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Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta:
Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery
  

Philip Taylor
A readable ethnographic study about a Muslim community in mainland Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and
Historical Experience
  

Roxana Waterson (editor)
Rich stories of Southeast Asian people who lived in interesting times

Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia  Noteworthy
John T. Sidel
Traces the shifts and patterns of religious violence over a 10-year period within political and sociological contexts

Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Malaysia  
Eric C. Thompson

Indonesia in the Soeharto Years   
Lontar Foundation
"An album of Indonesia... a kind of aide-memoire". -- Goenawan Mohamad

Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities  
Theresa W. Devasahayam & Brenda S. A. Yeoh (editors)
Examines recurrent themes of patriachy, labour, definition of "good mothering" and relationship, etc. in Asian societies

Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the
Modern Malay World
  

Joel S. Kahn
Challenges the conventional image of Malays

Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia 1996–1999
Jemma Purdey

 
Contentious Journalism & the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia & Singapore
Cherian George
politics and the media in Malaysia and Singapore
 
Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways: Municipal Transport History, 1880s–1963
Ric Francis And Colin Ganley
 
The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China
Andrew C. Mertha
 
Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Dsplacement, Homecoming and Other Travels
Brenda Yeoh, Nicole Piper, Shen Hsiu Hua And Beatriz Lorente (editors)
In addressing the nature of these Asian migrations, the authors demonstrate how mobility in todayÕs world has transformed notions of citizenship and identity, and of displacement and home.
 
A New God in the Diaspora? Muneeswaran Worship in Contemporary Singapore
Vineeta Sinha
Find out why a Hindu diety known as Muneeswaran should have relevance in a rapidly modernising and multicultural society for the Indian disapora community.
 
A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life
Christopher Hutton & Kingsley Bolton
Don't be a tàhng gai - a bouncing chicken - go ahead and purchase this unique resource on the rich vernacular speech of Hong Kong.
 
Tana Toraja: A Social HIstory of An Indonesian People
Terance W. Bigalke
This ambitious, multifaceted study traces the history of Tana Toraja over more than a century, from 1870, forty years before the Dutch took control of the highlands, to the 1990s.
 
Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds  
Sharon A. Carstens
 
Jemaah Islamiyah: Radical Islamism in Indonesia  
Greg Barton
 
Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present  
Mary S. Zurbuchen
The many ways in which Indonesians have dealt with memory, its formation and its manipulation, as the nation emerges from authoritarian rule.
 
Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space  
Paul Kratoska, Henk Schulte Nordholt And Remco Raben (editors)
Is the idea of 'Southeast Asia' even relevant any longer?
 
Standing Still  
Simryn Gill
a haunting document of a brief period in the life of a nation and a region...
 
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra
Anthony Reid
This book is the fruit of 40 years' study of Sumatran history, from one of the most important historians of Southeast Asia.
 
Yaa Baa: Production, Traffic and Consumption of Methamphetamine in Mainland Southeast Asia (English edition)
Pierre-arnaud Chouvy & Joel Meissonnier.
The first publication to focus on this side of the Golden Triangle drug trade.
 
(Un)tying the Knot: Ideal and Reality in Asian Marriage
Gavin Jones & Kamalini Ramdas (editors)
What is happening to marriage in Asia?
 
Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam  
Lisa Drummond And Helle Rydstrom
Gender as negotiation or transgression, in the context of contemporary Vietnam.
 
Iban Ritual Textiles  
Traude Gavin
A thorough re-examination of the interpretation of some of the world's most beautiful woven textiles.
 
Indonesian Houses: Tradition and Transformation in Vernacular Architecture  
Reimar Schefold, Gaudenz Domenig And Peter Nas, Eds.
The rich variation and fundamental similarities in Indonesian houses and settlements.
 
Durga/Umayi (Witch/Goddess) - A Novel  
Y.b. Mangunwijaya
Translated By Ward Keeler

energetic satirical novel from top Indonesian novelist
 
e-Payment: The Digital Exchange   
Margaret Tan
From consumer micro-payments to massive international intra-bank transfers, this book looks at the changing e-payment scene from a unified perspective. E-payment powers e-commerce, and is transforming the way we all do business.
 
 
Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries  
Timothy P. Barnard, Editor
What is it to be Malay? The answer may be simple or complex from any individual point-of-view, but this book provides the historical background to the changing ways this question has been asked -- and answered -- over the years.
 
Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore  
Chua Beng Huat
Sharp analysis from one of Singapore's foremost social scientists.
 
Babel or Behemoth: Language Trends in Asia  
Jennifer Lindsay And Tan Ying Ying (editors)
Papers from the inaugaral Asia Trends conference of the Asia Research Institute, NUS
 
Chinese Migrants Abroad: Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora  
Michael W Charney, Brenda S A Yeoh & Tong Chee Kiong, Eds.
The study of the Chinese overseas has become a global enterprise. This collection brings together some of the most important recent work.
 
Being and Becoming: the Cinemas of Asia  
Aruna Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar, And Rashmi Doraiswamy, (eds.)
one of the few references on film across Asia
 
Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine  
Alan K. L. Chan, Gregory K. Clancey & Hui-chieh Loy (eds.)
The latest work in the history of science in East and Southeast Asia.
 
Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures  
Bernard Sellato
Cross-disciplinary essays on inland Borneo.
 
An Introduction to Genetic Engineering, Life Sciences and the Law  
George Wei
The legal framework for some of the most important decisions of the new milliennium.
 
China's Emerging New Economy: Growth of the Internet and Electronic Commerce   
John Wong & Nah Seok Ling  
«..a very informative book... recommended reading for those who want a fairly balanced perspective on China's e-commerce achievements and modernization strategy.» - The China Journal
 
Joining the Modern World: Inside and Outside China   
Wang Gungwu 
"provocative ideas and penetrating insights" Lucien Pye, MIT
 
Economics of Information Technology and the Media   
Linda Low
 
Singapore Studies II  
Chua Beng Huat (ed.) 
The state of the art.
 
Intellectual Property Protection Reforms: Theory, Evidence and Policy    
Craig Scalise
 
Text in Education and Society    
Desmond Allison, Lionel Wee & Sunita Abraham (eds.)
 
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