Abstract
1This is a slightly amended version of a paper presented to the First International Symposium on Asian Studies, which was held in Hong Kong in 1979. Permission to reprint this paper from the Proceedings of the Symposium is gratefully acknowledged. Further acknowledgement is due to Dr. A. G. Thomson Zainu'ddin, of Monash University, Melbourne, whose comments contributed to the improvement of the early drafts of this paper.
Notes
1This is a slightly amended version of a paper presented to the First International Symposium on Asian Studies, which was held in Hong Kong in 1979. Permission to reprint this paper from the Proceedings of the Symposium is gratefully acknowledged. Further acknowledgement is due to Dr. A. G. Thomson Zainu'ddin, of Monash University, Melbourne, whose comments contributed to the improvement of the early drafts of this paper.