Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Poetry and Terror
Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller...
A Nation on the Line
Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In 2011 the Philippines surpassed India to become what the New York Times referred to as "the world's capital of call centers." By the end of 2015 the Philippine call center industry employed over one million people and generated twenty-two billion dollars in revenue. In A Nation on the...
Frontiers of Fear
Tigers and People in the Malay World, 1600-1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and anecdote. This fascinating book documents the big cat”human relationship in this area during its 350-year colonial period, re-creating a world in which people feared tigers but...
A Great Betrayal
The Fall of Singapore Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Across 15 chapters, professors of history and military history experts present their analyses and impressions about the Fall of Singapore in 1942, which was even described by Winston Churchill himself as “the greatest disaster in British military history”. Discussed at length is the Malayan Campaign...
From Rice Fields to Killing Fields
Nature, Life, and Labor under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Between 1975 and 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea fundamentally transformed the social, economic, political, and natural landscape of Cambodia. During this time, as many as two million Cambodians died from exposure, disease, and starvation, or were executed at the hands of the Party. The dominant...
The Nature of Revolution
Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The Nature of Revolution provides the first account of art and politics under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. James A. Tyner repositions Khmer Rouge artworks within their proper political and economic context: the materialization of a political organization in an era of anticolonial and...
The Politics of Lists
Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
2019 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award winner
Scholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization, surveillance, policing, biopolitics (the relation...
by John Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winner John Hughes provides a dramatic account of the events leading to the downfall of Indonesia's founding father, Sukarno. In the early morning of 1 October 1965 six high-ranking generals of the Indonesian army were murdered under grisly circumstances. This act was to set in motion...
Raffles and Hastings
Private Exchanges Behind the Founding of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The founding of Singapore has typically been attributed to the strategic genius of one man, Stamford Raffles. Frequently overlooked is the part played by his superior in the East India Company, the Marquess of Hastings. It was Hastings who, as Governor-General of India, made the fateful decision to establish...
A. H. Nasution and Indonesia's Elites
"People's Resistance" in the War of Independence and Postwar Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This is an account of the military, political and personal life of Abdul Harus Nasution who was a seminal figure in modern Indonesian history in the years prior to his effective sidelining in the 1960s. He was an important commander during Indonesia’s struggle for independence, who rose to become...
The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition
Contradiction, Change, and Holism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization has made East-West cultural understanding of even greater importance today. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition is...
Man or Monster?
The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed. In 2009 Duch stood trial for these crimes against humanity....
From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive
The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
In this vivid ethnography, Paige West tracks coffee as it moves from producers in Papua New Guinea to consumers around the world. She illuminates the social lives of the people who produce coffee, and those who process, distribute, market, and consume it. The Gimi peoples, who grow coffee in Papua...
by Francois Bizot
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The author of the acclaimed memoir The Gate now gives us a mesmerizing account of his personal relationship with one of the most infamous torturers of the twentieth century, and of his transformative experience observing and participating in that man’s recent trial for war crimes.
In 1971,...