Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This book provides an overview of the current state of Malaysia, looking at political and economic developments and at governance, and discussing the impact of ethnicity, patronage and the reform movement. Apart from discussing issues such as Islamisation and identity transformations within Malaysian...
Indonesia’s Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
Rise of an Indo-Pacific Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book examines the changes in Indonesian foreign policy during the 21st century as it seeks to position itself as a great power in the Indo-Pacific region.
The rise of 21st-century Indonesia is becoming a permanent fixture in both the domestic and global discourses. Though there has been...
The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore
Entwined Histories of a Colonial Convent and a Nation, 1854–2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
The Site of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus in Singapore: Entwined Histories of a Colonial Convent and a Nation, 1854–2015 explores key issues and developments in colonial and postcolonial Singapore by examining one particular site in central Singapore: the former Convent of the Holy Infant...
Majulah!
50 Years of Malay/Muslim Community in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's formative years. The community has come a long way and accomplished plenty. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong lauded the communit
by Cheng Lian Pang
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's golden jubilee with pride. In the short space of five decades the country has moved from Third World to First, and its real GDP has grown by 40 times! For this phenomenal progress,...
by Harriette Rinaldi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The name of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot evokes memories of utter horror, eerily reminiscent of the nightmare of the Holocaust and presaging other genocidal regimes that continue into the 21st century. Witnessing the rise of the Khmer Rouge from different perspectives, the four fictional narrators of...
by Terence Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
This book explores this inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, and identifies the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party (PAP) employs to regulate Singapore media and culture, and thus govern the...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia
From Darul Islam to Jem'ah Islamiyah
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Available for the first time in English, this groundbreaking book is an in-depth investigation of the development of jihadism from the earliest years of Indonesian independence in the late 1940s to the terrorist bombings of the past decade. The Indonesian journalist Solahudin shows with rare clarity...
Those Were the Days: Funny, Crazy & Weird
50 Malaysian Short Stories and Photos of the 1950s to The1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Those Were The Days: on Funny, Crazy & Weird 50 Malaysian Short Stories and Photos of the 1950s to the1970s The book covers three decades of Malaysian social history based on actual persons, true events and genuine stories. Those were the days filled with joy, laughter and good memories... This...
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three...
Women of the Kakawin World
Marriage and Sexuality in the Indic Courts of Java and Bali
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in...
by Uzo Marvin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Archaeological evidence indicates that parts of the region now called Cambodia were inhabited during the first and second millennia B.C. by peoples having a Neolithic culture. By the first century A.D., the inhabitants had developed relatively stable, organized societies, which had far surpassed the...
Building Modern Turkey
State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey’s transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues...
Somewhere the Sun Is Shining
Look for the Silver Lining
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Alex Strong was only 11 years old, living with his family on their rubber tree plantation on Basilan island, Philippines, when World War II broke out. This fascinating book details his and his future wife Norma's family's journey through the dark days of war to a brighter future that they themselves...