Southeast category: 2400 books
Overwhelming Terror
Love, Fear, Peace, and Violence among Semai of Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
This powerful ethnography of a people believed to be the least violent in the world explores how they maintain peaceful relations even under the most dire circumstances. Robert Knox Dentan, the world's foremost scholar of Semai, brings its members vividly to life. His book includes translations of...
Security and Migration in Asia
The dynamics of securitisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2008
Security and Migration in Asia explores how various forms of unregulated and illegal forms of human movement within Asia and beyond the region have come to be treated as 'security' issues, and whether and how a 'securitization' framework enables a more effective response to them. The process and...
Survival Indonesian
How to Communicate Without Fuss or Fear Instantly! (An Indonesian Language Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This practical Indonesian phrasebook puts all the most important Indonesian words and phrases in the palm of your hand.
It contains all the necessary words and phrases for speaking Indonesian in any kind of setting. Perfect for students, tourists, or business people learning Indonesian or traveling...
by Tan Kok Seng
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
In this revealing sequel to his bestselling autobiography Son of Singapore, Tan Kok Seng finds himself in Malaysia as a British diplomat’s chauffeur. While driving luminaries like author Han Suyin around, Tan falls in love with Heung, a servant girl with dark brown eyes. Despite parental objections,...
Surviving against the Odds
Village Industry in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Read the foreword by Mara Soetoro-Ng
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having...
by Dirk Van der Cruysse, Michael Smithies (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2002
Ambassadors from Versailles in wigs and lace mounted on elephants crossing rice fields... Siamese mandarins prostrate before the throne of Louis XIV... a Greek adventurer... a scheming French Jesuit— these are just a few of the colourful characters that playa role in the early history...
East Timor, Australia and Regional Order
Intervention and its Aftermath in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
This book explains the exceptional nature of the East Timor intervention of 1999, and deals with the background to the trusteeship role of the UN in building the new polity. All of these developments had an important impact on regional order, not least testing the ASEAN norm of 'non-interference'.Australian complicity in the Indonesian occupation o
Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
Suburbanization, Transnational Migration, and Dispossession
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as “Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub” and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand...
Tan Lark Sye
Advocator and Founder of Nanyang University
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.
Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China, Mr Tan Lark Sye (1897 – 1972) was a leading rubber industrialist in Southeast Asia. Being a social activist, he believed in the value of...
Traders in Motion
Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding...
Mediating Islam
Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Arguing that our definition of Islamic journalism is too narrow, this study examines day-to-day journalism as practiced by Muslim professionals at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their...
Making Out in Burmese
(Burmese Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Making Out in Burmese is a fun, accessible and thorough Burmese phrase book and guide to the Burmese language as it's really spoken.
Nihn yeh myiht lohn goh jait deh. Beh daw teht-dway ja oo me-lah?—(You have beautiful eyes. When can I see you again?) Answer this correctly in Burmese and...
Making Out in Vietnamese
Revised Edition (Vietnamese Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Making Out in Vietnamese is a fun, accessible and thorough Vietnamese phrase book and guide to the Vietnamese language as it's really spoken.
Anh dien cuong vi em! Chung ta gap lai sau duoc khong?—(I'm crazy about you! Can we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Vietnamese and you may be...
Malay Phrase book
Bahasa Melayu
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The front half of this Malay (Bahasa Melayu) phrase book works as a handy pocket-size book with over 1000 words and more than 500 useful phrases.
The back half deals with grammar, along with short summaries of Malay grammar and verb conjugation for quick easy access when out in social situations.
This...