Geoffrey C Gunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 456752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey C Gunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gunn |
| SIGNATURE | GUNN G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nagasaki University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Centre-Periphery in shaping an intellectual outlook: Andre Gunder Frank
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution
In the throes of the Indonesian National Revolution Dutch intelligence services were not backward in their attempts to decode anti-colonial messaging. The writings of national-communist Tan Malaka received special attention, alongside a range of ad hoc guerrilla organisations, many only loosely affiliated with the Republican regime. To this end, they assiduously collected pamphlets, graffiti, and documents and anything that could throw light on t…
Revisiting the Indonesian National Revolution Through a Post-Authoritarian Lens
Studies on the Indonesian National Revolution in the Anglosphere have long been dominated by the Cornell University “school,” and with Dutch language studies mainly remaining untranslated. Under the long authoritarian rule of the military-dominated Suharto regime, the Leftist current in the revolution was written out of Indonesian-language works, just as military heroes were substituted. Nevertheless, the nation remained united around the August …
Timor-Leste 2021-2022: Electoral change and economic reset
The years
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh's Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks
The presence of Ho Chi Minh in Rio de Janeiro at the end of one of his early seafaring journeys is taken as an article of faith by a spectrum of opinion in Brazil today. But what is the source material that lends credence to such a view? As this article exposes, the legend originally emerged in 1968 with the publication of two pieces of writing linked with a reported encounter between Ho Chi Minh and two Communist Party of Brazil leaders in Mosco…
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh's Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought
Under British Law: Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong (1931-33)
This article draws on material from Geoffrey Gunn's Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong: Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong: Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law
It was the trial of a century in colonial Hong Kong when, in 1931–33, Ho Chi Minh - the future President of Vietnam - faced down deportation to French-controlled territory with a death sentence dangling over him. Thanks to his appeal to English common law, Ho Chi Minh won his reprieve. With extradition a major political issue in Hong Kong today, Geoffrey C. Gunn's examination of the legal case of Ho Chi Minh offers a timely insight into the rule …
Chinese Economic Statecraft in Indonesia/East Timor: A Historical and Regional Perspective
From inside China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), two southern tier nations offer contrary perspectives as to the efficacy of Beijing’s economic statecraft, namely Indonesia and East Timor. While obviously asymmetric in practically every respect, nevertheless a careful study of these two nations’ bilateral links with China over long and short times offers salutary lessons on infrastructure financing in particular. Several interconnected inquiri…
Timor-Leste in 2020
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Timor-Leste in 2020 was great, and the ripple effects may be felt for years. Paradoxically, it was not that the population was directly impacted—indeed, the small half-island nation stands out with only a score or so of cases, and no deaths—but that the oil-dependent economy and the status of financial reserves took a major hit with the collapse of oil and stock prices. In the interest of managing the pandem…
Dalliance with Ho Chi Minh: Komatsu Kiyoshi in Paris and Hanoi
Having arrived in France in 1921, the young student of French, Komatsu Kiyoshi 小松, 清, made the acquaintance of Ho Chi Minh. While briefly noting Komatsu's career as litterateur through the French Popular Front years, this article brings to light the nature and depth of Komatsu's relationship with Ho Chi Minh, especially as revealed by French police documentation. Komatsu's links with communist and anarcho-syndicalist networks in Paris - Japanese …
Laos in 2019: Moving Heaven and Earth on the Mekong
“Southeast Asian Affairs, first published in 1974, continues today to be required reading for not only scholars but the general public interested in in-depth analysis of critical cultural, economic and political issues in Southeast Asia. In this annual review of the region, renowned academics provide comprehensive and stimulating commentary that furthers understanding of not only the region’s dynamism but also of its tensions and conflicts. It is…
Timor-Leste in 2019
Politically, the focus in Timor-Leste in 2019 shifted from infighting to crucial decision-making on petroleum exploitation. Contrary to international advice on risk management and the need to diversify the non-oil economy, a going-for-broke mindset with respect to a multi-billion-dollar onshore gas development appeared to have carried the day
Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-1958
One part of the world where the Cold War has not gone away is the Taiwan Strait. With the USA ending formal diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (ROC) in 1979, news of a May 2019 meeting betw
Indonesia in 2018
In 2018 Indonesia looked ahead to legislative and presidential elections, and heads of major parties, including the incumbent president, lined up allies. As host of the 18th Asian Games, the nation celebrated in style. But with economic growth flatlining and natural disasters taking their toll, it was also a year of introspection
Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge
While the late twentieth-century rise of Singapore as an independent state has tended to sideline its former twinned Straits Settlements colonial island entity, Penang, those in the know have alway
Mythbusting Vietnam: Fact, Fictions, Fantasies
Unquestionably, nation states surround themselves in myths about origins, political direction, heroes, commemorative events and so on. Busting these myths is now part of a social science repertoire
Indonesia in 2017
In mass demonstrations spearheaded by a coalition of Islamic radicals, 2017 witnessed a polarizing assault on the nation’s broadly secular founding creed, Pancasila. With the arrest and imprisonment of the popular ethnic-Chinese Christian mayor of Jakarta on spurious blasphemy charges, even the Indonesian president was left on the back foot and obliged to push back
Laos in 2016
Briefly entering the international media spotlight coinciding with the first-ever visit by a sitting US president along with a galaxy of regional leaders, Laos in 2016 saw a new leadership lineup following a quinquennial party congress. Questions of Chinese versus Vietnamese influence over Laos and even the legacy of US bombing all gained an airing
Alexander Laban Hinton, Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow
It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation albeit being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international group of contributors come together in Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow to investigate how Macau escaped the fate of direct Japanese invasion and occupation. Exploring the broader diplomatic and strategic issues during that era, this volume reve…
Akihiro Iwashita,Japan's Border Issues: Pitfalls and Prospects
Anyone vaguely following international affairs will be taken at the alacrity at which Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated over issues related to islets and rock features in the East China Sea, mor
Understanding China: The Silk Road and the Communist Manifesto
As suggested by the subtitle to this book, the Silk Road becomes a synecdoche for China’s historical connection with the West. The reference to The Communist Manifesto signals the ideological bagga
Coercion and Co-optation of Indochinese Worker-Soldiers in World War I: Mort pour la France
Alongside even larger numbers of contingents drawn from France's colonial empire, including a large pool of workers sourced from China, successive contingents of "Indochinese" -Vietnamese in addition to Cambodians - were also pressed into both military and labor battalions in World War I battlefields. Besides explaining the battlefield experiences of the Indochinese battalions in the European war - a little studied area - this article seeks to ex…
Frédéric Durand and Richard Curtis. Maps of Malaya and Borneo: Discovery, Statehood and Progress: The Collections of H.R.H. Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah and Dato' Richard Curtis
"Justice and Governance in East Timor: "Indigenous Approaches and the "New Subsistence State
The state of East Timor studies after 1999
Taking stock of the state of knowledge on East Timor since the UN intervention of 1999, this article traces the rise of a hegemonic discourse especially around development issues notably as promoted by the World Bank. In turn, the World Bank discourse of lean government, market-oriented economic policies, and export-oriented agriculture is reflected in a number of publications. As a formidable patronage machine in East Timor, it would not be surp…
Research Notes and Comments: Sambran (The White Python): The Kha (Lao Theung) Revolt of 1936–39
Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border: Evolutions, Challenges and Countermeasures
Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border: Evolutions, Challenges and Countermeasures." Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45(4), pp. 730–731
Remembering the Southeast Asian Chinese massacres of 1941-45
This article examines a series of wartime massacres (sook chings) conducted at various Southeast Asian sites with a view to teasing out broader lessons about justice, compensation, apology and the uses of memory both on the side of the victims as well as the nation that perpetrated the crimes. Characteristically, the sook chings of Southeast Asia, occurring in ethnically complex societies with mostly Chinese as victims, displayed a planned charac…
People's war in Laos: A new guerrilla model
1991). People's war in Laos: A new guerrilla model? Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 529-536
Radical Islam in Southeast Asia: Rhetoric and reality in the Middle Eastern connection
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeoffrey C. GunnThe author, who writes from Hong Kong,acknowledges with thanks the assistance given by Martin Stuart-Fox for a critical reading of an earlier draft of his article
Cambodia and the Politics of Aesthetics
While a slight book in size and appearance, author Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim nevertheless ranges over the full sweep of Cambodia’s history, as many before him, but his effort is distinguished by its theo
Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong
Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010) Author of works on, variously, Vietnamese peasant mill
Prince souphanouvong: Revolutionary and intellectual
1992). Prince souphanouvong: Revolutionary and intellectual. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 94-103
Tan Malaka and Anti-Colonial Messaging during the Indonesian National Revolution
In the throes of the Indonesian National Revolution Dutch intelligence services were not backward in their attempts to decode anti-colonial messaging. The writings of national-communist Tan Malaka received special attention, alongside a range of ad hoc guerrilla organisations, many only loosely affiliated with the Republican regime. To this end, they assiduously collected pamphlets, graffiti, and documents and anything that could throw light on t…
A Stage in Rio De Janeiro? Ho Chi Minh's Maritime Journeying and Latin America Networks
The presence of Ho Chi Minh in Rio de Janeiro at the end of one of his early seafaring journeys is taken as an article of faith by a spectrum of opinion in Brazil today. But what is the source material that lends credence to such a view? As this article exposes, the legend originally emerged in 1968 with the publication of two pieces of writing linked with a reported encounter between Ho Chi Minh and two Communist Party of Brazil leaders in Mosco…
Between Theory and Praxis: Ho Chi Minh's Parisian Networks, Intellectual Production and Evolving Thought
Chinese Economic Statecraft in Indonesia/East Timor: A Historical and Regional Perspective
From inside China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), two southern tier nations offer contrary perspectives as to the efficacy of Beijing’s economic statecraft, namely Indonesia and East Timor. While obviously asymmetric in practically every respect, nevertheless a careful study of these two nations’ bilateral links with China over long and short times offers salutary lessons on infrastructure financing in particular. Several interconnected inquiri…
Timor-Leste in 2020
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Timor-Leste in 2020 was great, and the ripple effects may be felt for years. Paradoxically, it was not that the population was directly impacted—indeed, the small half-island nation stands out with only a score or so of cases, and no deaths—but that the oil-dependent economy and the status of financial reserves took a major hit with the collapse of oil and stock prices. In the interest of managing the pandem…
Indonesia in 2017
In mass demonstrations spearheaded by a coalition of Islamic radicals, 2017 witnessed a polarizing assault on the nation’s broadly secular founding creed, Pancasila. With the arrest and imprisonment of the popular ethnic-Chinese Christian mayor of Jakarta on spurious blasphemy charges, even the Indonesian president was left on the back foot and obliged to push back
East-Southeast Asia in World History: The Making of a World Region
Global trends which have seen the dramatic rise of the East-Southeast Asian economies suggests a turning of the wheel. Students of world history will recall the central place of China and India in the pre-modern world as producers and exporters of, variously, silks, ceramics and textiles, just as their populations and economies vastly dwarfed those of medieval Europe. The sprawling tropical zone of Southeast Asia, known historically as a prime so…
Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia
Timor-Leste in 2009: Cup Half Full or Half Empty
Timor-Leste (East Timor) appears to have put the crisis of 2006 behind it. No major outbreaks of violence recurred. The security dividend translated into tangible economic progress. Added to that, the otherwise impoverished, half-island Southeast Asian nation has joined the holders of sovereign funds. Still, macro-development indicators do not give cause for unbridled optimism
Laos in 2006: Changing of the Guard
Two key events on the political calendar in Laos in 2006 were the Eighth Party Congress and elections to the Legislative Assembly, leading to the appointment of a new president, prime minister, and cabinet. Neither event would detract from the epithet “secretive” often applied to affairs of state in what is one of the world's five remaining communist nations
Showdown in Timor: Notes from the (battle) field
The celebration of the first anniversary of the UN-sponsored ballot in Dili on 30 August 2000 brought East Timor back into the world's headlines, but only for a moment. Meanwhile, a sense of international drift seemed to prevail about the UN-administered territory: the World Bank and, behind it, the United States were struggling to rally donor pledges for the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET); and Australia was otherwise focused on the Olympic Gam…
Laos in 1989: Quiet Revolution in the Marketplace
Research Article| January 01 1990 Laos in 1989: Quiet Revolution in the Marketplace Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1961) 30 (1): 81–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644776 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
Resistance Coalitions in Laos
Research Article| March 01 1983 Resistance Coalitions in Laos Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1954) 23 (3): 316–340. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644276 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
Foreign Relations of the Lao People's Democratic Republic: The Ideological Imperative
Research Article| October 01 1980 Foreign Relations of the Lao People's Democratic Republic: The Ideological Imperative Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1951) 20 (10): 990–1007. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643816 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo T…
Ideology and the Concept of Government in the Indonesian New Order
Research Article| August 01 1979 Ideology and the Concept of Government in the Indonesian New Order Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1950) 19 (8): 751–769. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643719 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
Ideology and the Concept of Government in the Indonesian New Order
Research Article| August 01 1979 Ideology and the Concept of Government in the Indonesian New Order Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1950) 19 (8): 751–769. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643719 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
Foreign Relations of the Lao People's Democratic Republic: The Ideological Imperative
Research Article| October 01 1980 Foreign Relations of the Lao People's Democratic Republic: The Ideological Imperative Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1951) 20 (10): 990–1007. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643816 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo T…
Resistance Coalitions in Laos
Research Article| March 01 1983 Resistance Coalitions in Laos Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1954) 23 (3): 316–340. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644276 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site C…
Radical Islam in Southeast Asia: Rhetoric and reality in the Middle Eastern connection
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeoffrey C. GunnThe author, who writes from Hong Kong,acknowledges with thanks the assistance given by Martin Stuart-Fox for a critical reading of an earlier draft of his article
Minority manipulation in colonial Indochina: Lessons and legacies
As one student of the ethnohistory of the highlands of Indochina, Hickey, has written, the French “penetration” of Kontum, Ban Me Thuot, and Dalat had achieved a certain success by the beginning of the First World War. Central to the viability of the French colonial project of economic exploitation in the highlands was the need for road construction and other public works, including labor for privately owned French plantations. Not only did the s…
Laos In 1987: Socialist Dependence and Underdevelopment
The prospects for reform in Indo‐China
(1988). The prospects for reform in Indo‐China. The Pacific Review: Vol. 1, Emerging Southeast Asia: Development, integration, democracy, pp. 374-384
Research Notes and Comments: Sambran (The White Python): The Kha (Lao Theung) Revolt of 1936–39
Laos in 1989: Quiet Revolution in the Marketplace
Research Article| January 01 1990 Laos in 1989: Quiet Revolution in the Marketplace Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1961) 30 (1): 81–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644776 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
Political Struggles in Laos (1930-1954): Vietnamese Communist Power and the Lao Struggle for National Independence
Laos in anthropology: Anthropology in Laos
Laos in 1990: Winds of Change
Laos in 1990 saw winds of change blowing but not all in the direction willed by the ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party. Overall, the momentum of economic reform and restructuring was abetted by further infusions of Western aid. However, looming prospects of a cutoff in Soviet bloc aid and disillusion stemming from the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe saw Laos once again bidding up ties with Thailand and China. Otherwise, Laos retains …
People's war in Laos: A new guerrilla model
1991). People's war in Laos: A new guerrilla model? Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 529-536
Laos - Laos. Compiled by Helen Cordell [World Bibliographical Series, Vol. 133]. Oxford, Santa Barbara, Denver: Clio Press, 1991. Pp. xxxvi, 215. Indexes
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Prince souphanouvong: Revolutionary and intellectual
1992). Prince souphanouvong: Revolutionary and intellectual. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 94-103
Brunei Darussalam in 1994: The Triumph of Regionalism
Research Article| February 01 1995 Brunei Darussalam in 1994: The Triumph of Regionalism? Geoffrey C. Gunn Geoffrey C. Gunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1995) 35 (2): 217–220. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645033 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …
De quelques ambitions internationales
New World Hegemony in the Malay World
Showdown in Timor: Notes from the (battle) field
The celebration of the first anniversary of the UN-sponsored ballot in Dili on 30 August 2000 brought East Timor back into the world's headlines, but only for a moment. Meanwhile, a sense of international drift seemed to prevail about the UN-administered territory: the World Bank and, behind it, the United States were struggling to rally donor pledges for the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET); and Australia was otherwise focused on the Olympic Gam…
The 500-year Timorese Funu
As recent history reveals, the Timorese have not easily acquiesced to dominance by outsiders, now or in the past. This article sets down the broad contours of that past, investigates how that past has been reclaimed, and offers a reflection on the style of the Timorese resistance or war, loosely labeled funu in Timor's Tetum language. By setting down the boundary dividing colonial spheres of influence on Timor, the two concerned colonial powers, …
Chronology
Angkor and Beyond: The Asian tourism phenomenon
Once a synonym for war and revolutionary terror, we wonder at the rebirth of Cambodia as tourist destination of choice. We wonder at the market forces that privilege an approach to travel keyed to providing the costly facilities and infrastructure required to enable large numbers of rich international tourists to descend upon places that were utterly inaccessible only a decade ago. We wonder, too, at the ability of the market to adjust to risk ca…
Japan-Indonesia Relations: New Opportunities, New tensions
The late January visit to Tokyo by Indonesian Vice President Muhammad Jusuf Kalla was full of surprises, just as the two nations announced their expectations that a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be signed before the end of 2006.The last few years have witnessed a wave of bilateral Free Trade Agreements linking, respectively, the US and trade partners across the Pacific, and Japan and trade partners in the Asia-Pacific region. Countries as disp…
Crimes against Humanity: "Japanese Diplomacy, East Timor and the "Truth Commission
For centuries a backwater of Portuguese colonialism at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago, East Timor should have won its independence on 28 November 1975 when the majority FRETILIN party declared independence. Days later, ahead of a Portuguese withdrawal, Indonesian forces advancing from Indonesian West Timor invaded and occupied the half-island nation. Declassified documents reveal that, fearful of the emergence of a "Southeast Asian…
Laos in 2006: Changing of the Guard
Two key events on the political calendar in Laos in 2006 were the Eighth Party Congress and elections to the Legislative Assembly, leading to the appointment of a new president, prime minister, and cabinet. Neither event would detract from the epithet “secretive” often applied to affairs of state in what is one of the world's five remaining communist nations
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