Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen, Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste, New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2019 Although they were a tiny minority in the most backward of European colonies, the ethnic Chinese… Continue Reading
Sasges, Gerard and Ng Shi Wen (eds.), Hard at Work: Life in Singapore, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly wide range of experiences. Hard at… Continue Reading
Mrazek, Jan, Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, wayang kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice… Continue Reading
Kammen, Douglas, Independent Timor-Lest Between Coercion and Consent, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under… Continue Reading
Muzaini, Hamzah and Claudia Minca (eds.), After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage from Below, UK and US: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018 Focusing on the practices and politics of heritage-making at the individual and the local level, this book uses a wide… Continue Reading
Pholsena, Vatthana and Vanina Boute (eds.), Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017 One of the lesser-studied countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has gone through momentous changes over… Continue Reading
Sasges, Gerard, Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina, Hawaii: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017 Imperial Intoxication provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. It illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil… Continue Reading
Miksic, John N and Goh Geok Yian, Ancient Southeast Asia, London and New York: Routledge, 2016 Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution… Continue Reading
Muzaini, Hamzah and Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Contested Memoryscapes: The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore, London and New York: Routledge, 2016 This book sets itself apart from much of the burgeoning literature on war commemoration within human geography… Continue Reading
Join Professor John N. Miksic (NUS Dept of Southeast Asian Studies) and Associate Professor Goh Geok Yian (NTU HSS) at the launch of their latest publication ‘Ancient Southeast Asia’ on Fri, 11 Nov, at Level 16, The POD, National Library Building… Continue Reading