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Divine Custody: A History of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple by Yeo Kang Shua
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £32.86An architectural and historical study of Singapore's oldest Teochew Temple. At the turn of the nineteenth century, Teochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers settled in Singapore. Surrounded by the... -
The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.64The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations-especially Islam and the... -
Artists and the People: Ideologies of Art in Indonesia by Elly Kent
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Gets to the heart of what is unique about Indonesian art. Exploring the work of established and emerging artists in Indonesia's vibrant art world, this book examines why so many artists in the... -
Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States by Sari K. Ishill
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Men are disadvantaged in the marriage markets of many Asian countries, and in some cases their response is to look abroad for a partner. Receiving countries for marriage migrants include Japan,... -
Changing Landscapes of Singapore: Old Tensions, New Discoveries by Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Landscape is not only the visible material surface of places but also refers to ways of interpreting fluid or contested social relations and spatial arrangements. The essays in this book critically... -
Iranun and Balangingi: Globalisation, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity by James F. Warren
Booksplease Price: £32.23The aim of this book is to explore ethnic, cultural and material changes in the transformative history(s) of oceans and seas, commodities and populations, mariners and ships and raiders and refugees... -
Singapore's Permanent Territorial Revolution: Fifty Years in Fifty Maps by Rodolphe de Koninck
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.20Ever since Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its government has been intent on transforming the island's environment. This has led to a nearly constant overhaul of the landscape,... -
Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender, and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia by Kurnuawati Hastuti Dewi
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44This book addresses factors behind the rise and victory of Javanese Muslim women political leaders in direct local elections in post-Suharto Indonesia. By using gender perspectives, this book reveals... -
The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery, and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State by James Francis Warren
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66First published in 1981, ""The Sulu Zone"" has become a classic in the field of Southeast Asian History. The book deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical ""border zone""... -
Clinical Psychology in Singapore: An Asian Casebook by Gregor Lange 9789971698546
Booksplease Price: £36.26This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles of clinical psychologists within local mental health services in Singapore. The 20... -
Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 by Benoit de Treglode 9789971695545
Booksplease Price: £30.23On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According... -
Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia by Nissim Otmazgin 9789971696009
Booksplease Price: £30.40This wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of... -
Isan Writers, Thai Literature: Writing and Regionalism in Modern Thailand by Martin B. Platt 9789971696979
Booksplease Price: £35.66Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. In northeastern ThailandaEURO (TM)s Isan... -
Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia by Caroline S. Hau 9789971695477
Booksplease Price: £30.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789971695477Author Caroline S. HauFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Boundaries and Beyond: China's Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Tmes by Ng Chin-Keong 9789814722018
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £48.91Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China's maritime southeast in late Imperial times, and its interactions across maritime East Asia and the... -
Malaysia's Original People: Past, Present And Future Of The Orang Asli by Kirk Endicott 9789971698614
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.00The Malay-language term used for indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, "Orang Asli", covers at least 19 culturally and linguistically distinct subgroups. This volume is a comprehensive... -
New Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-1945 by Yoji Akashi 9789971692995
Booksplease Price: £30.40Information on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse, and Japanese-language materials are particularly difficult to find because the Japanese military systematically destroyed... -
Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution: The State and Military in Burma, 1962-88 by Yoshihiro Nakanishi 9789971697020
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04General Ne Win's state reformation in the name of the ""Burmese Way to Socialism"" contributed to the expansion of the political role of the Myanmar Armed Forces, the tatmadaw, but the underlying... -
Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia: Resource-Based Industrialization In Practice by C. C. Goldthorpe 9789971698362
Booksplease Price: £35.11Malaysia's rubber manufacturing sector is a prime example of an industry based on a locally produced agricultural resource. In Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia, C.C. Goldthorpe draws on industrial... -
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land: A Novel of Sihanouk's Cambodia by Suon Sorin 9789813250772
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.38A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after the death of his parents. Once there he is exposed to the hardships and... -
Islam, Nationalism and Democracy: A Political Biography of Mohammad Natsir by Audrey R. Kahin 9789971695712
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36As Indonesia's leading Muslim politician in the second half of the 20th century, Mohammad Natsir (1908-1993) went from heading the country's first post-independence government and largest Islamic... -
Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions by Masashi Haneda 9789971694630
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural contact involving a broad spectrum of participants from across the world. These interactions raised... -
Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans by Tommy Koh 9789813250895
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.51The most important of Tommy Koh's writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans. As the president of the third United Nations Conference on the NUS... -
Discovering Vietnam's Ancient Capital: The Archaeology and History of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long-Hanoi by Andrew Hardy 9789813252295
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14As Vietnam entered the 21st century it began to prepare for the 1000th anniversary of the founding of its capital Thang Long, now Hanoi. In the heart of the city, a rescue excavation was launched on... -
Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage: Celebrating Culture, Embracing Change by Barbara Hatley 9789971694104
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36During the dramatic economic and social transformation of late twentieth-century Indonesia, theatre performances in Central Java featured a familiar cast of rulers, nobles, clown servants and... -
Latent Images: Film in Singapore 9789971694562
Booksplease Price: £39.08First published in 2000 and now comprehensively updated, "Latent Images: Film in Singapore" is a pioneering reference work on Singapore cinema. Using new illustrations, the authors catalogue the... -
Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots by Allen Hicken 9789813250529
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04This new text provides a systematic analysis of grassroots level electioneering in the Philippines, using data gathered in the context of the 2016 elections, and combining in-depth ethnographic... -
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The Mystery of "A Yellow Sleuth": Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police by Ronald Allan 9789814722643
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In 1931 a book appeared in London with the title A Yellow Sleuth: Being the Autobiography of "Nor Nalla" (Detective-Sergeant Federated Malay States Police). It was met with puzzled enthusiasm,... -
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem by Anthony Reid 9789971693312
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Separatist feeling in Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost province, has deep historical roots but it is often dismissed as a reaction to a heavy-handed military presence in the area since 1989. With... -
In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam by Phui Nam Wong 9789813252868
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.85In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia's foundational poets, Wong confronts the struggles of cultural displacement. The poetry of Wong Phui Nam is foundational to Malaysian literature... -
Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present by Berenice Bellina
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Sea 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: £18.70There 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: £35.03How 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Both 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: £34.00Booksplease Price: £27.40During 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.90Tan 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: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.96For 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: £41.17Indonesia 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: £30.51Apologies 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: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Khian 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...