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(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 18, Number 3 (August 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 Sexism in Mainland China and Taiwan: A Social...
Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
edited by Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King and Michael Parwell Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourism destinations. The volume takes a...
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
edited by Astrid Norén-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani and Anders Uhlin This innovative volume is the first systematic study of civil society elites in Southeast Asia (and indeed anywhere in the world). Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society...
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...
Admiral Matelieff's Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616
Edited by Peter Borschberg Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570‒1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and...
Borneo Transformed: Agricultural Expansion on the Southeast Asian Frontier
Edited by Rodolphe De Koninck, Stéphane Bernard and Jean-François Bissonnette Since the 1960s, Southeast Asia's agricultural sector has experienced phenomenal growth, with increases in production linked to an energy-intensive capitalization of agriculture and the rapid development of agrifood systems and...
Ideas, Society and Politics in NE Asia and N Europe: Worlds Apart, Learning from Each Other
edited by Ras Tind Nielsen and Geir Helgesen Western scholars have long studied China, Japan and Korea (among other Asian countries). However, in recent years we have seen the study of western societies launched at certain Asian universities while an...
Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore
2nd reprint, brand new cover! WINNER of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Colvin Prize 2023 FINALIST: Best Cover Design, Singapore Book Awards 2026 Jiat-Hwee Chang and Justin Zhuang, photographs by Darren Soh Everyday Modernism is the first...
Negotiating Asymmetry: China's Place in Asia
Edited by Anthony Reid and Zheng Yangwen Though wary of China's rapid rise, her neighbours have considerable experience in dealing with unequal power without surrendering their autonomy. For its part, China has a long memory of unequal or "tributary" relations and...
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...
Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Durèe
Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo Contemporary concerns with the way the movement of Islamist ideas has radicalized Southeast Asia are put in a necessary deep historical context by this timely book. The fourteen authors represent the best of the new trilingual...
(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...
The Airport as Urban Territory: The Spatial Effects of Singapore's Changi Airport
Anna Gasco Airports are major drivers of economic development. Serving as vital links to global networks while being firmly rooted in local landscapes. But airports' massive infrastructures and externalities like noise and pollution create tensions, and present considerable challenges. What does...
Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia
By John T. Sidel The October 2002 bombing of a Balinese nightclub and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta brought Indonesia into the spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence, but the complexities of political and...
The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China
By Andrew C. Mertha China is by far the world's leading producer of pirated goods - from films and books to clothing, consumer electronics to aircraft parts. As China becomes a full participant in the international economy, its failure to...
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia
Edited by Wendy Mee and Joel S. Khan Processes of transformation typically defined as "modernising" have been pervasive in Indonesia and Malaysia over an extended period of time and have played a central role in shaping the societies of both...
China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368: A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People During the Southern Song and Yuan Periods
By Lo Jung-pang. Edited by Bruce A. Elleman ebook available at: and Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties,...
Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South
by Adam Simpson Across the world states are seeking out new and secure supplies of energy but this search is manifesting itself most visibly in Asia where rapid industrialisation in states such as China and India is fomenting a frantic...
Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java
By Patrick Guinness The nature of community in urban Java changed dramatically during the economic and political transition that followed the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia, although the community continues to provide a rallying point for urban low-income...
US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975: Strategic Non-alignment in the Cold War
By Daniel Wei Boon Chua At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore demonstrated the interplay between America’s strategy of containment and Singapore’s efforts at a non-aligned foreign policy. But there...
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...
The Making of Northeast Asia
By Kent Calder and Mine Ye Northeast Asia, where the interests of three major nuclear powers and the world's three largest economies converge around the unstable pivot of the Korean peninsula, is a region rife with political-economic paradox. It ranks today...
Hakka Soul: Memories, Migrations, and Meals
By Chin Woon Ping Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her grandmother in pre-independence Malaya. It was a tumultuous period when the occupying Japanese army had just...
Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China
Winner - 2026 ASCA Book Award Laura Vermeeren Ink Studies explores contemporary practices of calligraphy in China, situating them in both a precarious and dynamic position. While people are increasingly writing less due to digitization, calligraphy is experiencing a revival partly...
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The China Factor
Edited by Geoff Wade and Sun Laichen The fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history - too late for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and...
Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia
By Christopher R. Duncan Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries...
Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000
Jean DeBernardiIn postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape, but the "big four" Protestant churches—Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian and Brethren—remain religions of heritage for many. Sixty Malaysian and nineteen Singaporean assemblies identify themselves as Christian Brethren, and most...
Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Singapore and Malaysia
By Sudhir Thomas VadakethWinner of the 2012 Asian Publishing AwardBest Insights into Asian Societies (non-fiction): Excellence Award What happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own...
Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta: Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery
By Philip Taylor This book provides an account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta and its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of the Vietnamese government. Officially regarded as...
Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village
Shortlisted for the ICAS Book Prize 2021 English - Best Book in the Social Sciences 2021.by Patcharin Lapanun Globalization means transnational marriages and intimacies become increasingly viable options for women and men. Patcharin Lapanun explores the marriages of Thai women...
Prince of Pirates: The Temenggongs and the Development of Johor and Singapore, 1784-1885 (Second Edition)
By Carl A. Trocki No country’s history is so well documented yet so poorly understood as that of a former colony. Singapore and Malaysia are particular victims of this historical paradox, and Carl Trocki’s account of the history of Johor...
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...
Politics and Governance in Urban Southeast Asia
Just published! Edited by Edward Aspinall, Allen Hicken, Paul D. Hutchcroft, and Meredith L. Weiss Why have some Southeast Asian cities become laboratories of reform while others remain mired in old patterns of patronage politics and substandard services? This has...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 16, Number 2 (May 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 MUSEContentsThe New-Type Think Tanks with Chinese Characteristics: Development and Challenges by...
Paths and Rivers: Sa'dan Toraja Society in Transformation
By Roxana Waterson The product of fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period, Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa'dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the 20th century. The...