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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...
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....
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...
Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States
Edited by Sari K. IshiiContributions by Masako Kudo, Chie Sakai, Linda A. Lumayag, Ikuya Tokoro, Caesar Dealwis, Caroline Grillot, Hien Anh Le, Lara Chen Tien-shi and Chatchai Chetsumon Migration in Asia is leading to more marriages across nationalities. New patterns of...
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...
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...
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...
Reading Bangkok
By Ross King Reading Bangkok presents stories and meanings derived from the built fabric and spaces of Thailand's capital city. The narrative shifts from King Taksin's mostly forgotten but wondrous Thonburi to the tourist spectacle of Rattanakosin, Dusit and Ratchadamnoen...
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...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 23, Number 1 (February 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 Platform Fissurisation and Regulatory Challenges in China’s Gig Economy:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mobile Citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1955
by Natasha Pairaudeau When France laid claim to the territories that became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose, sending Indians to help secure and administer its newest possessions and to...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 20, Number 4 (November 2022)
Please select according to your country of residence. For example, If you are shipping to Thailand, please select ASEAN/China. All8 prices are inclusive of shipping. Online version available at Project MUSE CONTENTS Research The Surge of Nationalist Sentiment among Chinese...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 13, Number 1 (April 2015)
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 SPECIAL ISSUEPART ONE: Macao after the HandoverGuest editor: Bill CHOUThe...
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...
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...
Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class
By Irene Stengs In Thailand the globalizing urban culture associated with the economic boom of the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to an alienating anomie. In the slipstream of this boom, an immense cult took shape around King Chulalongkorn the...
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...
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...
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...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2016)
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 SPECIAL ISSUEPART ONE: The Social Construction of Comparative Advantage: China’s Industrial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 22, Number 2 (May 2024)
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 PART ONE: Special Issue on Elderly Care Services in...
Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions
edited by Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth Olivius Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to a decade of far-reaching political, economic and cultural change in Myanmar, the attempt to restore a masculinized, military dictatorship has met widespread popular...