Southeast Asia

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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.

Scope and Contents The content of this research archive includes the following: -Census questionnaires for three Mon villages and one Thai village from 1970-71, all in Thai, along with copies of the questionnaires with questions in English and answers in Thai -Census questionnaires from three Mon villages from 1981, in Thai, along with copies of the questionnaires with questions in English and answers in Thai -Other questionnaires on language use/fluency, friendships, over age 16, and others -Census...

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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.

Abstract

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

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents The letters cover the period of time between 1981 and 1988.  In the letters she talks about: -censorship -private tuition in Burma -gay performers in Rangoon -pornographic films that were popular among the Chinese merchants -power cuts in Rangoon in the late 1980's -rationing of goods during the Socialist regime -ban on rice trading because of the scarcity in the mid-80's -her friendships with foreign scholars and diplomats, which resulted in her coming under the scrutiny of senior...

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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.

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The collection consists of field notes, research, and census data.