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Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing with Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816–1942

by Leo van Bergen The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across the territory that is today’s Indonesia....

Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia

Edited by C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet and Michitake AsoWith contributions from Christopher Shepherd, Por Heong Hong, Kathryn Sweet, Nara Oda, Annick Guenel, Vivek Neelakantan, Xiaoping Fang, & John DiMoia A Choice Recommended Title for All Readers For far too long, Southeast Asia...

Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story

By William A. HaseltineWinner of the 2013 Asian Publishing AwardBest Insight into Asian Societies (non-fiction): Excellence Award PDF copy available for free download here And read a new epilogue, written in 2014 here. This is the story of the Singapore healthcare...

Fevered Cities: A History of Dengue Epidemics

Randall M. Packard In Fevered Cities, Randall M. Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world's most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease. From its early manifestations in the eighteenth century to its current prevalence across more than one...

The Economic History of Singapore

Just published! Keen Meng Choy and Ichiro Sugimoto Singapore’s transformation from a trading port to a global city offers a compelling case study in long-term economic change. The Economic History of Singapore presents a detailed account of the city-state’s evolving economic roles,...

Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia

Edited by Laurence Monnais and Harold J. CookContributions by Thomas B. Colvin, C. Michele Thompson, Liew Kai Khiun, Annick Guénel, Raquel A.G. Reyes, Liesbeth Hesselink, Ooi Keat Gin, Michael G. Vann, Huang Yu-Ling, Ayo Wahlberg, Chatichai Muksong and Komatra Chuengsatiansup...

Survival Guide to Acute Medicine (Second Edition)

Edited by Lee Kang Hoe Survival Guide to Acute Medicine is a quick reference for emergency medicine, written by various specialists from National University Hospital and National University of Singapore. The handy format provides rapid and succinct information, making it...

An Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century

By Margaret Slocomb The course of economic change in twentieth century Cambodia was marked by a series of deliberate "conscious human efforts" that were typically extreme and ideologically driven. While colonization, protracted war and violent revolution are commonly blamed for...

Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money

By Marjorie Topley, Edited by Jean DeBernardi The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong...

Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar: Transformation under Market Liberalization

By Ikuko Okamoto Market liberalization in Myanmar began in 1988 and had some unanticipated consequences. As farmers began to operate in a context with greatly reduced government control, there was an explosion in the production of green gram, which became...

Atlas of Medical Parasitology

By Mary Ng Mah Lee and Viqar Zaman The parasitic diseases cause ill health amongst millions of people across the world, particularly those living in the tropics. This CD is an illustrated guide of the subject and covers both parasites...

Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History

By C. Michele Thompson While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history...

Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia

Edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner With contributions from Mitchitake Aso, Francis A. Gealogo, Jenna Grant, Annick Guénel, Liesbeth Hesselink, Junko Iida, Laurence Monnais, Vivek Neelakantan, Anne Marie Rafferty, C. Pierce Salguero, Kathryn Sweet, Rosemary Wall...

The Economic Transition in Myanmar after 1988: Market Economy versus State Control

Edited by Koichi Fujita, Fumiharu Mieno and Ikuko Okamoto For many years Myanmar operated an inward-looking economic system built on import substitution. Ultimately this policy failed, leaving behind inefficient state economic enterprises and widespread poverty. Political unrest in 1988 led...

Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar

Edited by Renaud Egreteau and François RobinneContributions by Renaud Egreteau, Alexandra de Mersan, Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Maxime Boutry, Jane M. Ferguson, Jacques P. Leider, Carine Jaquet, Rosalie Metro, Susan Banki, Céline Coderey, Hiroko Kawanami, Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and François Robinne With a young...

Bridges to New Business: The Economic Decolonization of Indonesia

By J. Thomas Lindblad This monograph is the first comprehensive account of the decolonization of the Indonesian economy, a process with a different momentum and timing from the achievement of political independence. It traces the origins of economic decolonization to...

Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State

By Hiroyoshi Kano An "Indonesian economy" first took shape in the latter part of the nineteenth century, consisting of a dominant export industry supported by a rural agrarian sphere. The agricultural sector provided food and labour to the export sector,...

Industrialization in Late-Developing ASEAN Countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam

By Naoko Amakawa Late industrializing countries are able to pick strategies for economic development based on the experiences of countries that preceded them. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (the CLMV countries) were closed off from the international community for many...

Khaki Capital: The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia

edited by Paul Chambers and Napisa Waitoolkiat Although Southeast Asia has seen the emergence of civilian rule, the military continues to receive a large chunk of national budgets and, with significant assets and economic activities, often possesses enormous economic clout...

Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Hy Van Luong With the shift to a market economy, Ho Chi Minh City became a magnet for migrants and experienced rapid growth. Migration provides labor for economic growth in Ho Chi Minh City, and remittances sent by...

Malaysian 'Bail Outs'? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery

By K.S. Jomo, Chin Kok Fay and Wong Sook Chin As Malaysia’s government responded to the 1997–98 financial crisis, the global financial community criticised its measures as bail outs for politically-influential corporate interests. When the economy recovered strongly in 1999...

Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880

Edited by Li Tana and Nola Cooke, Contributions by James Kong Chin, Choi Byung Wook, Anthony Reid, Puangthong Rungswasdiasb, Yumio Sakurai, Carl Trocki and Geoff Wade This innovative book rethinks the 18th and early 19th century history of coastal and riverine southwest...

Bangkok Transformed: An Economic History, 1820–1950

By Porphant Ouyyanont, edited by Chris Baker How did Bangkok, once a modest riverside town, transform into the vibrant capital of a modern nation? This book explores the dynamic forces that reshaped Bangkok between the late 18th century and the...

Transition Towards Post-Deng China

Edited by Gang Lin and Xiaobo Hu To understand Chinese development, or why China could sustain development in the face of the Asia economic crisis, we need first to gain a deep appreciation of the ongoing changes in China over...

Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing

Chua Beng Huat (author of NUS Press' Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore) Shortlisted for the 2026 Euroseas Social Sciences Book Prize The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of...

The Cardamom Conundrum: Reconciling Development and Conservation in the Kingdom of Cambodia

By Timothy J. Killeen A "conundrum" is a puzzle whose solution also involves resolving a paradox. In this instance, the paradox arises from two widely held and conflicting assumptions: that the pathway to a modern economy requires exploiting and monetizing...

Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993 (2nd edition)

By Ng Beng Yeong This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British colonial period. It should be of interest to health professionals, medical students, historians interested in the development of medicine and...

Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia

Edited by Haruka YanagisawaContributions by Haruka Yanagisawa, Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul, Wooyoun Lee, Atsushi Kitahara, Mari Miyamoto, Shinichi Shigetomi and Yutaka Suga Managing the commons—natural resources held in common by particular communities—is a complex challenge. How have Asian societies handled resources of...

Central Banking as State Building: Policymakers and Their Nationalism in the Philippines, 1933-1964

By Yusuke Takagi From its creation in 1949 until the 1960s, the Central Bank of the Philippines dominated industrial policy by means of exchange controls, becoming a symbol of nationalism for a newly independent state. The pre-war Philippine National Bank...

World War II Singapore: The Chōsabu Reports on Syonan

Translated and edited by Gregg Huff & Shinobu Majima During World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the Chōsabu, to study occupied Singapore. The bureau’s reports on Singapore’s economy and society, reproduced here in translation, covered population...

Promises and Predicaments: Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited by Alicia Schrikker and Jeroen Touwen Contributions by Anne Booth, Hal Hill, Pim de Zwart, Daan Marks, Alexandra de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Alexander Claver, Leonard Blusse, Freek Colombijn, Roger Knight, Bambang Purwanto, David Henley, Robert Cribb, Thee...

On the Fringes of the Harmonious Society: Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

edited by Trine Brox and Ildikó Bellér-Hann Since 1949, Tibetans and Uyghurs generally have been perceived as the two most problematic members of the PRC's great family of peoples and been the targets of 'carrot and stick' measures designed to...

Infectious Disease Emergencies: Preparedness and Response

WINNER: Best Professional Title, Singapore Book Awards 2026 "Its comprehensive approach makes this book crucial reading for people at all career stages in public health as well as policy makers." - Devi Sridhar, The Lancet Read online open access: https://buff.ly/4gpWEBD Dale...

Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance

by Daromir Rudnyckyj Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change—yet possible alternatives seem to have little traction. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a...

Industrialization with a Weak State: Thailand's Development in Historical Perspective

By Somboon SiriprachaiEdited by Kaoru Sugihara, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker This collection of essays by Somboon Siriprachai offers a critical assessment of Thai industrialization, with a focus on industrial policy, rent seeking and income inequality. An economist by training,...

The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia

Edited by Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthyContributions by Zahari Zen, Colin Barlow, Ria Gondowarsito, John F. McCarthy, Lesley M. Potter, Patrick S. Sujang, Patrice Levang, Wahyu Riva, Meri Orth, Piers Gillespie, Greg Acciaioli, Oetami Dewi, Tania Murray Li, Sunny...