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(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 21, Number 4 (November 2023)
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 The Chinese Approach to Extraterritoriality by Tang Zheng Expressions...
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...
The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948
David Lockwood By 1946, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had become one of the most successful communist parties in Asia. From its foundation in 1930, it had built up a membership in the thousands, mainly among Chinese and Indian workers...
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...
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...
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...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 19, Number 1 (February 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 In Memoriam: Professor Ezra Vogel (1930–2020) RESEARCH Rescaling “Two...
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...
Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City
Shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore History Prize! Edited by Timothy P. BarnardWith contributions from Ruizhi Choo, Anthony Medrano, Miles Alexander Powell, Esmond Chuah Meng Soh, Nicole Tarulevicz, Jennifer Yip, Faizah Zakaria, Timothy P. Barnard Modern Singapore is the city in a garden,...
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...
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...
Saying the Unsayable: Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand
edited by Søren Ivarsson and Lotte Isager The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation....
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”...
Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia
by Olivia Killias This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant...
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...
Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City
Edited by Karl Hack and Jean-Louis Margolin, with Karine Delaye Once a centre for international trade and finance, Singapore is now a "global city." Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City examines its evolution from trading...
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,...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 18, Number 2 (May 2020)
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 Institutional Complexity and the Conversion of China’s Petition...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
A History of Korean Science and Technology
By Sang-Woon JeonTranslated by Robert Carrubba and Lee Sung Kyu Korean science is closely related to traditional Chinese technology, but Sang-woon Jeon's A History of Korean Science and Technology shows that Korean scientists, engineers and technicians adapted Chinese practice to...
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,...
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...
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...
(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,...
War and Peace in Asia: International Law and Politics in Armed Conflicts
Just published! Kriangsak Kittichaisaree How do Asian states navigate the complex terrain between international legal obligations and strategic national interests in matters of war and peace? What justifications are invoked to wage war, and what are the legal frameworks used...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China
By Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ancestral village in Fujian, China. The author explores the reasons why the Singaporean Chinese continue to maintain ties with their ancestral...
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...