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Southeast Asia next
The same stories for our neighbours: Indonesia, Thailand and beyond.
WHERE THE STORIES ON THIS SHELF HAPPENED. SHAPES ARE SCHEMATIC.
Stories on this shelf
5 written, 7 coming soon
Singapore: the island of many roads
A Chinese, Malay, Indian and mixed story on one island.
Southeast Asia next · 4 min readIndonesia: 17,000 islands, one deep story
Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Spice Islands.
Southeast Asia next · 4 min readThailand: Siam, Tai and the south
Tai, Mon, Khmer and Malay mix in Thailand.
Southeast Asia next · 4 min readThe Philippines: Ayta, Visayan, Tagalog and Moro
The Philippines carry the widest Southeast Asian ancestry.
Southeast Asia next · 4 min readSoutheast Asia as one family: a map of lines
A big map of mother and father lines across the region.
Singapore Peranakan, Eurasian and Arab communities
Small communities with a big story.
Java, Sumatra and the first kingdoms
Majapahit, Srivijaya and the old courts.
Southern Thailand: Pattani, Songkhla and the Malay Thai
A shared border story with Malaysia.
Brunei: the sultanate of the Borneo coast
A small sultanate with a great sea history.
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos: the mainland neighbours
Cham, Khmer and Viet link back to the early train.
Myanmar, Mon and Shan: the Bay of Bengal side
A link to our west coast.
Timor, Papua and the eastern edge
Eastern Indonesia links to Melanesia.
1 family lines linked to this shelf
A line being common in a place does not mean everyone there carries it, and it never settles who anyone is.
