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Beyond the Singapore Girl: Discourse of Gender and Nation in Singapore
by Chris Hudson The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental’ woman dressed in figure-hugging sarong-kebaya is one of the world’s longest running and most successful advertising campaigns. But this image does...
Southeast Asian Independent Cinema
Edited by Tilman Baumgartel The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia and the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers in the region are among the most significant recent developments in global cinema. A new micro-cinema has allowed small...
Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos
By Holly HighShortlistEuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2015 In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programs circulate around...
Indonesia in the Soeharto Years: Issues, Incidents and Images
By LONTAR Foundation During much of General Soeharto's 32 year reign as president (1967-98), Indonesia was seen as a successful test case in Third World development, a wayward pariah turned into a shining example of modern economic planning and democracy....
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...
Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906
Finalist, EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022 by Heather Sutherland The eastern archipelagos stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of their inhabitants are regarded as “people without...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 20, Number 2 (May 2022)
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 Contents RESEARCH Intense Monitoring and Bureaucratic Support for an Anti-poverty...
(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...
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940
By James F. Warren Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as...
Penang and Its Region: The Story of an Asian Entrepôt
Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan, Loh Wei Leng, Khoo Salma Nasution and Neil Khor From its beginnings in the late eighteenth century, the vibrant colonial port of Penang attracted a diverse range of peoples, enabled pioneering commercial enterprises, and fomented...
Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia
edited by Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King and Michael Parwell This is the first book to examine heritage tourism across the Southeast Asian region and from different disciplinary perspectives. With material that is new and topical, it makes an important...
Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia
Edited by Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari This wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia. Using...
Nordic-China Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities
edited by Andreas Bøje Forsby For all the Nordic countries, China has become an important trading partner. It also plays a central role in the management of the international order on which the Nordic states are highly dependent. At the...
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...
China's Footprints in Southeast Asia
Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Alan H. Yang With contributions from Ian Tsung-yen Cheng, Yumi Kitamura, Ngeow Chow Bing, Teng-Chi Chang, Natalia Soebagjo, Dennis T. Trinidad The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an...
Contentious Journalism and the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore
By Cherian George The Internet has been used to democratise public discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, two countries in the zone between liberal democracies and authoritarian states. Websites that have emerged on the margins of the political system engage in...
Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space
Edited by Paul H. Kratoska, Henk Schulte Nordholt and Remco Raben 'Southeast Asia' calls to mind a wide range of images: tropical forests and mountains, islands and seas, and a multitude of languages, cultures and religions. The area has never...
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...
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...
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...
Tai Lands and Thailand: Community and State in Southeast Asia
Edited by Andrew Walker Studies of the Tai world often treat "state" and "community" as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialization while community sustains tradition, local knowledge and subsistence economy. This assumption leads to the conclusion that...
War or Peace in the South China Sea?
edited by Timo Kivimäki Not only is the South China Sea of strategic importance; it is also rich in oil and other natural resources. As such, it is the subject of overlapping territorial disputes between several East and Southeast Asian...
(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...
Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java, 1945-48
By Jafar Suryomenggolo The years 1945-48 marked the peak of the Indonesian revolution, but they were also formative years for the state-labour relationship in modern Indonesia. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Jafar Suryomenggolo reconstructs labour's initial drive...
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia
Edited by Peter Borschberg Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic for Asia in 1605....
Transient Becoming - Self-improvement and Capitalist Virtuousness in Contemporary China
Just Published! Gil Hizi How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragmentation of China's moral landscape? Gil Hizi's careful ethnography on "soft skills" workshops...
Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004
By Evan S. Medeiros Reluctant Restraint examines one of the most important changes in Chinese foreign policy since the country opened to the world: China's gradual move to support the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles, and their related goods and...
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
By R.D. Hill Malaysia's transition from a country dependent on agriculture and mining to an industrialized society is readily apparent, but the process of change remains poorly understood. When R.D. Hill began studying agriculture in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in...
Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary
By David Teh an ArtForum Book of the Year 2017 Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but “Thainess”...
Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-1999
By Jemma Purdey Indonesians of Chinese descent constitute only two to three per cent of the country's population but dominate the private business sector. Serious acts of violence against this ethnic minority occurred during Indonesia's colonial past, and after a...
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 ...
A New East Asia: Toward A Regional Community
Edited by Kazuko Mori and Kenichiro Hirano East Asia is normally identified as a group of countries lying along the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, but in recent years scholars have begun thinking about a new East Asia that...
The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
By Alfred Russel Wallace, Edited by John van Wyhe Wallace’s Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite...
Future Asian Space: Projecting the Urban Space of New East Asia
Edited by Hee Limin, Davisi Boontharm and Erwin Viray Rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes are transforming the idea of "Asian space." With the shift to a global economy and an urban population explosion, Asian cities have become a mainstay...