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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 24, Number 1 (February 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 How External Political Efficacy Changed among Youth in China...
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...
Negotiating Autonomy in Greater China: Hong Kong and Its Sovereign Before and After 1997
edited by Ray Yep Local autonomy is a complex and often contentious issue in many countries, not least because the situation often involves a process of continuous (re)negotiation. Moreover, the actual power relationship is defined not only by legal permissibility...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Studying Singapore's Past: C.M. Turnbull and the History of Modern Singapore
Edited by Nicholas Tarling, Introduction by Nicholas Tarling, Contributions by Ping Tjin Thum, Karl Hack, Kevin Blackburn, John Bastin, Anthony Milner, Kelvin W.K. Ng, A.J. Stockwell, Lim and Nicholas Tarling C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended...
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...
Red Star Over Malaya: Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946 (Fourth Edition)
By Cheah Boon Kheng ebook available at: and Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race...
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...
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...
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...
Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis
By Karen Bakker Water supply privatization was emblematic of the nonliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argue that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating...
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...
Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology
edited by Ashley Thompson with contributions from Hiram Woodward, Tuy Danel, Samerchai Poolsuwan, Ea Darith, Yuni Sato, Nicolas Revire, and Martin Polkinghorne One of the outstanding questions of Southeast Asian history is the nature and timing of major cultural and political...
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...
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
By Nicholas Tarling A sequel to the author's previous two books Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (1996) and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War (1998), this book discusses Britain's policy towards...
Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-conflict Society
edited by Joakim Öjendal and Mona Lilja The peace agreement, major reconstruction efforts and UN-supervised elections that followed Cambodia's dark period of civil war and genocide have not brought the democracy and reconstruction that was hoped for. Political stability has...
(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...
An Indonesian History: Personalized Politics in Makassar and South Sulawesi, c.1600-2018
Just published! Heather Sutherland How does the deep history of a region shape its contemporary politics? Why do some areas remain stubbornly resistant to central control, generation after generation? And how do centuries-old power dynamics persist even as empires rise...
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...
Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus
By Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh and Donald LowContributions by Linda Lim and Ping Tjin Thum ebook available at: and Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin...
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...
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...
One or Two Words: Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia
Winner, Specialist Publication Accolade - ICAS Book Prize 2021 Aurora DonzelliThe expression “one or two words” is used by the Toraja highlanders of Indonesia to refer euphemistically to their highly elaborate form of political speechmaking. Moving from this understatement, which...
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...