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The Loss of Java: The Final Battles for the Possession of Java Fought by Allied Air, Naval and Land Forces in the Period of 18 February - 7 March 1942
By P.C. Boer The Loss of Java explains in detail the air, sea and land battles between the Allied and Japanese armed forces during the battle for Java that followed the evacuation of southern Sumatra in February 1942. Little has...
The ASEAN Charter: A Commentary
by Walter Woon Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a new document was drafted as a result of "bold and visionary recommendations" of an ASEAN Committee of Eminent Persons. The ASEAN...
Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution
Edited by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah With contributions from Gabrielle Abbe, Jos van Beurden, Socheat Chea, John Clarke, Charlotte Galloway, Chanraksmey Muong, Duyen Nguyen, Phacharaphorn Phanomvan, Melody Rod-ari, and Wieske Octaviani Sapardan The last 150 years has seen extensive looting...
The Temiars of the Puyan River, Vol. 1: History, Culture and Situation of the Orang Asli of Pos Gob
THIS PRODUCT IS ONLY AVAILABLE AS A SET. SCROLL DOWN TO PURCHASE. David P. Quinton The Temiars of the Puyan River is the story of a Temiar community in the Kelantan hinterland. Never before has it been told in such...
Crossing Borders: Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Volume 1
Edited by Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz and Andreas Reinecke and Dominik Bonatz Based on recent field research and excavation finds, the contributions in this volume focus on cultural practices and materials which reflect processes of integration, specification and diversification in the...
Southeast of Now Vol. 1, No. 2
The second issue features:Editorial: DiscomfortArticlesFelicitous "Misalignments": Bagyi Aung Soe's Manaw Maheikdi Dat PangyiYin Er The Painting of Prostitutes in Indonesian Modern ArtMatt Cox Rites of Change: Artistic Responses to Recent Street Protests in Kuala LumpurFiona Lee The Third Avant-garde: Messages...
Southeast of Now Vol. 8, No. 2 & Vol. 9, No. 1
This special issue features: Editorial Introduction Yvonne Low, Simon Soon Articles From Wild School to Wild Food: Struggles for Food Sovereignty in Indonesian Research-based Art Edwin Jurriëns Fullness Over Flatness: Re-tangling Ethnicity and Religion in Yeoh Jin Leng's Baptism of Fire (2003) Eric...
Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist
Shortlisted for the SBPA Singapore Book Award for Best Digital Marketing Campaign 2020.John van WyheeBook available from: and Wanderlust is the true story of Ida Pfeiffer (1797–1858), one of the most remarkable female travellers who ever lived. It is the story...
Jacques de Coutre's Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625
Edited by Peter Borschberg The 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...
Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar
Justine Chambers Winner of the 2026 Euroseas Social Science Book Prize Pursuing Morality is an in-depth and fascinating study of ordinary life in Myanmar’s southeast through a unique ethnographic focus on Buddhist Plong (Pwo) Karen. Based on extensive in-depth fieldwork...
Belitung: the Afterlives of a Shipwreck
By Natali Pearson In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang-dynasty ceramics, gold, and other precious...
Writing History in America’s Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism
Takamichi SerizawaBoth the Japanese and Filipino people experienced a re-writing of their national histories upon being defeated by the United States: the Philippines after 1902 and Japan after 1945. This re-writing was conducted in order to justify and explain US...
Creative Spaces: Seeking the Dynamics of Change in China
edited by Denise Gimpel, Bent Nielsen and Paul Bailey China is in flux but – as argued by the contributors to this volume – change is neither new to China nor is it unique to that country; similar patterns are...
Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 1920-1936
Peter Keppy Honourable Mention, the 2020 Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology The exciting adventures of Filipino entertainer Luis Borromeo and the Javanese Miss Riboet, in vaudeville and Malay opera respectively, tell an important story of Southeast Asia’s 1920s Jazz Age....
To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham
David Reeve This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public intellectual who was both a public figure and a multi-minority member, being Dutch educated, Indonesian Chinese, gay, alcoholic, irreligious and hedonist, in a...
Breeds of Empire: The ’Invention’ of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950
by Greg Bankoff & Sandra Swart Ships of empire carried not just merchandise, soldiers and administrators but also equine genes from as far a field as Europe, Arabia, the Americas, China and Japan. In the process, they introduced horses into...
Indonesia and the Muslim World: Between Islam and Secularism in the Foreign Policy of Soeharto and Beyond
by Anak Agung Banyu Perwita Popular hostility in Indonesia to US attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq seem easily understandable, as is the ambivalent attitude of Indonesian governments to the US-led war on terror. After all, Indonesia is the world's largest...
China's Contested Internet
edited by Guobin Yang Is there a pre-Weibo and post-Weibo era in Chinese Internet history? Are hackerspaces in China the same as in the West? How can the censorship of an Internet novel end up “producing” it? How is Lu...
End of Empire: One Hundred Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
edited by David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb and Li Narangoa Almost nowhere in eastern Asia did the end of World War II bring peace. Within days, the fragile wartime truce between Nationalists and Communists in China began to fray. Even...
The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan
edited by Gitte Marianne Hansen and Fabio Gygi This engaging volume brings new perspectives to the much-studied field of gender in Japan by focusing on the ways in which gender presentation is turned into a commodified experience. It highlights the...
Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 01
Edited by Stephen Cairns and Devisari Tunas This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious mission to shape sustainable future cities through science, by design, in place. It offers a...
The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia
Edited by Muthiah Alagappa The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically altered post-Cold War security environment. Leading experts investigate the roles and salience of nuclear weapons in...
Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland
By Noboru Ishikawa A staple of post-war academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction that has come to be treated as something "imagined", "fashioned", and "disseminated". Between Frontiers restores the nation to the social field from which...
China's Left-Behind Wives: Families of Migrants from Fujian to Southeast Asia, 1930s-1950s
By Huifen Shen In China's Left-Behind Wives, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around...
The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos
By Seth Jacobs During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained...
Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Mahathir Era 1981-2003: Dilemmas of Development
by Karminder Singh Dhillon Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is often seen as the sole author of the country's foreign policy. Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Mahathir Eran Industrial Policy shows that while Mahathir's personality, leadership style, political ideology and...
Divine Custody: A History of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple
Yeo Kang ShuaTeochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers were early settlers of Singapore at the turn of the 19th century. Wak Hai Cheng Bio, now surrounded by the skyscrapers of Singapore's central business district, traces its history back to the earliest...
Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency
Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Allen Carlson and J.J. Suh Is East Asia heading toward war? Throughout the 1990s, conventional wisdom among U.S. scholars of international relations held that institutionalized cooperation in Europe fosters peace, while its absence from East...
Print Passages: Colonial Book Culture in the Dutch East Indies
Lisa Kuitert Print Passages researches the history of the coming of the printed book in Indonesia and the consequences this new technology brought with it. Never before has the book culture in Indonesia been studied this thoroughly. Although printed material...
Politics, Culture and Self: East Asian and North European Attitudes
edited by Geir Helgesen and Soren Risbjerg Thomsen Globalization may be undermining Kipling’s assertion that “East is East and West is West” but arguably this is more in the realms of technological advances and consumer behaviour than (say) in political...
Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State
ICAS Humanities Book Prize 2019: Ground Breaking AccoladeA Choice Recommended Title By John G. Butcher and R.E. Elson Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were as open to the ships...
Indonesian Houses: Tradition and Transformation in Vernacular Architecture
Edited by Gaudenz Domenig, Peter Nas and Reimar Schefold The traditional houses and settlements of the several hundred ethnic groups of Indonesia are extremely varied and all have their own unique history. Underlying this rich diversity are fundamental similarities rooted...
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860–1975
by Christopher J. Shepherd Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters presents a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience...
Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819–1942
Finalist for the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Hughes Prize 2021, the NUS Singapore History Prize, the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2021, and the SBPA Singapore Book Award for Best Non-fiction Title 2020.by Timothy BarnardThe environmental turn in...
Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia
By Abu Talib Ahmad During the half century following Malaysian independence in 1957, the country's National Museum underwent a transformation that involved a shift from serving as a repository for displays of mounted butterflies and stuffed animals and accounts of...