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Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature     
Khoo Gaik Cheng

Between Tongues: Translation and/of/in Performance in Asia  
Jennifer Lindsay (editor)

Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook  
Titima Suthiwan
A workbook for learners of the Thai script
 
A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life  
Christopher Hutton and Kingsley Bolton
Don't be a thng gai - a bouncing chicken - go ahead and purchase this unique resource on the rich vernacular speech of Hong Kong.
 
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java  
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.
 
Durga/Umayi (Witch/Goddess) - A Novel  
Y.b. Mangunwijaya
Translated by Ward Keeler

energetic satirical novel from top Indonesian novelist
 
Krishen Jit: An Uncommon Position
Selected Writings
  

Kathy Rowland (editor)
One of Southeast Asia's most important theatre practioners and arts writers.
 
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
 
Being and Becoming: the Cinemas of Asia  
Aruna Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar, and Rashmi Doraiswamy (editors)
One of the few references on film across Asia
 
Teaching English to Students from China  
Lee Gek Ling, Laina Ho, J.e. Lisa Meyer,
Chitra Varaprasad and Carissa Young (editors)

There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in China. There are more people learning English in China alone than there are native speakers of the language, around 350 million in either case.
 
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. Reprinted in 2005 with a new cover!
 
Systemics 1.0: Software for Research and Teaching Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)  
Kay O'Halloran and Kevin Judd
 
Approaching English Language Research  
Desmond Allison
This book is designed to help students approach research in English Language studies. Its concerns include project, dissertation and thesis research and writing. Approaching English is suitable for adoption in courses on research and research methods in the study of the English Language.
 
 
A Vietnamese Scholar in Anguish: Nguyen Khuyen and the Decline of the Confucian Order, 1884-1909  
Tran My-van
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