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Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java: A Political, Social, Cultural and Religious History, c. 1930 to Present
By M.C. Ricklefs Winner of the 2015 George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. This award is given biennially to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies from any discipline or country specialization to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast...
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770
by Dorothy C. Wong a Choice Recommended title The period ca. 645-770 marked an extraordinary era in the development of East Asian Buddhism and Buddhist art. Increased contacts between China and regions to both its west and east facilitated exchanges...
Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia
Edited by Kathryn M. Robinson With contributions from Adlin Sila, Wahyuddin Halim, Faried F. Saenong, Eva Nisa, Yasir Alimi, Stella Hutagalung, Andrew McWilliam, Phillip Winn Islam is at home in many of the areas of eastern Indonesia, with the early...
Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma
Edited by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg and Alicia TurnerContributions by Kate Crosby, Patrick Pranke, Juliane Schober, Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Niklas Foxeus, Keiko Tosa, Thomas Patton, Céline Coderey, Guillaume Rozenberg and Steven Collins Hidden at the...
Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia
By Fenneke Sysling Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices. The way such matters are understood is partly rooted in ideas developed by racial scientists...
A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore
By Vineeta Sinha A New God in the Diaspora explores the worship of a Hindu deity known as Muneeswaran in contemporary Singapore. The strong presence and veneration of this male deity on the island, and the innovative styles of religiosity...
Queer/Tongzhi China: New Perspectives on Research, Activism and Media Cultures
edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and William F. Schroeder This book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cutting-edge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 22, Number 3 (August 2024)
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 RESEARCH Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in...
Southeast of Now Vol. 1, No. 1
The inaugural issue features:Editorial: DiscomfortArticles“Total Community Response”: Performing the Avant-garde as a Democratic Gesture in Manila Patrick D. FloresAn Exceptional Inclusion: On MoMA's Exhibition Recent American Prints in Color and the First Exhibition of Southeast Asian ArtKathleen DitzigEndurance and Overcoming in...
History in Uniform: Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past
By Katharine E. McGregor Under the New Order regime (1967-98), the Indonesian military sought to monopolise the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism and...
Southeast of Now Vol. 4, No.1
The first issue of the fourth volume features: Articles: The 1980s as (an Attempt in) the Decolonialization of Malaysian ArtSarena Abdullah Neo-Traditional Art of Post-Socialist Laos: The Entangled Temporality of the Mother-LandAnna Koshcheeva Critical Recycling: Post-Consumer Waste as Medium and Meaning in...
Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions (c. 1830-1930)
By M. C. Ricklefs By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the "mystic synthesis". This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics:...
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani
Edited by Patrick JoryContributions by Anthony Reid, Barbara Watson Andaya, Geoff Wade, Azyumardi Azra, Numan Hayimasae, Christopher Joll, Francis R. Bradley, Philip King, Dennis Walker, Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, Iik A. Mansurnoor and Duncan McCargo At the heart of the ongoing armed...
NANG 3: FICTION
NANG is a 10-issue magazine dedicated to cinema in Asia. A limited edition collection of words and images on cinema, for knowledge, inspiration, and enjoyment. For more information, visit NANG's homepage.Limited quantity available.Issue 3: FICTIONGuest EditorAmir MuhammadIssue 3 is dedicated to Fiction. Writers...
Between Tongues: Translation and/of/in Performance in Asia
Edited by Jennifer Lindsay Between Tongues takes the subject of performance translation in a completely new direction. While the topic is often discussed in relation to the translation of dramatic texts, Between Tongues discusses the translation of performance itself, and...
Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia
By Ross King Arguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur - "widely known as KL" - has just celebrated 50 years as the national capital of Malaysia. But KL now has a very different twin in Putrajaya, the country's...
To Cage the Red Dragon: SEATO and the Defence of Southeast Asia, 1955-1965
By Damien Fenton The South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was the focal point of Western military efforts to deter, and if need be defeat, communist aggression in Southeast Asia between 1955 and 1965. In this mission it was, on...
Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations, and Global Security
By Ann Kent An extensively researched study of Chinese participation in international organizations, Beyond Compliance argues that the record of China's international behaviour since the 1970s indicates the long-term effectiveness of the multilateral system. Through its analysis of China's interaction...
Tiw-Tiwong - An Uncyclopedia to Life, Living and Art in Baguio, the Cordilleras, and Beyond
Edited by Kawayan de Guia, Rocky Acofo Cajigan, Allan Lumbaya Cariño, Joyce Toh, Padmapani Perez, Frank Cimatu The societies of the Cordilleras, a mountainous and landlocked province in Luzon Island in the Philippines have been the subject of classic works...
Melayu: The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness
Edited by Maznah Mohamad and Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ebook available at: and People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of...
Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity
by Lee Kah-Wee Las Vegas in Singapore looks at the collision of the histories of Singapore and Las Vegas in the form of Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore’s two Integrated Resorts. The first history begins in colonial Singapore in the...
BitterSweet: The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
By Stuart Pearson ebook available at: and Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in...
Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia
Edited by Caroline S. Hau and Kasian Tejapira Cross-border movements are often discussed as a high-level abstraction, but people cross borders as individuals. Their lives are reshaped by the experience, and in some cases they in turn reshape their own...
Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History
Edited by Susan Legêne, Bambang Purwanto and Henk Schulte NordholtContributions by Susan Legêne, Henk Schulte Nordholt, Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff, Emilie Wellfelt, Willem Westerkamp, Fenneke Sysling, Matthew Isaac Cohen, Sadiah Boonstra, Tular Sudarmadi, I Ngurah Suryawan and Sri Margana Sites, Bodies and Stories...
Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms of Political Engagement
by Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese "dissidents" in the later Imperial period - Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as individual responses to the new forms of authority that...
Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions on a Plural Peninsula
Edited by Patrick Jory and Michael J. Montesano The portion of the Malay Peninsula where the Thai Buddhist civilization of Thailand gives way to the Malay Muslim civilization of Malaysia is characterized by multiple forms of pluralism. An appreciation of...
Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia
edited by Holly High with an introduction by Luiz Costa and afterword from Penny van Esterik With contributions from John Clifford Holt, Courtney Work, Paul-David Lutz, Benjamin Baumann, Sally Bamford, Kazuo Fukuura, Klemens Karlsson, Hang T.D. Ngo. Stones and those who speak...
Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience
Edited by Roxana Waterson Southeast Asian Lives presents life stories of ordinary people in Southeast Asia, one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing regions in the world. The narratives illustrate the richness of life histories in revealing what it...
Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Edited by Tan Chee-Beng Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to...
Politicized Society (2nd ed.): The Long Shadow of Taiwan's One-party Legacy
by Mikael Mattlin Taiwan's gradual democratization has been celebrated as one of the most successful cases of political transformation, due to an initially smooth political transition from one-party authoritarianism to multi-party politics. Yet, this transition is incomplete and, especially since...
The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty
By Philip Taylor Winner of the inaugural EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the ICAS Book Prize 2015 for Best Study in the Social Sciences. From a total of 175 submitted books, 10 were long listed before 6 were short listed. CHOICE Highly...
Witch-Hunt and Conspiracy: The ‘Ninja Case’ in East Java
By Nicholas Herriman Witch-Hunt and Conspiracy brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story – that of a witch-hunt and ‘ninja’ craze that swept a region of Java, Indonesia, in 1998. When neighbours, family members and friends believed that...
Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapore's Natural History Museum
By Kevin Y. L. Tan, Prologue by Peter K. L. Ng Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has more than 560,000 specimens in its care, one of the largest collections of...
Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas of Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad, edited and with an introduction by Kevin Riordan In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad had three stints in Singapore while working on ships around the region. Over the next thirty years, he would return to the colonial port city...
Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries
Stephen A. Murphy A Choice Recommended Title Shortlisted for the 2026 Euroseas Humanities Book Prize The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence for...