Part I : Cultural heritage ; 1. The "Indianization" of Southeast Asia / Ian W. Mabbett -- 2. Foreign influences and the Vietnamese cultural core / John K. Whitmore -- 3. State and kingship in Southeast Asia / Robert Heine-Geldern -- 4. The Trung sisters in the literature of later centuries / Keith Weller Taylor -- 5. Some travelers from China in Southeast Asia : Fa-hsien / Chau Ju-kua and Marco Polo -- 6. Interstate relations in Java / Pararaton -- 7. Protocol at the Malaccan court / Sejarah Melayu -- Part II : The colonial interlude ; 8. The position of the native regents / Bertrand Johannes Shrieke -- 9. The Philippines before the Spanish conquest / Miguel de Loarca -- 10. The hispanization of the Philippines / John Leddy Phelan -- 11. Javanese aristocracy and the Dutch / Raden Adjeng Kartini -- Part III : Nationalist response ; 12. Mi ultimos adios / Jose Rizal -- 13. Theses on nationalism and colonialism / V.I. Lenin -- 14. Vietnam's declaration of independence / Ho Chi Minh -- 15. Indonesian independence and Pancasila / Sukarno -- 16. Burma under the Japanese / U Nu -- 17. Indonesian nationalists and the Japanese / Elly Touwen Bouwsma -- 18. Decolonization in Malaya, 1942-1952 / A.J. Stockwell -- Part IV : Fruits of freedom ; 19. The birth of NLF / Truong Nhu Tang -- 20. The United States in Vietnam / Lyndon B. Johnson -- 21. Wawasan or vision 2020: the way forward / Mahathir Mohammad -- 22. Malaysia on track for 2020 vision / Mahathir Mohammad -- 23. ASEAN vision 2020 / ASEAN Secretariat -- 24. Pol Pot's rise to power / Ben Kiernan -- 25. Freedom from fear / Aung San Suu Kyi -- 26. Islam in Southeast Asia / Greg Fealy.