Southeast Asia: A Testament (Critical Asian Scholarship, 1)

✍ Scribed by George McTurnan Kahin

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Southeast Asia: A Testament covers the tragic history of post war Indonesia from its successful struggle against the Dutch to Suharto's bloody overthrow of Sukarno in 1965. It also gives a personal account of the US involvement in Indochina, where George Kahin was an early critic of the Vietnam war and struggled to open the eyes of policy makers to the historical, political and military realities of the Vietnamese situation. Kahin also witnessed the reluctant involvement of Cambodia in the conflict, and the 1970 coup against Prince Sihanouk which paved the way for the Communist accession to power.This book will be of interest to students of American diplomatic and foreign policy, Asian studies, and international relations. It is an engagingly written, often poignant personal account of George Kahin's experiences in Southeast Asia, ad as such will also appeal to the general reader.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Foreword by Walter LaFeber......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 24
Introduction......Page 26
The Indonesian revolution......Page 42
Communism and the Republic......Page 79
The Dutch attack on Yogyakarta......Page 111
The Dutch transfer sovereignty......Page 141
McCarthy, Lattimore and Cochran......Page 151
Return to Indonesia......Page 165
Struggle over Malaysia......Page 183
Cornell and the coup......Page 202
Opposition to the Vietnam War......Page 207
Casualties and pacification, 1966/7......Page 220
Possibilities for peace, 1971......Page 239
North Vietnam, 1972......Page 248
Cambodian neutrality and the United States......Page 274
Cambodia and the Vietnam War......Page 294
Coup against Sihanouk......Page 304
Invasion of Cambodia......Page 325
Notes......Page 339
Index......Page 364