East Asian History
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The Lao PDR claims its historical and cultural roots in the ancient Kingdom of Lan Xang. But it is mostly foreign interference that has characterized the history of Laos. more...
Rubber Plantations of Cambodia
By: John Walsh
How the French empire's use of capitalism continues to blight the lives of Cambodian workers today. more...
By: John Walsh
No Southeast Asian writer has ever won the Nobel Prize for Literature but none has come closer than Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This is an introduction to his life. more...
By: John Walsh
How did the establishment of the Dutch Empire in Indonesia take place and what were its results? more...
By: John Walsh
The life and times of Nguyen Trai, hero of the Vietnamese people, poet, soldier and diplomat. more...
By: John Walsh
The life and times of the Shan-Chinese drug lord criminal mastermind Khun Sa are placed in context. more...
By: John Walsh
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and what is it purpose? Has it been successful? more...
By: John Walsh
Women in Thailand were traditionally equal in nearly all ways to men - and in many cases still are. Why did that start to change? more...
By: John Walsh
Evidence suggests that the earliest Tibetans were nomads who eventually settled the mountainous plateau. What do Tibetans believe about their own history? more...
By: John Walsh
An introduction to the early history of the northern Malaysian state of Kedah. more...
By: John Walsh
The life and times of Dr Pridi Banomyong, one of the greatest and wrongly-maligned political leaders of Thailand. more...
Women's Status in Southeast Asia
By: John Walsh
An introduction to the status and role of women in Southeast Asia through history. more...
By: John Walsh
The Kirghiz were a Scandinavian forest-dwelling people who emerged to defeat the Uighurs and establish their own state. This is their story. more...
By: John Walsh
In 1915, Indian Muslim troops on Singapore mutinied, killing their officers and British civilians. Why did they do this and what happened next? more...
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