According to WikepedIa:
" Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.[1] The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity. Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions:
- Mainland Southeast Asia, also known historically as Indochina, comprising Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), and (West) Malaysia.
- Maritime Southeast Asia, also known historically as the East Indies comprising Indonesia, (East) Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, East Timor, Brunei, Christmas Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands."
Le Ly Hayslip & Jay Wurts, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (New York: Doubleday, 1989).
Nguyen Du, The Tale of Kieu: A Bilingual Edition of Truyen Kieu, translated from the Vietnamese and Annotated by Huynh Sanh Thang, with a Historical Essay by Alexander B. Woodside (New Haven & London: Yale U. Press, 1983) ("Western readers who are curious about Vietnam and the Vietnamese may well gain more real wisdom from cultivating a discriminating appreciation of this one poem than they will from reading the entire library of scholarly and journalistic writings upon modern Vietnam which has accumulated in the West in the past two decades." Id. at xi. "When she had heard Kieu's tale, the nun grew faint, teetering between plain pity and dire dread: 'The Buddha's gate is open wide to all. But things I can't foresee are what I dread. I'd sorely grieve if something struck you here. Plan far ahead and flee--you's be unwise to sit and wait till waters reach your feet.'" Id. at 107.).
