...Yeo Min Hui Abstract Wildly popular in the 1960s and fondly remembered today as “Singapore's own Bond,” “Malaysia's own Bond,” and “Malay James Bond,” the Jefri Zain and Nora Zain films (1966–68) occupy a significant spot in film and cultural history. Yet very little has hitherto been written about...

... is mythical in the way that, say, James Bond is. Jensen does not deny that there was an actual historical individual who lived around 2,500 years ago, and who is the "first cause" of later stories of Confucius. Rather, Jensen wants to suggest that we have access to this historical individual only through...

..., particularly the Amir Hamzah ddstdns that have been so successful in both oral and written Urdu literature. This cycle of stories relates the fantastic "James Bond-like" adventures of Amir Hamzah, the legendary Muslim hero, and his trickster companion Amar Ayyar. Prichett's introductory section provides...

... ic­ le eng­ ages in a sub­tle in­ter­pret­ a­tion of the comp­ lex pol­ it­ic­ al and ideo­logi­­cal sig­nif­ic­ance of Malay-lan­guage James Bond films made in Hong Kong in the cont­ ext of post­col­ o­nial na­tion­al­ism in part­ icu­ l­ ar the sep­ar­ a­tion of Singapore from Malaysia...

... constitutes the essence of the financial system the vested interests represented in the arrangements established by the various economic and political groups is set forth in the case studies so as to emphasize the key issues. An example is the bond market, where the LDP's constraints on MOF activities...

... the challenge of economic development, and too aggressive in its attitude towards Sri Lankans of other faiths. The neotraditional approach, despite its many failures, remains dominant in Sri Lanka, but Bond takes heart from two other strains of Buddhist revivalism that have made progress in recent years: lay...

...James C. Scott Abstract This paper attempts to explain how, in Southeast Asia, the strong patron-client bonds which joined peasants to local elites tended to break down during the colonial period—particularly in directly-ruled low-land areas. By examining the effects of social differentiation...

... patron-client bonds eroded and village institutions lost legitimacy under the impact of colonial rule. By 1954, an estimated 80 percent of the population supported the Viet Minh and anticipated favorable changes when the French left. Change was thwarted, however, by the local landholders, big tradesmen...

... demonstrates how problematic narrow definitions of resistance can be. Some of the essays select subaltern subjects but see the relationship between dominance and resistance as fluid, constantly redefined, and interdependent. For Gyan Prakash, the oral traditions of the Bhuinya (outcaste bonded laborers...

... “essence” that makes them bound to it and similar to each other, as the main principle guiding the Han idea of diversity. Both Chinese and Western scholars widely agree that native place bonds play an important role in the ways Han identify themselves and others. Several studies have discussed the role...

... of structured society, this holy man could serve as the representative of this society as a whole, the collective conscience, the reservoir for bonds of common humanity that underlay the diverse interests of structured society. Although it is a long way from Syria to Japan, it is possible to see parallels...

..., Durrant breathes life into the Grand Historian much the way the Grand Historian did for the characters that populate his own writing. PAULA VARSANO Universite de Montreal Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China. Edited by D A V I D FAURE and H E L E N F. SIU. Stanford: Stanford University Press...

...-laden social bonds, even at the expense of traditional monastic values. Narada strongly emphasizes caring for his novices, even allowing them to play cricket and cooking for them after noon in violation of monastic rules (p. 13). He states that his affection creates in his novices a strong dependence...

... through various case studies, expressed in direct quotes from interviews, letters written to labor newspapers, and slogans or graffiti produced during protests. Through these sources, Tran shows how workers rely on “cultural identities,” such as gender, place of nativity, and ethnicity, to bond with each...

... CHINA AND INNER ASIA 379 men may not legally marry Uighur women; overseas-bound students must post 5,000yuan bonds. Other examples of carelessness: dating the one-child policy from 1976 and claiming against abundant contrary evidence that it works well; placing the Tibetan uprisings in 1956; stating...

... Bonds,” pp. 13–19. 10 Scott James C. , “ Patron-Client Politics and Political Change in Southeast Asia ,” The American Political Science Review, 61 (March 1972 ), 92 . 9 Gurr, Why Men Rebel , p. 341. 8 Gurr, Why Men Rebel , pp. 177–92. 7 Gurr, Why...

... status. It also shows the penetration of outsiders who could be Vietnamese from other villages or provinces, Chinese (as in the cited case), or French (especially in Cochin China). Two phenomena, differing in character and in their social implications, must be distinguished here: patron-client bonds...

... Bonds (san-kang) had, particularly since the Sung dynasty, made it a duty for an official or former official to lay down his life or to withdraw from society, once the dynasty he served fell. The Tung-lin leaders, Ku Hsien-ch'eng and Kao P'an-lung, both stressed the commitment of the Three Bonds...

...., and Japan were afraid that their access to important waterways might be jeopardized, and their response was sharp. Given the shared negative attitude of the two former powers toward Indonesia's claims, and given the close political-economic bonds to Indonesia of the last two, compromise on these claims...

..., relative isolation, and cultural bonds with the Malay states to the south identifies many of the reasons for its peripheral status and for its conflicts with Bangkok. The Greater Bangkok region, four contiguous provinces overlapping the metropolitan area, may well represent another extreme in economic...