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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,...

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...

Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States

Edited by Sari K. IshiiContributions by Masako Kudo, Chie Sakai, Linda A. Lumayag, Ikuya Tokoro, Caesar Dealwis, Caroline Grillot, Hien Anh Le, Lara Chen Tien-shi and Chatchai Chetsumon  Migration in Asia is leading to more marriages across nationalities. New patterns of...

Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-conflict Society

edited by Joakim Öjendal and Mona Lilja The peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts and UN-supervised elections that followed Cambodia's dark period of civil war and genocide have not brought the democracy and reconstruction that was hoped for. Political stability has...

The Sulu Zone: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State, 1768-1898

By James F. Warren First published in 1981, The Sulu Zone deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical "border zone" centered on the Sulu and Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the...

Village China at War

by Dagfinn Gatu This groundbreaking study on the forging of Chinese communism in the furnace of the anti-Japanese war focuses on North China, where the Chinese Communist Party first took root and later expanded to conquer China. Whilst the explosive...

The AWARE Saga: Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore

Edited by Terence Chong ebook available at:  and In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned within a matter of weeks, but the episode...

Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China

edited by Mette Thunø A bachelor society, men brought in by the shipload to labour in harsh, slave-like conditions, often for decades. Aliens despised and feared by their hosts. The hope: to return home as rich men. This was the...

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...

Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia

Edited by Laurence Monnais and Harold J. CookContributions by Thomas B. Colvin, C. Michele Thompson, Liew Kai Khiun, Annick Guénel, Raquel A.G. Reyes, Liesbeth Hesselink, Ooi Keat Gin, Michael G. Vann, Huang Yu-Ling, Ayo Wahlberg, Chatichai Muksong and Komatra Chuengsatiansup...

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....

(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 13, Number 2 (August 2015)

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 RESEARCHSmall State Foreign Policy: The Diplomatic Recognition of Taiwan by HU...

Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire

Edited by Paul H. Kratoska During the Pacific War the Japanese government recruited hundreds of thousands of workers for military construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was widespread, and the number of deaths arising from beatings, malnutrition...

New Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45

Edited by Yoji Akashi and Mako Yoshimura Information on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse, and Japanese-language materials are particularly difficult to find because the Japanese military systematically destroyed war-related documents when the war ended. The contributors...

Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-century South India

by Deborah Sutton Due to the inhospitable climate and vastness of the native population, European settlement of India was never seriously considered apart from in selected upland areas with cooler climates and sparse native populations. One such area was the...

Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam

by Kirsten W. Endres Vietnam in the last two decades has experienced not only market reform and significant economic growth but also a related, symbiotic revival of popular religion. It is no surprise, then, that popular beliefs and rituals that...

Beijing Women Organizing for Change

by Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz Beginning with a discussion of the emergence, since the mid-1980s, of women's organizations in China which rejected the older All-China Women's Federation monopoly, this book goes on to focus on selected organizations and networks (such as...

Women’s Political Participation and Representation in Asia: Obstacles and Challenges

edited by Kazuki Iwanaga Covers a range of Asian countries, offers original data from various perspectives and engages the latest research on women in politics, aiming to put the Asian situation in a global context by comparing it with the...

Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History

by Trudy Jacobsen In a narrative and visual tour de force, Trudy Jacobsen examines the relationship between women and power in Cambodian history. Here, she seeks to describe when and why the status of women changed and what factors contributed...

Power, Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia: Discourses of Emancipation

by Mona Lilja These unique insights into the political struggles of Cambodian women extend the concept of resistance and create a framework of analysis that will inspire researchers in other fields. In a world where there are few women politicians,...

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...

Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities

Edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Theresa W. Devasahayam Many women in Asia engage in full-time work and continue to shoulder home and familial responsibilities in accordance to social and cultural norms. As larger structural, economic, historical and social/cultural forces...

Modernization and Effeminization in India: Kerala Cashew Workers since 1930

by Anna Lindberg Although Kerala is well known for being one of India’s most progressive states, processes of modernization have had an ambiguous impact on women. This innovative study combines archival research with in-depth fieldwork to trace changes since the...

Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand

by Monica Lindberg Falk Religion plays a central role in Thai society with Buddhism intertwined in the daily lives of the people. Religion also plays an important role in establishing gender boundaries. The growth in recent decades of self-governing nunneries...

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...

Democratizing Indonesia: The Challenges of Civil Society in the Era of Reformasi

by Mikaela Nyman The fall of Suharto has drawn much media and academic attention but the focus has been on the elite perspective, the role of the regime and military, and little has been published on civil society. Gender issues...

Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping - Consumption Culture in Singapore

By Chua Beng Huat ebook available at    and  One of the cliches that Singaporeans hold most dear is that their lives are a pursuit of the five c's: cash, cars, condominiums, credit cards, and club memberships. Over the last thirty...

Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller: Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo

by Monica Janowski The focus of this book is a legend that has been recited for centuries around fires in longhouses in the Kelabit Highlands, the highest inhabited place in Borneo and part of the area designated the 'Heart of...

Kinship and Food in South East Asia

edited by Monica Janowski and Fiona G. Kerlogue Food has an important role in establishing and structuring social and kin relations in Southeast Asian societies. For this reason, there is growing interest within anthropology in understanding how the production, processing...

Phoenix Rising: Narratives in Nonya Beadwork from the Straits Settlements

By Cheah Hwei-Fe'n Intricate, meticulously crafted, and visually distinctive, Nyonya beadwork occupies a significant role in the cultural imaginary of the Peranakan Chinese, the acculturated descendants of Chinese migrants to the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago. As an activity,...

From Subjects to Citizens: Balinese Villagers in the Indonesian Nation State

by Lyn Parker This book analyses the processes by which conservative and introverted Balinese villagers have been incorporated into the Indonesian nation-state. It explores the changing social relations of villagers in their transformation from being subjects of their local "king"...

The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War

by Souchou Yao The book, by a cultural anthropologist, tells the story of the Malayan Emergency through the cultural interpretations of modern conflict, and examines the counterinsurgency through the lens of the postwar British Empire. Souchou Yao’s penetrating and illuminating...

War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

By Kevin Blackburn and Karl Hack Singapore fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Within a matter of days, the occupying army took prisoner more than 100,000 British, Australian and Indian soldiers, and massacred thousands of Chinese civilians. A...

Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels

Edited by Nicola Piper, Shen Hsiu Hua, Beatriz P. Lorente and Brenda S.A. Yeoh The migration of people within and beyond Asia no longer takes the form of permanent ruptures, uprooting and resettlement. Today, such movement is more likely to...

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...

Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon

by Judith Beyer Striking new insights into understanding community in Myanmar In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Beyer develops the concept of 'we-formation’ to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members...