A vision of modernization: An article on a drawing by bah rmpent, a child of the sengoi semai, a traditionally nonviolent indigenous people of the malaysian peninsula

The core of this article is a pastiche, consisting of a sketch of the life of Bah Rmpent, a nine-year-old Sengoi Semai boy, in 1992; a stone-cold poem about the finality of genocide, by Robert Frost; and a newspaper account of building a dam on the last Whitewater river of peninsular Malaysia. The whole is sandwiched between an introductory interpretation and explanatory endnotes.