Female Roles in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia
by Anthony Reid
Relations between genders are one of the areas in which a distinctive Southeast Asian pattern exists.

Publication: Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Asian Studies in Honour of Professor Charles Boxer), pp. 629-645 /Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Author: Anthony Reid
Pages: 17
Language : English
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‘Even the gradual strengthening of the influence oflslam, Christianity, Buddhism and Confucianism in their respective spheres over the last four centuries has by no means eliminated the common pattern of relatively high female autonomy and economic importance in Southeast Asia,’ notes the author, adding: ‘It could not be said that women were equal to men, since there were very few areas in which they competed directly. Women had different functions from men, but these included transplanting and harvesting rice, weaving, and marketing. Their reproductive role gave them magical and ritual powers which it was difficult for men to match. These factors may explain why the value of daughters was never questioned in Southeast Asia as it was in China, India, and the Middle East.’
As for women in trade activities, the author quotes several historic sources for Cambodia, Siam, Burma, Vietnam or Indonesia:
- ‘In Cambodia it is the women who take charge of trade’ (Chou Ta Kuan [Zhou Daguan], 1297).
- ‘It is their [Siamese] custom that all affairs are managed by their wives … all trading transactions great and small’ (Ma Huan, 1433).
- ‘The women ofSiam are the only merchants in buying goods, and some of them trade very considerably (Hamilton, 1727).
- ‘Money-changing is a great profession here [Tongking). It is managed by women, who are very dextrous and ripe in this employment’ (Dampier, 1699).
- ‘In Cochin-China every man is a soldier. The commercial operations are performed by women’ (White, 1824)
- ‘Women in the Birman country … manage the more important mercantile concerns of their husbands’ (Symes, 1827).
- ‘It is the women [of the Moluccas] who negotiate, do business, buy and sell’ (Galvao, 1544).
Also in the fields of diplomacy, war and governance, this elevated status of women has been contested by various invaders and yet persisted through the centuries.
Tags: women, trade, Burma, Siam, pre-colonial Cambodia, Indonesia, gender roles
About the Author

Anthony Reid
Anthony Reid (19 June 1939, Wellington, NZ — 8 June 2025, Canberra, Australia) was a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia (Sumatra, Aceh), Malaysia (Chinese diaspora), the nationalist and revolutionary movements in the region, and the “age of commerce” (15th-17th centuries) as an essential period in the history of Southeast Asia.
Professor Reid was a member of Australian National University (ANU) former Department of Pacific & Asian History from 1970 1999, after an initial position teaching Southeast Asian History at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (1965−70). In 1999 he became founding Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles, and in 2001 founding Director of the Asia Research Institute of NUS in Singapore.
He retired to Canberra in 2009, becoming Professor Emeritus at ANUwhile accepting visiting positions at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University (2009−10), and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2012 – 13).Honored with the Fukuoka Prize for Asian Culture (Academic) in 2002 and the Life Achievement Award of the Association of Asian Studies in 2011, he has been a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities since 1987 and the British Academy since 2008.
Anthony Reid is the author of ‘deep history’ studies on Adventurers in 19th Century Asia, geological impact on history and gender relations in Southeast Asia. He has also published several works of fiction under the name of Tony Reid. His last published novel is Mataram: A Novel of Love, Faith and Power In Early Java (2018).
Professor Reid was the son of John S. Reid, a New Zealand diplomat who held postings in Indonesia, Japan and Canada in the 1950s and 1960s.
Publications
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[expanded from A.R.‘s bibliography in Geoff Wade & Li Tana (eds), Anthony Reid and The Study of South East Asia Past, Singapore, ISEAS, 2012, (ISBN 978−981−4311−97−7), p 357 – 385]
- The Contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain, 1858 – 1898. Kuala Lumpur, OUP/UMP, 1969. 333 p.; repr. University of Malaya Press, 1974; Indonesian tr. by Masri Maris, Jakarta, Yayasan Obor, 2004.
- The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra, Singapore, NUS Press, 1979; reprint 2014, 344 p. ISBN 978−9971−69−637−5.
- The Indonesian National Revolution, 1945 – 1950. Hawthorn, Vic. Longmans Australia, 1974. 193 p.; repr. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1986; Indonesian tr., Jakarta, Sinar Harapan, 1996.
- The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra. Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1979. 288 p.; Indonesian tr., Jakarta, Sinar Harapan, 1986.
- Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450 – 1680. Vol. I: The Lands Below the Winds. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988. 275p. [many reprints]; Indonesian tr. as Asia Tenggara dalam Kurun Niaga, tr. by Mochtar Pabotinggi, Jakarta, Yayasan Obor, 1992; Southeast Asia edition by Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 1995, reprinted 1999; Japanese tr. by Hirano Hideaki and Tanaka Yuko, Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 1997; Thai tr. by Dr Phongsri Lekawatana, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2004; Chinese tr. by Wu Xiao An and Sun Lai Chen, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2010; Korean tr., Simsan Munhwa Publishing Co., nd.
- Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450 – 1680. Vol. II: Expansion and Crisis. New Haven, Yale University Press (1993). 390 p.; Southeast Asia edition by Silkworm Boooks, Chiang Mai, 1995, 1999; Indonesian tr. by R.Z. Leirissa, Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia,
1999; Japanese tr. by Hirano Hideaki and Tanaka Yuko, Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2002; Thai tr. by Dr Pongsri Lekawatana, Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, 2004; Chinese tr. by Sun Laichen and Li Tana, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2010; Korean tr., Simsan Munhwa Publishing Co. - Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999, 298 p..;Indonesian tr., Jakarta, LP3ES, 2004.
- An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2004. 439 p.; repr. 2005.
- Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 261 p.
- To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the Twentieth Century, NUS Press, 2011. 348 p.
- A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads, Wiley-Blackwell (Blackwell History of the World), 2015, 480 p. ISBN 978 – 1118513002.
- [novel] Mataram: A Novel of Love, Faith and Power In Early Java, Monsoon Books, 2018, 300 p. ISBN 978 – 1912049134.
Editor
- [ed. with Annemarie Jubb & J. Jahmin] Indonesian Serials, 1942 – 1950, in Yogyakarta Libraries. Oriental Monograph Series 15. Canberra, Faculty of Asian Studies with ANU Press, 1974. 133 p.
- [with Lance Castles] Pre‑Colonial State Systems in Southeast Asia: the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bali‑Lombok, South Celebes. Monograph 6 of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Kuala Lumpur, 1975, 1979.
- [with David Marr] Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia. Singapore, Heinemann for ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, 1979, 1983; Indonesian tr. as Dari Raja Ali Haji Hingga Hamka, Jakarta, Grafitipers, 1983.
- Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia. St Lucia, Queensland University Press, 1983. US edition New York, St Martin’s Press, 1983.
- [with OKI Akira] The Japanese Experience in Indonesia: Selected Memoirs of 1942 – 1945. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1986. 411 p.
- [with Graeme Snooks & J.J. Pincus] Exploring Southeast Asia’s Economic Past, special issue of Australian Economic History Review 31, Pt. 1, 1991.
- Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power and Belief. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1993. 286 p.
- The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia, Melbourne, Monash University Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 1993, 132 p.
- [with LI Tana] Southern Vietnam under the Nguyen: Cochinchina in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Sing., ISEAS, 1993, 161 p.
- Witnesses to Sumatra: A Traveller’s Anthology. Singapore, OUP, 1994, 314 p.
- Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese in Honour of Jennifer Cushman, Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1996, 232p.; repr. 2016.
- Indonesia Heritage: Early Modern History. Singapore: Archipelago Press, 1996, 148 p.
- The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies. Responses to Modernity in the Diverse States of Southeast Asia and Korea. London, Macmillan, 1997, 458 p.
- [with Daniel Chirot] Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997, 335 p.
- [with David Kelly] Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 228 p.
- Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives, Tempe, Az: Program in Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 2003, 375 p.
- Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 2006, 397pp.
Reid, Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific (Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500 – 1900, no. 16) [Selected readings]. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, July, 2008. - Chineseness Unbound: Boundaries, Burdens and Belongings of Chineseness outside China. Special issue journal Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 10, no. 3, Oct. 2009.
Book Chapters
- ‘Early Chinese Migration into North Sumatra’, in Studies in the Social History of China and Southeast Asia. Essays in Memory of Victor Purcell, ed. Jerome Ch’en and Nicholas Tarling. Cambridge University Press, 1970, 289 – 320.
- ‘Some current and projected Southeast Asian research needs’, in Symposium on Southeast Asian Library Resources. Canberra, The Library, ANU, 1973, 36 – 40.
- ‘Trade and the Problem of Royal Power in Aceh, c.1550 – 1700’, in Reid & Castles 1975, 45 – 55.
- ‘Indonesia: From Briefcase to Samurai Sword’, in Southeast Asia under Japanese Occupation, ed. A.W. McCoy. New Haven, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series 22, 1979, 16 – 32.
- ‘The Nationalist Quest for an Indonesian Past’, in Reid & Marr 1979, 281 – 98.
- ‘Trade and State Power in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Southeast Asia’, in Proceedings, Seventh IAHA Conference, 22 – 26 August 1977, Bangkok, International Association of Historians of Asia, 1980, 391 – 419.
- ‘The origins of poverty in Indonesia’, in Indonesia-Australian Perspectives, ed. J.J. Fox, J.A.C. Mackie & Peter McCawley. Canberra, RSPacS, ANU, 1981: 441 – 54.
- ‘Indonesia: Revolution without Socialism’, in Asia: The Winning of Independence, ed. R. Jeffrey, London, Macmillan, 1981: 107 – 57.
- ‘Introduction: Slavery and Bondage in Southeast Asian History’, in Reid 1983: 1 – 43.
- ‘“Closed” and “Open” Slave Systems in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia’, in Reid 1983: 156 – 87.
- ‘The Islamization of Southeast Asia’, in Historia: Essays in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Department of History, University of Malaya, ed. Muhammad Abu Bakar et al. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Historical Society, 1984, 3 – 33.
- ‘From Harbour Autocracies to “Feudal” Diffusion in Seventeenth Century Indonesia: The Case of Aceh’, in Feudalism: Comparative Studies,
ed. Edmund Leach, S.N. Mukherjee and John Ward. Sydney, Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, 1985:197 – 213. - ‘Trade Goods and Trade Routes in Southeast Asia, c.1300 – 1700’, in Final Report. Consultative Workshop on Research on Maritime Shipping and Trade Networks in Southeast Asia. Bangkok, SPAFA Coordinating Unit, 1986: 249 – 72.
- ‘Australia’s Hundred Days in South Sulawesi’, in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia: Essays in Honour of J.D. Legge, ed. D.G. Chandler & M.C. Ricklefs. Clayton, Vic., Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986: 201 – 24.
- ‘The Revolution in Regional Perspective’, in The Indonesian Revolution, ed. J. van Goor, Utrecht, Utrechtse Historische Cahiers, Jrg. 7, 1986,
pp. 183 – 199. - ‘Fase Kedua: Kemenangan Terachir, Juli 1947 sampai 1950 [Second Phase: Final Victory July 1947 to 1950]’, in Gelora Api Revolusi: Sebuah Antologi Sejarah, ed. C. Wild & P. Carey. Jakarta, Gramedia, 1987, 181‑87.
- ‘Low Population Growth and its Causes in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia’, in Death and Disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in Social, Medical, and Demographic History, ed. Norman Owen. Singapore, OUP for ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, 1987, 33 – 47.
- ‘The Identity of “Sumatra” in History’, in Cultures and Societies of North Sumatra, ed. R. Carle. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 25 – 42.
‘The Victory of the Republic’, in Born in Fire: The Indonesian Struggle for Independence, An Anthology, ed. C. Wild & P. Carey. Athens, Ohio University Press, 1988, 178 – 83. - ‘The Organization of Production in the Pre‑Colonial Southeast Asian Port City’, in Brides of the Sea: Asian Port Cities from the 16th to the 20th centuries, ed. P. Broeze. Sydney, University of NSW Press for ASAA, 1989: 54 – 74.
- [with Jennifer Brewster] ‘A.W. Hamilton and the Origins of Indonesian Studies in Australia’, in Observing Change in Asia: Essays in Honour of J.A.C. Mackie, ed. R.J. May & W.J. O’Malley. Bathurst, Crawford House Press, 22 – 32.
- ‘Dutch Hegemony’, 32 – 5; ‘Independence’, 36 – 7; ‘Old Makassar’, 66 – 7; ‘Ujung Pandang’, 68 – 73; ‘Sidetrips from U.P.’, 74 – 9; ‘West Coast”, 90 – 1; ‘South Coast’, 94 – 9; ‘Selayar Island’, 100 – 01; ‘Bone and Soppeng’, 102 – 5; ‘Luwu’, 106 – 9, all in Sulawesi: The Celebes, ed. Toby Volkman and Ian Caldwell (Berkeley, Periplus, 1990).
- ‘A Portrait of Sumatra’, in Indonesia West: Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Robertson McCarta/Nelles Verlag, 1990, p. 61 – 73; repr. as Nelles Guide Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, Bali Lombok, Sulawesi, by David E. Henley, James J. Fox, Putu Davies, and Anthony J. S. Reid, 2000.
- “Islamic Kingdoms”, pp. 34 – 37; “Impact of the West”, pp. 38 – 41; and “Modern History”, p. 42 – 43; in Indonesia Travel Guide: Sumatra, ed.
Sindhu Suyana, Berkeley, Periplus, 1991. - ‘Indonesian Fishermen detained in Broome: A Report on the Social and Economic Background’, in Illegal Entry!, Darwin, Northern Territory University, 1992, p. 1 – 12.
- ‘The Rise and Fall of Sino-Javanese Shipping’, in Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea, ed. V.J.H. Houben, H.M.J. Maier and W. van der Molen. Leiden: Leiden University Department of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992, pp. 177 – 211.
- ‘Economic and Social Change, c.1500 – 1750’, in Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, ed. Nicholas Tarling, 2 vols. Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press (1992), I, pp. 460 – 507, 1992. Chinese translation 2002. - ‘Southeast Asia: A Region and a Crossroad’, in Cultures at Crossroads: Southeast Asian Textiles from the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1992, pp. 8 – 17.
- ‘Some Effects on Asian Economies of the European Maritime Discoveries’, in Economic Effects of the European Expansion, 1492 – 1824 ed. Jose Casas Pardo, Beitrage zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag), 1992, pp. 435 – 62.
- ‘Introduction: A Time and a Place’, in Reid, Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era Ithaca, Cornell U.P., 1993, pp. 1 – 19.
- ‘Islamization and Christianization in Southeast Asia: The Critical Phase, 1550 – 1650’, ibid., pp.151 – 79.
- ‘Introduction’ in Reid (ed.), The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, 1993, p. 1 – 15.
- ‘Kings, Kadis and Charisma in the 17th Century Archipelago’, ibid., pp. 83 – 107.
- ‘The Origins of Revenue Farming in Southeast Asia’, in The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming: Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia, ed. H. Dick and J. Butcher, London, Macmillan, 1993, pp. 69 – 79.
- [Li Tana & Reid], ‘Introduction: The Vietnamese Southern Frontier’, in Li & Reid 1993, pp. 1 – 5.
- ‘The End of Dutch Relations with the Nguyen State, 1651 – 52’, ibid., pp. 33 – 37.
- [with Anne Booth] ‘Trade and Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1400 – 1990’, in Economic Growth and Structural Change. Comparative
Approaches over the Long Run on the Basis of Reconstructed National Accounts. Research Paper: 93.02, Centrum voor Economische Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1993, 13 p. - ‘The Decline of Slavery in Nineteenth Century Indonesia’, in Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia, ed. Martin Klein, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1993, pp. 64 – 82.
- ‘John Smail, J.C. van Leur, and the Trading World of Southeast Asia’, in Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths: Essays in Honor of John Smail, ed. Laurie Sears, Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1993, pp. 87 – 97.
- “Afterword”, in Democracy in Indonesia: 1950s and 1990s, ed. David Bourchier and John Legge, Melbourne, Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 1994, p. 313 – 18.
‘Early Southeast Asian Categorizations of Europeans’, in Implicit
Ethnographies: Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Wake
of Columbus, ed. Stuart Schwarz, New York, Cambridge University Press,
1994, pp. 268 – 94.
[Anne Booth & Reid], ‘Population, Trade and Economic Growth in Southeast
Asia in the Long-term: An Exploratory Analysis’, in Economic Growth and
Structural Change. Comparative Approaches over the Long Run, ed. Angus
Maddison and Hermann Van der Wee. Volume B13 in Proceedings, Eleventh
International Economic History Congress, Milan: Universita Bocconi, 1994,
pp. 9 – 21.
1995 “Recent Trends and Future Directions in Southeast Asian Studies (Outside
Southeast Asia)”, in Toward the Promotion of Southeast Asian Studies in
Southeast Asia, ed. Taufik Abdullah and Yekti Maunati, Jakarta: Indonesian
Institute of Sciences, 1994, pp. 256 – 76.
1996 ‘Flows and Seepages in the Long-term Chinese Interaction with Southeast
Asia’, in Reid (ed), Sojourners and Settlers (1995), pp. 15 – 49.
“Chains of Steel; Chains of Silver: Forcing politics on geography, 1865 – 1965”,
in Historical Foundations of A National Economy in Indonesia, 1890s – 1990s,
368 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
ed. Thomas Lindblad. Amsterdam: North-Holland for Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996, pp. 281 – 96. Indonesian translation
2002.
“Continuity and Change in the Austronesian Transition to Islam and
Christianity”, in The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives,
ed. Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox and Darrell Tryon. Canberra, ANU
Department of Anthropology, pp. 314 – 31.
1997 ‘Introduction’, in Reid (ed), The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies (above),
pp. 1 – 25.
‘A New Phase of Commercial Expansion in Southeast Asia’, in Reid (ed),
The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies (above), pp. 57 – 82.
‘Merchant Imperialist: W.H. Read and the Dutch Consulate in the Straits
Settlements’, in Empires, Imperialism and Southeast Asia: Essays in Honour
of Nicholas Tarling, ed. Brook Barrington. Clayton, Vic.: Monash Asia
Institute, 1997), pp. 34 – 59.
Chapter 2. ‘Entrepreneurial Minorities, Nationalism and the State’, in
Essential Outsiders, ed. Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid (above), pp. 33–
71.
Chapter 5. “Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia”, in Nature
and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia, ed.
Richard Grove, Vinita Damoidaran & Satpal Sangwan. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1997, pp. 107 – 26
‘Anthony Hearle Johns: a vocation’, in Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought
and Society. A Festschrift in Honour of Anthony H. Johns, ed. Peter Riddell
and Tony Street. Leiden: Brill, 1997, pp. xix – xxxiii
1998 ‘Inside-Out: the Colonial Displacement of Sumatra’s Population’, in Paper
Landscapes: Essays in the Environmental History of Indonesia, ed. Peter
Boomgaard, Freek Columbijn and David Henley. Leiden: KITLV Press,
1998, pp. 61 – 89.
‘Four Key Exports and the Trade Cycle of Southeast Asia’, in Bulbeck, Reid
et al, Southeast Asian Exports since the 14th Century (above), pp. 1 – 16.
‘Cloves’, pp. 17 – 21, and ‘Pepper’, pp. 60 – 69’, in ibid.
Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid 369
‘Merdeka: The Concept of Freedom in Indonesia’, in Kelly & Reid (eds)
Asian Freedoms (above), pp. 141 – 60.
‘Globalization and the Asian Cultural Dimension’, pp. 44 – 47 (Japanese) and
130 – 33 (English); and ‘In Search of a New International Order’, pp. 86 – 89
(Japanese) and 167 – 69 (English), in International Forum: Asia – Looking to
the Future (Osaka: Osaka International House Foundation, 1998).
‘National and Ethnic Identities in a Democratic Age: Some Thoughts of a
Southeast Asian Historian’, in Religion, Ethnicity and Modernity in Southeast
Asia, ed. Oh Myung-Seok and Kim Hyung-jun. Seoul, Seoul National
University Press, 1998, pp. 11 – 43.
‘Explorings and Reflections on Southeast Asian History’, in Our Cultural
Heritage, ed. John Bigelow. Papers from the 1997 Symposium of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities. Canberra: Australian Academy of
the Humanities, 1998, pp. 179 – 82. ISBN 0‑909897‑42‑5.
‘Documenting the Rise and Fall of Indonesia as a Regional Trade Centre’, in
Proceedings for the International Workshop, Ayudhya and Asia, 18 – 20 December
1995, ed. Kajit Jittasevi. Bangkok: Printing House of Thammasat University,
n.d. [1998?], pp. 5 – 15. ISBN 974−572−591−9.
1999 [in Japanese], ‘Komento III Ajia no bo¯eki nettowa¯ku [Comment III Trading
networks of Asia]’ translated by Kanda Sayako in Kindai Ajia no Ryu¯tsu¯
Nettowaku, ed. S. Sugiyama and Linda Grove. Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1999,
pp. 316 – 21.
Sections of panel discussion, ‘Japan as a Maritime Nation — from the Past
to the Future’, 29.7.1999, published in International Ocean Symposium ’99:
The Ocean, Can She Save Us? at pp. 116 – 39 (Japanese) and 252 – 76.
2000 ‘Negeri: The Culture of Malay-speaking City-States of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Centuries’, in A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures
ed. Mogens Herman Hansen. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy
of Sciences and Letters, 2000, pp. 417 – 29.
‘The Effect of Violence on Two Sino-Southeast Asian Minorities’, in
Intercultural Relations, Cultural Transformation, and Identity: Selected Papers
presented at the 1998 ISSCO Conference’, ed. Teresita Ang See. Manila: Kaisa
Para Sa Kaunlaran, Inc, 2000, pp. 413 – 30.
‘Five Centuries: Five Modalities. European Interaction with Southeast
Asia, 1497 – 1997’, in Vasco da Gama and the Linking of Europe and Asia,
370 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
ed. Anthony Disney. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 168–
78.
‘Professor Denys Lombard: A Tribute’, in ibid., pp. 8 – 10.
‘Pluralism and progress in seventeenth-century Makasar’, in Authority and
Enterprise: Transactions, Traditions and Texts among the Bugis, Makasarese
and Selayarese, ed. C. van Dijk and Roger Tol, Leiden, KITLV Press, 2000,
pp. 55 – 71. Simultaneously published in Bijdragen tot de Taal‑, Land-. en
Volkenkunde 156, no. 3 (2000), pp. 433 – 49.
— Indonesian translation as ‘Pluralisme dan Kemajuan Makassar Abad
ke-17’, in Kuasa dan Usaha di Masyarakat Sulawesi Selatan, ed. Roger Tol,
C. van Dijk and Greg Acciaioli (Jakarta: Ininnawa, 2009), pp. 73 – 94
2001 ‘Southeast Asian Population History and the Colonial Impact’, in Asian
Population History, ed. Ts’ui-jung Liu, James Lee, David Reher, Osamu
Saito and Wang Feng. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45 – 62.
‘Asian Trade Networks’, in Commercial Networks in Modern Asia, ed.
S. Sugiyama and Linda Grove (Richmond: Curzon, 2001) pp. 261 – 64.
‘ “Outsider” Status and Economic Success’, in Perspectives on the Chinese
Indonesians, ed. Michael Godley and Grayson Lloyd. Adelaide: Crawfurd
House Publishing, 2001, pp. 67 – 82.
2002 ‘Island of the Dead: Why do Bataks erect Tugu?’, in The Potent Dead, ed.
Chambert-Loir & Reid, 2002 (above), pp. 88 – 102. Indonesian translation
in Kuasa Leluhur, 2006 (above)
2003 ‘Technology and Language: Negotiating the Third Revolution in the Use of
Language’, in Babel or Behemoth: Language Trends in Asia, ed. Jennifer Lindsay
and Tan Ying Ying (Singapore: Asia Research Institute, 2003), pp. 11 – 20.
Indonesian translation as ‘Teknologi dan Bahasa: Menyiasati Revolusi Ketiga
dalam Penggunaan Bahasa’ in Selarong: Merekam Pemikiran dan Ekspresi
Kebudayaan (Bantul, Yogyakarta), Vol. 6, year 3 (2006), pp. 127 – 37.
‘Globalization, Asian Diasporas and the Study of Southeast Asia in the West:
A Changing Perspective from California’, in Asian Migrants and Education:
The Tensions of Education in Immigrant Societies and Among Migrant Groups,
ed. Michael Charney, Brenda Yeoh and Tong Chee Kiong (Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), pp. 15 – 26.
Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid 371
‘Southeast Asian Studies: Decline or Rebirth’, in Southeast Asian Studies:
Pacific Perspectives, ed. Reid [above], pp. 1 – 23.
Reid and Maria Serena I. Diokno, ‘Completing the Circle: Southeast Asian
Studies in Southeast Asia’, in Southeast Asian Studies: Pacific Perspectives, ed.
Reid [above], pp. 93 – 107.
2004 ‘Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a Source of Diverse Modern Identities’,
in Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries, ed. Timothy
Barnard (Singapore: Singapore University Press), pp. 1 – 24.
‘Chinese Trade and Southeast Asian Economic Expansion in the Later
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: An Overview’, in Water Frontier:
Commerce and The Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750 – 1880, ed. Nola
Cooke and Li Tana (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, and Singapore:
Singapore University Press, 2004), pp. 21 – 34
2005 ‘Remembering and Forgetting War and Revolution’, in Beginning to
Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present, ed. Mary Zurbuchen, Geoffrey
Robinson and Henk Maier (Singapore: Singapore University Press in
association with University of Washington Press, 2005), pp. 168 – 91.
‘Writing the History of Independent Indonesia’, in Nation-Building: Five
Southeast Asian Histories, ed. Wang Gungwu (Singapore: ISEAS, 2005),
pp. 69 – 89.
‘Diaspora Networks in the Asian Maritime Context’, in Diaspora
Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History ed. Ina Baghdiantiz
McCabe, Gelina Herlaftis & Ionna Pepelasis Minoglou (Oxford: Berg,
2005), pp. 353 – 8.
‘Regional Networks of Knowledge in Eastern Asia: Interrupted Histories’,
in The Harmony and Prosperity of Civilizations. Selected Papers of the Beijing
Forum (2004). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005, pp. 235 – 46.
2006 ‘Chapter 1: Introduction’, in Verandah of Violence: The Background to the
Aceh Problem, ed. Anthony Reid (Singapore: Singapore University Press,
2006), pp. 1 – 21
‘Chapter 3: The Pre-modern Sultanate’s View of its Place in the World’, in
ibid., pp. 52 – 71.
372 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
‘Chapter 6: Colonial transformation: A bitter legacy’, in ibid., pp. 96–
108.
[Nhung Tuyet Tran and Reid], ‘Introduction: The Construction of
Vietnamese Historical Identities’, in Viet Nam: Borderless Histories, ed.
Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony Reid. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2006), ibid. pp. 3 – 22.
2007 ‘Aceh between Two Worlds’, in Cross Currents and Community Networks: The
History of the Indian Ocean World, ed. Himanshu Ray and Edward A. Alpers
(New Delhi: OUP, 2007), pp. 100 – 22. ISBN-13: 978−0−19−567705−8.
‘Indonesia’s Post-Revolutionary Aversion to Federalism’, in Federalism in Asia,
ed. Baogang He, Brian Galligan and Takashi Inoguchi, Cheltenham,UK
and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2007, pp. 144 – 64.
‘Introduction: Muslims and Power in a Plural Asia’, in Islamic Legitimacy in a
Plural Asia, ed. Anthony Reid and Michael Gilsenan, Abingdon: Routledge,
2007, pp. 1 – 13.
‘Onghokham Memories’, in Onze Ong: Onghokham dalam kenangan, ed.
David Reeve, JJ Rizal, Wasmi Alhaziri, Jakarta: Komunitas Bambu, 2007,
pp. 33 – 35.
2008 ‘A Plural Peninsula’, in Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions
on a Plural Peninsula, ed. Michael Montesano and Patrick Jory. Singapore:
NUS Press, 2008, pp. 25 – 38.
‘Introduction’, in Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific (Pacific World: Lands,
Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500 – 1900, No. 16, ed. Anthony Reid.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008, pp. xv – xxxiv.
‘The Bandung Conference and Southeast Asian regionalism’, in See Seng
Tan and Amitav Acharya (eds), Bandung Revisited: A Conference’s Legacy
and Relevance for International Order. Singapore: NUS Press, 2008,
pp. 19 – 26.
2009 ‘Introduction: Negotiating Asymmetry’, in Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s
Place in Asia, ed. Anthony Reid and Zheng Yangwen (Singapore: NUS
Press, 2009), pp. 1 – 25.
‘Indonesia, Aceh and the Modern Nation-state’, in The Politics of the Periphery
in Indonesia: Geographical and Social Perspectives, ed. Minako Sakai, Glenn
Banks and John Walker. Singapore: NUS Press, 2009, pp. 84 – 100.
Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid 373
[With Charles MacDonald], ‘Introduction’, in Personal Names in Asia:
History, Culture and Identity, ed. Zheng Yangwen and Charles Macdonald,
NUS Press. pp. 1 – 18.
‘Family Names in Southeast Asian History’, in ibid. pp. 21 – 36.
‘Is there a Batak History?’ in From Distant Tales. Archaeology and Ethnohistory
in the Highlands of Sumatra, ed. Dominick Bonatz, John Miksic, J. David
Neidel and Mei-lin Bonatz, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2009, pp. 104 – 19.
‘Southeast Asian consumption of British and Indian cotton cloth, 1600–
1850’, in How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles,
1500 – 1850. Ed. Om Prakash, Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy, and Kaoru
Sugihara. The Hague: Brill, 2009, pp. 31 – 52. ISBN 978 90 04 17653 9
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/GEHN/GEHNPDF/
PUNEReid.pdf>.
2010 ‘Revolutionary State Formation and the Unitary Republic of Indonesia’, in
Multination States in Asia: Accommodation or Resistance, ed. Jacques Bertrand
and André La Liberté (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010),
pp. 29 – 50.
‘Hybrid Identities in the Fifteenth Century Straits’, in The Fifteenth Century
in Southeast Asia: The Ming Factor, ed. Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen
(Singapore: NUS Press, 2010), pp. 307 – 32. ISBN 978−9971−69−448−7
paper). Also Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press.
‘Violence at Sea: Unpacking “Piracy” in the Claims of States over Asian Seas’,
in Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater
China Seas, ed. Robert J. Anthony (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University
Press, 2010), pp. 15 – 26. ISBN 978−988−8028−11−5
Chapter 12: ‘Islam in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Littoral, 1500–
1800: Expansion, Polarization, Synthesis’, in The New Cambridge History of
Islam, Vol. 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. ed.
David Morgan and Anthony Reid (Cambridge: 2010), pp. 427 – 69. ISBN
978−0−521−85031−5.
(with David Morgan), ‘Introduction: Islam in a Plural Asia, 1200 – 1800’, in
David Morgan and Reid (eds.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 3:
The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 1 – 18. ISBN 978−0−521−85031−5,
374 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
‘Singapore between Cosmopolis and Nation’, in Singapore from Temasek to
the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City, ed. Karl Hack and Jean Louis
Margolin, with Karine Delaye (Singapore: National University of Singapore
Press, forthcoming 2010), pp. 37 – 54. ISBN 978−9971−69−515−6.
‘Aceh and the Turkish Connection’, in ACEH: History, Politics and Culture,
ed. Arndt Graf, Susanne Schröter and Edwin Wieringa (Singapore: ISEAS,
2010), pp. 26 – 38. ISBN978-981‑4279-12 – 3.
Annotations for chapters 21 – 32 in Fernão Mendes Pinto and the Peregrinação:
Studies, Restored Portuguese Text, Notes and Indexes, Directed by Jorge Santos
Alves (Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, 2010), Vol. III, pp. 61 – 74. - ‘Crossing the great divide: Australia and eastern Indonesia’, in Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences, 2013, p. 41 – 54.
- ‘History and Seismology in the Ring of Fire: Punctuating the Indonesian Past’, in Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue DuréePerspective, Brill, 2015, pp. 62 – 77.
Monographs & Published Lectures
- ‘Heaven’s Will and Man’s Fault’: The Rise of the West as a Southeast Asian Dilemma.
Flinders Asian Studies Lecture 6. Adelaide, Flinders University, 1975. 43pp.
Europe and Southeast Asia: The Military Balance. Townsville, James Cook University
Southeast Asian Studies Committee, Occasional Paper 16, 1982. 11pp.
Reid & E. Drysdale, AAUCS and AUIDP: A Survey of Resource Allocation 1969 – 1983.
Canberra, International Development Program of Australian Universities and
Colleges, 1986. 57pp.
Helen Reid & Anthony Reid, South Sulawesi. Berkeley, Periplus Editions, 1988.
122 pp.
O’Hare & Reid, Australia dan Perjuangan Kemerdekaan Indonesia: Australia and
Indonesia’s Struggle for Independence [Indonesian/English], Jakarta, Gramedia for
Australia-Indonesia Institute, 1995, 98pp. Reprinted Gramedia, 2005.
Approaching “Asia” from the Southeast: Does the Crisis Make a Difference?, Asian Studies
Institute Inaugural Lecture, Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington Asian
Studies Institute, 1998. 17pp.
Chinese and Malay Identities in Southeast Asia. PROSEA Research paper No.34. Taipei:
Academia Sinica Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 2000.
Aceh and Indonesia: A Stormy Marriage, PROSEA Research paper No.42. Taipei:
Academia Sinica Program for Southeast Asian Studies, 2001.
‘War, Peace and the Burden of History in Aceh’, Asia Research Institute Working Paper
no. 1, June 2003, <www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications>. - ‘Completing the Circle: Southeast Asian Studies in Southeast Asia’, Asia Research
Institute Working Paper no. 12, September 2003, <www.ari.nus.edu.sg/
publications>.
‘Cosmopolis and Nation in Central Southeast Asia’, Asia Research Institute Working
Paper no. 22, April 2004, <www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications>.
‘The Ottomans in Southeast Asia’, Asia Research Institute Working Paper no. 36 (Feb
2005), <www.ari.nus.edu.sg/pub/wps2005.htm>.
(with Jiang Na) ‘The Battle of the Microbes: Smallpox, Malaria and Cholera in
Southeast Asia’, Asia Research Institute Working Paper no. 62 (April 2006), <www.
ari.nus.edu.sg/pub/wps2006.htm>
‘Hybrid Identities in the Fifteenth Century Straits’, Asia Research Institute Working
Paper no. 67 (May 2006), <www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications>.
‘Is there a Batak History?’ Asia Research Institute Working Paper no. 78 (Nov 2006),
<www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications>.
Malaysia/Singapore as Immigrant Societies: The Fifteenth James C. Jackson
Memorial Lecture 2008 Armidale: The University of New England for the Malaysia
and Singapore Society of Australia, 2008. 22 pages, ISBN 1 921208 34 1.
— Also distributed as Asia Research Institute Working Paper no. 141 (July
2010), <http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=W
P&pubid=1625>.
World History for our Time and Place: The Historian’s Contemporary Responsibility, Global
History and Maritime Asia Working and Discussion Paper no. 13 (November
2009), Osaka University, Osaka.
Introductions & Prefaces
- ‘Introduction’ to reprint of John Anderson, Acheen (1840), Kuala Lumpur, OUP,
1971, v – xvi.
‘On the Importance of Autobiography’, in special issue on Indonesian autobiographies,
Indonesia 13 (April 1972), 1 – 3.
‘Introduction’ to reprint of Ladislao Szekely, Tropic Fever. The Adventures of a Planter
in Sumatra (1936), Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1979, v – xv.
‘Preface’ to Wang Gungwu, Community and Nation: Essays on Southeast Asia and the
Chinese. Singapore, Heinemann for ASAA, 1981, vii – viii.
‘Foreward’ to reprint of Madelon Szekely‑Lulofs, Coolie (1936). Kuala Lumpur,
OUP, 1982, v – vii.
‘Introduction’ to reprint of Johan Nieuhof, Voyages and Travels to the East Indies
1653 – 1670 (1703). Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1988, v – ix.
‘Preface’, to Chinese Economic Activity in Netherlands India: Selected Translations
from the Dutch, ed. M.R. Fernando and David Bulbeck, Singapore, ISEAS for
ECHOSEA, 1992, pp. xi – xii.
‘Preface’, to Scot Barmé, Luang Wichit Wathakan and the creation of a Thai Identity.
Singapore, ISEAS, 1993, pp. ix – x.
‘Preface’, to The Junk Trade from Southeast Asia: Translations from the Tosen Fusetsugaki,
1674 – 1723, ed. Yoneo Ishii, Singapore: ISEAS for ECHOSEA, 1998.
Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid 375
‘Preface’ to Imagining the Chinese Diaspora: Two Australian Perspectives, by Wang
Gungwu and Annette Shun Wah. Canberra: CSCSD, ANU, 1999. Pp. 2 – 3.
‘Preface’, pp. vii – viii, in The Imperial Archives of the Nguyen Dynasty, the Sixth and
Seventh Years of Minh Mang Reign (1825 – 1826), tomes 11 – 20, ed. Phan Huy
Le. Ha Noi: The Gioi Publishers, 2000, 790pp.
‘Preface’, pp. v – vi, to Amitav Acharya, The Quest for Identity: International Relations
of Southeast Asia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
‘Preface: Asian Studies in Asia’, in The Directory of Asian Studies in Asia: A summary
of reports presented at the ‘Asian Studies in Asia’ Workshop, held in Hua Hin, April,
1998. Canberra: ASAA, 2000, pp. 5 – 9. ISBN 0 909524 42 4.
‘Preface’ to Asian Travel in the Renaissance, ed. Daniel Carey (Oxford: Blackwell,
2004), pp. ix – x.
Journal Articles
- 1961 “Church & State in New Zealand”, Student (Wellington, c. Aug. 1961)
1964 ‘The Economic Background to Indonesia’s “Confrontation”’, Political Science
(Wellington) 16: 2, 3 – 6.
1966 ‘A Russian in Kelantan?’, Peninjau Sejarah (Kuala Lumpur) I: 2, 42 – 47.
1967 ‘Nineteenth Century Pan‑Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia’, Journal of Asian
Studies 26: 2, 267 – 83. Indonesian translation in Kekacuan dan Kerusuhan:
Tiga Tulisan tentang Pan-Islamisme di Hindi-Belanda Timor pada Akhir Abad
Kesembilan Belas dan Awal Abad Kedua Puluh, ed. Nico Kapten (Leiden/
Jakarta: INIS, 2003).
“The Agony of Indonesia”, in Opinion (Kuala Lumpur), I, ii (Sept. 1967),
pp. 24 – 26.
1968 ‘Tengku Mohamed Arifin — Envoy Extraordinary’, Peninjau Sejarah III:
2, 31 – 40.
‘Gestapu: A Hesitant Assessment’, Journal of the Historical Society, University
of Malaya VI (1968) 97 – 104.
1969 ‘Sixteenth Century Turkish Influence in Western Indonesia’, Journal of
Southeast Asian History X: 3, 395 – 414. Reprinted in Profiles of Malay
Culture: Historiography, Religion and Politics, ed. Sartono Kartodirdjo, Jakarta:
Ministry of Education, 1976.
‘Indonesian Diplomacy. A Documentary Study of Atjehnese Foreign Policy in
the Reign of Sultan Mahmud, 1870 – 1874’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch,
Royal Asiatic Society 42 Part 2, 74 – 114. Indonesian translation incorporated
in Surat-Surat Lepas yang berhubungan dengan Politik Luar Negeri Kerajaan
Aceh menjelang Perang Belanda di Aceh, ed. Aboe Bakar, Banda Aceh: Pusat
Dokumentasi dan Informasi Aceh, 1982.
‘The Kuala Lumpur Riots and the Malaysian Political System’, Australian
Outlook 23: 3, 258 – 78.
“Atjeh — a Sultanate that Gained Special Status”, in Hemisphere (Canberra)
13, no. 5 (May 1969), pp. 34 – 37.
1971 ‘The Birth of the Republic in Sumatra’, Indonesia (Ithaca) 12, 21 – 46.
“Towards a New Indonesian History”, Hemisphere 15, no. 9 (Sept 1971),
pp. 34 – 37.
1972 ‘Habib Abdur‑rahman az‑Zahir (1833 – 1890)’ (edited translation
from
Dutch), Indonesia 13 (April 1972), 37 – 60.
‘The Affair of the Tjumbok Traitors’ (edited translation of Indonesian
text by Abdullah Arif ), Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs 4⁄5,
29 – 65.
1973 ‘The French in Sumatra and the Malay World 1760 – 1890’, in Bijdragen
tot de Taal‑, Land‑ en Volkenkunde (Leiden) 129, Parts 2⁄3, 195 – 238.
‘The Catholics of Indonesia’, Catholic Worker 439 (June 1973), 10 – 12.
1974 ‘Marxist Attitudes to Social Revolution, 1946 – 1948’, Review of Indonesian
and Malayan Affairs 8, i, 45 – 56.
1975 ‘The Japanese and Rival Indonesian Elites: Northern Sumatra in 1942’,
Journal of Asian Studies 35: 1, 49 – 61.
1976 (with Shiraishi Saya), ‘Rural Unrest in Sumatra, 1942: A Japanese Report’,
Indonesia 21 (April 1976), 115 – 33.
‘The Asian Studies Association of Australia’, NZASIAN (Auckland), No. 3,
pp. 30 – 31.
1977 ‘Sukarno and the nature of Indonesian political society: a review of the
literature’, New Zealand Journal of History 11, Part 1, 76 – 83.
‘Relating to Asia’, ASAA Review 1, no. 2 (Nov. 1977), pp. 1 – 4.
‘La Structure des Villes du Sud‑est Asiatique (XVIeme-XVIIeme siècles)’ in
Urbi (Paris) 1 (October 1979).
1980 ‘The Structure of Cities in Southeast Asia, 15th to 17th Centuries’, Journal
of Southeast Asian Studies XI: 2, 235 – 50.
— reprinted in European Intruders and Changes in Behaviour and Customs in
Africa, America and Asia before 1800, ed. Murdo J. MacLeod and Evelyn S.
Rawski. Variorum Expanding World Series, Vol. 30 (Aldershot/Brookfield/
Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 347 – 62.
1981 ‘”Alterity” and “Reformism”: the Australian frontier in Indonesian studies’,
Archipel 21, 7 – 18.
‘A Great Seventeenth Century Indonesian Family: Matoaya and Pattingalloang
of Makassar’, Masyarakat Indonesia 8: 1, 1 – 28.
‘Karaeng Matoaya dan Karaeng Pattingalloang: pelopor-pelopor
pembangunan di abad Ketujuhbelas’, Lontara (Ujung Pandang) 21: 7,
22 – 30.
‘Social Revolution — National Revolution’, Prisma: The Indonesian Indicator
23, December 1981, 64 – 72.
1983 ‘The Rise of Makassar’, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Winter/
Summer 1983, 117 – 60.
1984 ‘The Pre‑Colonial Economy of Indonesia’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic
Studies 20: 2, August 1984, 151 – 67.
‘Southeast Asian Cities before Colonialism’, Hemisphere 28, Nov./Dec. 1983,
144 – 49.
‘Islamization and Colonial Rule in Moroland: Some Common Responses to
the Introduction of New Cultures in East Indonesia and the Philippines’,
Solidarity (Manila) 100, 64 – 74.
1985 ‘From Betel Chewing to Tobacco Smoking in Indonesia’, Journal of Asian
Studies 44, iii, 529 – 48.
— reprinted 1998, see section E
378 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
1987 ‘Southeast Asia and the “Indian Ocean” Enterprise’, ASAA Review 11, 1,
4 – 6.
1988 ‘Female Roles in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia’, in Asian Studies in Honour
of Professor C.R. Boxer, ed. Geneviève Bouchon and Pierre‑Yves Manguin,
Modern Asian Studies 22: 3 (1988), 629 – 65.
— reprinted 1998, see section E
1989 ‘Elephants and Water in the Feasting of Seventeenth Century Acheh’, Journal
of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, LXII, Pt. i, 25 – 44.
“Why Economic History”, in ECHOSEA Newsletter 1, i (January 1989),
pp. 1 – 2.
1990 ‘An “Age of Commerce” in Southeast Asian History’, Modern Asian Studies
24: 1 (1990), 1 – 30.
(with David Kelly) ‘Weathering a Political Storm: The Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences, 1990’, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 24:
347 – 55.
‘Australia’s Discovery of Indonesia, 1945’, Journal of the Australian War
Memorial 17: 30 – 40.
‘The “Seventeenth Century Crisis” as an approach to Southeast Asian
History’, Modern Asian Studies 24: 4: 639 – 59.
“Duit Ayam (Chicken Coins)”, ECHOSEA Newsletter 4 (March 1990),
p. 5.
“The 10th International Economic History Congress, Leuven, Belgium,
August 1990”, ECHOSEA Newsletter 5 (Sept. 1990), pp. 1 – 2.
1991 “Report on a Visit to Dili, 22 – 24 June 1991”, Asian Studies Review 15,
no. 2 (Nov. 1991), pp. 181 – 82.
1993 [Reid & Trocki], “The Last Stand of Autonomous States in Southeast Asia
and Korea, 1750 – 1870: Problems, Possibilities, and a Project”, Asian Studies
Review 17: 2 (November 1993), pp. 103 – 20.
“The Unthreatening Alternative: Chinese Shipping in Southeast Asia, 1567–
1842”, Vietnamese Studies 1993, no. 4 (110 of whole series), pp. 60 – 90.
— Vietnamese translation published in Phở Hien: Ky Yeu Hoi Thao Khoa
Hoc, Hanoi, 1994.
Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid 379
1994 “The Unthreatening Alternative: Chinese Shipping in Southeast Asia
1567 – 1842” RIMA 27 (scheduled for 1993), 13 – 32.
‘Historiographical Reflections on the Period 1750 – 1870 in Southeast Asia
and Korea’, Itinerario (Leiden), 1994, i: 77 – 88.
1995 “Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia”, Environment and
History 1 (1995), pp. 93 – 110.
1996 (Reid & Radin Fernando), “Shipping on Melaka and Singapore as an Index
of Growth, 1760 – 1840”, in South Asia, Special Issue Vol. XIX (1996),
pp. 59 – 84.
1997 ‘New Directions for New Times’, Asian Studies Review 20, no. 3 (April
1997), pp. 149 – 52.
‘Endangered Identity: Kadazan or Dusun in Sabah (East Malaysia)’, in
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), Vol. 28, No. 1 (March 1997,
pp. 120 – 36.
1998 ‘President’s Message: Moving On’, Asian Studies Review 22, no. 1 (February
1998), pp. 1 – 2.
‘Political “Tradition” in Indonesia: The One and the Many’, Asian Studies
Review 22, no. 1 (February 1998), pp. 23 – 38.
‘Who Made Southeast Asia’, in The Asia-Pacific Magazine, pp. 64 – 68.
‘Studying “Asia” Internationally’, IIAS Newsletter 17 (Dec. 1998), pp. 5 &
53.
1999 ‘A Saucer Model of Southeast Asian Identity’, in Southeast Asian Journal of
Social Science, Vol. 27 no. 1 (1999), pp. 7 – 23.
‘Studying “Asia” in Asia’, Asian Studies Review 23, no. 2 (June 1999),
pp. 141 – 51.
‘Balancing Act’, in Far Eastern Economic Review Vol. 162, no. 23 (10 June
1999), pp. 56 – 60.
(with Takeshi Ito), ‘A Precious Dutch map of Aceh, c.1645’, in Archipel 57
(1999), pp. 191 – 208.
2000 ‘Which Way Aceh’ [The 5th Column], in Far Eastern Economic Review
Vol. 163, no. 11 (16 March 2000), p. 36.
380 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
2001 ‘Globalisation, Asian Diasporas and the Study of Southeast Asia in the West’
[in Chinese], in Southeast Asian Affairs no. 1 (Xiamen, March 2001).
‘Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a source of Diverse Modern Identities’,
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 32, 3 (October 2001), pp. 295 – 313.
2003 ‘Charismatic Queens of Southern Asia’, History Today 53, vi (June 2003),
pp. 30 – 35.
‘Perlawanan dalam Sejarah Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam’, Tempo (Jakarta)
Special Edition 24 August 2003, pp. 38 – 39.
2004 ‘Global and Local in Southeast Asian History’, International Journal of Asian
Studies Vol. I, no. 1 (Tokyo, 2004), pp. 5 – 21.
‘War, Peace and the Burden of History in Aceh’, Asian Ethnicity 15, no. 3
(October 2004), pp. 301 – 14.
Baogang He and Reid, ‘Special Issue Editors’ Introduction: Four Approaches
to the Aceh Question’, Asian Ethnicity 15, no. 3 (October 2004), pp. 293–
300.
‘Global and Local in Southeast Asian History’, International Journal of Asian
Studies Vol. I, no. 1 (Tokyo, 2004), pp. 5 – 21.
‘Studying Southeast Asia in a Globalized World’, Taiwan Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies (Puli, Taiwan), I, no. 2 (October 2004), pp. 3 – 18.
2006 ‘Southeast Asia’s Powerful Queens’, Heritage Asia 3, no. 4 (July – September
2006), pp. 62 – 63.
(with Helen Reid) ‘A Voice for Southeast Asian Muslims in the High Colonial
Era: The Third Baron Stanley of Alderley,’ Education about Asia 11, no. 3
(Winter 2006), pp. 4 – 6.
2007 ‘Internationalising knowledge in Asia: Problems and Progress’, in Asia:
Magazine of Asian Literature (Seoul), Vol. II, no. 3 (September 2007),
pp. 165 – 83 (Korean) and 184 – 205 (English)
2008 ‘Stranger Orangkaya and Magic Mediators: Outsiders and Power in
Sumatra and Beyond’, in special issue of Indonesia and the Malay World,
ed. David Henley and Ian Caldwell, Volume 36, Issue 105 (July 2008),
pp. 253 – 67.
2009 ‘Indonesian Studies at ANU: Why so Late?’ for special issue in honour of
Herb Feith, of Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs 43, part 1 (2009),
pp. 51 – 74.
‘Introduction: Chineseness Unbound’, in Asian Ethnicity special issue, 10,
no. 3 (October 2009), pp. 197 – 201
‘Indonesia: Escaping the Burdens of Chineseness’, in Asian Ethnicity special
issue, 10, no. 3 (October 2009), pp. 267 – 78.
2010 ‘Studying Southeast Asia in and for Southeast Asia: An interview with
Anthony Reid, by Leonard Blussé and Carolien Stolte’, Itinerario 34 (2010),
pp. 7 – 18.
‘Jewish-Conspiracy Theories in Southeast Asia: Are Chinese the target?’
for special issue on Jews in Indonesia, ed. Ronit Ricci, in Indonesia and the
Malay World 38, no. 112 (November 2010), pp. 373 – 85.
Review Articles
“Maluku Revisited”, in Bijdragen tot de Taal‑, Land‑, en Volkenkunde 151, 1e. afl
(1995), pp. 132 – 35.
‘The Regional Thing’ (review of Stephen Fitzgerald’s Is Australia an Asian Country?),
Eureka Street 7, no. 7 (Sept. 1997), pp. 40 – 42. - Reviewed Work: On Home Is Not Here by Wang Gungwu
Review by: Philip Holden, Anthony Reid, Khoo Boo Teik
Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 35, No. 1 (March 2020), pp. 138 – 159.
Encyclopedia Entries
Eighty entries on Malaysia and the Malay World for Dictionary of World History, ed.
G.D.M. Howatt, London, Nelson. 1973.
Entries on Soeharto for Collier’s Encyclopedia (450 words) and Merit Students
Encyclopedia (300 words), both New York, Macmillan, 1980.
Eleven entries for Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. Ainslie T. Embree, 4 vols,
New York, Scribner’s; London, Macmillan, 1988.
Academic Advisor, Atlas of World History, ed. John Haywood (Oxford Cassell
[Andromeda Book], 1997.
Advisory Editor for A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. D.R. Woolf.
2 vols, New York & London, Garland Publishing Inc., 1998), and author of
‘Indonesian Historiography — Modern’, Vol. I, pp. 465 – 67.
382 Publications by Anthony J. S. Reid
Adviser, A Historical Guide to World Slavery, ed. Seymour Drescher and Stanley
Engerman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 429pp.
‘Migration: Chinese and Southeast Asian Interactions’, in The Encyclopedia of the
Chinese Overseas, ed. Lynn Pan (Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, 1998),
pp. 50 – 52.
‘The Indonesian National Revolution, 1945 – 50’, pp. 236 – 38, and ‘Indonesian
Upheaval. 1965 – 66’, pp. 239 – 40 in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolution, ed.
Jack Goldstone (Washington, Congressional Quarterly, 1998).
Adviser, Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, ed. Kelly Boyd (Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), 2 vols.
‘Historiography of Southeast Asia’, pp. 6808 – 13 in International Encyclopedia of
the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes. Oxford:
Pergamon (Elsevier Science), 2001. ISBN 0 08 0430767.
Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (EWIC), ed. Suad Joseph.
Leiden, Brill, (in preparation from 1999). 6 vols, 2003 – . Also wrote ‘Slavery:
East Asia and Southeast Asia’, for Vol. IV (2006), pp. 504 – 06.
‘Women Traders of Southeast Asia’ (1100 words) and ‘Melaka’ (800 words) for
Encyclopedia of World Trade Since 1450, ed. John J. McCusker (Macmillan,
2004?)
‘Aceh’ (4000 words), in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third Edition, Part 1 (Leiden:
E.J. Brill, 2007), pp. 26 – 32. also at <http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/Acehproject/
EI3-1-Reid.pdf>.
‘Ala’ud-din Ri’ayat Shah al-Kahar’ (500 words); in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Third
Edition, Part 2 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007), pp. 90 – 91.
‘Fujiwara Iwaichi’; ‘F‑kikan’; ‘Said Abubakar’; ‘Dr M. Amir’; ‘Inoue Tetsuro’
for Encyclopaedia of World War II in Indonesia (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch der Orientalistik,19), Amsterdam: NIOD, 2019.