What is Southeast Asia?

Question 1

The term used to as sections of SEA found way beyond the Bay of Bengal in the 1930s.

Answer 1

Further India

Question 2

What the West termed the Asian continent from the past in the 1930s.

Answer 2

Oriental

Question 3

Asia term used to determine SEA (if the basis is from the POV of the Europeans) in the 1930s.

Answer 3

Farthest East Asia

Question 4

Asia term used to determine SEA (from the POV of other long-existing countries such as India) in the 1930s.

Answer 4

Further Asia

Question 5

The start of the Second World War

Answer 5

1940s

Question 6

The year wherein the concept of the SEA region began to take hold.

Answer 6

1940s

Question 7

Countries that formed some kind of geographical unit in the 1940s.

Answer 7

Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brunei

Question 8

The Philippines was omitted from as part of SEA and remained a matter of scholarly uncertainty as late as the ___.

Answer 8

1960s

Question 9

The year wherein SEA was formally accepted with the founding of ASEAN.

Answer 9

1967

Question 10

Vietnam War

Answer 10

1975

Question 11

The alliance that pivoted from Geographical warfare to Economic warfare that bolstered the power of the Yen currency in the world.

Answer 11

Japanese Co-prosperity Sphere

Question 12

Diverse religious beliefs in SEA/Modern Asia

Answer 12

Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism

Question 13

The entire region was overrun by the ___ during the 2nd World War.

Answer 13

Japanese

Question 14

The year wherein SEAsian studies programs evolved from different origins.

Answer 14

1950s

Question 15

The year where the SEA studies started a more united form & scholarly approach when the belief in the power of area studies started.

Answer 15

1950s

Question 16

The year where energies & resources were poured into laying the foundation of SEAsian studies, but the base was weak.

Answer 16

1950s to the 1970s

Question 17

The year wherein SEA became more established both as field of study & as a geographical and economic region, but SEAsian came into crises.

Answer 17

Mid ’60s to ’70s

Question 18

The year wherein the field of SEAsian studies in the western world went into doldrums.

Answer 18

Mid ’70s to ’80s

Question 19

The year where the academic recession had a severe impact in SEAsian studies.

Answer 19

70s

Question 20

The first ASEAN Summit Meeting

Answer 20

1976

Question 21

The year wherein the SEAsian studies enjoyed a spate of revival.

Answer 21

Late ’80s

Question 22

The year wherein SEAsian studies came under attack again because of the Asian financial Crisis of 1997.

Answer 22

1990s

Question 23

The year where there was an increased federal funding for SEA studies in the US.

Answer 23

2000s

Question 24

The year where SEA studies is more buoyant and well-supported in the region itself than it has ever been.

Answer 24

2010 onwards

Question 25

The year where Ecole des Langues Orientales Vivantes started in Paris, INALCO and Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Answer 25

1795

Question 26

What does INALCO stand for?

Answer 26

Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

Question 27

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Dept. of Oriental History in Tokyo University.

Answer 27

1870

Question 28

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages (now called Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies).

Answer 28

1899

Question 29

The year where the study in SEA was established in the School of Oriental & African Studies in London.

Answer 29

1916

Question 30

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library).

Answer 30

1924

Question 31

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies Australian National University.

Answer 31

1947

Question 32

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Southest Asian Studies Programs in Cornell and Yale University.

Answer 32

1950

Question 33

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Faculty of Asian Studies in the Australian National University.

Answer 33

1950

Question 34

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Center of Southeast Asian Studies in Monash University.

Answer 34

1960s

Question 35

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Center for SEA studies in the University of Hull (G. Britan).

Answer 35

1962

Question 36

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) that focuses on research.

Answer 36

1971

Question 37

The year where the study in SEA was established in the University of Malaya.

Answer 37

1976

Question 38

The year where the study in SEA was established in the Vietnam Academy of Social Science focused on Laos & Cambodia and in the University of Kent (G. Britan) Center of SEA Studies.

Answer 38

1978

Question 39

The year where the study in SEA was established in the National University of Singapore.

Answer 39

1993

Question 40

Countries where SEA Studies Programs were established in East Asia.

Answer 40

Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto), China (Xiamen), and South Korea (Pusan)

Question 41

Countries and institutes in SEA where SEA Studies Programs were established.

Answer 41

University of Brunei, University of Malaya, Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, Vietnam National University, Indonesia, and Philippines