{"title":"Recommended reads on Singapore","description":"To commemorate Singapore Bicentennial, this collection has been put together to help you u\u003cspan\u003encover the lesser-known aspects of Singapore's longer history.\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"singapore-and-the-silk-road-of-the-sea-1300-1800","title":"Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eBy John N. Miksic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWinner - Singapore History Prize 2018\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortlist - \u003cstrong\u003eICAS Book Prize 2015 for the Best Study in the Humanities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9789971695583');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture that emerges is of a port where people processed raw materials, used money, and had specialized occupations. Within its defensive wall, the city was well organized and prosperous, with a cosmopolitan population that included residents from China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Fully illustrated, with more than 300 maps and colour photos, \u003cem\u003eSingapore and the Silk Road of the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e presents Singapore's history in the context of Asia's long-distance maritime trade in the years between 1300 and 1800: it amounts to a dramatic new understanding of Singapore's pre-colonial past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...an important study for future generations of Singaporeans, Southeast Asian historians and archaeologists, Miksic's commitment in uncovering archaeological evidence has allowed him to prove beyond doubt that ancient Singapore served as one of the most important maritime centres in the region.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMohamed Effendy, \u003c\/strong\u003eNational University of Singapore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"John Miksic's \u003cem\u003eSingapore \u0026amp; the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-have for anyone interested in history, archaeology, social and cultural anthropology of Singapore and Southeast Asia as a whole.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eAnton O. Zakharov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“a splendid new book...” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBanyan, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn N. Miksic\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was the first Head of the Archaeology unit, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Center at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. His other works published by NUS Press include \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/philippine-ancestral-gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilippine Ancestral Gold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/earthenware-in-southeast-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarthenware in Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2013\u003cbr\u003e520 pages, 257mm x 157mm\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated with more than 300 maps and colour photographs\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-558-3\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-574-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press and the National Museum of Singapore\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":1245114288,"sku":"9789971695583","price":58.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":1245114284,"sku":"9789971695743","price":68.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/Singapore_and_the_Silk_Road_Front_Cover.jpg?v=1466486661"},{"product_id":"the-memoirs-and-memorials-of-jacques-de-coutre","title":"The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by Peter Borschberg, Translated by Roopanjali Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9971695286');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day: Melaka, Ayutthaya, Cambodia, Patani, Pahang, Johor, Brunei and Manila. Narrowly escaping death several times, De Coutre was inevitably drawn into dangerous intrigues between the representatives of European power, myriad fortune hunters and schemers, and the rulers and courtiers in the palaces of Pahang, Patani, Siam and Johor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the crowns of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnnotated and translated into English for the first time, these materials provide a valuable first-hand account of the issues confronting the early colonial powers in Southeast Asia, and deep insights into the societies De Coutre encountered in the territory that today makes up Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. The book is lavishly illustrated with 62 maps and drawings of the period, including many examples not previously published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"....it fills an important gap for an English language audience interested in early modern Southeast Asian history and global history.\" - Koh Keng We, Nanyang Technological University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\"...reads like a swashbuckling Hollywood tale...a treasure trove of historical nuggets and gems. Students and history buffs will dig into this and emerge richer from encountering this Flemish trader and gem merchant's life and times.\" - Colin Goh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This fine book is a major addition to the early accounts of European visitors to Siam...The editor provides a long introduction, detailed annotations, very full glossaries of places and things, a timeline, and many old maps and prints. What historians ought to make of De Coutre’s memories is another matter, but it is great to have this source in clear sight.\" - Chris Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Much of the book’s achievement rests on Roopanjali Roy’s accomplished and fluent translation, which retains a certain flavor of the age. The book contains a glossary of general terms, currencies, measures and commodities and a most needed updated list of toponyms, both glossaries important contributions in their own right... Peter Borschberg’s brilliant introduction summarizes earlier scholarly work on Jacques de Coutre’s life and manuscripts, including previous modern editions in Spanish and Flemish-Dutch, and explains the historical context.” - Juan Jose Morales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The publication of this well-annotated English translation of de Coutre’s Memoirs, together with four of his Memorials to the Spanish crown and the Portuguese viceroy at Goa, should be celebrated by all scholars of early modern Southeast Asian history.” - Dhiravat Na Pombejra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Borschberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and teaches history at the National University of Singapore. He is a also a Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute at the University of Malaya as well as a Guest Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e authored\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-singapore-and-melaka-straits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/jacques-de-coutres-singapore-and-johor-1594-c-1625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eJacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/hugo-grotius-the-portuguese-and-free-trade-in-the-east-indies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eHugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/2015-journal-memorials-and-letters-of-cornelis-matelieff-de-jonge-security-diplomacy-and-commerce-in-17th-century-southeast-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eJournal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoopanjali Roy\u003c\/strong\u003e is an independent translator living in Lisbon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2013\u003cbr\u003e488 pages, 254mm x 178mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-528-6\u003c\/span\u003e, Paperback\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-783-9, Hardback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":1245114704,"sku":"9789971695286","price":45.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":1281699036,"sku":"9789971697839","price":72.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971695286.jpeg?v=1426584963"},{"product_id":"jacques-de-coutres-singapore-and-johor-1594-c-1625","title":"Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625","description":"\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003eEdited by Peter Borschberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonLink('ISBN:9789971698522');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account of his experiences provides a glimpse of Singapore, Johor and the Straits of Melaka during an era for which little written material has survived. This special edition, which presents highlights from the full translation, is designed to provide students, teachers and the wider public with a glimpse of this tumultuous region when it was still controlled by local rulers, and Western colonialism was just gaining a foothold. The author describes dangerous intrigues involving fortune hunters and schemers, as well as local rulers and couriers, adventures that on several occasions nearly cost him his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manuscripts come from a bundle of documents preserved at the National Library of Spain in Madrid that includes De Coutre sautobiography and several memorials to the Crowns of Spain and Portugal. Chapters from the autobiography have been excerpted from book I, which covers the writer s life in Southeast Asia between 1593 and 1603. A glossary and list of place names provide information about officials, goods and places mentioned in the text that will be unfamiliar to readers of English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Borschberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and teaches history at the National University of Singapore. He is a also a Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute at the University of Malaya as well as a Guest Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e authored\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-singapore-and-melaka-straits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-memoirs-and-memorials-of-jacques-de-coutre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/hugo-grotius-the-portuguese-and-free-trade-in-the-east-indies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eHugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/2015-journal-memorials-and-letters-of-cornelis-matelieff-de-jonge-security-diplomacy-and-commerce-in-17th-century-southeast-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJournal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2015\u003cbr\u003e144 pages, 216mm x 140mm \u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-9971-69-852-2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1245117332,"sku":"9789971698522","price":18.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/9789971698522.jpeg?v=1426585047"},{"product_id":"admiral-matelieffs-singapore-and-johor-1606-1616","title":"Admiral Matelieff's Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"authorList\"\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"authorList\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Peter Borschberg\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003e\/\/ \u003c![CDATA[\nGBS_insertPreviewButtonLink('ISBN:9789814722186');\n\/\/ ]]\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570‒1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and besieged Portuguese Melaka in 1606 with the help of Malay allies. A massive Portuguese armada arrived from Goa to fight the Dutch at sea, break the siege and relieve the Portuguese colony. During his Asian voyage and on his return to Europe in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of letters and memorials in which he provided a candid assessment of trading opportunities and politics in Asia. He advised the VOC and leading government officials of the Dutch Republic to take a long term view of Dutch involvement in Asia and fundamentally change the way they were doing business there. Singapore, the Straits region, and Johor assumed a significant role in his overall assessment. At one stage he seriously contemplated establishing the VOC’s main Asian base at a location near the Johor River estuary. On deeper reflection, however, Matelieff and the VOC directors in Europe began to shift their attention southward and instead preferred a location around the Sunda Strait. This was arguably a near miss for Singapore two full centuries before Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the British trading post on the island in 1819.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“All in all, this is an exciting new set of translations, which will provide a valuable reference for historians of both Southeast Asian and world history for years to come.” - \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Batchelor,\u003c\/strong\u003e author of \u003cem\u003eSelden's Map\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“This collection of Dutch sources is a valuable volume for anyone wishing to delve deeper into the history of early Dutch expansion in Southeast Asia, the state of Johor politics in the first decade of the seventeenth century and the geopolitics of the Singapore-Johor-Melaka nexus during this era. Although they prove that in the early seventeenth century the Singapore-Johor area was a nodal point in communications and commerce, rather than a ‘backwater’, these documents also reveal that there were economic and political limitations which caused the VOC to look elsewhere in its earnest quest for an appropriate stronghold in Southeast Asia.” - \u003cstrong\u003eDhiravat Na Pombejra\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Borschberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and teaches history at the National University of Singapore. He is a also a Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute at the University of Malaya as well as a Guest Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He has authored \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-singapore-and-melaka-straits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/the-memoirs-and-memorials-of-jacques-de-coutre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eThe Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/hugo-grotius-the-portuguese-and-free-trade-in-the-east-indies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eHugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/2015-journal-memorials-and-letters-of-cornelis-matelieff-de-jonge-security-diplomacy-and-commerce-in-17th-century-southeast-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJournal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2016\u003cbr\u003e260 pages, 216mm x 140mm \u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-981-4722-18-6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":18165257157,"sku":"9789814722186","price":20.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/Admiral_Matelieff_s_Singapore_and_Johor.jpg?v=1465267619"},{"product_id":"world-war-ii-singapore-the-chosabu-reports-on-syonan","title":"World War II Singapore: The Chōsabu Reports on Syonan","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated and edited by Gregg Huff \u0026amp; Shinobu Majima\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MainDescript\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"expander-1967318430\" class=\"expand-container conf-macro output-block\" data-hasbody=\"true\" data-macro-name=\"expand\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"expander-content-1967318430\" class=\"expand-content\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the Chōsabu, to study occupied Singapore. The bureau’s reports on Singapore’s economy and society, reproduced here in translation, covered population and living standards, prices, wages, currency and inflation, rationing, labour usage, food production and supply, and industrialization. Syonan’s military and civilian administrators drew on Chōsabu research in formulating social and economic policy. The research takes on added importance because the Japanese destroyed most records of their wartime administration.  That leaves the Chōsabu reports as one of the few first-hand Japanese sources to have survived the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e           The translation allows a fuller understanding of the impact of the war and occupation than hitherto possible. Introductory chapters by the editors analyse the reports in light of wartime events in Singapore and Japanese occupation policies, and discuss the Chōsabu authors and their place in the history of Japanese economic thought.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"The introductory chapters not only explain the context but also contribute to the history of economic thought in Japan and to the economic history of Southeast Asia.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eTetsuji Okazaki\u003c\/strong\u003e, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"This book gives voice to Singapore’s World War II Japanese occupiers trying to make sense of their task in real time, as it unfolded.  This is a unique set of contemporary observations…\" - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvner Offer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eAll Souls College, University of Oxford\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregg Huff\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Senior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford and researches and teaches Southeast Asian economic history and development. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShinobu Majima\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Professor of Economic History at Gakushuin University, Japan, and a part-time researcher at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, the postwar successor of the Institute of East Asian Economies at the Tokyo University of Commerce. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003ePublication Year: 2018\u003cbr\u003e520 pages, 229mm x 152mm \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ISBN\"\u003eISBN: 978-981-4722-62-9\u003c\/span\u003e, Casebound\u003cbr\u003e175 tables, 12 figures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"imprint\"\u003eNUS Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/products\/malaysiasoriginal-people?variant=1245119836\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NUS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36401057426,"sku":"9789814722629","price":60.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/products\/WorldWar_II_S_pore_cvr_5.jpg?v=1497495052"},{"product_id":"home-is-not-here","title":"Home is Not Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Wang Gungwu\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eeBook available from: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Home-Not-Here-Wang-Gungwu-ebook\/dp\/B0851CJR2G\/ref=sr_1_9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/amazon-logo_black_small.jpg?v=1487580114\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/home-is-not-here-1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/Screen_Shot_2020-03-25_at_10.32.55_AM.png?v=1585103583\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.overdrive.com\/media\/4785647\/home-is-not-here\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/9743\/files\/OverDrive_Logo_445x65_rgb_small.png?5880839130372297062\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. 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After the end of WWII and Japanese occupation, he left for the National  Central University in Nanjing to study alongside some of the finest of his generation of Chinese undergraduates. The victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist Party interrupted his education, and he ends this volume with his return to Malaya.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amid the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"A charming intimate modest autobiography of the childhood and schooling of a great historian of China, justly acclaimed in Malaysia, China, England, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore. How a wise Chinese mother and a headmaster in Ipoh, Malaysia taught their only son to love learning in and out of China in transition.\" – \u003cstrong\u003eEzra Vogel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\"As the doyen of Chinese studies and the Chinese in Southeast Asia pens the memoirs of his early days in Malaya and China, history come to life in a most intimate way. What could lead to a rootless confusion becomes a capacious cosmopolitanism.\"-- \u003cstrong\u003ePrasenjit Duara\u003c\/strong\u003e, Duke University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWang Gungwu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, formerly vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, is emeritus professor at Australian National University and university professor at the National University of Singapore. 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I commend Kwa Chong Guan’s masterly introduction that reviews how those who insisted on having Singapore’s history begin in 1819 had put earlier scholarship aside.\"\u003c\/em\u003e-- \u003cstrong\u003eWang Gungwu\u003c\/strong\u003e, National University of Singapore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The publication of this work could not have come at a better time. …the book is an important reminder of an older, deeper and longer history that has sometimes been forgotten…” -\u003c\/em\u003e- \u003cb\u003eFarish Noor\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKwa Chong Guan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an adjunct associate professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Borschberg\u003c\/strong\u003e teaches history at the National University of Singapore. 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