Historians & Their Discipline: The Call of Southeast Asian History

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Nicholas Tarling Introduction 1 2. Nigel Brailey A British View of Thailand and Southeast Asia 3 3. David P. Chandler Forty-one years in the field: A Backward glance 13 4. Cheah Boon-Kheng How I got into Malaysian History 27 5. John Gullick An Amateur Historian 41 6. John D. Legge Chance and Circumstance: A Gradual Journey towards Asian studies 55 7. Jamie Mackie Becoming an Indonesianist but an unbecoming historian 73 8. Ruth T. McVey Imagining Southeast Asia 89 9. David Marr A Life with Vietnam 99 10. Ian Nish The Call of Southeast Asian History 109 11. Martin Stuart-Fox Serendipity, or discovering Lao History 115 12. Nicholas Tarling Down Chancery Lane 131 13. Ken Tregonning Reflections of a Pioneer 151 14. Wang Gungwu The Pull of Southeast Asia 161 15. Yoneo Iishi My Involvement in Thai historical studies 175 16. Yong Ching Fatt ‘Politics in Command’: Studying Chinese leadership in British Malaya 187 17. Select Bibliography 199 iii ...