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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964
By Benoit de Treglode On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to...
The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra
By Anthony Reid In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and uleebalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served as a barrier to revolutionary change and survived the transition to independence, but in Sumatra...
Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security
By Avery Goldstein China's increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. How should the world, especially the United States, respond to this emerging great power? A sensible response requires not only figuring out the speed...
Of Self and Injustice: Autobiography and Repression in Modern Indonesia
By C. W. Watson Since the downfall of Soeharto in 1998 many autobiographical writings have appeared in Indonesia from the pens of those who were marginalized by his so-called New Order regime. This book examines representative autobiographies of several such...
(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...
Workers and Democracy: The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949–1957
John Ingleson A study of worker activism and labour unions in the eight years between the recognition of Indonesian sovereignty by the Netherlands at the end of 1949 and the nationalisation of Dutch assets in 1957, Workers and Democracy contributes to the...
Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity
By Alan M. Wachman Why has the PRC been so determined that Taiwan be part of China? Why, since the 1990s, has Beijing been feverishly developing means to prevail in combat with the U.S. over Taiwan's status? Why is Taiwan...
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...
(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...
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...
(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...
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge: A Child Survivor’s Memoir
Just published! Lim Muy Lang Forty-five years have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the misery, death and destruction wrought in the name of revolution on a terrified population during the 1970s...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 16, Number 1 (February 2018)
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Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution: The State and Military in Burma, 1962-88
By Yoshihiro Nakanishi General Ne Win's state reformation in the name of the "Burmese Way to Socialism" contributed to the expansion of the political role of the Myanmar Armed Forces, the tatmadaw, but the underlying dynamics of this change remain...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 21, Number 3 (August 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 What Drives the European Union's Contemporary Strategic Engagement...
Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore
Edited by Michael Barr and Carl A. Trocki Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and political dynamism. Students, labour unions, ambitious political contenders, and representatives of the various ethnic communities...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 13, Number 3 (December 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 RESEARCHFrom the “Four Cleans” Movement to the Cultural Revolution: The Origins...
The Philippines and Japan in America's Shadow
Edited by Kiichi Fujiwara and Yoshiko Nagano, Preface by Kiichi Fujiwara and Yoshiko Nagano, Introduction by Kiichi Fujiwara, Contributions by Julian Go and Reynaldo C. Ileto and Temario C. Rivera and Oscar V. Campomanes and Floro C. Quibuyen and Yoshiko...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 16, Number 4 (Nov 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 MUSEContentsPolitical Dynamics of Mass Factionalism: Rethinking Factional Conflict in Guangzhou, 1967 by YAN...
Dictionary of Asia Pacific Business Terms
By Tan Chwee Huat The world of business in Asia is replete with acronyms and specialised terminology. Governments, institutions and regulatory bodies are organized in unique ways. This handy reference volume of business terms including Islamic banking and financial concepts,...
Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Viṣṇu
by Marnie Feneley In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor where he found the remains of a bronze sculpture. This was the West Mebon Viṣṇu, the largest...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 24, Number 1 (February 2026)
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(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 22, Number 1 (February 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 Research Towards "All-round Cadres": Policy Priorities and Issue Diversity...
Civilizing the Margins: Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities
Edited by Christopher R. Duncan Southeast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate minority ethnic groups into the nation-state. The authors of Civilizing the Margins discuss the programs, policies, and laws that affect ethnic...
UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in Comparative Perspective
edited by Victor T. King Southeast Asia’s 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites make a significant contribution to their respective country’s national prestige and identity, international profile and tourism development plans. Yet, although much is known about some individual sites like...
Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds
By Sharon A. Carstens Histories, Cultures, Identities deals with two central questions relating to the Chinese community in Malaysia. First, how has being Chinese shaped the responses of this community to political, economic and social developments in the country? And...
The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941
Takashi Shiraishi A Choice Recommended Title Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners established in 1926, upriver in West Papua. It is the key to understanding Indonesia’s colonial rule between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the fall...
Cultivating Gender: Means of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam
by Cecilia Bergstedt 'The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows.’ In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land reforms and the recent rise of market-oriented household farming. And yet, even if this trinity still pictures...
Banditry in West Java 1869-1942
By Margreet van Till, Translated by David McKay and Beverley Jackson Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period, with at least one major robbery committed every day. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and...
Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-century South India
by Deborah Sutton Due to the inhospitable climate and vastness of the native population, European settlement of India was never seriously considered apart from in selected upland areas with cooler climates and sparse native populations. One such area was the...
Britain and Sihanouk's Cambodia
By Nicholas Tarling Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Britain at the height of the Cold War provide unique insights into the overall foreign policies of both nations. King Norodom Sihanouk's strategy of preserving the independence and integrity of Cambodia through...
Place.Labour.Capital.
edited by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu Published by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore Place.Labour.Capital. connects cultural production and artistic research to broader political and social concerns, through the agency of a new institution, the Nanyang Technological University Centre...
Folk Tales of the Maldives
by Xavier Romero-Frias The Maldives are mainly known as an equatorial tourist paradise to the south of India but some will know the archipelago risks drowning owing to global warming. Far less is known about the people, who have occupied...
Recruit to Revolution: Adventure and Politics during the Indonesian Struggle for Independence
by John Coast and Laura Noszlopy This gripping memoir narrates the formative years of the Indonesian nation through the lens of English adventurer John Coast. After years in Japanese POW camps where he first met Indonesians and learned Malay, this...
Governing Cambodia’s Forests: The International Politics of Policy Reform
by Andrew Cock The widespread destruction of Cambodia’s forests in recent decades saw the loss of the last major area of pristine tropical forest in Southeast Asia. The proceeds of often indiscriminate logging and sale of forest and plantation concessions...