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Rice in Malaya: A Study in Historical Geography
By R.D. Hill Rice is a dietary staple for virtually every Malaysian, to the extent that in each of the major languages in Malaysia, rice means food and food means rice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Rice in...
The End of Innocence? Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism
By Rémy Madinier and Andrée Feillard, Translated by Wong Wee ebook available at: and Long cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in the...
English in Singapore: Modernity and Management
Edited by Lisa Lim and Anne Pakir and Lionel Wee English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in...
Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict, 1978-1991
By Ang Cheng Guan This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia is based on the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, a key player...
Iranun and Balangingi: Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity
By James F. Warren The aim of this book is to explore ethnic, cultural and material changes in the transformative history(s) of oceans and seas, commodities and populations, mariners and ships, and raiders and refugees in Southeast Asia, with particular...
Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940
By James F. Warren Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their...
Stupa and Swastika: A Study on the Planning Principles of Patan Kathmandu Valley
By Mohan Pant and Shuji Funo Stupa and Swastika examines urban structures in the city of Patan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. The religious architecture and overall design of the city illustrate the connection between Buddhist...
Southeast of Now Vol. 4, No. 2
The second issue of the fourth volume features:ArticlesGendering the Environmental Artivism: Ekofeminisme and Unjuk Rasa of Arahmaiani’s ArtEdwin Jurriëns‘Tradition’ in Thai Modern ArtJohn ClarkThe Russian Connection in Singapore’s Local Art Identity David Low Kok KiatArt On/Offshore: The Singapore Freeport and Narrative...
Conflict and Cooperation in Managing Maritime Space in Semi-enclosed Seas
By Vivian Louis Forbes The aim of the study is to assess the practice of littoral states towards cooperative management of maritime space, possible only through trans-border cooperation, and the utilisation of marine resources in semi-enclosed seas. The goals are...
Asian Cities: Globalization, Urbanization and Nation-building
by Malcolm McKinnon This book questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and examines developing Asian cities in their own terms rather than as variants of Western urbanization. It explores middle cities 'off the radar' as...
World Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts: Circulation, Contestation and Connection
Just published! Edited by Sher Banu A.L. Khan & Maznah MohamadWith contributions from Stephen Druce, Md Effendy, Peter Riddell, Abdullah Maulani, Annabel Teh Gallop, Siti Badriyah Yusof, Elsa Clave, Wahyu Widodo, Mulaika Hijjas, Lilis Shofiyanti, Siti Sarah Muwahidah What new...
Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan
Edited by Hugh de Ferranti, Masaya Shishikura and Michiyo Yoneno-ReyesWith contributions from Minako Waseda, Takako Inoue, Kylie Martin, Saitō Shunsuke, Matt Gillan, Sawan Joshi, Sawako Ishii, Nahid Nikzad This collection of essays on the music of migrant minorities in and from Japan examines the central role music plays...
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World
Edited by Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the hapless explorer a martyr to science or a gaseous windbag? Why...
Southeast of Now Vol. 2, No. 1
The first issue of the second volume features:Editorial: MovementArticlesItinerant Cinematic Practices in and around Thailand during the Cold War May Adadol Ingawanji Negotiating Change in Recent Southeast Asian ArtJohn Clark Manchukuo, Capitalism and the East Asian Modern: Desire in Kishi the VampireMi...
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra
By Anthony Reid Sumatra is a vast and understudied island with a population of 43 million people divided into a variety of ethnic groups. Apart from William Marsden's great study of 1783, few serious historical works deal with Sumatra's history,...
Southeast of Now Annual Subscription Vol. 2 (Mar and Oct 2018)
Thanks to generous grants from the Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, and also the Foundation for Arts Initiatives, Paris, the journal’s online editions are now freely available via Open Access, online at Project MUSE. For...
Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts
By Craig J. Reynolds This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig J. Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. History is vital to collective memory, dynastic succession, and an individual's identification with place. Contemporary...
Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand
Justin McDanielWhen more than 93 per cent of the citizens of one country profess a single religion, as Thais do Buddhism, and when that religion is deeply integrated into national institutions and ideologies, it becomes tempting to think of the religion...
Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital: The Archaeology and History of the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long – Hanoi
Edited by Andrew Hardy and Nguyễn Tiến Đông A Choice Recommended Title As Vietnam entered the 21st century it began to prepare for the 1000th anniversary of the founding of its capital Thăng Long, now Hanoi. In the heart of the city, a rescue excavation was...
The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art
Edited by Bruce Lockhart and Tran Ky Phuong The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. The Indianized civilization of this Austronesian-speaking group flourished between roughly the third and...
To' Janggut: Legends, Histories, and Perceptions of the 1915 Rebellion in Kelantan
By Cheah Boon Kheng This book deconstructs a popular legend concerning a 1915 uprising against the British rule led by To' Janggut, or 'Old Longbeard' in the Malay state of Kelantan. The story of To' Janggut rebellion is recounted in...
Approaching English Language Research
By Desmond Allison This book is designed to help students approach research in English Language studies. Its concerns include project, dissertation and thesis research and writing. In this book, the author sets out some of the major issues in English...
Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions
Edited by Haneda Masashi Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural contact involving a broad spectrum of participants from across the world. These interactions raised questions of communication for merchants who conducted...
Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births and Ritual Harm under the Khmer Rouge
By Peg LeVine For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975-79), filming their return to these locations. In the process she uncovered evidence of the way...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 18, Number 4 (November 2020)
Please select according to your country of residence. For example, If you are shipping to Thailand, please select ASEAN/China. All prices are inclusive of shipping.Online version available at Project MUSE. CONTENTS New Editor-in-Chief's NoteFormer Editor's Farewell NoteRESEARCH Rethinking Strategic Alignments:...
Teaching English to Students from China
Edited by Laina Ho, J.E. Lisa Meyer, Chitra Varaprasad, Carissa Young and Lee Gek Ling There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in China....
Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor
By Douglas Kammen Why does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that island’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small...
Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape, and Twilight
Michael Hurley The Chao Phraya River is a maternal being at the heart of Bangkok. Long before the invention of Thailand, the river shaped life in Siam. In the 19th century, Bangkok had an extensive canal system, numerous floating dwellings,...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 23, Number 3 (August 2025)
Please select according to your country of residence. For example, If you are shipping to Thailand, please select ASEAN/China. All prices are inclusive of shipping.Online version available at Project MUSE Research Assessing Judicial Delocalisation: A Decade of the Circuit Courts...
Hot Science, High Water: Assembling Nature, Society and Environmental Policy in Contemporary Vietnam
by Eren Zink Hot Science, High Water explores the work of different generations of Vietnamese scientists as they engage with local and international efforts to conserve nature, address climate change, and carry out scientific research. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in universities,...
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives
Edited by Minako Sakai, Glenn Banks and John H. Walker The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto...
Southeast Asia After the Cold War: A Contemporary History
Ang Cheng Guan A Choice Recommended Title International politics in Southeast Asia since end of the Cold War in 1990 can be understood within the frames of order and an emerging regionalism embodied in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
Singapore's Grand Strategy
Ang Cheng Guan (author of NUS Press' Southeast Asia After the Cold War: A Contemporary History and Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict, 1978-1991) Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small population and territory...
Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality and the First Temple of Confucius
by James A. Flath The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world’s greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China’s past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices...
To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the 20th Century
By Anthony Reid The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance...