Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Our Time
Training, Deploying, and Combat with Company C, 2Nd Battalion, 47Th Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
The 9th Infantry Division was formed in a new and unique way in 1966. Traditionally, soldiers attended basic training on one Army post, Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at another, then reported to their units to begin serving with soldiers they had never met. The 9th was different. Recruits reported...
Living Sharia
Law and Practice in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among...
Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China
Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices,...
Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Mapping Chinese Rangoon is both an intimate exploration of the Sino-Burmese, people of Chinese descent who identify with and choose to remain in Burma/Myanmar, and an illumination of twenty-first-century Burma during its emergence from decades of military-imposed isolation. This spatial ethnography...
Subversions of the American Century
Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Subversions of the American Century: Filipino Literature in Spanish and the Transpacific Transformation of the United States argues that the moment the United States became an overseas colonial power in 1898, American national identity was redefined across a global matrix. The Philippines, which the...
Freedom in Entangled Worlds
West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. His later study of West Papua's resistance to the Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary...
Undaunted
My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Once a royal kingdom and then part of the British Empire, Burma long held sway in the Western imagination as a mythic place of great beauty. In recent times, Burma has been torn apart and isolated by one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. Now, Zoya of the, a young member ofthe Karen tribe...
The Edge of Terror
The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-occupied Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines.
As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe out American military might in the Pacific....
by Rick Fredericksen
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Just hours after two pilots had taken possession of a Cessna aircraft, they were flying over the Midwest on a lovely autumn morning when their small plane was targeted by F-16 fighter jets. It was September 11, 2001 and the civilians were among the last Americans to learn that our country was under...
What's in the Name?
How the Streets and Villages in Singapore Got Their Names
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 name groups were known in Singapore. Based on digitised historical newspapers, dated back to 1830, municipal records and Malay dictionaries, the origins, meanings and date of naming for many place names are uncovered....
by Geoffrey Jukes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Russo-Japanese war saw the first defeat of a major European imperialist power by an Asian country. When Japanese and Russian expansionist interests collided over Manchuria and Korea, the Tsar assumed Japan would never dare to fight. However, after years of planning, Japan launched a surprise attack...
Taming Babel
Language in the Making of Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Taming Babel sheds new light on the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse territories in the British Empire, Rachel Leow explores the profound anxieties generated by a century of struggles to govern the polyglot subjects...
by Matthew Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Thailand’s position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country’s political leadership was very keen to maintain the country’s independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to establish the country’s credentials as staunchly anti-communist. However, as this book argues,...
by Maharaj K. Pandit
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 50 million years ago created the Himalaya, along with massive glaciers, intensified monsoon, turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems. Today, the Himalaya is at risk of catastrophic loss of life. Maharaj Pandit outlines the mountain’s past in order to map a way toward a sustainable future.