–business relations: Malaysia–China Belt and Road projects6
The Communist Manifesto in Indonesia5
Indonesia. A.H. Nasution and Indonesian elites: ‘People's Resistance’ in the War of Independence and postwar politics By Barry Turner Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. Pp. 281. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliog3
Editorial Foreword3
Dreaming the ‘Chinese dream’: Local productions of and engagements with Chinese infrastructures in Northern Laos2
Malaysia/ Singapore. Carl A. Gibson-Hill: Photography, history, boats, and birds in late-colonial Malaya and Singapore By Brendan Luyt Kuala Lumpur: MBRAS, 2022. Pp. vi, 158. Plates, Notes, Bibliograp2
Buddhist kingship and governance in the Dali Kingdom, 1140s to 12002
Southeast Asia. Arc of containment: Britain, the United States, and anticommunism in Southeast Asia By Wen-Qing Ngoei Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 257. Maps, Illustrations, Notes, B2
Southeast Asia. Empires of vice: The rise of opium prohibition across Southeast Asia By Diana Kim Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 309. Figures, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, 2
Spectres of a dictatorship: Law's limit concepts in Lino Brocka's Orapronobis2
At the intersection of history and biography: French retirees in Cambodia and Laos2
The twofold challenge for Karen Baptist intellectuals in colonial Burma: A national claim and its failure2
The role of State Shinto and sport in integrating Singapore into the Japanese Empire, 1942–452
Singapore and the ends of Conservatism in Postwar Asia: Wu Teh-yao across the Colonial, Christian, Cold War, and Chinese Worlds2
Folk magic in the Philippines, 1611–391
Debating the Malayan Emergency: The new orthodoxy and competing interpretations1
Asia. Khao Sam Kaeo: An early port-city between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea Edited by Bérénice Bellina Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2017. Pp. 675. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliog1
Asia. Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious rites, colonial migrations, national rights Edited by Michael Laffan London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Pp. xii + 252. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.1
Retrofitting the Mekong: Community-based environmental responses to Chinese transnational infrastructure in a Thai border town1
Cambodia. Disturbed forests, fragmented memories: Jarai and other lives in the Cambodian highlands By Jonathan Padwe Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp 280. Maps, Plates.1
The Philippines. Reciprocal mobilities: Indigeneity and imperialism in an eighteenth-century Philippine Borderland By Mark Dizon Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Pp. 259. Illustr1
Thailand. In plain sight: Impunity and human rights in Thailand By Tyrell Haberkorn Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Pp. 349. Bibliography, Index.1
Vietnam. Single mothers and the state's embrace: Reproductive agency in Vietnam By Harriet M. Phinney Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. Pp. 236. Notes, Bibliography, Index.1
Vietnam. Silence and sacrifice: Family stories of care and the limits of love in Vietnam By Merav Shohet Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. 267. Maps, Tables, Figures, Photographs, Not1
In memoriam: Dayaneetha De Silva1
Asia. In Asian waters: Oceanic worlds from Yemen to Yokohama By Eric Tagliacozzo Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. 489. Appendices, Maps, Plates, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index.1
A burning issue: Spirits of land and capital in Thailand's agricultural haze crisis1
Southeast Asia. Spirit possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: A world ever more enchanted Edited by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A. Jackson Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2022. Pp. 360. Illustrati1
Industrialisation and Chinese big business in colonial Singapore, Malaya, and China: The transnational enterprises of Lim Peng Siang (1904–41)1
Normalising Hồ Chí Minh in Vietnamese cinema, 1990–2020: Ideology, popular appeal, and the market economy1
Failure (re-)framed: The Vietnamese Land Reforms through the lens of recapitulation reports1
Indonesia. Indonesia, 1947: Australia and the first United Nations cease-fire order By Steven Farram North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. Pp. 254. Notes, Bibliography, Photographs, 1
Myanmar. Painting Myanmar's transition Edited by Ian Holliday and Aung Kaung Myat Hongkong: Hongkong University Press 2021. Pp. 189. Plates, Bibliography.1
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Poppy in the era of prohibition: Smuggling and state complicity in Upper Burma, c. 1890–19401
Rethinking the causes of Islamisation: Ontological (in)security, postcoloniality, and Islam in Malaysia1
Asia. The opium business: A history of crime and capitalism in maritime China By Peter Thilly Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. 298. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliography and Index.0
Indonesia. Constraining elites in Russia and Indonesia: Political participation and regime survival By Danielle N. Lussier Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 313. Notes, Bibliography, In0
The cultural meaning of ‘female genital mutilation’ in rural Malaysia: The female body and sexuality through the medical gaze0
Southeast Asia. Losing hearts and minds: Race, war, and empire in Singapore and Malaya, 1915 – 1960 By Kat0
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Settler cities in the Dutch Indies: Race, class and the emergence of settler colonialism0
Singapore. Sonic city: Making rock music and urban life in Singapore By Steve Ferzacca Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. Pp. 166. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
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Malaysia. Malaysian crossings: Place and language in the worlding of modern Chinese literature By Cheow Thia Chan New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Pp. 298, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Vietnam. The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese perspectives on nation building Edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 207. Notes, Bibliography and In0
Singapore. Theatres of memory: Industrial heritage of 20th century Singapore By Loh Kah Seng, Alex Tan Tiong Hee, Koh Keng We, Tan Teng Phee and Juria Toramae Singapore: Pagesetters, 2021. Pp. 321. Pl0
Singapore. The men who lost Singapore, 1938–1942 By Ronald McCrum Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017. Pp. 240. Maps, Images, Bibliography, Index.0
The Philippines. Drugs and Philippine society Edited by Gideon Lasco Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2021. Pp. 407. Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index.0
Remembering a forgotten war: The Vietnamese state, war veterans and the commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89)0
Southeast Asia. The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and counterinsurgency at the End of Empire By Karl Hack Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp0
The fall of Singapura: The necessity of unjust violence in the Sejarah Melayu0
Thailand. Patani through foreign eyes: Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Edited by Daniel Perret and Jorge Santos Alves Paris: Archipel, Hors-Série no. 2, 2022. Pp. 318. Maps, Figures, Images, Index0
Southeast Asia. Cross-cultural exchange and the colonial imaginary: Global encounters via Southeast Asia Edited by H. Hazel Hahn Singapore: NUS Press, 2019. Pp. 328. Bibliography, Index, Figures.0
Myanmar. Everyday justice in Myanmar: Informal resolutions and state evasion in a time of contested transition Edited by Helene Maria Kyed Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2020. Map, Figures, Notes, Bibliograp0
Disenchanted: Thailand's indigenisation of the American Cold War, seen through the experience of Gordon Young0
Asia. Strangers next door? Indonesia and Australia in the Asian Century Edited by Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae Oxford: Hart, 2018. Pp. 548. Terminology, Glossary, Index.0
Hanging for murder in late colonial Burma0
Peace pacts and contentious politics: The Chico River Dam struggle in the Philippines, 1974–820
Editorial Foreword0
Indonesia. Personal religion and magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi: The search for powers of blessing from the other world of the gods By C.W. Buijs Leiden: KITLV, 2017. Pp. 163. Glossary, Bibliography, 0
The Philippines. Filipino time: Affective worlds and contracted labour By Allan Punzalan Isaac New York: New York University Press, 2022. Pp. 159. Endnotes, Works Cited, Index.0
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Malaysia. Elite Malay polygamy: Wives, wealth and woes in Malaysia By Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. Pp. 277. Bibliography, Index.0
Eunuchs in Burmese history: An overview0
Staging Chinese student activism in Cold War Singapore: Performing Chineseness and embodying the Malayan nation, 1950s–60s0
Remittance letters from Manila: The gendered, individual and emotional world of the Chinese diaspora0
Capture, classification and incarceration of Communist captives during Vietnam's American War0
Cambodia. Life in a Cambodian orphanage: A childhood journey for new opportunities By Kathie Carpenter New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. 207. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Indonesia. After the tsunami: Disaster narratives and the remaking of everyday life in Aceh By Annemarie Samuels Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. Pp. 214. Illustrations, Map.0
Asia. Ruling before the law: The politics of legal regimes in China and Indonesia By William Hurst Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. Bibliography, Index.0
Index to Volume 540
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Thailand. More than rural: Textures of Thailand's agrarian transformation By Jonathan Rigg Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. Pp. 300. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Revisiting civil religion: Lessons from Thailand0
Asia. Detention camps in Asia: The conditions of confinement in modern Asian history Edited by Robert Cribb, Christina Twomey and Sandra Wilson Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 314. Maps, Notes, Bibliography,0
Localised impacts on Islamist political mobilisation in Indonesia: Evidence from three sub-provincial units0
Utsana Phloengtham'sThe Story of Jan Daraas a Buddhist modernist novel0
Thailand. Belittled citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins By Giuseppe Bolotta Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021. Pp. ix + 250. Illustrations, Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Thailand. Wayward distractions: Ornament, emotion, zombies and the study of Buddhism in Thailand By Justin McDaniel Singapore: NUS Press; Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2021. Pp. 281. Images, Bibliogr0
Southeast Asia. Merchants, bankers, governors: British enterprise in Singapore and Malaya, 1786–1920 By Peter J. Drake Singapore: World Scientific, 2018. Pp. xii + 194. Map, Bibliography, Notes, Index0
The flower, then the sword: The militarisation of Burma's most beautiful book0
Editorial Foreword0
Indonesia. The Kakawin Ghaṭotkacāśraya by Mpu Panuluh Edited and translated by Stuart Robson Tokyo: Research School for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 0
Southeast Asia. Seaways and gatekeepers: Trade and state in the eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906 By Heather Sutherland Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. Pp. xv + 537. Maps, Images, Bibl0
Fishes of Empire: Imperialism and ichthyological introductions in British Malaya, 1923–420
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Thailand. Dynastic democracy: Political families in Thailand By Yoshinori Nishizaki Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Pp. xxiii + 308. Tables, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
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Singapore. Singapore, Chinese migration and the making of the British Empire, 1819–67 By Stan Neal Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019. Pp. 181. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Examining the College of Interpreters and translation issues in colonial Vietnam, 1862–900
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On the cultural politics of representing Dutch Moluccans at Barak 1B in the Netherlands0
The Yunnan–Burma railway, 1860s–1940s: Imagining, planning and rejecting a railway that was never built0
Indonesia. Plantation life: Corporate occupation in Indonesia's oil palm zone By Tania Li Murray and Pujo Semedi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 243. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Inde0
Indonesia. Mosques and imams: Everyday Islam in eastern Indonesia Edited by Kathryn M. Robinson Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. Pp. xiv, 277. Maps, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index.0
Exodus and return: State-building, local responses, and identity negotiation in China's Burma borderlands, 1949–660
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Editorial Foreword0
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The Johor–Singapore Causeway: Celebrating and conceptualising its centenary0
What is shared and what is not: How the Cold War era in northeastern Thailand is remembered on social media0
Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia on screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis: 1945–1998 Edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker and Mary Ainslie Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 300
Islamic particularity and academic freedom: Public institutions and doctrinal difference in contemporary Indonesia0
Making disciples of all nations: Bishop Carlo van Melckebeke and his apostolate to overseas Chinese 1953–770
Denouncing the ‘Việt Cộng’: Tales of revolution and betrayal in the Republic of Vietnam0
Transnationalising Malay Cinema: P. Ramlee in Hong Kong0
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Singapore. Singaporean creatures: Histories of humans and other animals in the Garden City Edited by Timothy P. Barnard Singapore: NUS Press, 2024. Pp. i0
Power and ritual in the city: Mourning and political juncture at Bangkok's Sanam Luang0
Southeast Asia. The camphor tree and the elephant: Religion and ecological change in Maritime Southeast Asia By Faziah Zakaria, foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Seattle: University of Washington Press,0
1881, a singularly uneventful year: Everyday death, destruction, and disaster in the Spanish Philippines0
Asia. Transregional trade and traders: Situating Gujarat in the Indian Ocean from early times to 1900 Edited by Edward A. Alpers and Chhaya Goswami New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 397. M0
Thailand. Capitalism magic Thailand: Modernity with enchantment By Peter A. Jackson Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2022. Pp. x + 381. Maps, Plates, Notes, 0
Editorial Foreword0
Myanmar. Interpreting Myanmar: A decade of analysis By Andrew Selth Canberra: ANU Press, 2020. Pp. 515. Index.0
Historical and cultural negotiations in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah: Beyond the utopia of ‘unity in diversity’0
The Philippines. Counter-Hispanization in the colonial Philippines: Literature, law, religion, and native custom By John D Blanco Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. Pp. 355. Map, Plates, Not0
Vietnam. Black market business: Selling sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 by Christina Elizabeth Firpo Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 259. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Index to Volume 550
Myanmar. Everyday economic survival in Myanmar By Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. Pp. 276. Tables, Maps, Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Dr Edwin S.C. Lee (1939–2023)0
Laos. Anthropogenic rivers: The production of uncertainty in Lao hydropower By Jerome Whitington Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 266. Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
The Philippines. The Filipino migration experience: Global agents of change By Mina Roces Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. 254. Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Editorial Foreword0
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Vietnam. Speaking out in Vietnam: Public political criticism in a Communist Party–ruled nation By Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 243. Illustrations, Notes, 0
Southeast Asia. The ‘Soul’ of the Tai re-examined: The Khwan concept and Tham Khwan ceremony of the Tai-speaking peoples By Barend Jan (Baas) Terwiel, ed0
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Mayhem in May: A social history of the 1957 Asian Flu epidemic in the Colony of Singapore0
Indonesia. Savu: History and oral tradition on an island of Indonesia By Geneviève Duggan and Hans Hägerdal Singapore: NUS Press. 2018. Pp. xxvi + 586. Figures, Maps, Photographs, Plates, Appendixes, 0
Indonesia. Strangers in the family: Gender, patriliny, and the Chinese in colonial Indonesia By Guo-Quan Seng Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Pr0
Index to Volume 530
Thailand. Coup, king, crisis: A critical interregnum in Thailand Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2020. Pp. 379. Foreword, Tables, Figures, Notes0
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Drug harms amongst youth in Shan State, Myanmar: Community responses and increased vulnerabilities0
Cambodia. The social order of postconflict transformation in Cambodia: Insurgent pathways to peace By Daniel Bultmann Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. Pp. 182. Figure, Table, Notes, Bibliography and Index0
Chinese soldiers in Laos: Covert revolutionary support during the Second Indochina War0
The origins of scientific Buddhism in nineteenth-century Thai intellectual thought0
‘A ruinous infatuation’: Nutmeg cultivation in early Penang0
‘Apolitical warriors’: Remembrances, historical memory, and the boundaries of belonging among Gurkha migrants in Southeast Asia0
Colonial heritage as bricolage: Interpreting the colonial built environment in Surabaya, Indonesia0
Southeast Asia. COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a post-pandemic world Edited by Hyun Bang Shin, Murray Mckenzie and Do Young Oh London: LSE Press, 2022. Pp. 318. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliogr0
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Rendering visible monks in the shadow of power: A review essay on The Irish Buddhist and Monks in Motion0
Musical creativity and the state of Southeast Asian music studies0
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Southeast Asia. Living standards in Southeast Asia: Changes over the long twentieth century, 1900–2015 By Anne Booth Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Pp. 317. Tables, Bibliography, Index.0
Praxis and policy: Discourse on Cham Bani religious identity in Vietnam0
Opium consumption and living standards in Singapore, 1900 to 19390
Temoq, Semelai, Semaq Beri and Jakun: Using Orang Asli ethnonyms to reconstruct Orang Asli ethnohistory0
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Paving the road ahead: Women in (post) colonial Southeast Asia0
Meetings and minutes: Spaces of lawmaking and legal translation in colonial Indonesia0
Indonesia. Buried histories: The anticommunist massacres of 1965–66 in Indonesia By John Roosa Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. Pp. 266. Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Southeast Asia. Signs of deference, signs of demeanour: Interlocutor reference and self-other relations across Southeast Asian speech communities Edited by Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell Singapo0
The eradication of Cham Muslim women's ethnic identity in Cambodia, 1975–790
Cambodia. Early Theravādin Cambodia: Perspectives from art and archaeology Edited by Ashley Thompson Singapore: National University of Singapore Press (with the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme,0
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Unvarying Indochinese idea, evolving Indochinese strategies: The Vietnamese thirty-year revolution in Laos, 1945–750
Timor Leste. Haunted houses and ghostly encounters: Ethnography and animism in East Timor, 1860–1975 By Christopher J. Shepherd Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2019. Pp. 419. Abbreviations, Figures, Notes, Bi0
Southeast Asia. Education and power in contemporary Southeast Asia By Azmil Tayeb, Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm London: Routledge Contemporary Southeast 0
The Philippines. Communal intimacy and the violence of politics: Understanding the war on drugs in Bagong Silang, Philippines By Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 0
Co-opting the stars: Divination and the politics of resistance in Buddhist Thailand0
Vietnam. Rubber and the making of Vietnam: An ecological history, 1897–1975 By Michitake Aso Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Pp. 426 pp. Maps, Tables, Appendix, Notes, Bibliogra0
Southeast Asia. Voices from the underworld: Chinese Hell deity worship in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia By Fabian Graham Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Pp. 280. Plates, Notes, Bi0
The Philippines. Imagining Manila: Literature, empire, and Orientalism By Tom Sykes London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Pp. 140. Notes, Bibliography, Index.0
Bangkok electric0
‘Rice ambiguity’ and the taste of modernity on Siberut Island, Indonesia0
Indonesia. Preparing Indonesian youth: A review of educational research Edited by Anne Suryani, Isabella Tirtowalujo and Hasriadi Masalam Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. xiv + 243. Figures, Tables, Index.0
Indonesia. When violence works: Postconflict violence and peace in Indonesia By Patrick Barron Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 280. Figures, Tables, Glossary, Appendix, Notes, Referenc0
A coachman's tall tales: The street humour of Kuwentong Kutsero and radio broadcasting in twentieth-century Manila0
Asia. Boats in a storm: Law, migration, and decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 BY Kalyani Ramnath Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. Pp. xvii + 284. Maps, Notes, Bibliog0
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Malaysia. Sharia transformations: Cultural politics and the rebranding of an Islamic judiciary By Michael G. Peletz Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 238. Maps, Table, Figures, Biblio0
Islamic parties and the allure of socialism: The case of Indonesia's Masjumi0
Colonial labour in French policy: A case study of the Lính thợ sent from Vietnam to France, 1939–1950s0
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