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Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma
by Sean Turnell This book tells the story of Burma's financial system - of its banks, moneylenders and 'microfinanciers' - from colonial times to the present day. It argues that Burma's financial system matters, and that the careful study of...
Clinical Nephrology (Second Edition)
By Woo Keng Thye This textbook on renal medicine is the first local book on the subject. This second, revised edition of the book, first published in 1991, provides a broad review of kidney disease symptoms, investigation and treatment. It...
Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine
Edited by Alan K.L. Chan, Gregory K. Clancey and Hui-Chieh Loy This volume of selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (ICHSEA) addresses diverse topics in astronomy, traditional Chinese medicine, the history...
After the Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in Four Asian Economies
By K.S. Jomo After the Storm discusses restructuring and growth strategies adopted in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and South Korea after the currency and financial crisis of 1997-98, These four Asian economies were the most adversely affected despite achieving rapid growth...
Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia
by Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using 'medicine' (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health...
Cambodia's Economic Transformation
edited by Caroline Hughes and Kheang Un From 2002, Cambodia underwent a visible economic transformation driven largely by such external factors as increased Chinese demand for primary commodities and a strong international demand for Cambodian garments. Apart from dramatic rates...
Penang: Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community
By Jean DeBernardi In what is today Malaysia, the British established Georgetown on Penang Island in 1786, and encouraged Chinese merchants and labourers to migrate to this vibrant trading port. In the multicultural urban settlement that developed, the Chinese immigrants...
Asian Economic Recovery: Policy Options for Growth and Stability
Edited by Tan Kong Yam The traditional Asian economic model was characterised by the strategy of state-directed, rapid industrial catching-up. The rapid growth period for Japan was 1953-73, while that of the NIEs (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore) was...
Economic Development of Burma: A Vision and A Strategy
Edited by Ronald Findlay, R. M. Sundrum and Khin Maung Kyi The book is a collective effort of Burmese economists living both inside and outside the country to offer a long-term vision for the economic development of Burma. Bringing together...
State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Economic Growth
by Andrew Martin Fischer The most pressing economic challenges facing the Tibetan areas of western China relate to the marginalization of the majority of Tibetans from rapid state-led growth. The urban-rural divide plays an impor-tant role in this polarized dynamic...
Information Technology Innovation and the Japanese Economy
By Kazunori Minetaki and Kiyohiko G. Nishimura The notion that innovation in information technology could spark a revitalization of the Japanese economy became a hot topic in 2000, and the Japanese government announced an e-Japan Strategy for creating a"knowledge emergent...
China's Emerging New Economy: Growth of the Internet and Electronic Commerce
By Nah Seok Ling and John Wong The New Economy has hit China, driven by the Internet and e-commerce. China has made a good start in both areas. Since its debut, subscribers to the Internet grew exponentially from a mere...
Harvesting Development: The Construction of Fresh Food Markets in Papua New Guinea
by Karl Benediktsson Harvesting Development is a sophisticated and authoritative analysis of the transition from subsistence to a market economy in the PNG fresh food trade. Drawing upon actor-oriented and social constructivists concepts, Karl Bendiktsson skillfully builds a systemic framework...
Industrial Policy, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Experience of Japan and the Asian NIEs
Edited by Ng Chee-Yuen and Wong Poh Kam The role of industrial and technology policy in economic development has been a controversial issue in the literature. In particular, the positive role of the state in the rapid economic growth of...
Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia
By Natasha Hamilton-Hart Central banks are the primary financial regulators and guardians of national money in Southeast Asia. Financial stability depends on their capacity to manage the demands of banks, politicians and financial markets. But why are some central banks...
The New Economic Policy in Malaysia: Affirmative Action, Ethnic Inequalities and Social Justice
Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez and Johan Saravanamuttu For more than 40 years, the New Economic Policy and its successor programs have shaped Malaysia's socioeconomic development and the allocation of political power. The original policy sought to eradicate poverty and...
Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor
By Tamaki Endo The informal economy in Bangkok, Thailand, offers upward mobility but is fraught with risk. For members of the urban lower class, residence and occupation are closely inter-connected. Shifts in priorities in housing, occupation and education as family...
Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons
edited by Olle Törnquist and John Harriss A pioneering book by concerned scholars who read the experiences of social democratic development in Scandinavia and India against each other, to explore the possibilities for its reinvention in the age of uneven...
Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979
by Hatla Thelle This study analyses changes in the protection of social rights in China since 1979 for the middle-income level of the urban population, based on family interviews and documentary studies. It tells how conditions for employment, housing, social...
Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam
edited by Melanie Beresford and Tran Ngoc Angie Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other countries? How...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: New Directions, Perspectives, and Challenges
edited by Michael Fredholm In its first decade of existence, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has developed into a key regional security group in Asia. Alarmists believe that the SCO is making itself into a NATO of the East, thus...
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
By Peter Borschberg In 1603, Dutch Admiral Jakob van Heemskerk plundered a Portuguese merchantman, the Santa Catarina, travelling from Macao to Melaka. The sale of the cargo at a public auction made traders across Northern Europe aware of the riches...
Malaysian Industrial Policy
Edited by Jomo K. S. Malaysian Industrial Policy argues that selective government promotion efforts have been successful and crucial for Malaysia's industrialisation despite some disastrous consequences associated with the Mahathir government's heavy industrialisation programme. The authors in this book present...
Financial Services and Wealth Management in Singapore
By Tan Chwee Huat During the last decade, many changes have taken place in the Singapore financial marketplace. The Monetary Authority of Singapore has implemented numerous reforms to liberalize financial services sector. Since 2002, two new laws have come into...
Doing Fieldwork in China
edited by Maria Heimer and Stig Thogersen Doing fieldwork inside the PRC is an eye-opening but sometimes also deeply frustrating experience. Fieldwork-based studies form the foundation for our understanding of Chinese politics and society, but there are conspicuously few detailed...
Vietnam's New Middle Classes: Gender, Career, City
by Catherine Earl Vietnam has been transformed over the past quarter of a century by massive industrialization and urbanization that followed macro-economic reforms introduced from the late 1980s. This volume explores the social consequences of this change by delving into...
War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2012
edited by Mandy Sadan In June 2011 armed hostilities resumed between the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and the Myanmar Army, which ended a 17 years long ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin political-military leadership to...
From Monobank to Commercial Banking: Financial Sector Reforms in Vietnam
edited by Jens Kovsted, John Rand and Finn Tarp This study analyses the difficulties and problems encountered in transforming the Vietnamese financial sector from one subordinate to government objectives and goals to an autonomous sector guided by market forces and...
The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization
Edited by Ronald W. Pruessen, Tan Tai Yong and Marc Frey Decolonization is an important aspect of Southeast Asia's history, and the events during and after the transition to independence were crucial to shaping the region during the second half...
Southeast Asia in the New Century: An Asian Perspective
Edited by Samuel C. Y. Ku The challenges facing the diverse Southeast Asian region are many and varied in the new century. The economic challenge from a resurgent China puts new seriousness into the efforts to enhance ASEAN economic integration...
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka: Dutch Melaka and English Penang, 1780-1830
By Nordin Hussin This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two different cities, the one with a trading heritage dating back centuries, the other a new creation spawned by the declining...
Southeast Asia-China Interactions: Reprint of Articles from the Journal of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
Edited by Geoff Wade The relations between the societies and states of Southeast Asia and China have been of enormous significance to both these regions, extending back for literally thousands of years. This useful single-volume edition of key studies on...
China and Denmark: Relations Since 1674
edited by Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Mads Kirkebæk This first comprehensive study of Sino-Danish relations analyses in detail the evolving political, economic and diplomatic interaction between China and Denmark since their first contact in 1674. The book is thoroughly researched...
The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History
Edited by Norman G. Owen The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war....
Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu
This is an open access online resource available at epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ The Ming Shi-lu (明實錄) (also known as the Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China (1368-1644)....