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Divine Custody: A History of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple by Yeo Kang Shua
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $69.01An 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: $33.58Booksplease Price: $30.74The 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: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39Gets 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: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67Men 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: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58Landscape 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: $67.68The 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: $67.20Booksplease Price: $59.22Ever 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: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.12This 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: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.39First 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: $76.15This 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: $63.48On 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: $63.84This 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: $74.89Regional 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: $64.24Apologies 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: $104.90Booksplease Price: $102.71Using 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: $54.58Booksplease Price: $48.30The 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: $63.84Information 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: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58General 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: $73.73Malaysia'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: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.12A 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: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76As 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: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Asian 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: $58.78Booksplease Price: $49.37The 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: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39As 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: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76During 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: $82.07First 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: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58This 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... -
![The Mystery of "A Yellow Sleuth": Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police by Ronald Allan 9789814722643](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9467812/10501662/9789814722643__31532.1767942854.jpg?c=1 "The Mystery of "A Yellow Sleuth": Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police by Ronald Allan 9789814722643")
The Mystery of "A Yellow Sleuth": Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police by Ronald Allan 9789814722643
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.08In 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: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.94Separatist 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: $88.20Booksplease Price: $73.19In 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... -
Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39A collection of essays engaging with Buddhism in Thailand and the virtues of distraction and variety within the materialist turn in studies of religion.In Thailand, Buddhism is deeply integrated into... -
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma by Francois Tainturier
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.45Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping, Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in... -
Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906 by Heather Sutherland
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.45The eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of the inhabitants of this area are often... -
Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-war Singapore by Michael D. Barr
Booksplease Price: $49.29Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and political dynamism. Students, labour unions, ambitious political contenders, and... -
Till the Break of Day: A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore, 1841-1993 by Ng Beng Yeong
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.67This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British colonial period. It should be of interest to health professionals, medical students,... -
Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict, 1978-1991 by Ang Cheng Guan
Booksplease Price: $73.98This is a ground-breaking study of the diplomatic efforts in the aftermath of Vietnam’s 1978 invasion of Cambodia. In retrospect, the resolution of the Cambodian conflict marked an important shift... -
Aan Thai: Basic Thai Reading Textbook by Titima Suthiwan
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.03Aan Thai is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the author's ""Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook"". It provides simple texts along with exercises in vocabulary, syntax, reading and... -
Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century by Sarah Tiffin
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $62.50British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia's ruined Hindu and Buddhist... -
Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order by See Seng Tan
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31The 1955 Asia-Africa conference (the ""Bandung Conference"") was a meeting of 29 Asian and African nations that sought to draw on Asian and African nationalism and religious traditions to forge a new... -
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War by Nicholas Tarling
Booksplease Price: $75.92A sequel to the author's Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War (Cambridge University...