Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Crossroads (2nd Edn)
A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this fully updated, second edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds two new chapters that bring Malaysia and Singapore into the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. The original text (which traces the complex currents of history and politics of Malaysia and Singapore—neighbours with a...
The House on Dream Street
Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2000
A “vividly detailed” memoir of traveling to the formerly forbidden country and exploring life and culture in Hanoi (Kirkus Reviews).
For years after the Vietnam War, Americans were unable to visit the country, so once tourist visas became available, young Dana Sachs eagerly applied. Born...
Singapore
Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural and political challenges in a short period of time. Whilst this was a celebratory event to acknowledge the role of the People’s Action Party...
Indo-Malay Martial Traditions
Aesthetics, Mysticism, & Combatives, Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Many Indo-Malay martial arts are kept private, taught in secluded areas away from the public. These are arts of the older tradition, developed when combative knowledge was valued for its use in protecting the sanctity of life. This two-volume anthology brings together a great...
The Cambodian Wars
Clashing Armies and CIA Covert Operations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
For most Americans, Cambodia was a sideshow to the war in Vietnam, but by the time of the Vietnam invasion of Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 and the subsequent war, it had finally moved to center stage. Kenneth Conboy chronicles the violence that plagued Cambodia from World War II until the end of the...
Burma's Pop Music Industry
Creators, Distributors, Censors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Burma's Pop Music Industry is the first book to explore the contemporary pop music industry in a country that is little known or understood in the West. Based on years of fieldwork in Burma/Myanmar, Heather MacLachlan's work explores the ways in which aspiring musical artists are forging a place within...
by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can...
by Mark Wiley, Steven Dowd, Majia Soderholm
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
There has been a lack of reliable academic studies regarding Filipino martial arts (FMA) that have uniquely developed in the Philippine archipelago. This anthology assembles pioneering scholarly materials valuable for any interested in the Filipino combatives, as well as...
by Vicente L. Rafael
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic...
Deathpower
Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary...
Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy
A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
“Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,” David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country. It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds this memoir of his childhood in a Japanese...
Indonesia's Small Entrepreneurs
Trading on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In the context of Makassar, on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the book explores the socioeconomic and cultural relationships that make life for small entrepreneurs in Makassar so distinctive. Using a new framework for the study of small enterprises - the 'small enterprise integrative framework'...
Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway
Narratives of History and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese...
by Sunil S. Amrith
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.