Author Description

John K. Whitmore's Contribution To Vietnamese And Southeast Asian Studies -- A New/old Look At Classical And Post-classical Southeast Asia/burma -- Sojourning Communities, Ports-of-trade, And Commercial Networking In Southeast Asia's Eastern Regions, C. 1000-1400 -- Chinese-style Gunpowder Weapons In Southeast Asia: Focusing On Archelolgical Evidence -- To Catcha Tiger: The Suppression Of The Yang Yinglong Miao Uprising (1587-1600) As A Case Study In Ming Military And Borderlands History -- Martime Subversions And Socio-political Formations In Vietnamese History: A Look From The Marginal Center (mien Trung) -- 1620, A Cautionary Tale -- The Imported Book Trade And Confucian Learning In Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-century Vietnam -- Literacy In Earlu Seventeen-century Northern Vietnam -- The Limping Monk And The Deaf King: Peasant Politics. Subaltern Agency, And The Postcolonial Predicament In Colonial Burma. Edited By Michael Arthur Aung-thwin And Kenneth R. Hall. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 255-276) And Index.