A Short History of South-East Asia

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by Peter Church

Myanmar entry

  Regional Forum, Brunei host

  Singapore, future

  Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, East Timor signing

  Vietnam entry

  Aung, San

  August Revolution (Vietminh)

  Australian Embassy, attacks

  Autocracy/democracy, transition (Thailand) (1973–1992)

  Ava, Burmese kingdom (emergence)

  Ayudhya Bayinnaung siege

  destruction

  kingdom (1351–1767)

  ruling class, decimation

  social structures, strength

  Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad mandate, popularity

  Baht spread, devaluation

  Bali, terrorist attack

  Bangkok

  Bardez, Felix (murder)

  Barisan Nasional government

  Bashir, Abu Bakar

  Batavia

  Battambang, addition

  Bayinnaung, King (siege)

  Bay of Bengal, EIC control

  Belo, Carlos

  Bengal, Burmese invasion

  Bilateral free-trade agreements

  Black Tai

  Bolkiah, Sir Hassanal

  Bonifaco, Andres

  Borobudor, Buddhist temple

  Bowring, Treaty (1855)

  Britain

  British North Borneo Company, Sarawak (arrangements)

  Brooke, Charles (White Raja)

  Brooke, James

  Brooke, Vyner

  Brunei Britain, impact

  current status

  early history

  economic diversification policies

  Ho visit (15th century)

  Islamisation base

  Islam, observance (importance)

  National Development Party, registration

  Partai Rakyat Brunei opposition

  Resident, appointment

  Shariah (Islamic) law, introduction

  social composition, change

  Sultan of Brunei

  timeline

  Vision Brunei

  Buddhism Hindu Devaraj cults, coexistence

  Mahayana forms, impact

  Theravada Buddhism, impact

  Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party (BLDP), seats (control)

  Buddhist Socialism, rhetoric

  Bumiputera

  Burma attacks

  railway, building

  Burma Socialist Program Party, candidate approval

  Burmese Communist Party

  Burmese socialism

  Burmese Socialist Program Party

  “Burmese Way to Socialism

  Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), growth

  Adulyadej, Bhumibol (Rama IX)

  Cambodia Angkor, empire

  Central Bureau for Security, formation

  colonial era (1863–1940)

  current status

  Democratic Kampuchea, Khmer Rouge government (1975–1979)

  Democratic Party, dissolution (1957) dissidents, disappearance

  early history

  elections (1993)

  foreign aid dependence

  France, takeover

  independence

  intelligentsia elite, representation

  Kingdom (15th-18th centuries)

  Mang, Minh (absorption policy)

  Narasuen, attack

  National Assembly

  protectorate, establishment

  Royal Government of Cambodia

  Sihanouk rule (1953–1970)

  timeline

  UNTAC, relationship

  U.S. aid, rejection

  U.S. bombing, Congressional ending

  Vietnamese protectorate (1979–1991)

  Vietnam, interaction

  war/revolution (1970–1975)

  World War II (1940–1945)

  Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), popularity (increase)

  Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)

  Cao Dai (sect)

  Catholicism, conversion

  Catholic Spain, conflict

  Central Bureau for Security, formation

  Central Provident Fund, creation

  Chao, Anou

  Chakri (Thai dynasty)

  Chakri, Chaophraya

  Champassak (Lao centre)

  Champa, Vietnamese attack

  Chams, culture

  Chan, Ang (replacement attempt)

  Chan-ocha, Prayuth (military coup)

  Chartered Company, survival

  Charusathian, Praphas

  Chea, Nuon (sentencing)

  Cheng, Ho

  Chiang, Kai-Shek (Mao defeat)

  Chiang Mai

  Chinese-owned enterprises, number (growth)

  Chin, autonomy (desire)

  Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Kuomintang (KMT) struggle

  Chinese mestizo, impact

  Chinese-owned enterprises, number (growth)

  Chomanand, Kriangsak (prime ministership)

  Chou, Ta-kuan

  Chuan Leekpai, formation

  Chulachomklao Military Academy, education

  Chulalongkorn (Rama V)

  Chu Nom

  Cochin China

  Cold War rivalry, Cambodia victimisation

  Colonial era (Malaysia)

  Colonial history (Vietnam)

  Colonialism

  Colonial Vietnam, culture/politics

  Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)

  Communist Party of Malaya (CPM)

  Confucianism, 19th century revival (Vietnam)

  Conselho Nacional de Reconstrucão do Timor (CNRT)

  Constitutional authoritarianism

  Cooperatives, introduction (Laos)

  “Co-Prosperity Sphere” (slogan)

  Counter-revolutionary activities, Laos government crackdown

  Crony capitalism

  Cultural mandates (Thailand)

  Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar response

  Dai, Bao (US backing)

  Damrong, Prince

  Da Nang, importance

  Dayak (tribal people), actions

  Democracy, impact

  Democratic Action Party (DAP)

  Democratic Kampuchea, Khmer Rouge government (1975–1979)

  Democratic Party, dissolution (1957)

  Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) forces, impact

  governance

  government distrust

  peace talks

  setup

  Democrat Party, constituency (loss)

  Devaraj (god-king)

  Devawongse, Prince

  Dien Bien Phu, fall

  Dili Massacre

  Doi moi (Vietnam Communist Party Sixth National Congress impact)

  Dry season (Laos)

  Duang, Ang (French encouragement)

  Duc, Tu

  Dutch East Indies

  Duterte, Rodrigo Roa (Digong/Rody) election win

  Petrus killings

  pro-business perspective

  support/popularity

  vigilante killings

  “East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” (Japanese propaganda slogan)

  East Timor ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Cooperation deal, signing

  economic development

  government resignation, mutineer demand

  illiteracy rate, estimation

  infrastructure, destruction

  timeline

  vote/violence

  Economic exclusion zones, UNCLOS definition

  Emergency, The

  English East India Company (EIC) control

  establishment

  territory, extension

  VOC rival

  Estrada, Joseph

  Federated Malay States

  Federation of Malaya, launch (1948)

  Federation of Malaysia

  Felipe, Prince (island naming)

  Feudal relics

  Filipino, nationalism/term

  First Indochina War (Vietnam) (1940–1954)

  First Indochina War (1940–1954)

 
; Forbidden City

  Ford, Gerald

  Foreign media, censorship

  France, actions

  Free Laos (Lao Issra), formation

  Fretilin

  Funan, flourishing

  Geneva Conference (1954)

  Global financial crisis (2008–2009)

  God-kings

  Goh, Chok Tong (leadership)

  Golden Triangle

  Golkar (armed forces functional group)

  “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution” (Tse-tung)

  Guided Democracy, Sukarno declaration

  Gusmao, Xanana

  Habibie, BJ

  Hall, Robert (murder)

  Hamzah, Tunku Razaleigh

  Hanoi Hilton

  Hindu-Buddhism ideas, impact

  Hindu Devaraj cults, Buddhism (coexistence)

  Hinduism, arrival

  Hluttaw (parliament), representation

  Hmong

  Hoa Hao (sect)

  Ho, Chi Minh

  Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Hong Kong, acquisition (1842)

  Horta, Jose Ramos

  Housing Trust, activities (impact)

  Huk movement/rebellion

  Hun, Sen

  Hydraulic society

  Iban (tribal people)

  Ibrahim, Anwar

  Ilustrados (Spanish-educated children)

  Independence Cambodia, approach (1945–1953)

  Indonesia, post-independence existence

  Malaysia

  Myanmar

  Philippines

  Singapore, approach

  India, Malaya Indians (perspective)

  Indian National Army (INA)

  Indochina Communist Party (ICP)

  Indochina, Geneva Conference (1954)

  Indonesia archipelago

  army, dual function

  coat of arms, “Unity in Diversity”

  colonialism

  Communist Party, destruction

  Constitution, stipulation

  coup (9/30/1965)

  de-colonisation

  economic infrastructure, problems

  economic transformation

  House of Representatives creation

  Islam, basis (desire)

  Japan, occupation

  nationalism

  nation-building, difficulty

  New Order government

  pancasila (ideological basis)

  politics, army (importance)

  post-independence existence

  precolonial Indonesia

  Reformasi slogan

  religious diversity

  revolution

  rice, importance

  social/economic revolution, requirement

  society, Suharto de-politicisation

  Suharto rule, conclusion

  terrorist bombings

  timeline

  Western education, Dutch introduction

  Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)

  Indonesian Democratic Struggle Party

  Internal Security Act (ISA)

  International financial sector, reform

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), actions

  Iraq, U.S. invasion

  Irian Jaya

  Islamic fanaticism, rebuke

  Islamic fundamentalism, crackdown

  Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), impact

  Islam, impact

  Jakarta, Marriott Hotel (attack)

  Japan, actions

  Japanese occupations Indonesia

  Malaysia

  Myanmar

  Philippines

  Singapore

  “Japan the Light of Asia” (Japanese propaganda slogan)

  Java

  Jayakarta, VOC launch

  Jayavarman II

  Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  Johor, East India Company acquisition

  Kachin, autonomy (desire)

  Kadazan-Dusun (Brunei group)

  Kalimantan

  Kampuchea

  Karen National Union, ceasefire

  Karen (ethnic minority)

  Kastari, Mas Selamat

  Katibah Nusantara

  Katipunan

  Kedah

  Kelantan, imperial claims (relinquishment)

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kha (slaves)

  Kha (uplanders)

  Kham, Un (French protection)

  Khmer area, societies (presence)

  culture

  intelligentsia, formation

  Mon-Khmer origin

  ruling class, Angkor abandonment

  society, consolidation

  subsistence farmers, proportion

  Khmer Nation Party

  Khmer People’s National Liberation Front (KPNLF)

  Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party (KPRP)

  Khmer Rouge

  Kingdom of Ayudhya (1351–1767)

  Kittikachorn, Narong

  Kittikachorn, Thanom

  Kraprayoon, Suchinda

  Kuomintang (KMT)

  Kyi, Aung San Suu

  Land Chenla (Khmer society)

  Land of the Lao (Pathet Lao)

  Lan Xang (Laos)

  Lao Land of the Lao (Pathet Lao)

  formation

  Lao Issra (Free Laos), formation

  Lao Loum (lowlander Lao)

  Lao Soung

  Lao Theung (upland Lao)

  Royal Lao forces, integration

  Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)

  establishment

  First Indochina War (1940–1954)

  France, conquest/rule

  neutralisation, failure (1954–1964)

  timeline

  World War II

  Laos Agreement on the Restoration of Peace and Reconciliation

  anticorruption decree, augmentation

  ASEAN admittance

  cooperatives, introduction

  counterrevolutionary activities, government crackdown

  creation/early history

  human settlement

  infrastructure, improvement

  market socialism, pursuit

  Mon-Khmer origin

  National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, election results

  National Political Consultative Council (NPCC)

  national renovation movement

  post-1975 status

  Provisional Government of National Union

  Tai ethno-linguistic origin

  Thai forces, invasion

  Vietnam conflict (1964–1975)

  WTO admittance

  Le dynasty, Le Loi (founder)

  Lee, Hsien Loong

  Lee, Kuan Yew economy, structural change

  Minister Mentor, role

  separation agreement

  Le, Kong

  Le Loi

  Lese majeste laws (Thailand)

  Long, Gia

  Lon Nol

  Low Countries, bolstering

  Lower Myanmar, ruling

  Lowlander Lao (Lao Loum)

  Lu (upland-dwelling group)

  Luang Prabang (Lao centre)

  Luzon, Spain (conquest)

  Macapagal-Arroyo, Gloria

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Magellan, Ferdinand

  Magsaysay, Ramon

  Mahabharata

  Maha, Prince (Rama X)

  Mahathir, Mohamad

  Majapahit, golden era

  Malay culture (15th century)

  Federated Malay States

  history, origins

  positive discrimination

  States, tin-mining industry development

  Straits Settlement

  Unfederated Malay States (UMS)

  Malaya Britain, presence

  Federation of Malaya, launch (1948)

  Indians, political thoughts (focus)

  Malayan Chinese Association (MCA)

  Malayan Communist Party (MCP)

  Malayan Ind
ian Congress (MIC)

  Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) forces

  Malayan Union, plan

  Malaysia Alliance government

  Barisan nasional government, relationship

  Britain, advance (19th century)

  Chinese immigration, increase

  colonial era

  creation/formation

  crisis (1969)

  early history

  economic growth

  Emergency, The

  Federation of Malaysia

  independence

  Japan, occupation

  Mahathir, power (centralisation)

  Malay culture (15th century)

  New Economic Policy (NEP), impact

  political tension

  postwar period

  products, Dutch monopolisation attempt

  Singapore domination, fear

  threats (16th to 18th centuries)

  timeline

  UMNO, relationship

  Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA)

  Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)

  Malaysian Official

  Malay states, politics (complications)

  Managed democracy

  Mandarin, promotion

  Mang, Minh

  Manila, Britain (occupation)

  Mao, Tse-tung

  Marcos, Ferdinand

  Market socialism, pursuit

  Marriott Hotel, attack

  Marshall Plan, withdrawal plan

  Matak, Sisowath Sirik

  Mataram Court, division

  Mei, Ang (assistance)

  Melaka (Malacca)

  Melaka, Portugal (conquest)

  Melayu Islam Beraja (Malay-Muslim-Monarchy)

  Melville Bay, settlement failure

  Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Philippines signing

  Merdeka (independence), Alliance achievement

  Military government, rise (Thailand) (1932–1948)

  Mindanao, incorporation

  Minh, Ho Chi

  Mischief Reef, Chinese control

  Mok, Ta (capture)

  Monarchy, eclipse (Thailand)

  Mongkut, King (Rama IV)

  Mon-Khmer origin

  Montagnard group

  Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)

  Moro Nationalist Liberation Front (MNLF)

  Mount Meru, representation

  Murut (Brunei group)

  Myanmar ASEAN entry

  Burmeseness

 

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