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Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. In this volume, an international team of scholars takes the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day: examining their conquests, management and decolonisation. The journey covers perennial themes such as the recruitment, loyalty, and varied impact of foreign-dominated forces. But it also ventures into unchartered waters by highlighting Asian use of ‘colonial’ forces to dominate other Asians. This sends the reader back in time to the fifteenth century Chinese expansion into Yunnan and Vietnam, and forwards to regional tensions in present-day Indonesia, and post-colonial issues in Malaysia and Singapore. Drawing these strands together, the book shows how colonial armies must be located within wider patterns of demography, and within bigger systems of imperial security and power—American, British, Chinese, Dutch, French, Indonesian, and Japanese—which in turn helped to shape modern Southeast Asia. Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia will interest scholars working on low intensity conflict, on the interaction between armed forces and society, on comparative imperialism, and on Southeast Asia. Karl Hack is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Tobias Rettig is Adjunct Professor in the School of Economics and Social Sciences at Singapore Management University. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 1 The Police in Occupation Japan Control, corruption and resistance to reform Christopher Aldous 2 Chinese Workers A new history Jackie Sheehan 3 The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya 4 The Australia-Japan Political Alignment 1952 to the present Alan Rix 5 Japan and Singapore in the World Economy Japan’s economic advance into Singapore, 1870–1965 Shimizu Hiroshi and Hirakawa Hitoshi 6 The Triads as Business Yiu Kong Chu 7 Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism A-chin Hsiau 8 Religion and Nationalism in India The case of the Punjab Harnik Deol 9 Japanese Industrialisation Historical and cultural perspectives Ian Inkster 10 War and Nationalism in China 1925–1945 Hans J.van de Ven 11 Hong Kong in Transition One country, two systems Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook and Robin Porter 12 Japan’s Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948–1962 Noriko Yokoi 13 Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950–1975 Beatrice Trefalt 14 Ending the Vietnam War The Vietnamese communists’ perspective Ang Cheng Guan 15 The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession Adopting and adapting western influences Aya Takahashi 16 Women’s Suffrage in Asia Gender nationalism and democracy Louise Edwards and Mina Roces 17 The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1922 Phillips Pay son O’Brien 18 The United States and Cambodia, 1870–1969 From curiosity to confrontation Kenton Clymer 19 Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim Ravi Arvind Palat 20 The United States and Cambodia, 1969–2000 A troubled relationship Kenton Clymer 21 British Business in Post-colonial Malaysia, 1957–70 ‘Neo-colonialism’ or ‘disengagement’? Nicholas J.White 22 The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead 23 Russian Views of Japan, 1792–1913 An anthology of travel writing David N.Wells 24 The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945 A patchwork of internment Bernice Archer 25 The British Empire and Tibet 1900–1922 Wendy Palace 26 Nationalism in Southeast Asia If the people are with us Nicholas Tarling 27 Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle The case of the cotton textile industry, 1945–1975 Helen Macnaughtan 28 A Colonial Economy in Crisis Burma’s rice delta and the world depression of the 1930s Ian Brown 29 A Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan Prince Cuong De (1882–1951) Tran My-Van 30 Corruption and Good Governance in Asia Nicholas Tarling 31 US-China Cold War Collaboration, 1971–1989 S.Mahmud Ali 32 Rural Economic Development in Japan From the nineteenth century to the Pacific war Penelope Francks 33 Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia Edited by Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia Edited by Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York NY10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006 . “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/.” © 2006 Edited by Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Colonial armies in Southeast Asia/edited by Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig. p. cm.—(Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-33413-6 (hardback: alk. paper) 1. Asia, Southeastern—Armed Forces—History—19th century. 2. Asia, Southeastern—Armed Forces— History—20th century. 3. Imperialism— History—19th century. 4. Imperialism—History—20th century. 5. Asia, Southeastern—Politics and government. I. Hack, Karl. II. Rettig, Tobias. III. Series. UA832.8.C66 2005 355′00959′09034–dc22 2005009684 ISBN 0-203-41466-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-69278-0 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN10:0-415-33413-6 (Print Edition) ISBN13:9-78-0-415-33413-6 (Print Edition) Contents List of illustrations x List of maps xi List of tables xii List of contributors xiv Preface xvii Acknowledgements xviii Abbreviations and glossary xix 1 PART 1 Background 1 Imperial systems of power, colonial forces and the making of modern 2 Southeast Asia KARL HACK WITH TOBIAS RETTIG 2 Demography and domination in Southeast Asia 36 KARL HACK AND TOBIAS RETTIG 3 Ming Chinese colonial armies in Southeast Asia 68 GEOFF WADE 99 PART 2 Experimenting with tools of conquest and domination 4 Ethnicity and martial races: the Garde indigène of Cambodia in the 100 1880s and 1890s SARAH WOMACK 5 Double-edged swords of conquest in Indochina: Tirailleurs Tonkinois, 119 Chasseurs annamites and militias, 1883–1895 HENRI ECKERT 6 The mixed company: fighting power and ethnic relations in the Dutch 146 Colonial Army, 1890–1920 GERKE TEITLER 161 PART 3 Loyalty and revolt in the era of nationalism and war 7 American exceptionalism in colonial forces? The Philippine Scout 162 mutiny of 1924 RICHARD MEIXSEL 8 Colonial forces in British Burma: a national army postponed 185 ROBERT H.TAYLOR 201 PART 4 Decolonisation 9 The impact of the Japanese occupation on colonial and anti-colonial 202 armies in Southeast Asia ABU TALIB AHMAD 10 Imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia: colonial forces and 227 British world power KARL HACK 254 PART 5 Postcolonial analyses and residues 11 Colonial militias in East Timor from the Portuguese period to 255 independence GEOFFREY ROBINSON 12 Colonial forces as postcolonial memories: the commemoration and 286 memory of the Malay Regiment in modern Malaysia and Singapore KEVIN BLACKBURN Index 310
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