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Southeast Asian StudiesClick here to receive email alerts when we publish new titles of regional relevance. our latest booksby date of publication |
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Malaysian 'Bail Outs'? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery NEW! K.s. Jomo, Wong Sook Ching & Chin Kok Fay (editors) Setting the record straight on the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and Malaysia's relatively quick recovery. While the capital controls put in place by the Malaysian government were not "bailouts" for influential interests, neither were they responsible for the ensuing recovery. |
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The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History NEW!
Norman G. Owen (editor) A long-awaited single-volume history of this complex region |
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Malay Nationalism before UMNO: The Memoirs of Mustapha Hussain NEW!
Mustapha Hussain Insun Sony Mustapha (translator). K.s. Jomo (editor) an extraordinary memoir from the man who could easily have been President of the United Malays Nationalist Organization. A must-read for those interested in Malay nationalism in Malaysian history. |
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Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds NEW!
Sharon A. Carstens |
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Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java NEW!
Mikihiri Moriyama Print culture was the key carrier of modernity for West Java's 30 million speakers of Sundanese. This important study examines the development of this print culture in the 19th century. |
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Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook
Titima Suthiwan |
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Jemaah Islamiyah: Radical Islamism in Indonesia NEW! Greg Barton |
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Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present NEW!
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. |
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Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space NEW!
Paul Kratoska, Henk Schulte Nordholt And Remco Raben (editors) Is the idea of 'Southeast Asia' even relevant any longer? |
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Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880 NEW!
Nola Cooke And Li Tana |
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Standing Still NEW!
Simryn Gill a haunting document of a brief period in the life of a nation and a region... |
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An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra
Anthony Reid his book is the fruit of 40 years' study of Sumatran history, from one of the most important historians of Southeast Asia. |
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Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory NEW!
Christoph Giebel An important re-evaluation of the official history of the Vietnamese Communist Party - and the process of nationalist mythmaking in Vietnam. |
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After the Storm: Crisis, Recovery and Sustaining Development in Asia NEW!
K. S. Jomo (editor) Asian perspectives on the Asian crisis. |
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Yaa Baa: Production, Traffic and Consumption of Methamphetamine in Mainland Southeast Asia (English edition) NEW!
Pierre-arnaud Chouvy & Joel Meissonnier. The first publication to focus on this side of the Golden Triangle drug trade. |
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Gender Practices in Contemporary Vietnam NEW!
Lisa Drummond And Helle Rydstrom Gender as negotiation or transgression, in the context of contemporary Vietnam. |
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Iban Ritual Textiles NEW!
Traude Gavin A thorough re-examination of the interpretation of some of the world's most beautiful woven textiles. |
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Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party
C.c. Chin & Karl Hack (editors) Chin Peng speaks, not through a memoir, but in dialogue with scholars and students of the MCP and the Malayan Emergency. A fascinating view of history as dialogue and debate. |
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Indonesian Houses: Tradition and Transformation in Vernacular Architecture NEW!
Reimar Schefold, Gaudenz Domenig And Peter Nas, Eds. The rich variation and fundamental similarities in Indonesian houses and settlements. |
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Durga/Umayi (Witch/Goddess) - A Novel NEW!
Y.b. Mangunwijaya Translated By Ward Keeler energetic satirical novel from top Indonesian novelist |
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Guns of February: Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore 1941-42
Henry Frei A brilliant read, this book brings to life the fateful events of 1941 and 1942 in Malaya and Singapore, helping us to begin to understand the Japanese experience, their pride and their shame. «Frei is a great Western historian who really understood Japan and the Japanese.» - Hara Fujio |
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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. |
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The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization
Marc Frey, Ronald W. Pruessen & Tan Tai Yong (eds) New perspectives on Southeast Asia's decolonization, from scholars mostly based in the region, and taking advantage of previously classified archives from Europe and the US. |
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The Indonesian Revolution and the Singapore Connection, 1945-1949
Yong Mun Cheong A connection that continues to be relevant (and controversial) in the 21st century |
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Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
Mary P. Callahan «Ground breaking...essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complex sociopolitical problems of this deeply troubled land.» Martin Smith, Critical Asian Studies |
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Red Star Over Malaya: Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation: 1941-1946 (3rd edition)
Cheah Boon Kheng «...a very good book and an important contribution to Malaysian historical scholarship. The author has handled a difficult and unpleasant subject with tact and skill. The book deserves to be read by all serious students of Malaysia.» J. Norman Parmer, Pacific Affairs |
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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 |
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Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
Ken'ichi Goto Southeast Asia's Japanese interlude, from one of Japan's leading scholars. |
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Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia
Natasha Hamilton- Hart «a major contribution to the literature on the role of central banks in developing countries, on economic development in Southeast Asia, and on globalization and the response of domestic institutions.» - Richard Stubbs |
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Earthenware in Southeast Asia
John Miksic, Editor This important collection helps build the material culture framework for creating a more nuanced image of the cultural history of pre- and early historic Southeast Asia. |
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Surabaya, City of Work: a Socioeconomic History, 1900-2000
Howard W Dick A highly readable economic and social history of one of Indonesia's most fascinating cities. |
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New Terrains in Southeast Asian History
Abu Talib Ahmad & Tan Liok Ee, Eds. |
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Conversations with Difference: Essays from Tempo Magazine
Goenawan Mohamad, Translated By Jennifer Lindsay Thoughts for a globalized world, from the perspective of Indonesia's most important essayist - essential reading. |
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Southeast Asia in the New Century: An Asian Perspective
Samuel C. Y. Ku Asian perspectives on the challenges ahead |
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Malayan Chinese and China: Conversion in Identity Consciousness: 1945-1957
Fujio Hara |
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Innermost Borneo: Studies in Dayak Cultures
Bernard Sellato Cross-disciplinary essays on inland Borneo. |
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Iranun and Balangingi: Globalisation, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity James F. Warren The second installment in Warren's influential Sulu Zone project: "the major questions which it raises...demand the attention of all serious students of Southeast Asian history." (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies) |
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Economic Development of Burma: A Vision and A Strategy
Khin Maung Kyi, Ronald Findlay & R. M. Sundrum (eds.) «...recommended reading for anyone seriously concerned about that society, [this book] is a welcome addition to the meager body of literature on that beleaguered country, and can be assigned as reading on surveys of Southeast Asia or Asian economies.» - David Steinberg, Journal of Asian Studies |
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China and Southeast Asia: Myths, Threats, and Culture
Wang Gungwu |
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Political Thinking of the Indonesian Chinese: 1900-1995 (2nd ed)
Leo Suryadinata (ed.) |
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Malaya and Singapore during the Japanese Occupation
Paul Kratoska, Editor |
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Chinese Adaptation and Diversity: Essays on Society and Literature in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
Leo Suryadinata (ed.) |
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Islam in Malaysia: From Revivalism to Islamic State?
Hussin Mutalib |
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Child Language Development in Singapore and Malaysia
Anna Kwan-terry (ed.) |
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A Vietnamese Scholar in Anguish: Nguyen Khuyen and the Decline of the Confucian Order, 1884-1909
Tran My-van |
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The Kuomintang Movement in British Malaya, 1912-1949
C.f. Yong & R.b. Mckenna |
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A Study of the Evolution of the Malay Language: Social Change and Cognitive Development
Tham Seong Chee |
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The Tragedy of Wanit: A Japanese Account of Wartime Thai Politics
Benjamin A. Batson And Shimizu Hajime |
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The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State
James F. Warren A classic of Southeast Asian Studies |
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