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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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
Champa and the Archaeology of Mỹ So'n (Vietnam)
Edited by Andrew Hardy, Mauro Cucarzi and Patrizia Zolese The kings of ancient Champa, a civilization located in the central region of today's Vietnam, started building sacred temples in a circular valley more than 1500 years ago. The monuments, now...
iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
edited by Mette Halskov Hansen and Rune Svarverud In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view...
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...
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...
CPC Futures: The New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
Edited by Frank N. Pieke and Bert HofmanWith contributions from: Jude Blanchette, Vincent Brussee, Tai Ming Cheung, Diana Fu, Lance Gore, Paul Haenle, Bert Hofman, Heike Holbig, Rui Hou, John Lee, Jonghyuk Lee, Wendy Leutert, Li Nan, Richard McGregor, Barry...
Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia: France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence
by Geoffrey C. Gunn One figure especially strides across modern Cambodian history – Norodom Sihanouk. But this is not a biography of Sihanouk; the focus is upon the final decades of the French protectorate, the rise of a counter-elite and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Penang Trams, Trolleybuses, and Railways: Municipal Transport History, 1880s-1963
By Colin Ganley and Ric Francis Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electrical supply, it took over the...
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...
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...
Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 2
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...
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...
Collaborative Governance of Forests: Towards Sustainable Forest Resource Utilization
Edited by Makoto Inoue and Motomu TanakaContributions by Darmawan Arief, Fujiwara Takahiro, Harada Kazuhiro, Hyakumura Kimihiko, Inoue Makoto, Nguyen Vinh Quang, Kakizawa Hiroaki, Ohashi Mariko, Oktalina Silvi Nur, Okubo Mika, Okuda Hironori, Rohman, Sato Masatoshi, Sato Noriko, Tanaka Motomu, Tanaka...
Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions
Abidin Kusno A megacity of 30 million, under threat from rising sea levels and temperatures, Jakarta and its resilient residents improvise and thrive. Indonesian writer Seno Gumira Ajidarma calls Jakarta a city of a thousand dimensions. That suggests not only...
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...
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....
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...
Southeast of Now Vol. 5, No. 1 & 2
This double issue features: Section 1: Colonial Spatial Orders Editorial Introduction: Colonial Spatial OrdersJiat-Hwee Chang, Puay-Peng Ho Articles Batavian Apartheid: Mapping Bodies, Constructing IdentityRobert Cowherd The Visual Culture of Sinophone Modernism: Aw Boon Haw's Cultural Entrepreneurialism and Early Twentieth-Century's Architectural...
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...
Cold War and Decolonisation: Australia’s Policy towards Britain’s End of Empire in Southeast Asia
By Andrea Benvenuti Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decolonization in the region. In this book, Andrea Benvenuti discusses the development of Australia’s foreign and defence policies towards Malaya and Singapore in...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 14, Number 2 (May 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 RESEARCHChina’s Low-Carbon Electricity Strategy: A Comparison of National Approaches to Promote...
Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974
By Stefan Huebner The history of regional sporting events in 20th century Asia yields insights into Western and Asian perspectives on what defines modern Asia, and can be read as a staging of power relations in Asia and between Asia and...
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...
Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire
Edited by Paul H. Kratoska During the Pacific War the Japanese government recruited hundreds of thousands of workers for military construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was widespread, and the number of deaths arising from beatings, malnutrition...
Doing Fieldwork in China ... with Kids!: The Dynamics of Accompanied Fieldwork in the People's Republic
edited by Candice Cornet and Tami Blumenfield While many anthropologists and other scholars relocate with their families in some way or another during fieldwork periods, this detail is often missing from their writings even though undoubtedly children can have had...
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,...