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Volume 85 Part 2, No. 303 December 2012
 
CONTENTS
 
   

The First Sultan of Sarawak and His Links to Brunei and the Sambas Dynasty, 1599–1826: ALittle-known Pre-Brooke History
- Ib Larsen

In Alfred RusselWallace’s Shadow: His Forgotten Assistant: Charles Allen (1839–1892)
- Kees Rookmaaker and John van Wyhe

Ming China’s Support for Sultan Mahmud of Melaka and Its Hostility towards the Portuguese after the Fall of Melaka in 1511
- Cheah Boon Kheng

The Builders
- J. M. Gullick

Notes

Nasehat: Distance and Authority in a Malay Sultanate
- William R. Roff

On Going into the Field
- William R. Roff

 

Book Reviews

The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand

Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos

Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland

Victorious Wives: The Disguised Heroine in 19th-Century Malay Syair

China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949–1965

War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

From Lanka Eastwards: The Ramayana in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia



Annual Report and Accounts
The first issue of our journal
JOURNAL OF THE STRAITS BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
JULY 1878


Reprinted with the permission of the
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, MALAYAN BRANCH
KRAUS REPRINT LTD.
Vaduz
1965

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