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Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia
By Andrew C. Willford In Cage of Freedom, Andrew Willford uses detailed ethnographic accounts of public and private rituals to examine a resurgence of Hindu religious practice among the Tamil community in Malaysia. Faced with a state-driven ethnic and religious...
Transforming Brickfields: Development and Governance in a Malaysian City
By Richard Baxstrom Transforming Brickfields: Development and Governance in a Malaysian City is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic...
De Jiao: A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East
By Bernard Formoso De Jiao ("Teaching of Virtue") is a China-born religious movement, based on spirit-writing and rooted in the tradition of the "halls for good deeds," which emerged in Chaozhou during the Sino-Japanese war. The book relates the fascinating...
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
Edited by Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in...
Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders
edited by Wil Burghoorn, Kazuki Iwanaga, Cecilia Milwertz and Qi Wang This book examines cultural complexities of gender by focusing on gender politics in Asia, with case studies from China, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. It is a...
Walking a Tightrope: Defending Human Rights in China
by Gert Holmgaard Nielsen His portrait still hangs there above the Gate of Heavenly Peace, overlooking Tiananmen Square – Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China and its Communist Party. As a leader, Mao took great measures to...
Connecting Empires and States: Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Volume 2
Edited by Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz and Andreas Reinecke and Dominik Bonatz Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, the contributions gathered in this volume focus particular attention on early state formation, development of material cultures, and the transfer of iconographic...
Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 02
Edited by Stephen Cairns and Devisari Tunas What are the research methods appropriate to a world of smart cities? How do we bring the power of data to bear on complex, multidimensional problems? How do we combine insights from big...
Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore: A Photographic Record
Edward Stokes Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore, an evocative interplay of photos and texts, forms a tribute to a pioneer woman photographer, Marjorie Doggett. From 1954–57, camera in hand, she roamed Singapore’s colonial precincts, its port and river, the characteristic ethnic areas and...
Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
by Janet Steele Read a sample chapter from the book here. What is Islamic journalism? This study examines day-to-day journalism as practiced by Muslim professionals at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists...
Towards a New Malaysia?: The 2018 Election and Its Aftermath
Edited by Meredith L. Weiss and Faisal S. Hazis With contributions from Ibrahim Suffian, Lee Tai Dee, Helen Ting, Johan Saravanamuttu, Ross Tapsell, Haris Zuan, Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Che Hamdan Mohd Razali, David Kloos, Wai Weng Hew, Chin-Huat WongMalaysia’s 2018...
Southeast Asian Anthropologies: National Traditions and Transnational Practices
Edited by Eric C. Thompson and Vineeta Sinha With contributions from Jose Jowel Canuday, Dang Nguyen Anh, Victor T. King, Maria F. Mangahas, Nguyen Van Chinh, Chivoin Peou, Iwan Pirous, Emma Porio, Suzanna R. Roldan, Ratana Tosakul, Yunita T. Winarto,...
Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power
Edited by Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen With contributions from H. Hazel Hahn, Lawrence Chua, Peter Scriver & Amit Srivastava, Tim Winter, Anoma Pieris, Gerard Lico, Koompang Noobanjong, Eunice Seng, Tutin Aryanti, Mark Crinson What is the modern in Southeast Asia’s...
Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post-New Order Indonesia
Edited by Keith Foulcher, Mikihiro Moriyama and Manneke Budiman, Introduction by Keith Foulcher, Contributions by Untung Yuwono, Manneke Budiman, George Quinn, Mikihiro Moriyama, Asako Shiohara, Atsuko Utsumi, Mayuko Hara, Haruya Kagami, Koji Tsuda, Yumi Kitamura, Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jan van der...
Southeast of Now Vol. 3, No. 1
The first issue of the third volume features: Editorial: Gender in Southeast Asian Art HistoriesYvonne Low, Roger Nelson, Clare Veal Articles Making Line and Medium May Adadol Ingawanij Art on the Back BurnerEileen Legaspi-Ramirez Picturing FemininityEksuda Singhalampong Women, Tradition and...
Stateless
Chen Tienshi Lara, translated by Louis Carlet “In the springtime of the year that I was twenty-one, I found myself stuck at the border between two familiar countries, unable to enter either. I had never felt my statelessness so keenly.”Japan’s...
NANG 9: ARCHIVAL IMAGINARIES
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 9: ARCHIVAL IMAGINARIESGuest EditorsBono Olgado & Rufus de RhamIssue 9 is...
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment
By Brenda S.A. Yeoh In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian 'five-foot-ways', and sacred...
Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Malaysia
By Eric C. Thompson In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the city and is a pervasive presence in the Malaysian countryside. Transported to rural communities, urbanism has motivated migration, transformed the social...
Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice
By Andrew L. Oros Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution. Andrew Oros...
Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art
By Nora Annesley Taylor Painting has played a significant role in modern Vietnam. Postage stamps, billboards, and annual national exhibitions attest to its fundamental place in a country where painters may be hailed as national heroes and including among their...
Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia
Winner: ICAS Book Prize 2023 Art Book Accolade Elly Kent Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia’s vibrant art world, this book examines why so many artists in the world’s largest archipelagic nation choose to work directly...
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641−1699
By Sher Banu A.L. Khan ebook available at: and The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing...
NANG 8: LOUD MESS
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 8: LOUD MESSGuest EditorsShai Heredia & Oliver HusainIssue 8...
The Nagasaki Peace Discourse: City Hall and the Quest for a Nuclear Free World
by Geoffrey C. Gunn Some 20,000 or more people were killed instantly in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945; an additional 40,000 or more died from radiation and related illnesses in the coming days and weeks. Many...
Islam, Humanity, and Indonesian Identity: Reflections on History
by Ahmad Syafii Maarif Translated by George A. Fowler “Indonesia is not a given. Rather it has to be constantly and ceaselessly struggled for.” To his fellow Indonesians, Ahmad Syafii Maarif is the muazin bangsa,the “muezzin of the nation” for...
Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present
Edited by Mary Zurbuchen As Indonesia emerges from authoritarian rule, public intellectuals have begun to question the way the country's past has been remembered, memorialized and inscribed. Mary Zurbuchen's edited collection of essays addresses the many ways in which Indonesians...
Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
By Brian Bernards Voted as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016An interview by Philip HoldenPostcolonial literature in Chinese from the Nanyang, literally the South Seas, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, and offers...
Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore
Steve Ferzacca Click here for a list of YouTube links cited in the book.Singapore, Rock City. On any given day in the basement of Peninsula Plaza, a shopping mall in central Singapore, Singaporeans of different ethnicities and ages can be found imagining...
Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea
Satya Nandan with Kristine E. Dalaker The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is one of the most successful agreements to govern the global commons. If it is a constitution for the oceans, Satya Nandan is one...
Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art
Winner of the 2024 UNIMA USA Nancy Staub Award! by Kathryn 'Kitsie' Emerson Wayang fascinates and endures thanks to the many ways it works as a medium — as bearer of Javanese culture and tradition, as key component of rites...
Democracy and National Identity in Thailand
by Michael Kelly Connors This revised and updated edition of the widely praised "Democracy and National Identity in Thailand" provides readers with a fascinating discussion of how debates about democracy and national identity in Thailand have evolved from the period...
Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia
by Sylva Frisk In recent decades, Malaysia has been profoundly changed both by forces of globalization, modernization and industrialization, and by a strong Islamization process. Some would argue that the situation of Malay women has worsened but such a conclusion...
Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia
Janet Steele Malaysiakini was founded in 1999 by Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, two young Malaysians who met as overseas students in Australia. One of the many online portals that sprung up in the wake of Reformasi, a movement sparked by Prime...
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...