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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...
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...
Japan-Vietnam: A Relation under Influences
By Laurent Schwab and Guy Faure Japan, the reigning economic giant of East Asia, and Vietnam, an industrializing socialist country in Southeast Asia with strong links to China, occupy worlds that seem not to intersect. Yet historical connections between the...
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...
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
Shortlisted for the 2024 Singapore History Prize!Winner: Singapore Book Award for Best Non-Fiction Title 2023 by Kevin Blackburn "Comfort women" or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in...
Biology of Vanda Miss Joaquim
By Yam Tim Wing, Joseph Arditti and Hew Choy Sin This is the ultimate book on Singapore's National Flower. Created as a hybrid in Singapore, by the woman horticulturalist whose name it bears, it was first formally described in 1893...
Aristocracy of Armed Talent: The Military Elite in Singapore
by Samuel Ling Wei Chan Singapore had to build a military from scratch starting in 1965, with compulsory national service introduced in 1967. This is the story of the Singapore Armed Forces in the form of a collective portrait of its...
Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage: Celebrating Culture, Embracing Change
By Barbara Hatley During the dramatic economic and social transformation of late twentieth-century Indonesia, theatre performances in Central Java featured a familiar cast of rulers, nobles, clown servants and ordinary people. However, these presentations were not a repetition of age-old...
Civil Society and Democratization: Social Movements in Northeast Thailand
by Somchai Phatharathananunth This book is for anyone wondering whatever happened to Thailand's vanished Marxist insurgents or interested in understanding the forces behind the mass demonstrations of peasants that periodically descend on Bangkok. Specifically, the book investigates the struggle of...
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...
The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island
By Nils Bubandt AwardHonorable Mention, Clifford Geertz Prize (Society for the Anthropology of Religion, a section of the American Anthropological Association)The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too...
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...
Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era
by Adil Johan The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised...
Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800
By John N. Miksic Winner - Singapore History Prize 2018 Shortlist - ICAS Book Prize 2015 for the Best Study in the Humanities. Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and...
The End of Innocence? Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism
By Rémy Madinier and Andrée Feillard, Translated by Wong Wee ebook available at: and Long cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in 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...
Rethinking Thailand's Southern Violence
Edited by Duncan McCargo Since January 2004, the three Muslim-dominated provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in the Thai south have been ablaze with political violence. Early incidents such as the bloody storming of the historic Kru-Ze mosque and the...
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land: A Novel of Sihanouk’s Cambodia
Winner: Association for Asian Studies (AAS) A.L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize by Suon Sorin (Translated by Roger Nelson) A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 19, Number 4 (November 2021)
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 RESEARCHPlus ça Change: Three Decades of Fiscal Policy and...
Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia
By S. Paul Kapur Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an opportunity to investigate this crucial question. Optimistic scholars argue that by threatening...
Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security
By Rajesh M. Basrur In this book, a leading authority on India's nuclear programme offers an informed and thoughtful assessment of India's nuclear strategy. He shows that the country's nuclear-strategic culture is generally in accord with the principle of minimum...
A Tiger Remembers: The Way We Were in Singapore
By Ann Wee ebook available at and Singapore Book Award "Best Non-Fiction Title" 2017 - Finalist Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family. One of...
Gambling with the Land: The Contemporary Evolution of Southeast Asian Agriculture
By Rodolphe De Koninck and Jean-François Rousseau Since the early 1960s, Southeast Asia countries have satisfied local demand for food while catering increasingly to the world market for agricultural produce, primarily through the export of industrial crops. Local production of...
(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...
Studying Singapore Before 1800
by Kwa Chong Guan and Peter Borschbergwith the assistance of Benjamin Khoo Historians rely on Singapore’s strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony after 1819. What,...
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...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 15, Number 3 (August 2017)
Download available at Project MUSE Contents RESEARCH Assessing China’s Changing Attitudes towards Singapore by ZHANG Feng Informal Networks as Safety Nets: The Role of Personal Ties in China’s Anti-corruption Campaign by ZENG Qingjie and YANG Yujeong Outsourcing the State Power:...
Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911
By Kenneth Dean and Hue Guan Thye Singapore Book Award "Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title" 2017 - Finalist Nuggets of Singapore history, from inscriptions by Melody Zaccheus (Sunday Times, Nov 20, 2016) NUS academics record 63 Chinese community inscriptions in new...
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding The Foreign Relations Of The Burmese Praetorian State
By Renaud Egreteau and Larry Jagan, Preface by David I. Steinberg Soldiers and Diplomacy addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma's foreign policy. The authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor...
Home is Where We Are
Winner, Singapore Literature Prize (Creative Nonfiction in English), 2022. Finalist, NUS Singapore History Prize, SBPA Singapore Book Award for Best Non-fiction Title 2021. Wang Gungwu with Margaret Wang Does home have to be a country or a city?... Or is home...
Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism
By Renee Y. Chow The book is well organized, well written, well illustrated, and well annotated. It should find a place in the libraries of students, planners, designers, and anyone else who cares about the future of cities. Highly recommended....
The Malay Archipelago Through Travellers' Eyes: 1800–1900
Forthcoming Judith E. Bosnak & Rick Honings What did 19th-century travellers actually see when they journeyed through the Malay Archipelago—and what did they miss? The travelogues penned by British and Dutch explorers reached a wide readership; they have shaped how...
lives & times of hrh
Winner: Best Non-fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2021Herman Ronald Hochstadt We came into the public service … at a time when there were only two choices – do or die – hrh Herman Hochstadt, or hrh as he is better...
Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia
Finalist: EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2022 Sandeep Ray How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional written sources? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film...
The World of Soy
Edited by Chee-Beng Tan, Sidney W. Mintz and Christine M. DuBois As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American diet for its nutritional and financial...