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Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postcolonial China
by Hongwei Bao A quantum leap in scholarship on queer China, offering keen insights on the PRC’s socialist legacy. This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People’s Republic of China today is...
Eclectic Collecting: Art from Burma in the Denison Museum
Edited by Alexandra Green The collection of Burmese art housed at the Denison Museum in Granville, Ohio, USA, includes more than 1,500 objects dating from the late first millennium AD through the twentieth century. While particularly strong on textiles originating...
Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-gatherers in the 21st Century
edited by Peter G. Sercombe and Bernard Sellato Borneo, with its tales of White Rajahs and tribes of headhunters, has long excited the Western imagination. Today, however, there is another, 'green', imagination at work. Mention of the island is more...
Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook
By Titima SuthiwanTextbook is available at a special NUS student price at NUS Co-op. Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook is specially prepared for elementary Thai language classes where the language is initially taught with the use of phonetic symbols. A step-by-step...
Women and Politics in Thailand: Continuity and Change
edited by Kazuki Iwanaga This edited volume, including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field, addresses the challenges, obstacles and opportunities for increased women’s political representation in Thailand. Will Thai politics be different with an increase in...
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities
Edited by Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell With contributions from N.J. Enfield, Joseph Errington, Michael C. Ewing, Sarah Lee, Charles H.P. Zuckerman, and Luke Fleming In selecting terms to refer to themselves and their addressees, speakers express, define and create a...
Southeast of Now Vol. 9, No. 2
The second issue of the ninth volume features: Introduction: Intermedial InquiriesChairat Polmuk, Eric Goh Correction and Note of Apology from the Editors Articles Preserving Embroidery Patterns through a Manuscript: The Sino-Singapore Trade of Teochew Buddhist Textiles since the 1930sZhang Jie...
Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 03
edited by Stephen Cairns and Devisari Tunas This third and final volume in the Indicia book series presents the results of the Future Cities Laboratory research programme in the form of “actions” for sustainable city-making. It complements the first and...
Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China’s Hyperurbanization
Ella Raidel With contributions by Itty Abraham, Ute Meta Bauer, Marlene Rutzendorfer, and Weiying Yu As amalgams of the different spatial logics of other places, reassembled by globalization and the fantasies of real estate development, cities today are becoming what...
Images of War: The Cultural Construction of Qing Martial Prowess
Ya-chen Ma, translated by Elizabeth Smithrosser The mechanisms by which the Manchu rulers of Qing dynasty China maintained their hegemony over a vast empire have long fascinated scholars, with New Qing History models challenging older Sinicization models in recent years....
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...
Soul Catcher: Java’s Fiery Prince Mangkunagara I, 1726-95
by M.C. Ricklefs Mangkunagara I (1726-95) was one of the most flamboyant figures of 18th-century Java. A charismatic rebel from 1740 to 1757 and one of the foremost military commanders of his age, he won the loyalty of many followers....
Colony, Nation and Globalisation: Not at Home in Singaporean and Malaysian Literature
By Eddie Tay The literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich body of source material for appreciating the intellectual heritage of colonial and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Focusing on themes of home and belonging, Eddie...
Everyday Materials
Edited by Elaine Ng and H. G. Masters, essays by David Elliott, Josephine V. Roque, Gary-Ross Pastrana, Russell Storer. Documenting the trajectory and development of Filipino abstract artist Bernardo Pacquing’s work from the 1980s to present day, this is the...
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
By James Elkins This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 17, Number 4 (November 2019)
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 on Project MUSE.Contents PART ONESpecial Issue on China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges...
Chinese Ways of Being Muslim: Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity in Indonesia
by Hew Wai Weng Many recent works on Muslim societies have pointed to a growing 'deculturalization’ and 'purification’ of Islamic practices. Instead, by exploring themes such as architectural designs, preaching activities, political engagement and cultural celebrations, this book describes and...
Southeast of Now Vol. 10, No. 1
The first issue of the tenth volume features: Notes from the Editorial Collective Articles State of Grace: Socialist Realism and Sacrality in the North Korean–Built Angkor Panorama MuseumDouglas Gabriel Malayan Identity: Art Patronage in Pre-independence SingaporeLow Sze Wee A Modern...
Southeast of Now Vol. 7, No. 1
The first issue of the seventh volume features: Articles Where Is My Land?:: Sand Extraction, Land Reclamation, and Artistic Imagination in Cambodia and SingaporeAna Bilbao Latent If Not Present: Arriving at and Departing from Lito MayoKiko Del Rosario Towards an...
The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap
By Arthur Yap, Introduction by Irving Goh Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980), and man snake apple & other poems (1986); and contributed a section of poetry in the...
Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia
Edited by H. Hazel Hahn With contributions from Sarah Moser, Caroline Herbelin, Benita Stambler, Arnout van der Meer, Susie Protschky, Frederick Schenker, George Dutton, Dawn Odell, Matthew Schauer A Choice Recommended Title How can a controversy about forms of deference...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia: From Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah
By Solahudin, Translated by Dave McRae This groundbreaking book shows with rare clarity that Indonesia's current terrorist problems have a long and complex history. Based on a remarkable array of sources, many of which have never been publicly cited, Solahudin's...
Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma
edited by Mikael Gravers While the image of modern Myanmar/Burma tends to be couched in human rights terms – and especially of a heroic Aung San Suu Kyi opposing an oppressive military regime – in reality there are several conflicts...
Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma
Philip Woods Japan’s invasion of Burma in 1942 set off the longest retreat in British military history. Along with the fall of Singapore, it marked the beginning of the end of British rule, not only in Burma but also in...
Islam and Politics in Indonesia: The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism
By Rémy Madinier The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a literalist application...
Entangled Landscapes: Early Modern China and Europe
Edited by Yue Zhuang and Andrea M. Riemenschnitter The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500–1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinois...
Pow Martinez
Pow Martinez, Tony Godfrey, appendix by Gary-Ross Pastrana, edited by Elaine W. Ng and Richard Vine Written by renowned contemporary art writer Tony Godfrey, this book offers a comprehensive view of Filipino artist Pow Martinez’ work spanning 2009 to 2023. Through...
A Gentleman of the Law: Essays in Memory of Tan Yock Lin
Edited by Ho Hock Lai and Kelvin F K Low Professor Tan Yock Lin (1953–2023) was a distinguished legal scholar. He was a prominent figure in Singapore’s legal community and Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of...
Islam, Nationalism and Democracy: a Political Biography of Mohammad Natsir
By Audrey R. Kahin As Indonesia's leading Muslim politician in the second half of the 20th century, Mohammad Natsir (1908-1993) went from heading the country's first post-independence government and largest Islamic political party to spending years in rebellion and in...
Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia
By Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam, gender, and...
Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand: Memory, Place and Power
By Ross King Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and tourism in the production of Thai heritage and identity. The author shows that underlying officially promulgated ideas is a much deeper, richer and sometimes...
Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted
edited by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A. Jackson In dramatic contrast to the reported growing influence of doctrinal and fundamentalist forms of religion in some parts of Southeast Asia, the predominantly Buddhist societies of the region are...
Asianisms: Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration
Edited by Marc Frey and Nicola SpakowskiContributions by Marc Frey, Nicola Spakowski, Maria Moritz, Carolien Stolte, Stefan Hubner, Tani Barlow, Fabio Lanza, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Torsten Weber At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia?...
NANG 2: SCARS AND DEATH
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 2: SCARS AND DEATHGuest EditorsYoo Un-Seong & John...
Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
Tommy KohThe most important of Tommy Koh’s writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans. As President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, Koh shares his...