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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 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...
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...
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...
Going Indochinese
by Christopher E. Goscha Why, Benedict Anderson once asked, did Javanese become Indonesian in 1945 whereas the Vietnamese balked at becoming Indochinese? In this classic study, Goscha shows that Vietnamese of all political colours came remarkably close to building a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Future Asian Space: Projecting the Urban Space of New East Asia
Edited by Hee Limin, Davisi Boontharm and Erwin Viray Rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes are transforming the idea of "Asian space." With the shift to a global economy and an urban population explosion, Asian cities have become a mainstay...
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...
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...
The Story of Southeast Asia
Eric C. Thompson A Choice Recommended Title The oldest figurative cave paintings in the world are found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Hand stencils and animals painted some 45,000 years ago attest to a long history of human...
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 (New format)
C.M. Turnbull C.M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice, in 1989 and 2006, it remains irreplaceable, even as new research has widened the vistas with...
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...
Indonesian Literature vs New Order Orthodoxy: The Aftermath of 1965-1966
by Anna-Greta Nilsson Hoadley This is the first book-length study to present the alternative version found in Indonesian literature of the events of 1965-1966, and through this demonstrates that the concerns and perceptions of Indonesian writers differ sharply from those...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Malaysia's "Original People": Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli
Edited by Kirk EndicottContributions by Duncan Holaday, Signe Howell, Sandra Khor Manickam, Alan G. Fix, David Bulbeck, A.S. Baer, Niclas Burenhult, Nicole Kruspe, Rosemary Gianno, Peter Laird, Juli Edo, Kamal Solhaimi Fadzil, Andy Hickson, Sue Jennings, Alberto G. Gomes, Wazir...
Southeast of Now Annual Subscription Vol. 1 (Mar and Oct 2017)
Thanks to generous grants from the Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, and also the Foundation for Arts Initiatives, Paris, the journal’s online editions are now freely available via Open Access, online at Project MUSE. For...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 22, Number 4 (November 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 The Making of a Sociology with Distinctive Chinese...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 20, Number 1 (February 2022)
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 Inherently Particularistic? How China’s Identity Constrains its Ability to...
(Print Edition) China: An International Journal Volume 14, Number 3 (August 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 PART ONE: Special Issue on Local Government Entrepreneurship in China:A...
Warring Societies of Pre-colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context
edited by Michael W. Charney and Kathryn Wellen Why is it that warfare in Southeast Asian history is depicted so differently in various historical sources and representations? Why have scholars looking at different countries found so many exceptions to regional...
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...
Debating the East Asian Peace: What it is. How it came about. Will it last?
edited by Elin Bjarnegård and Joakim Kreutz Stretching from the steppes of Xinjiang and Mongolia to the forestlands of West Papua and Timor-Leste, the big region of East Asia– here encompassing both Northeast and Southeast Asia – used to be...
Not for Circulation: The George E. Bogaars Story
Bertha Henson Do civil servants really make a difference? Can they shape history? When John Drysdale published one of the first books to put together the political history of independent Singapore, in 1985, George E. Bogaars wrote to his daughter with...
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...
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...
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...
(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:...