Vol. 5, No. 2 of Southeast Asian Studies Published in August, 2016 CONTENTS Political Networks in Asia Guest Editors: Onimaru Takeshi and Khoo Boo Teik History Reformatted: Vietnam’s Great Famine (1944–45) in Archival Form ・・・ Ken MACLEAN The Irony of Democratization and the Decline of Royal Hegemony in Thailand ・・・ KASIAN TEJAPIRA Anut Grubyuk in the Voting Process: The Neglected Explanation of Javanese Voters (Preliminary Findings) ・・・ WAWAN SOBARI Philanthropy and “Muslim Citizenship” in Post-Suharto Indonesia ・・・ Hilman LATIEF Kuo Pao Kun’s Zheng He Legend and Multicultural Encounters in Singapore ・・・ Rachel LENG No Room to Swing a Cat? Animal Treatment and Urban Space in Singapore ・・・ Ying-kit CHAN Book Reviews Dina Afrianty. Women and Sharia Law in Northern Indonesia: Local Women’s NGOs and the Reform of Islamic Law in Aceh. London and New York: Routledge, 2015, viii+194p. ・・・ Mahmood KOORIA Kelvin E.Y. Low. Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2014, xiv+252p. ・・・ YOW Cheun Hoe Nilanjana Sengupta. The Female Voice of Myanmar: Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 407p. ・・・ Ashley WRIGHT Simon Creak. Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015, xvi+337p. ・・・ Anne RAFFIN Nha Ca. Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968. Translated with an Introduction by Olga Dror. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014, 378p. ・・・ Sean FEAR Andrew Hardy. The Barefoot Anthropologist: The Highlands of Champa and Vietnam in the Words of Jacques Dournes. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2015, 160p. ・・・ Krisna UK Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, eds. Unequal Thailand: Aspects of Income, Wealth and Power. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015, 216p. ・・・ T. F. RHODEN Catherine Allerton. Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013, xi+221p. ・・・ YU Xiao Albertus Bagus Laksana. Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, xiii +252 p. ・・・ Julius BAUTISTA Henry Spiller. Javaphilia: American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015, xii+266p. ・・・ Elizabeth EMRICH Share this:FacebookTwitterLINE