Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
by Li Anshan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-African trade existed as early as the seventh century. Li provides readers with an uncomplicated history...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This is a historical case study of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979. In February 1979, China, under Deng Xiaoping's leadership, launched a ground war against the Socialist Republic of...
A Duterte Reader
Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
A critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays offers an overview of Duterte’s rise to power and actions of his early presidency. With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Phillipines, The Duterte Reader...
Overwhelming Terror
Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
This powerful ethnography of a people believed to be the least violent in the world explores how they maintain peaceful relations even under the most dire circumstances. Robert Knox Dentan, the world's foremost scholar of Semai, brings its members vividly to life. His book includes translations of...
by Tan Kok Seng
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
In this revealing sequel to his bestselling autobiography Son of Singapore, Tan Kok Seng finds himself in Malaysia as a British diplomat’s chauffeur. While driving luminaries like author Han Suyin around, Tan falls in love with Heung, a servant girl with dark brown eyes. Despite parental objections,...
Surviving against the Odds
Village Industry in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Read the foreword by Mara Soetoro-Ng
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having...
by Dirk Van der Cruysse, Michael Smithies (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Ambassadors from Versailles in wigs and lace mounted on elephants crossing rice fields... Siamese mandarins prostrate before the throne of Louis XIV... a Greek adventurer... a scheming French Jesuit— these are just a few of the colourful characters that playa role in the early history...
East Timor, Australia and Regional Order
Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'.Australian complicity in the Indonesian occupation o
Cultural History of Early South Asia
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader presents a wide-ranging survey of the diverse art forms of early South Asia. In doing so, it departs from the dominant tendency of treating the arts as static ‘heritage of the past’ with just exhibition value, and instead perceives them as dynamic processes...
Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as “Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub” and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand...
Tan Lark Sye
Advocator and Founder of Nanyang University
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.
Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China, Mr Tan Lark Sye (1897 – 1972) was a leading rubber industrialist in Southeast Asia. Being a social activist, he believed in the value of...
Traders in Motion
Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding...
Mediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Arguing that our definition of Islamic journalism is too narrow, this study examines day-to-day journalism as practiced by Muslim professionals at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their...
Service Industries and Asia Pacific Cities
New Development Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
During the second half of the twentieth century, development in the Asia-Pacific region has been dominated by industrialization. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, services, in particular, finance, information and creative services, have become deeply embedded in the processes...