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(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 15, Number 2 (May 2017)
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 MUSEContentsRESEARCHXi Jinping and PLA Centrality in Beijing's South China Sea Dispute...
Playing for Malaya: A Eurasian Family in the Pacific War
By Rebecca Kenneison ebook available at: and Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, 'only told you what Reggie wanted you to know.' Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking with apparent openness and using that talk...
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia
Edited by Peter Borschberg, Translated by Roopanjali Roy Jacques 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...
Writing the Modern: Selected Texts on Art & Art History in Singapore, Malaysia & Southeast Asia
By T.K. Sabapathy Edited by Ahmad Mashadi, Susie Lingham, Peter Schoppert and Joyce Toh Published by Singapore Art Museum T.K. Sabapathy has been writing on the art of Southeast Asia for over four decades (1973–2015), as a critic, curator and art...
The Strange Start of Psychology at the National University of Singapore
John Michael Elliott (with assistance from Sim Tick Ngee) The psychology programme at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is today highly popular with students, while the general public in Singapore has begun to appreciate what psychology has to offer...
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem
A Choice Recommended title Edited by Anthony Reid In Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh, the democratisation process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of regionalist sentiment and resentment of the military. The surprising extent of both...
The Mystery of “A Yellow Sleuth”: Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police
By Ronald Allan With a Foreword by Paul Kratoska and an Introduction by Philip Holden ebook available at: and In 1931 a book appeared in London with the title A Yellow Sleuth: Being the Autobiography of “Nor Nalla” (Detective-Sergeant Federated...
Hard at Work: Life in Singapore
Finalist, SBPA Singapore Book Award for Best Non-fiction Title 2020 and Singapore Literature Prize (Creative Nonfiction) 2020 Edited by Gerard Sasges and Ng Shi Wen, with a foreword by Teo You Yenn eBook available from: and Have you ever wondered...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 21, Number 2 (May 2023)
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 Part One: Special Issue on Ideology and Organisation in...
English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model
By Andy Kirkpatrick The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy nd language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN...
No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
By Justin V. Hastings The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and...
Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement
By Michele Ford After decades of repression, Indonesia's independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s led by the NGO activists and students who organized industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Worker-led trade unions returned to centre stage in 1998...
Intimating the Sacred: Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction
By Andrew Hock Soon Ng Religion has permeated Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. This study provides insights on the practices of everyday religiosity as represented in literature, which is often starkly opposed to the religious...
Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet
Shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2021.by Jan MrazekMuch has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, wayang kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice mirror those in culture and society. For decades, television...
Signs and Signals from Vietnam: Essays on Contemporary Art
Just published! Edited by Pamela N. Corey, Nora A. Taylor, and Đỗ Tường Linh Over the past thirty years, contemporary art in Vietnam has emerged as a dynamic field shaped by memory, history, and experiment. Many Vietnamese artists now command...
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era
By Allen Carlson This book contends that sovereignty, and more directly the extent to which it creates walls between any given state and other actors in the international system, lies at the core of China's foreign relations during the reform...
The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia: 1965-1968
Edited by Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor The violence directed against the political left in Indonesia from 1965 until 1968 has been the subject of intense speculation. The large number of deaths, brutal interrogations, as well as rape, torture, short-...
Southeast of Now Vol. 7, No. 2
The second issue of the seventh volume features: Articles Rumah Abu: Death and the Photographic Medium in Straits Chinese Ancestral HallsRoy Ng Excavating Amnesia: A Media Archaeology of Early Internet Art from SingaporeJohann Yamin, Alex Mitchell Erasure/Exposure: (Re-)Witnessing 1965 in...
Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries
Edited by Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Chih Yuan Woon and Kamalini RamdasContributions by Hamzah Muzaini, Choon-Piew Pow, Harvey Neo, Shirlena Huang, Noorashikin Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahman, Junjia Ye, Karen P.Y. Lai, T.C. Chang, Harng Luh Sin, Pui Leng Woo, Brendan Cheong,...
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
By Mikihiro Moriyama Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java traces the development of modern printed books written in Sundanese, the dominant language in West Java, Indonesia, and the mother tongue of about 30 million people. Starting...
From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
By Jamie S. Davidson From Rebellion to Riots examines contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. It documents how a communist rebellion in the 1960s and low-level conflicts in the decades that followed led to major...
Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
By Duncan McCargo Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighbouring provinces and the Thai's government's harsh...
The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier
By James Anderson The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao examines the rebellion of the Tai-speaking chieftain Nung Tri Cao (ca. 1025-1055), whose struggle for independence along Vietnam's mountainous northern frontier proved to be a pivotal event in Sino-Vietnamese relations....
Aan Thai: Basic Thai Reading Textbook
By Titima Suthiwan and Rungnapha Kitiarsa Aan Thai is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the authors' Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook. It provides simple texts along with exercises in vocabulary, syntax, reading and writing for students learning...
Vietnam Documented: The British Library’s Vietnamese Collection
Sud Chonchirdsin Vietnam has a strong literary and book culture that reflects a deep-seated Confucian influence, but which has remained important through the 20th century and up until today. Vietnamese books, documents and manuscripts in the collection of the British...
Abolitions as a Global Experience
Edited by Hideaki SuzukiContributions by Hideaki Suzuki, Sue Peabody, Kumie Inose, Isabel Tanaka-Van Daalen, Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ei Murakami, Amitava Chowdhury, Yuriko Yokoyama, Martin A. Klein and Alessandro Stanziani The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an...
The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942
By Ronald McCrum New Book on The Men Who Lost Singapore (The Straits Times, 14 February 2017) eBook available at: and The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and closely examined...
The Continuation of Ancient Mathematics: Wang Xiaotong’s Jigu suanjing, Algebra and Geometry in 7th-Century China
by Tina Su Lyn Lim and Donald B. Wagner After the collapse of Roman civilization, knowledge of mathematics dwindled in Europe. In the Arab world, however, the works of ancient mathematicians like Euclid were preserved and built upon by new...
Home is Not Here (paperback)
NEW paperback edition! Wang Gungwu Praise for Home is Where We Are, winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2022:The life of the mind celebrated in this memoir is at once exciting and sobering, a corrective of sorts to the acceleration...
(Online Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 14, Number 3 (August 2016)
Download available at Project MUSE Contents PART ONE: Special Issue on Local Government Entrepreneurship in China:A Public Policy PerspectiveGuest Editors: MEI Ciqi, CHEN Kang and WU XunIntroduction: Local Government Entrepreneurship in China: A Public Policy Perspective by MEI Ciqi, CHEN Kang and...
In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam
by Wong Phui Nam, edited by Brandon K. Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie The poetry of Wong Phui Nam (1935–2022) is foundational to Malaysian literature in English, and while his early work is often cited and quoted in this...
Krakatau: The Tale of Lampung Submerged
By Muhammad SalehTranslated by John H. McGlynn In August 1883 massive volcanic eruptions destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatau, in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java. It was the day the world exploded. A tsunami wreaked havoc in...
Nature's Colony: Empire, Nation and Environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens
By Timothy P. Barnard Michelle Martin's interview with Timothy P. Barnard on Nature's Colony for Singapore radio station, 93.8 Live’s Culture Café (October 3, 2016) eBook available at: and Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has served as a park for...
Aan Khian Thai 2: Thai Reading and Writing Workbook
by Sasiwimol KlaykluengTextbook is available at a special NUS student price at NUS Co-op.Aan Khian Thai 2: Thai Reading and Writing Workbook is prepared to help Thai 2 students, or level two beginners, develop their Thai reading and writing skills in...
Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North-west Frontier Province of Pakistan
by Are Knudsen Most studies of violence in the Middle East and South Asia come from the perspective of honour or political violence. By contrast, this important study offers a new perspective on its causes in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier...