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Southeast Asian studies at Cornell – Francis Loh

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Francis Loh recounts how his school days at St Xavier’s Institution in Penang and undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in the US shaped his thinking, as did the Vietnam War and the Cold War.

He decided to do his PhD on “new villages” in Cornell University’s famed Southeast Asian studies programme, under the supervision of George Kahin and Ben Anderson. (Francis’ doctoral research and scholar activism will be covered in subsequent episodes.)

00:00 Introduction

02:30 St Xavier’s Institution

07:19 Dartmouth College

16:42 Going to Cornell

22:00 Dissertation on the new villages

30:58 George Kahin and Ben Anderson

00:00 Fieldwork & Ethnography
08:29 My Contemporaries at Cornell
12:45 Lee Poh Ping
19:17 Comparative Study
24:14 Studying Politics from the Side

Francis Loh was interviewed by Dr KS Loh, a historian in Singapore.

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