The first in-depth study of book culture and history in Indonesia.

Moving beyond the familiar story of Siam fending off European colonialism, this book reveals a ne...

Accounts of the Great War tend to focus on Europe, the epicentre of this conflict, and find in it...

What did nineteenth-century travellers actually see when they journeyed through the Malay Archipe...

Why have some Southeast Asian cities become laboratories of reform while others remain mired in o...

What new framings emerge when we revisit the vibrant world of Malay-Indonesian manuscripts, looki...

How do faith, family, and migration intersect in the intimate lives of transnational couples? Thi...

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the str...

Over the past thirty years, contemporary art in Vietnam has emerged as a dynamic field shaped by ...

In postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape...

The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attem...

Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural...

This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and pu...

The most important of Tommy Koh's writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building...

Aceh is a region that is no stranger to violent conflict and tragedy. This special territory of I...

This is a ground breaking book that draws on insights from multiple disciplines to map out the ne...

General Ne Win's state reformation in the name of the ''Burmese Way to Socialism'' contributed to...

The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which V...

Since the 1960s, overseas migration has become a major factor in the economy of the Philippines. ...

Singapore's transformation from a trading port to a global city offers a compelling case study in...

What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? ...

Men are disadvantaged in the marriage markets of many Asian countries, and in some cases their re...

Extricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book tr...

The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the ...

During the last two decades, Laos has undergone major transformations due to a massive influx of ...

The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cos...

The portion of the Malay Peninsula where the Thai Buddhist civilization of Thailand gives way to ...

Late industrializing countries are able to pick strategies for economic development based on the ...

Until recently, receiving a European or North American-style medical education in Southeast Asia ...

Why does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this p...

Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, 'only told what Reggie wanted you to know.' Reggie was my f...

In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off ...

For decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced...

This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the...

The history of regional sporting events in 20th-century Asia yields insights into Western and Asi...

First published in 1981, ''The Sulu Zone'' has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian H...

A collection of essays to mark the fortieth anniversary of the 1982 UNCLOS. To commemorate forty ...

Professor Tan Yock Lin (1953-2023) was a distinguished legal scholar. He was a prominent figure i...

Japanese forces invaded Malaya on 8 December 1941 and British forces surrendered in Singapore 70 ...

Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, Wayang Kulit, richly reflects the Javanese ...

Lo Jung-pang, a renowned professor at the University of California, Davis, completed a 600-page t...

At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States ...

The Loss of Java explains in detail the air, sea and land battles between the Allied and Japanese...

Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have d...

The Khmer Rouge rise to power in 1975 gave birth to a terrifying new order marked by killings, fo...

Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial conflicts between Malays and Chinese durin...

Hidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikza

The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Sou...