Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Sidewalk City
Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
For most, the term “public space” conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world’s major cities, however, public spaces like these are not...
Metroimperial Intimacies
Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Román Mendoza combines historical, literary, and archival analysis with queer-of-color critique to show how U.S. imperial incursions into the Philippines enabled the growth of unprecedented social and sexual intimacies between native Philippine and U.S. subjects....
Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines
Bats, Balls, and Bayonets
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This interdisciplinary case study invokes historical, sociological, and anthropological means to examine the ascendance of the United States to a world power in its first imperial venture. In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898 the U.S. acquired and occupied the Philippine Islands for...
by Professor Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Ashok Kapur
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
A discourse on the goals set by Prime Minister Modi to guide India’s foreign policy
In India, foreign policymaking has been based in the Prime Minister’s Office because of the institutionalization of the foreign policy structure since Independence. This book highlights that in the past...
by Peter Neville
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Ho Chi Minh explores the life of this globally important twentieth-century figure and offers new insights into his lengthy career, including his often-forgotten involvement with British intermediaries in 1945–46 and with the United States in 1944–45.
Ho was the father of his nation, a major...
Bridging Generations in Taiwan
Lifestyle and Identity of Mothers and Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book contributes to an understanding of how globalization affects the lives of ordinary people. Since the middle of the twentieth century Taiwan has undergone a remarkably rapid change from a poor, mostly rural society to a thriving industrial, mostly urban one. Because of its openness to global...
by Tony Shome
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book demonstrates how particular values and 'notions of leadership', which underpinned traditional Malay leadership, have played a crucial role in the political evolution of the modern Malaysian nation. The author discusses the nature of Malay 'notions of leadership', and considers this throughout...
1921穿越福爾摩沙：一位英國作家的臺灣旅行
Through Formosa: An Account of Japan's Island Colony
Language: Chinese
Release Date: September 27, 2017
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by Eric Carter, Anthony Loveless
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Second World War fighter pilot Eric Carter is one of only four surviving members of a secret mission, code-named 'Force Benedict'. Sanctioned by Winston Churchill in 1941 Force Benedict was dispatched to defend Murmansk, the USSR's only port not under Nazi occupation. If Murmansk fell, Soviet resistance...
Dangdut Stories
A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's Most Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry. Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history...
by Ray Kania
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
“Kampuchea, Year Zero” is my interview of a young Cambodian girl who survived nearly 4 years of Pol Pot, communist leader of the Khmer Rouge.
The Elimination
A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
From the internationally acclaimed director of S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, a survivor’s autobiography that confronts the evils of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship.
Rithy Panh was only thirteen years old when the Khmer Rouge expelled his family from Phnom Penh in 1975. In the months...
by Sebastian Strangio
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh,...
We Have Had Our Last Chance
Lessons on human nature from General Douglas MacArthur's WW2 experience in the Philippines.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
It has often been said that those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. In this concise, hard-hitting booklet about General Douglas MacArthur and his experiences during World War II, lessons abound. But have we learned from those lessons?
In this booklet: • Betrayal in...