American Institute of Pacific Relations.
Books on Southeast Asia: a select bi- bliography. New York, 1960. 62 p.
Mimeographed. Not annotated but contains useful listings of articles in Far Eastern surueu and Pacific .affai1·s on pp. 38-42 and 59-62.
Cordier, Henri. Biblioteoa indosinica, Dictionnaire bibliographique des' ouv- rages re~.atifs a la peninsule indochi- noise. Paris, Impr. Nationale, E. La- roux, 1912-15. 4 v.
Author and subject index. Lists books articles land government reports in every language, in many cases in- dicating where reviews may be found and mentioning translations and re- vised editions. The works are listed topically within countries. An "exten- sive and reliable coverage... of SEA up to 1913. Difficult to use."
Echols, John M:. ed, "Southeast Asia"
in the American Historical Assn.ts Guide to historical. literature. New York, Macmillan, 1961. pp. 319-334.
Annotated. A most useful scholar- ly bibliography concentrating on the
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history of Southeast Asia, from Bur- ma to the Philippines. 270 entries, di- vided by country. Periodicals and some government documents are also listed, but not articles.
Embree, John F.and L. O. Dotson. Hi- bliography of the peoples and cultures of mainland Southeast Asia, New Ha- ven, Yale Univ. Press, 1950. 833 p.
Over 12,000 items are listed; a few are briefly annotated. Relatively com- plete in the humanities field.
Hay, Stephen N. ed, Southeast Asian history; a bibliographic guide. New York, Praeger, 1962. 138 p.
Includes 632 entries, mostly in Eng- lish. Annotated guide to the scholarly writings which will be most useful to the beginning student or teacher of SEA history. In the bibliographies, books, articles, and dissertations pre- sented here, the student will find ref- erence to further literature on ·a. vast number of special topics.
Hobbs, Cecil C. Southeast Asia: an an- notated bibliography of selected refer- ence sources. Washington, D.C., Lib.
of Congress, 1952. 163 p.
A usefula'l1notated listing of 345 books, articlesand unpublished theses.
Annotations are summaries rather than critical evaluations,
Irikura, James K. Southeast Asia: se- lected unnoteted bibliography of Jap- anese publicaticns. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1956. 544 p.
Very wellannotated, valuable to the specialist. Contains 965 titles. Con- tains author index.
Journal of Asian studies. Bibliography.
Issued annually as no. 5 of each vol- ume of JAS.
Lists all important books and arti- cles on Southeast Asia as theyappear, An essential research tool.
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"Current research in South-East Asian history" v. 2 (Oct. 1961), 83-90.
First attempt at a worldwide com- pilation, and although useful it can not claim to be as yet comprehensive, McVey, Ruth T. Bibliography of Soviet publications on Southeast Asia: as listed in the Lib. of Congress monthly index of Russian acquisitions. Ithaca, Cornell Univ. of Southeast Asia Pro- gram, 1959. }09 p.
Unannotated, but divided into sec- tions by topic and country. Included are monographs published between 1945 and July 1958, and periodicals published from 1947 to July 1958.
Oey, Giok Po. Survey of Chinese lan- guage materials on Southeast Asia ill the Hoover Institute and Library.
Ithaca, Cornell Univ. Southeast Asia Program, 1953. 73 p.
Useful, specialized listing. 260 items classified by subject, not by country;
well annotated.
U.S. Library of Congress. Southern 'Asia: publications in western lan- guages. Vols. 1-5, quarterly (1952- 56). Vols. 6-9, monthly (1957-60) were published under title Southern.
Asia accessions list. Ended with pubn, vol. 9, no. 12.
Unannotated. About 40% of the en- tries concern SEA and classified by subject under each country. A valua- ble source of' information on recent books, 'pamphlets,ar,ticles and speech- es, primarily in Western, but also in indigenous languages.
Wilson, Patrick. "Bibliographical arti- cle: a survey of bibliographies on Southern Asia." JAS:18 (May 1959) 365-76.
Far and away the best guide to bi- bliographical sources of an kinds on Southeast Asia, Annotated.
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Hobbs, Cecil. "Reading list on Burma."
Far Eastern quarterly: 5 (Nov. 1945) 60-66.
Includes annotations on 27 books and articles which summarize but do not evaluate the works.
Trager, Fnank N. ed. Japanese and Chi- nese Language sources on Burma. New Haven, HRAF, 1957. 122 p.
Well annotated listings of 177 J'ap- anese titles published between 1935 and 1956, and 52 Chinese titles 'pub- lished between 1951 and 1953. Each list surveys important collections, without claim to having exhausted the field; the Japanese ranges widely over books, articles andgovernment reports while the Chinese section consists prin- cipally of periodical articles.
Cornell Univ, Dept. of Far Eastern Studies, Southeast Asia Projejct. Hi- bliography of Thailand. Ithaca, 1956.
64 p.
Annotated. Includes materials on SEA generally as well as on Thailand.
Covers a wide range of subjects from language and art to history and pub- lic health, but none in great depth.
Mason, J ohn B. and H. C. Parish. Thai- land bibliography. Gainesville, Univ, of Florida Library, 1958. 247 p.
The 2300 references cover many branches of Thai studies. Cannot be relied on as being fully comprehensive.
Many annotations but some of these are far from accurate. Arrangement inadequate.
Anderson, Benedict R. Bibliography of Indonesian publications: newspapers, non-government periodicals and bulle- tins, 1945-5'8, at Cornell University.
Ithaca, 1959. 69 p.
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A listing of -rklily newspapers and periodicals ranging from archaeology through literu ture to political science.
Documents of important historical events .are included. Entr-ies in Dutch, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic, and Eng- glish.
Kennedy, Rnymond, od. Bibliography of Indonesian peoples and cultures. New Haven, HRAF, 1955. 663 p.
Unannotated and unindexed listing of books and articles mainly dealing with ethnology and culture. Classi- fied into 6 'principal geographic re- gions land many small sub-regions.
Useful tool for the historian of specific areas of Indonesia.
Lev, Daniel S. Bib.iography of Indone- sian government documents and select- ed Indonesian writings on government in the Cornell Univ. Library. Ithaca, 1958. 58 p.
Annotated. Includes all Indonesian government documents in Cornell Li- braryand
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selection of Indonesian books and pamphlets relating to the study of government. No Dutch ma- terial.Nabrink, Ge. Indonesia.: catalogue of 'an important collec,tionof old and modern books, periodicals and pam- phlets about the Indonesian archipe- lago. Amsterdam, 195-. 160 p.
Vandenbosch, Amry. "A decade of pub- lications on the Netherlands East In- dies." Far eastern quarterly: 2 (Nov.
1942) 80-86.
Good bibliographic essay.
U.S. Library of Congress, Netherlands East Indies. Washington, D.C., 1945, Bibliography of books published af- ter 1930 and periodical articles after
1932,a~v'ailablein U.S. libraries.
Cheeseman, H. R. Bibliog'raphy of Ma- laya, being a classified list of books wholly or partly in English relating
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to the Federation of Malaya and Sin- gapore. London, Longmans, 1959. 234 p.
Most comprehensive bibliography of Malaya available to date. No annota- tions. Citations arranged under 20 topics.
Hanrahan, Gene Z. "Recent Chinese Communist publications on Indo-China and Malaya." Pacific affairs: 27 (Dec.
1954), 367-70.
A review and summary of 8 publi- cations in the Chinese language.
Pelzer, Karl J. Selected bibliography on the geography of Southeast Asia.
Part III: Malaya. New Haven, HRAF, 1956. pp. 40-49.
Best general bibliography on Mala- y,a. Contains some 100 entries on his- tory. Unannotated,
Boudet, Paul and R. Bourgeois. Biblio- graphie de l'Indochine f'rancaise 1913- 1926. Hanoi, Impr. d'Extreme-Orient, 1929. 271, 55 p.
An extensive list of books and arti- cles. Only when the title is "incom- plete, insufficient, or inexact," is a brief explanatory note supplied.
Hobbs, Cecil etal. Indochina,
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biblio- graphy of the land and people. Wash- ington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1950. 367 p.Emphasrzes recent works. Sparsely annotated ; contains sections on "Polit- ical history and biography" (entriee 303-602) and "Publications in Viet- namese: history" (errtries 1769-1774).
Indexed. Lists a total of 1850 titles on an aspects of French Indochina.
Michigan State University Vietnam Pro- ject. What to read on Vietnam a se- lected annotated bibliography. 2d ed, New York. Institute of Pacific Rela- tions, 1960. 73 p,
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articles in English. Excludes Viet- namese of Chinese works. Contains a valuable list of government publica- tions and documents available. Major weakness is that it does not evaluate the works cited.