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Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia
By Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li Questions of who can access land and who is excluded from it underlie many recent social and political conflicts in Southeast Asia. Powers of Exclusion examines the key processes through which...
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
Edited by Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhnan and Tan Tarn How Singapore experienced substantial changes during the 14-year tenure of the country's second Prime Minister, Goh Chok Tong (1990-2004). Coming after a long period of growth and stability, the...
Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins
by Giuseppe Bolotta What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national citizenships? Rich in ethnographic detail, this fascinating, engaging and illuminating study explores the daily lives,...
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives
Edited by Minako Sakai, Glenn Banks and John H. Walker The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto...
(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...
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,...
(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...
Colonial Law Making: Cambodia under the French
Sally Frances LowIn Colonial Law Making, Sally Low draws on colonial archives to reveal the contests and transactions that shaped justice in the French protectorate of Cambodia (1863–1954). She compares Cambodia with other indirectly colonised countries in Southeast Asia, demonstrating...
No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
By Justin V. Hastings The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and...
The Way That Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia
By Jean DeBernardi The Way That Lives in the Heart is a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The study focuses on popular religious culture and...
Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present
edited by Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench, and Jean-Christophe Galipaud With contributions from David Bulbek, Cynthia Chou, Brunna Crespi, Laure Dussubieux, Richard Engelhardt, Aude Favereau, Dominique Guillaud, Charles Illouz, Jacques Ivanoff, Michelle C. Langley, M Mahirta, Murray Cox, Kazufumi Nagatasu, Lance Nolde,...
(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...
The ASEAN Charter: A Commentary
by Walter Woon Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a new document was drafted as a result of "bold and visionary recommendations" of an ASEAN Committee of Eminent Persons. The ASEAN...
Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos
By Nicholas Tarling This study focuses on the Geneva conference on Laos of 1961-2, which Britain played a role in bringing about and bringing to a conclusion. It throws light on Britain's policy in Southeast Asia in what in some...
Networked: Business and Politics in Decentralizing Indonesia, 1998-2004
by Wahyu Prasetyawan After the fall of Suharto in Indonesia in 1998, the new government under B.J. Habibie introduced a decentralization policy that dramatically changed relations between the central and local governments. Under decentralization, local governments engaged in bureaucratic and political...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 17, Number 1 (February 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 MUSEContentsRESEARCHSocial Assistance in China: Impact Evaluation and Policy Implications by GAO Qin,...
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...
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese Sovereignty in the Reform Era
By Allen Carlson This book contends that sovereignty, and more directly the extent to which it creates walls between any given state and other actors in the international system, lies at the core of China's foreign relations during the reform...
Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Mahathir Era 1981-2003: Dilemmas of Development
by Karminder Singh Dhillon Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is often seen as the sole author of the country's foreign policy. Malaysian Foreign Policy in the Mahathir Eran Industrial Policy shows that while Mahathir's personality, leadership style, political ideology and...
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619: Power, Trade and Diplomacy
By Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centers alongside Portuguese Melaka. Each power represented wider global interests. Aceh had...
Beyond Compliance: China, International Organizations, and Global Security
By Ann Kent An extensively researched study of Chinese participation in international organizations, Beyond Compliance argues that the record of China's international behaviour since the 1970s indicates the long-term effectiveness of the multilateral system. Through its analysis of China's interaction...
The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters: Linchpin of Victory, 1935-1942
Andrew Boyd The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to WWII. In particular, the deployment of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales, and their catastrophic loss, has been characterized...
Leaves of the Same Tree
By Leonard Y. Andaya Despite the existence of about a thousand ethnolinguistic groups in Southeast Asia, very few historians of the region have engaged the complex issue of ethnicity. Leaves of the Same Tree illustrates how historians can use it...
Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore
Edited by Timothy P. Barnard How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, political, social, and intellectual history of the island since the early 19th century? What are the antecedents to Singapore's image...
If We Dream Too Long (New edition)
Shortlisted for the SBPA Singapore Book Award for Best Book Cover Design 2021.Goh Poh Seng, updated introduction by Koh Tai Ann Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero,...
The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Processes and Policy
By Peter J. Rimmer and Howard Dick The extended metropolitan regions of Southeast Asia are the dynamic cores of their national economies and societies and the frontiers of accelerating globalization. The City in Southeast Asia explores ways of moving beyond...
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...
The Singapore River: A Social History, 1819-2002
By Stephen Dobbs ebook available at: and For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepôt trade....
Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men
edited by Helle Rydstrom Global processes with flows in money, commodities and people have made it increasingly varied and blurred what it means to be a female or male in Asia today. Socio-economic and cultural patterns in Asia intersect with...
Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity
by Lee Kah-Wee Las Vegas in Singapore looks at the collision of the histories of Singapore and Las Vegas in the form of Marina Bay Sands, one of Singapore’s two Integrated Resorts. The first history begins in colonial Singapore in the...
Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
By Marcus Mietzner ebook available at: and Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia’s young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country’s...
(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...
Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots
Edited by Allen Hicken, Edward Aspinall and Meredith Weiss with contributions by Paul Hutchcroft, Ronald D Holmes, Duke Thomas G Dolorical, Margie A Nolasco, Michelle Sta. Romana, Armida D Miranda, Cleo Calimbahin, Jose Aims R Rocina, Gerardo V Eusebio, Mary Joyce Borromeo-Bulao, Ladylyn Lim...
Revolution in the City of Heroes: A Memoir of the Battle that Sparked Indonesia’s National Revolution
by Suhario Padmodiwiryo. Translated by Frank Palmos ebook available at: and Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, alias "Hario Kecik", Revolution in the City of Heroes is an evocative first-hand account of the popular uprising in Surabaya....
Merdeka and Much More: The Reminiscences of a Raffles Professor, 1953-67
By K.G. Tregonning Professor Ken Tregonning's anecdotal memoir of his years as a member of the Department of History in the University of Singapore, culminating as Raffles Professor, captures the mood and milieu of Singapore as the country emerged from...