Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
The South China Sea
The Struggle for Power in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is...
Serpentine
The True Story of a Serial Killer's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
New York Times Bestseller: The nightmare odyssey of a charismatic serial killer and a trail of terror stretching halfway around the world.
There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in...
A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm
Indonesia's Hindu Realm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists...
Living House
An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.
The main focus...
Understanding the City through its Margins
Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist...
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
One of Asia’s longest running communist insurrections ended on the night of April 16, 1989. Its cessation was not the outcome of a successful government offensive or of a generous amnesty policy, but of an all-out mutiny within the rank-and-file of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB). That night,...
Jungle Survival Manual 1944
Instructions on Warfare, Terrain, Endurance and the Dangers of the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
During the Second World War, British and American soldiers were sent to new and challenging theatres, fighting to survive not only encounters with the enemy but the landscape they found themselves in. Being posted to South-East Asia and the Pacific to fight the Japanese meant soldiers had to learn...
Tan Kah-Kee
The Making of an Overseas Chinese LegendRevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee's case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy...
by Saskia E. Wieringa, Abha Bhaiya, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. These two major cities have substantively different...
by R.B. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina, from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam, comparing and contrasting its political and social systems, with both those of neighbouring states such as Thailand and those prevalent at the time in Europe....
Singapore, My Country
Biography of M Bala Subramanion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time to celebrate liberty!
When did the same moment come in Bala's...
Thailand
The Worldly Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Tourist brochures and travel guides depict Thailand as an exotic country with a rich cultural heritage, strong religious traditions, and a popular monarchy. Historians also contribute to Thailand’s international allure with chronicles of its unique historical and cultural continuity in comparison...
Post-Mandarin
Masculinity and Aesthetic Modernity in Colonial Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intellectuals established Vietnam’s modern anticolonial...
by Jame DiBiasio
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The lost civilization of Angkor left no written records, and only its ancient stones can tell the tale. The Story of Angkor exposes the history of this oncemighty Southeast Asian empire through the secrets hidden inside the temples and buildings located around the city of Siem Reap. It guides the...