Content:

1. Introduction by Nicholas Tarling
2. A British View of Thailand and Southeast Asia by Nigel Brailey
3. Forty-one years in the fields: A Backward glance by David P. Chandler
4. How I got into Malaysian History by Cheah Boon Kheng
5. An Amateur Historian by John Gullick
6. Chance and Circumtances: A Gradual Journey towards Asian studies by John D. Legge
7. Becoming and Indonesianist – but an unbecoming historian by Jamie Mackie
8. Imagining Southeast Asia by Ruth T. McVey
9. A Life with Vietnam by David Marr
10. The call of Southeast Asian History by Ian Nish
11. Serendipity, or discovering Lao History by Martin Stuart-Fox
12. Down Chancery Lane by Nicholas Tarling
13. Reflections of a Pioneer by Ken Tregonning
14. The Pull of Southeast Asia by Wang Gungwu
15. My Involvement in Thai historical studies by Yoneo Iishi
16. ‘Political in Command’: Stuyding Chinese leadership in British Malaya by Yong Ching Fatt
17. Select Bibliography