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(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 23, Number 4 (November 2025)
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 MUSE Research China’s New Anti-corruption System: Strengths, Limitations and the Embedded...
Financial Services in Singapore
By Tan Chwee Huat In the past few years, many important changes have taken place in Singapore's financial marketplace, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore has implemented numerous reforms to liberalise the financial services sector. Since 2002, two new laws...
Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics
Edited by Kenneth Paul Tan In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about liberalization and its association with the development of a creative economy, focusing on questions surrounding conservatism, national identity and values, civil...
Madurese Seafarers: Prahus, Timber and Illegality on the Margins of the Indonesian State
By Kurt Stenross The Madurese are one of the great maritime and trading peoples of the Indonesian Archipelago. This remarkable study takes readers into the coastal villages of Madura, where the distinctive traditional vessels were powered by sail until the...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asia Frontier, 1865-1915
By Eric Tagliacozzo Winner of the 2007 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asia Studies Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and the Dutch delineated colonial spheres in the process of creating new frontiers....
The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929: Historical and Folk Perceptions (Second Edition)
By Cheah Boon Kheng In the early twentieth century, social banditry was endemic in the countryside near the border between the northern Malaysian state of Kedah and Siam, and some outlaws became local heroes. Cheah Boon Kheng's account of peasant...
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...
Surviving Against The Odds: Village Industry In Indonesia
By S. Ann Dunham, Edited by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries, including Indonesia. When Dunham married Lolo Soetoro...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 15, Number 4 (November 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 RESEARCH Stimuli-Responsive Transformation of Governance: A Case Study of China’s...
Breast Cancer Meanings: Journeys Across Asia
edited by Cynthia Chou and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen Breast cancer is now the most common cancer among women in most Asian countries. Many lives are at stake. Even in places where state-of-the-art medical services are available, thousands of women in...
Asia's New Regionalism
By Ellen L. Frost As the political drive to establish closer ties among Asian governments continues to gain momentum, there has been much debate about the realities of Asian regionalism. Does the community-building activity in fact signal the birth of...
Explaining the East Asian Peace: A Research Story
by Stein Tønnesson This is a personal story of a multinational research programme that, instead of explaining conflict, has sought to explain peace, and to gauge its quality and sustainability. The Uppsala Conflict Data Programme has shown a dramatic drop...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 24, Number 2 (May 2026)
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 MUSE Research Why Does China Not Seek Hegemony? —A Political Concept...
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang
By Wu Xiao An The Chinese in colonial Malaya were noted for their involvement in revenue farming, the rice trade, mining and estates, and pawnbroking. However, the Chinese presence was also significant in broader economic and social spheres, and the...
Ethics, Business and Capitalism: Thailand and Indonesia in an Asian Perspective
Edited by Janet Hunter, Patnaree Srisuphaolarn, Pierre van der Eng and Julia S. YongueWith contributions from Masakazu Shimada, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Yuri Sato, Gen Endo, Patarapong Intarakumnerd, Sari Wahyuni, Sely Haudy, Motoi Ihara, Farabi Fakih, and Nuttapol Assarut. Taking cues from...
Singapore's Borderlands: Tourism, Migration and the Anxieties of Mobility
By Johan A. Lindquist The Indonesian island of Batam is a booming frontier territory where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and...
Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics and Culture in a Post-Socialist State
Edited by Vanina Bouté and Vatthana PholsenaContributions by Martin Rathie, Oliver Tappe, Patrice Ladwig, Vatthana Pholsena, Nicole Reichert, Oliver Évrard, Ian G. Baird, Michael B. Dwyer, Vanina Bouté, Grégoire Schlemmer, Guido Sprenger, Chris Lyttleton, Yunxia Li, Sverre Molland, Kabmanivanh Phouxay and Annabel Vallard ...
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Edited by Thomas Sikor, Nghiem Phuong Tuyen, Jennifer Sowerwine and Jeff Romm Upland Transformations in Vietnam considers the effects of economic development, authority formation and landscape change on the country's "uplands". By positioning the uplands as an integral part of...
A History of the People's Action Party, 1985-2021
Shashi JayakumarThe People's Action Party (or PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in power continuously since Singapore gained self-rule in 1959. Such longevity is the hallmark of an institution that is itself dynamic...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 17, Number 2 (May 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 at Project MUSEContentsRESEARCH From Suppressive to Proactive?: Chinese Governments’ Media Control Strategies in...
Departing from Java: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora
edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel From colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often...
Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region
by Victor T. King This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of South-East Asia with its comprehensive and integrated treatment of the important sociological and political economy writings on the region. Using case studies from across...
Burma/Myanmar - Where Now?
edited by Mikael Gravers and Flemming Ytzen Recent changes in Burma/Myanmar have been called the 'Burmese democratic spring’. While the international media have mainly focused on the economic opportunities offered by these changes and on the doings and sayings of...
The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace
By Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng ebook available at: and The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilizations – especially Islam and the...
The Thaksinization of Thailand
by Duncan McCargo and Ukrist Pathmanand Prior to the 1997 economic crisis, for around 20 years Thai politics was characterized by a pluralistic political order, featuring unstable coalition governments, competing interests, and a gradual displacement of bureaucratic and military influence...
The Banana Tree at the Gate: A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo
By Michael R. Dove The "Hikayat Banjar," a seventeenth-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as "the banana tree at the gate." Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 16, Number 3 (August 2018)
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 MUSEContentsSPECIAL ISSUE Special Issue on China’s Neo-socialism under Xi Jinping China’s...
Proper Islamic Consumption: Shopping Among the Malays in Modern Malaysia
by Johan Fischer Examining the powerful linkages between class, consumption, market relations, Islam and the state in contemporary Malaysia, this is the first book to explore how Malaysia’s emerging Malay middle class is constituted through consumer practices and Islamic revivalism....
Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA): International and Intra-national Explorations
Edited by Seetharam Kallidaikurichi E. and Bhanoji Rao At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, setting out the Millennium Development Goals, including "MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability" which included...
Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
A Choice Recommended Title and a Foreign Affairs “Book of the Year” 2018Shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Book Prize for Social Science By Chua Beng Huat eBook available at: and In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 19, Number 2 (May 2021)
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 RESEARCH Unevenness vs. Unfairness: Perceptions of Economic Inequality and Political...
It's a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today
Edited by Gerard Sasges Through 67 interviews and 59 photographs, It's a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk,...
Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China
By Kelvin E.Y. Low Immediately recognisable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women immigrants from the Samsui region of Guangdong, China have become icons of Singapore's twentieth century economic transformation. Working in construction, in factories and...
Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship
By Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship traces the history of Malay rulers in the Malay Peninsula from the late colonial period to the first decade of the 21st century....
Hard Interests, Soft Illusions: Southeast Asia and American Power
By Natasha Hamilton-Hart In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam - that the United States is a relatively...