Editorial: Paradoxical Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is a space characterized by its extreme diversity. This region for a long time ill-defined and whose name itself was not popularize until World War II, has been distinguished not by its cultural unity like its large neighbors of the Chinese and Indian world, but by its position at the crossroads of the main commercial routes since at least the beginning of the first millennium of the common era. This corner of Asia is culturally perceived as a melting pot, a space open to inten..