Nus Press: 19 books
Playing for Malaya
A Eurasian Family in the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
<p>A stunning personal account of a Eurasian family living in Malaya during WWII.</p>
by Stephen Dobbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepôt trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid...
A Tiger Remembers
The Way We Were in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A history of Singapore through the changing institution of the family: full of humour, and incident, this is the Singapore story from the perspective of a remarkable woman.
The Aware Saga
Civil Society and Public Morality in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian faction. Their coup was overturned within a matter of weeks, but the episode highlighted a variety of issues, including the role of religion in civil society, sex education, homosexuality,...
BitterSweet
The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Behind the statistics of migration are the life stories of millions of migrants and their descendants. The movement of people out of China is one of the largest movements of humanity in modern times and large numbers of Chinese emigrated to the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. While many...
Red Star Over Malaya
Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-46
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation.In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems....
Hard Choices
Challenging the Singapore Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable,...
China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368
A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People During the Southern Song and Yuan Periods
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided, maritime trade and...
The ASEAN Miracle
A Catalyst for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations—especially Islam and the West—cannot live together in peace. The ten countries of ASEAN provide a thriving counter-example of civilizational...
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...
The End of Innocence?
Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Long cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in the Western imagination. Indonesia, home to a peaceful version of Islam, offered a reassuring counter-model to a rowdy and accusatory...
Money, Power, and Ideology
Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia's young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country's parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that they...
From the Blue Windows
Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Imagine a Singapore in which flat rental was S50 a month, a plate of noodles cost as little as 20 cents, and television broadcasts ended at 10pm every night.From the Blue Windows is a collection of Tan Kok Yang's memories of growing up in Queenstown back when the tallest residential building there was...
Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping
Consumption Culture in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
One of the cliches that Singaporeans hold most dear is that their lives are a pursuit of the five c's: cash, cars, condominiums, credit cards, and club memberships. Over the last thirty years, Singaporeans have become accustomed to ever-increasing levels of consumption. Singapore's PAP government has...
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