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Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia
By Edward Aspinall Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on...
Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman
By Goh Poh SengRead about the reception hosted by the Irish Ambassador, Geoffrey Keating.This memoir by Goh Poh Seng tells of his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought up in post-war Kuala Lumpur, the...
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...
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...
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...
Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam
Edited by Helle Rydstrom and Lisa Drummond Confucianism, colonialism and socialism have all contributed significantly to gender relations in Vietnam. More recently, political and social change associated with modernization and globalization have also had an impact. How do the Vietnamese...
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...
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...
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...
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
François Tainturier Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship and mapping, Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in emphasis and scale from a protocol that established the royal city...
Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism
edited by Paul T. Cohen Lanna Buddhism is a variant of Theravada Buddhism that evolved between the 13th and 16th centuries in northern Thailand and spread to neighbouring areas of the Upper Mekong region. A salient feature is the belief...
The Authority of Influence: Women and Power in Burmese History
by Jessica Harriden Why is it that, although Burmese women historically enjoyed relatively high social status and economic influence, for the most part they remained conspicuously absent from positions of authority in formal religious, social and political institutions? This is...
China and the Shaping of Indonesia
By Hong Liu The interactions and mutual perceptions of China and Indonesia were a significant element in Asia's postcolonial transformation, but as a result of prevailing emphasis on diplomatic and political relations within a Cold War and nation-state framework, their...
Childbirth and Tradition in NE Thailand: Forty Years of Development and Cultural Change
by Anders Poulsen Anders Poulsen's term as a UNESCO expert terminated in 1962, but he has returned to the same area of Northeast Thailand many times since, most recently in 2005. As such, this beautifully illustrated volume offers a rare...
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...
The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and Beyond the Philippines
By Caroline S. Hau The rising strength of mainland China has spurred a revival of "Chineseness" in the Philippines. Perceived during the Cold War era as economically dominant, politically disloyal, and culturally different, the "Chinese" presented themselves as an integral...
Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia
by Vannessa HearmanWinner - 2020 Early Career Book Prize, ASAA (Asian Studies Association of Australia) The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds...
The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma
By Maitrii Aung-Thwin Towards the end of 1930, on a secluded mountain overlooking the rural paddy fields of British Burma, a peasant leader named Saya San crowned himself king and inaugurated a series of uprisings that would later erupt into...
Unraveling Myanmar's Transition: Progress, Retrenchment and Ambiguity Amidst Liberalization
Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, and Patrick Strefford A Choice Recommended Title The optimism provoked by Myanmar’s political reforms in 2011-2012 has now given way to a sense that the uneven nature of change in this nation of 54 million has lead to...
Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 1
By Ellen Rafferty and Molly Burns and Shintia Argazali-Thomas Indonesian Grammar in Context (Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Indonesian in three richly illustrated volumes. Although numerous varieties...
Freedom from the Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore
By Cherian GeorgeWinner of the 2012 Asian Publishing AwardBest Book on the Asian Media Industry: Excellence Award ebook available at: and For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open economy with restrictions...
e-Payment: The Digital Exchange
By Margaret Tan The volume of payments handled electronically has increased dramatically in recent years, as have liquidity, volatility and the amount of money flowing across borders. Combine these global trends with a growing convergence in network architecture as e-payment...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 17, Number 3 (August 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 MUSEContents RESEARCH Social Connections (Guanxi) and Judicial Decision-making in China by ZHAO...
Standing Still
By Simryn Gill Between 2000 and 2003, three years after the Southeast Asian financial crisis, artist Simryn Gill took a series of 117 photographs of abandoned buildings throughout Peninsula Malaysia - old buildings as well as new, never completed ones....
Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge: The memoirs of Phi Phuon, Pol Pot’s Jarai aide-de-camp, and the role of Ratanakiri and its tribal minorities in the Cambodian revolution
by Henri Locard The Khmer Rouge rise to power in 1975 gave birth to a terrifying new order marked by killings, forced ruralization and total collectivization. Up to two million people died as a result. The memoir of Phi Phuon,...
Development Professionals in Northern Thailand: Hope, Politics and Power
By Katharine McKinnon "Development" promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge and...
Writing the Modern: Selected Texts on Art & Art History in Singapore, Malaysia & Southeast Asia
By T.K. Sabapathy Edited by Ahmad Mashadi, Susie Lingham, Peter Schoppert and Joyce Toh Published by Singapore Art Museum T.K. Sabapathy has been writing on the art of Southeast Asia for over four decades (1973–2015), as a critic, curator and art...
Departing from Java: Javanese Labour, Migration and Diaspora
edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel From colonial times through to the present day, large numbers of Javanese have left their homes to settle in other parts of Indonesia or much further afield. Frequently this dispersion was forced, often...
Modern Thai Buddhism and Buddhadasa Bhikku: A Social History
By Tomomi ItoThe Buddhist monk Buddhasdasa Bhikku (1906-1993) injected fresh life into Thai Buddhism by exploring and teaching little known transcendent aspects of the religion. His investigations excited both monks and lay people, and gave rise to the vigourous discussion...
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,...
Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore
By Loh Kah SengShortlistEuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2015 The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces of their historical influence on the life in the city-state. In one...
The Bodo of Assam: Revisiting a Classical Study from 1951
by Halfdan Siiger, Peter B. Andersen and Santosh K Soren The Bodo (or Boros) are one of the indigenous tribal peoples of Assam. During colonial times they resisted Christianization and in recent decades they have been involved both in interethnic...
Being Present: Emerging Ethnographic Perspectives and the Study of Laos
Edited by Rosalie Stolz and Paul-David LutzWith contributions from Charles P Zuckerman, Sumiya Bilegsaikhan Taij, Jessica DiCarlo, Phill Wilcox, Floramante Ponce, Elizabeth Elliott, Thippaphone Xayavong, Giulio Ongaro Anthropology and related fields like human geography and development studies have seen significant...
Churchill and the Lion City: Shaping Modern Singapore
Edited by Brian Farrell British imperialism helped shaped the modern world order. This same imperialism created modern Singapore, controlling its colonial development and influencing its post-colonial orientation. Winston Churchill was British imperialism's most significant twentieth century statesman. He never visited...
Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fiction, Fantasies
edited by Catherine Earl Vietnam is studied and understood in myriad ways. Even so, much knowledge is framed by a few dominant paradigms. The concern of this volume – which applies a postmodern approach to knowledge production in area studies...