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Southeast of Now Vol. 2, No. 2
The second issue of the second volume features: Editorial: Movement ArticlesPictorialism and Modernity in Singapore, 1950-60Charmaine Toh Relocating Kim Lim: A Cosmopolitan PerspectiveJoleen Loh Research ReportTerminologies of "Modern" and "Contemporary" "Art" in Southeast Asia' Vernacular Languages: Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer Lao, Malay,...
Southeast of Now Vol. 3, No. 2
SPECIAL ISSUE, Guest edited by Fiona Allen, Annie Jael Kwan, and Joanna Wolfarth.Editors' introduction. Articles Conceptual Slippages: Reading between the Lines of the Roberto Chabet ArchiveEva Bentcheva Negative Space: Imaginaries of Violence in CambodiaDarcie Deangelo Passaging from Private to Public:...
Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia: Urban Dynamics in a Global Era
Edited by Gavin Jones and Mike Douglass Southeast Asia contains four urban conglomerates of the sort that this study characterizes as Mega-Urban Regions - Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh. These locations are examined in this book, along with...
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects
Edited by Laurie J. Sears The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the rising preponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian studies in the United States. The contributions address recent transformations within the field and...
NANG 7: THE SCENT OF BOYS
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 7: THE SCENT OF BOYS Guest EditorsVictor Fan...
Extreme Beauty: 12 Korean Artists Today
Edited by Elaine Ng & H.G. Masters Contributors include Henri-François Debailleux, Gökcan Demirkazik, David Elliott, Taeyi Kim, Daehyung Lee, Soojin Lee, Melanie Pocock, Andrew Russeth, Billy Tang, Jung-Ah Woo, and Yeon Shim Chung On the biggest international stages, from the...
Culture City. Culture Scape.
edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Sophie Goltz, and Khim Ong.Art in public spaces is increasingly viewed from the perspective of placemaking, a holistic approach which engages the diverse functions of a space, and attends closely to spaces in everyday life....
UNCLOS at 40: Essays in Honour of Ambassador Tommy Koh
Edited by Tara Davenport and Nilufer Oral To commemorate 40 years since the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and in honour of one of the main architects of UNCLOS, Singapore’s Ambassador Tommy Koh, this edited...
Modern Muslim Identities: Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia
by Gerhard Hoffstaedter This book explores a central tension in identity politics: how the state, civil society and people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion while paradoxically their practices in everyday life often...
Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore
Edited by Frank Stewart and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Contributions by Philip Jeyaretnam, Jason Erik Lundberg, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ng Yi-Sheng, Wena Poon, Desmond Kon, Alfian Sa'at, O Thiam Chin, Amanda Lee Koe, Karen Kwek, Jerrold Yam, Jeffrey Greene, Nicholas...
Those Days in Muramatsu: One Woman's Memoir of Occupied Japan
By Yumi Goto, Introductions by Grant K. Goodman and Elizabeth Schultz ebook available at: and In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan's capitulation, Mrs Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu, where they...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 15, Number 1 (February 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 MUSEContents Special Issue on China in the World: Is China a...
Noon at Five O'Clock: The Short Stories of Arthur Yap
By Arthur Yap, Edited by Angus Whitehead This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's most accomplished and important writers. A hitherto neglected facet of Yap’s opus, his eight short stories...
Gendered Entanglements: Revisiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia
edited by Ragnhild Lund, Philippe Doneys and Bernadette P. Resurrección The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today’s Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to...
Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto - A Study in Performance Philology
By Bernard Arps Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense...
Art & Trousers: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art
David Elliott an ArtNews Top Art Book of 2021 Cultural historian David Elliott is a key figure of the international contemporary art world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In his work as a curator and museum director...
Kebalian: The Dialogic Construction of Balinese Identity
Michel Picard Short-listed for the Euroseas 2026 Humanities Book Prize What is it to be Balinese? Over the past 100 years, the Balinese have been challenged by colonial occupation, political turbulence, and most recently tourism. In response, they have come...
I Will Send My Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the Singing of Kam Raw
by Håkan Lundstrom Today, the Kammu are an upland people mainly found in Laos, Yunnan, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam. This people – who have retained their orally based culture through to the present day – provide an example of complex...
Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity
Edited by Zheng Yangwen and Charles J-H MacDonald The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" system of the world of passports and identity cards but a great many are not. This is particularly...
A New World in the Making (paperback)
NEW paperback edition! Tay Kheng Soon Architect Tay Kheng Soon’s book brings together memoir, a selection of writings on identity, landscape and belonging, and on the architecture and urbanism most appropriate for a tropical city in Asia. Born in British-ruled...
Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey
By Zhuang Wubin Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. The narrative begins in the colonial era, at the point when the transfer of photographic technology...
Vertical Cities Asia: International Design Competition and Symposium 2015 (Volume 5: Everyone Contributes)
Preface by Heng Chye KiangContributions by Kah-Wee Lee, Sonny Chau Sau Yan, Tan Cheng Siong, Ada YS Fung, Vishaan Chakrabarti, Tay Kheng Soon and CJ LimThis publication presents an overview of the fifth Vertical Cities Asia (VCA) International Design Competition and...
Southeast of Now Vol. 6, No. 2
Guest edited by Amanda Katherine Rath (Goethe University, Frankfurt) and Wulan Dirgantoro (The University of Melbourne) Editorial Introduction In the Making: Experimentation and Experiment in Southeast Asian ArtAmanda Katherine Rath, Wulan DirgantoroArticles Black Cube: The Stage for Performance in Singapore,...
Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World
By Joel S. Kahn This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia. The narrative of Malay identity devised...
Making Home: Faith, Love and the Politics of Belonging in Japanese-Filipino Families
Just Published! Mario I. Lopez How do faith, family, and migration intersect in the intimate lives of transnational couples? This ethnography examines Japanese-Filipino marriages in contemporary Japan to reveal how gendered Catholic practices, cultural negotiation, and the politics of belonging...
NANG 4: IN & OUT
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: IN & OUTGuest EditorsJulian Ross & Maryam TafakoryIssue...
Vertical Cities Asia: International Design Competition and Symposium (Volume 1: Everyone Needs Fresh Air)
Edited by Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui, Cheah Kok Ming, Cho Im Sik and Ng Waikeen Asia is undergoing a dramatic and rapid urbanization. Across the continent, there is unrelenting, large-scale migration from the countryside to the cities. Asian cities are...
Southeast of Now Vol. 6, No. 1
SPECIAL ISSUE: Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Art of Southeast AsiaGuest-edited by Eva Bentcheva and Annie Jael Kwan with Roger Nelson Articles Sedimented Acts: Performing History and Historicizing Performance in Vietnam, Myanmar and SingaporeNora A. Taylor Fluxus Resonances in Southeast...
NANG 5: INSPIRATION
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 5 is dedicated to Inspiration. Starting from candid interviews...
NANG 6: MANIFESTOS
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 6: MANIFESTOSGuest EditorDarcy PaquetIssue 6 is dedicated to Manifestos....
Vertical Cities Asia: International Design Competition and Symposium 2013 (Volume 3: Everyone Harvests)
Editor-in-chief Ng Wai Keen and Miyauchi Tomohisa, Edited by Cheah Kok Ming and Cho Im Sik, Edited and translated by Wang Liangliang and Han Jie The scale and speed at which Asian cities are growing and densifying is without historical...
Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries
Edited by Timothy P. Barnard People who call themselves Malay - Melayu - are found in many countries, united by a notional shared identity but divided by political boundaries, divergent histories, variant dialects and peculiarities of local experience. While the...
Conversations with Difference: Essays from Tempo Magazine
By Goenawan Mohamad, Translated by Jennifer Lindsay Indonesia's most accomplished essayist, Goenawan Mohamad is a public intellectual of rare grace. Goenawan's essays explore the movement between difference and the universal, from the positions of exile, of native informant, of tourist, of...
Santiago Bose: Painter, Magician
Santiago Bose, Patrick Flores Santiago Bose (1949-2002) — the “grandfather of Filipino art” — was a mixed-media artist from the Philippines and a pioneer in the use of indigenous materials. Emerging from an archipelago deeply textured in its cultural relations...
Economics of Information Technology and the Media
By Linda Low Interest in information technology and the media is growing apace. This book has been specially written to provide an economics framework for analysing the nature and scope, as well as issues, pertaining to the new information and...