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China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 by Jung-Pang Lo
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68Lo Jung-pang, a renowned professor at the University of California, Davis, completed a 600-page typed manuscript entitled China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 in 1957, but he died without arranging for... -
The Loss of Java: The Final Battles for the Possession of Java Fought by Allied Air, Naval and Land Forces in the Period 18 February-7 March 1942 by P. C. Boer 9789971695132
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73The Loss of Java explains in detail the air, sea and land battles between the Allied and Japanese armed forces during the battle for Java that followed the evacuation of southern Sumatra in February... -
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh City in Comparative Perspectives by Hy Van Luong 9789971694555
Booksplease Price: $40.74With the shift to a market economy, Ho Chi Minh City became a magnet for migrants and experienced rapid growth. Migration provides labor for economic growth in Ho Chi Minh City, and remittances sent... -
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality: Dealing With Leprosy In The Dutch East Indies, 1816-1942 by Leo van Bergen 9789814722834
Booksplease Price: $46.22The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterprise across the territory that is... -
Victorious Wives: The Disguised Heroine in Nineteenth-Century Malay Syair by Mulaika Hijjas 9789971695262
Booksplease Price: $39.58In Victorious Wives, Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay literature in a new light. The relatively equal... -
Britain and Sihanouk's Cambodia by Nicholas Tarling 9789971697075
Booksplease Price: $54.01Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Britain at the height of the Cold War provide unique insights into the overall foreign policies of both nations. King Norodom Sihanouk's strategy of... -
Revolution in the City of Heroes: A Memoir of the Battle that Sparked Indonesia's National Revolution by Suhario Padmodiwiryo 9789971698447
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.34Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, or "Hario Kecik", Revolution in the City of Heroes, is an evocative first-hand account of a... -
Abolitions as a Global Experience by Hideaki Suzuki 9789971698607
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteenth century. Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were... -
Stateless: Ethnography of Statelessness Written by a Stateless Academic by Tienshi 'Lara' Chen 9789813252325
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.28"In the springtime of the year that I was twenty-one, I found myself stuck at the border between two familiar countries, unable to enter either. I had never felt my statelessness so keenly."Japan's... -
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 17th-Century Southeast Asia by Peter Borschberg 9789971695286
Booksplease Price: $59.19A native of Bruges (now part of Belgium), Jacques de Coutre was a gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century. In addition to a substantial autobiography written... -
Churchill and the Lion City: Shaping Modern Singapore by Brian Farrell 9789971695521
Booksplease Price: $29.54Provides an analysis of Churchill's understanding of empire, his perceptions of Singapore and its imperial role, his direction of affairs regarding Singapore and the Empire, and his influence on the... -
Tall Tales and Misadventures of a Young WOG by Goh Poh Seng 9789971696344
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.54This book of autobiographical short stories by the late Goh Poh Seng, the Westernised Oriental Gentleman or Wog of the title, describes his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the... -
Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading of Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Vatthana Pholsena 9789971697013
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.28The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations,... -
Japanese Firms in Contemporary Singapore by Hiroshi Shimizu 9789971693848
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23This pioneering work discusses the role of Japan in the economic development of Singapore since 1965 by looking at the nature and extent of the value-added activities of Japanese multi-national... -
Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era by Adil Johan 9789814722636
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $35.73The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism,... -
Waterways of Bangkok: Memory, Landscape and Twilight Mike Hurley 9789813252783
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $37.36An elegantly written work that seamlessly draws connections between water, cities, landscape, and historical memory throughout Thailand. The Chao Phraya River is a maternal being at the heart of the... -
Home Is Where We Are by Wang Gungwu 9789813251328
Booksplease Price: $28.90Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home.Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives,... -
Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940 by James F. Warren 9789814722865
Booksplease Price: $39.72Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies... -
Home Is not Here by Wang Gungwu 9789813252905
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.62As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to... -
Guns of February: Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign in 1941 by Henry P. Frei 9789971692735
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Guns of February shows the Fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eyes of Japanese soldiers who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries, and other... -
A Gentleman of the Law: Essays in Memory of Tan Yock Lin Hock Lai Ho 9789813252882
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $42.39Professor Tan Yock Lin (1953-2023) was a distinguished legal scholar. He was a prominent figure in Singapore's legal community and Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of... -
Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions on a Plural Peninsula by Michael J. Montesano 9789971694111
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.34The portion of the Malay Peninsula where the Thai Buddhist civilization of Thailand gives way to the Malay Muslim civilization of Malaysia is characterized by multiple forms of pluralism. An... -
Design for a Contemporary World: A Textbook on Fundamental Principles by Christian Boucharenc 9789971693473
Booksplease Price: $57.44Design for a Contemporary World is a textbook that presents the theory and practice of design fundamentals. Design plays a significant role in environmental, ethical, economic and cultural arenas,... -
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks As Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, Ca. 645-770 by Dorothy Wong 9789814722599
RRP: $114.81Booksplease Price: $106.77The period ca. 645-770 marked an extraordinary era in the development of East Asian Buddhism and Buddhist art. Increased contacts between China and regions to both its west and east facilitated... -
Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present by Berenice Bellina
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over the longue-durEe: in certain periods proving central to the ability... -
Teaching English to Students from China by Lee Gek Ling
Booksplease Price: $24.12There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in China. This book provides teachers of English to... -
Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money, Politics, Patronage And Clientelism At The Grassroots by Edward Aspinall
Booksplease Price: $45.19How do politicians win elected office in democratic Indonesia? During the weeks leading to Indonesia's 2014 legislative election, a team of researchers fanned across the country to record campaign... -
Writing History in America's Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism by Takamichi Serizawa
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Both the Japanese and Filipino people experienced a re-writing of their national histories upon being defeated by the United States: the Philippines after 1902 and Japan after 1945. This re-writing... -
The British and the Vietnam War: Their Way with LBJ by Nicholas Tarling
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $35.35During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vietnam and to help bring about peace, but the British were only able to exert little, if any,... -
From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Singapore’s Queenstown Area in the 1960s and 1970s by Tan Kok Yang
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.77Tan Kok Yang grew up in a small public housing estate in Queenstown during the 1960s and early 1970s. Queenstown is one of the earliest public housing estates in Singapore and over the years, has... -
Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution by Louise Tythacott
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $37.36For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from the region to museums and private collections around... -
Racial Science & Human Diversity In Colonial Indonesia: Physical Anthropology and the Netherlands Indies, ca. 1890-1960 by Fenneke Sysling
Booksplease Price: $53.11Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices. The way such matters are understood is partly rooted in... -
China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949-1965 by Liu Hong
Booksplease Price: $39.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789971693817Author Hong LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook by Titima Suthiwan 9789971693206
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook is specially prepared for elementary Thai language classes where the language is initially taught with the use of phonetic symbols. A step-by-step guide to writing... -
Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship by Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian 9789971695071
Booksplease Price: $40.94After independence in 1957, the Malay monarchy was compelled to embrace Westminster-style constitutional monarchy, under which the role of the monarch is symbolic and affairs of the nation are run by... -
Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar: Transformation Under Market Liberalization by Ikuko Okamoto 9789971693985
Booksplease Price: $37.41Market liberalization in Myanmar began in 1988 and had some unanticipated consequences. As farmers began to operate in a context with greatly reduced government control, there was an explosion in the... -
Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia by William R. Roff 9789971694890
Booksplease Price: $54.09William R. Roff has spent more than forty years studying and writing about the modern history of Islam and Muslims, with special reference to Southeast Asia. With interests primarily in social and... -
Materializing Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Volume 2 by Marijke J. Klokke 9789971696559
Booksplease Price: $92.92Materializing Southeast Asia's Past contains articles in historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraph, and art history. The interpretations of art and material culture offer new... -
SAVU: History And Oral Tradition On An Island Of Indonesia by Genevieve Duggan 9789814722759
Booksplease Price: $61.61The book focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. It blends historical and anthropological methods, using oral tradition,... -
Kent Ridge: An Untold Story by Kevin Y. L. Tan 9789814722810
Booksplease Price: $30.33Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. Kent Ridge, a corner of Singapore island, has been home to the National University of Singapore (NUS) since the 1980s, but the area...