Southeast Asia

Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions.

Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons published in imperial Japan during the Second World War.

Burma became independent in 1948. Ben Morris asks if Britain could have done more for this unhappy country.

The independent Federation of Malaya came into being on August 31st, 1957.

Kendrick Oliver revisits the scene of a crime that became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam war.

How the South-East Asian peninsula had been shaped before French colonial rule.

Sami Abouzahr untangles US policy towards France at the time of the Marshall Plan and the war in Indochina.

Ben Kiernan points out the progress, and difficulties, in recovering history and justice after genocide.

Richard Cavendish describes the French defeat in Indochina, on May 7th, 1954.

Merle Ricklefs seeks clues for the future of the troubled archipelago nation in its distant past.