SEA/SEA. Southeast Asia Collection

The Council on Thai Studies (COTS) Meetings Collection comprises numerous journal articles, book prospectuses, presentation proposals, mailing lists, and correspondences from a network of Thai Studies scholars across the United States and abroad. It highlights key topics in Thai Studies and documents the organization of the annual COTS meetings from 1972 to 2022. The collection includes 8 boxes, 54 folders of printed and typewritten documents, arranged chronologically.

Materials in this collection cover aspects of the Cao-Dai religion. Caodaism is a montheistic syncretic religion officially established in the city of Tay Ninh in Southern Vietnam in 1926.

A majority of the materials are about Burma/Myanmar and Korea (North and South). There are also materials about other Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia.

The Edward Law-Yone Papers includes articles about different aspects of Burmese society, from politics to folklore, to Buddhism.  It also includes some personal materials, among them, Law-Yone’s resume and twenty-four correspondence letters between Law-Yone and Mr. and Mrs. Hanks.  The collection also includes a typed manuscript of Edward-Law Yone’s autobiography, My Life.

The Bea Wehrly Collection consists numerous journal articles, mailings from D.C. offices addressing the refugee situation, as well as research reports from Minneapolis, San Diego, and Philadelphia and a copy of Dr. Wehrly's study of Indochinese students in Illinois schools.

This is a collection of sheet music.  Some items featured include, Hating Gabi (At Midnight) Filipino Serenades for violin and Piano by Antonio J. Molina, Burlesque, A Piano Solo by Lucrecia R. Kasilag and Recuerdos de Capiz by J. Nakpil.

The collection consists of one box containing a folder with two articles

This collection consists of two folders in one box.  In the first folder are letters and in the second photographs.