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No. C-435

NUS Press 新刊案内 2016-2017

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01. A Tiger Remembers:

The Way We Were in Singapore By Ann Wee Publication Year: 2017 160 pages, 216mm x 140mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-37-7 Paperback US$20.00

Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family. One of Singapore’s pioneering social work educators, Ann shares her experiences frankly and with great humour. She remembers the things that history books leave out: questions of hygiene, terms of endearment, the emotional nuance in social relations, stories of ghost wives and changeling babies, rural clan settlements and migrant dormitories, what disappeared when families moved into HDB estates. Affectionately observed and wittily narrated, with a deep appreciation of how far Singapore has changed, this book brings to life the country’s social transformation by talking about the family, “in its 101 different shapes and sizes, with its capacity to cope which ranges from truly marvellous to distinctly tatty: still, in one form or another, the best place for most of us to be”.

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02. Nature's Colony: Empire, Nation and

Environment in the Singapore

Botanic Gardens By Timothy P. Barnard Publication Year: 2016 304 pages, 229mm x 152mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-22-3, Paperback US$34.00 Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world.

Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the “greening” of the nation-state, and became Singapore’s first World Heritage Site.

03. Boundaries and Beyond:

China's Maritime Southeast in Late

Imperial Times By Ng Chin-keong Publication Year: 2016 568 pages, 235mm x 156mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-01-8 Casebound US$56.00 Using 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 broader Asian Seas, these linked essays by a senior scholar in the field challenge the usual readings of Chinese history from the centre. After an opening essay which positions China’s southeastern coast within a broader view of maritime Asia, the first section of the book looks at boundaries, between “us” and “them”, Chinese and other, during this period. The second section looks at the challenges to such rigid demarcations posed by the state and existed in the status quo. The third section discusses movements of people, goods and ideas across national borders and cultural boundaries, seeing tradition and innovation as two contesting forces in a constant

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state of interaction, compromise and reconciliation. This approach underpins a fresh understanding of China’s boundaries and the distinctions that separate China from the rest of the world. In developing this theme, Ng Chin-keong draws on many years of writing and research in Chinese and European archives. Of interest to students of migration, of Chinese history, and of the long term perspective on relations between China and its region, Ng’s analysis provides a crucial background to the historical shared experience of the people in Asian maritime zonses. The result is a novel way of approaching Chinese history, argued from the perspective of a fresh understanding of China’s relations with neighbouring territories and the populations residing there, and of the nature of tradition and its persistence in the face of changing circumstances.

04. Admiral Matelieff's Singapore and Johor,

1606-1616 Edited by Peter Borschberg Publication Year: 2016 260 pages, 216mm x 140mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-18-6, Paperback US$18.00 Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570‒1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and besieged Portuguese Melaka in 1606 with the help of Malay allies. A massive Portuguese armada arrived from Goa to fight the Dutch at sea, break the siege and relieve the Portuguese colony. During his Asian voyage and on his return to Europe in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of letters and memorials in which he provided a candid assessment of trading opportunities and politics in Asia. He advised the VOC and leading government officials of the Dutch Republic to take a long term view of Dutch involvement in Asia and fundamentally change the way they were doing business there. Singapore, the Straits region, and Johor assumed a significant role in his overall assessment. At one stage he seriously contemplated establishing the VOC’s main Asian base at a location near the Johor River estuary. On deeper reflection, however, Matelieff and the VOC directors in Europe began to shift their attention southward and instead preferred a location around the Sunda Strait. This was arguably a near miss for Singapore two full centuries before Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the British trading post on the island in 1819.

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05. Collaborative Governance of Forests: Towards

Sustainable Forest Resource

Utilization Edited by Makoto Inoue and Motomu Tanaka Contributions by Darmawan Arief, Fujiwara Takahiro, Harada Kazuhiro, Hyakumura Kimihiko, Inoue Makoto, Nguyen Vinh Quang, Kakizawa Hiroaki, Ohashi Mariko, Oktalina Silvi Nur, Okubo Mika, Okuda Hironori, Rohman, Sato Masatoshi, Sato Noriko, Tanaka Motomu, Tanaka Nobuhiko, Tsuyuk Satoshi, Yokota Yasuhiro and Wiyono

Publication Year: 2015 346 pages, 210mm x 148mm ISBN: 978-9971-69-862-1, Paperback US$40.00

This extensive reference writes a modern history of forestry in Japan, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and other Asian countries, reflecting industrial and colonial exploitation, periods of excessive deforestation, and the alienation of local residents from natural resources. Drawing on their experience as"participant observers"in local practice, the authors suggest new,"inclusive"approaches to forestry governance that support sustainable development, environmental preservation, and the productive collaboration by various stakeholders.

The mismatched interests of local citizens and outsiders have split the development of Asia's natural and cultural resources. Taking this complexity into account, the essays in this volume advance a definition of effective governance that achieves more than the successful execution of management. It pursues a new vision of society in which all stakeholders collaborate to govern the use of certain resources. This volume outlines two key conditions for effective resource management: sharing and commitment (or graduated membership), which transcend mere material issues to determine the social and cultural value of a resource.

06. Till the Break of Day: A History

of Mental Health Services in

Singapore, 1841-1993 (2nd edition)

By Ng Beng Yeong Publication Year: 2016 340 pages, 216mm x 152mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-40-7, Paperback US$34.00

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This 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, historians interested in the development of medicine and psychiatry and even members of the public with some basic understanding of psychiatry and psychology. Relatives and caregivers of psychiatric patients would also find the information furnished in this book enlightening.

07. Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern

Asia, 1913-1974 By Stefan Huebner Publication Year: 2016 416 pages, 235mm x 156mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-03-2 Paperback US$42.00 The history of regional sporting events in 20th century Asia yields insights into Western and Asian perspectives on what defines modern Asia, and can be read as a staging of power relations in Asia and between Asia and the West. The Far Eastern Championship Games began in 1913, and were succeeded after the Pacific War by the Asian Games. Missionary groups and colonial administrations viewed sporting success not only as a triumph of physical strength and endurance but also of moral education and social reform. Sporting competitions were to shape a "new Asian man" and later a "new Asian woman" by promoting internationalism, egalitarianism and economic progress, all serving to direct a “rising” Asia toward modernity. Over time, exactly what constituted a “rising” Asia underwent remarkable changes, ranging from the YMCA’s promotion of muscular Christianity, democratization, and the social gospel in the US-colonized Philippines to Iranian visions of recreating the Great Persian Empire.

08. Racial Science and Human

Diversity in Colonial Indonesia By Fenneke Sysling Publication Year: 2016 360 pages, 235mm x 156mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-07-0, Paperback US$42.00 Indonesia 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 ideas

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developed by racial scientists working in the Netherlands Indies beginning in the late nineteenth century, who tried to develop systematic ways to define and identify distinctive races. Their work helped spread the idea that race had a scientific basis in anthropometry and craniology, and was central to people’s identity, but their encounters in the archipelago also challenged their ideas about race.

09. Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey By Zhuang Wubin Publication Year: 2016 524 pages, 235mm x 187mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-12-4 Casebound 212 photographs US$40.00 Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. The narrative begins in the colonial era, at the point when the transfer of photographic technology occurred between visiting practitioners and local photographers. With individual chapters dedicated to the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam, the bulk of the book spans the post-WWII era to the contemporary, focusing on practitioners who operate with agency and autonomy. The relationship between art and photography, which has been defined very narrowly over the decades, is re-examined in the process. Photography also offers an entry point into the cultural and social practices of the region, and a prism into the personal desires and creative decisions of its practitioners.

10. Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind:

The Javanese Shadow-play Dewa

Ruci Performed by Ki Anom

Soeroto - A Study in Performance

Philology By Bernard Arps Publication Year: 2016 648 pages, 235mm x 156mm

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ISBN: 978-981-4722-15-5, Paperback 250 halftones US$42.00 Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight. The book presents Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance's cultural complexity. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian political ideology. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past.

11. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia:

Money Politics, Patronage and

Clientelism at the Grassroots Edited by Edward Aspinall & Mada Sukmajati Contributions by Rizkika Lhena Darwin, Teuku Muhammad Jafar Sulaiman, Ahmad Taufan Damanik, Ibrahim, Alamsyah, Muhammad Mahsun, Gandung Ismanto, Idris Thaha, Argoposo Cahyo Nugroho, Sita W. Dewi, S.L. Harjanto, Olivia D. Purba, Amalinda Savirani, Caroline Paskarina, Marzuki Wahid, Noor Rohman, Zusiana Elly Triantini, Rubaidi, Ahmad Zainul Hamdi, Ahmad Muhajir, Nono S.A. Sumampouw, Eve Warburton, Rudi Rohi, Ridwan and Cillian Nolan

Publication Year: 2016 472 pages, 229mm x 153mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-04-9, Paperback US$34.00

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How do politicians win elected office in Indonesia? To find out, research teams fanned out across the country prior to Indonesia’s 2014 legislative election to record campaign events, interview candidates and canvassers, and observe their interactions with voters. They found that at the grassroots political parties are less important than personal campaign teams and vote brokers who reach out to voters through a wide range of networks associated with religion, ethnicity, kinship, micro enterprises, sports clubs and voluntary groups of all sorts. Above all, candidates distribute patronage—cash, goods and other material benefits—to individual voters and to communities. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesiabrings to light the scale and complexity of vote buying and the many uncertainties involved in this style of politics, providing an unusually intimate portrait of politics in a patronage-based system.

12. Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art

and Empire in the Early 19th

Century By Sarah Tiffin Publication Year: 2016 340 pages, 235mm x 187mm ISBN: 978-9971-69-849-2 Casebound 82 illustrations in colour US$42.00 British 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 candis, pagodas, wats and monuments. To the British eye, images of the remains of past civilisations allowed, indeed stimulated, philosophical meditations on the rise and decline of entire empires. Ruins were witnesses to the fall, humbling and disturbingly prophetic, and so revealing more about British attitudes than they do about Southeast Asia’s cultural remains. This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were embedded within landscape paintings and prints.

“This immaculately written book, together with the excellently chosen illustrations, integrates early British visual culture regarding Southeast Asia with an important discussion of the relationships between European imperialism and art history.” John Crowley, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University

13. Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911 By Kenneth Dean and Hue Guan Thye Publication Year: 2016 1456 pages, 210mm x 297mm 2 volumes ISBN: 978-9971-69-871-3 Casebound 1300 illustrations US$195

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The history of Singapore's Chinese community is carved in stone and wood: in the epigraphic record of 62 Chinese temples, native place associations, clan and guild halls, from 1819 to 1911. These materials include temple plaques, couplets, stone inscriptions, stone and bronze censers, and other inscribed objects found in these institutions. They prove first-hand historical information on the aspirations and contributions of the early generation of Chinese settlers in Singapore. Early inscriptions reveal the centrality of these institutions to Chinese life in Singapore, while later inscriptions show the many ways that these institutions have evolved over the years. Many have become deeply engaged in social welfare projects, while others have also become centers of transnational networks. These materials, available in Chinese and in English translation, open a window into the world of Chinese communities in Singapore. These cultural artifacts can also be appreciated for their exceptional artistic value. They are a central part of the heritage of Singapore

“There is no doubt that this new collection of epigraphic material constitutes a repository of Singapore cultural and historical heritage, and will become an indispensable tool for all the scholars interested in that country.” Claudine Salmon, Director of Research Emeritus at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris

14. The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders,

Agribusiness and the State in

Indonesia and Malaysia Edited by Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthy Contributions by Zahari Zen, Colin Barlow, Ria Gondowarsito, John F. McCarthy, Lesley M. Potter, Patrick S. Sujang, Patrice Levang, Wahyu Riva, Meri Orth, Piers Gillespie, Greg Acciaioli, Oetami Dewi, Tania Murray Li, Sunny Sanderson and Oliver Pye

Publication Year: 2016 512 pages, 235mm x 156mm ISBN: 978-981-4722-06-3, Paperback US$36.00 The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Indonesia and Malaysia, generating wealth along with economic, social, and environmental controversy. Who benefits and who loses from oil palm development? Can oil palm development provide a basis for inclusive and sustainable rural development?

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Based on detailed studies of specific communities and plantations and an analysis of the regional political economy of oil palm, this book unpicks the dominant policy narratives, business strategies, models of land acquisition, and labour-processes. It presents the oil palm industry in Malaysia and Indonesia as a complex system in which land, labour and capital are closely interconnected. Understanding the oil palm complex is a prerequisite to developing better strategies to harness the oil palm boom for a more equitable and sustainable pattern of rural development.

15. Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor By Douglas Kammen Publication Year: 2015 248 pages, 229mm x 152mm ISBN: 978-9971-69-875-1, Paperback US$28.00 Why does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that island’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara.

16. Revolution in the City of Heroes:

A Memoir of the Battle that Sparked Indonesia’s National Revolution by Suhario Padmodiwiryo. Translated by Frank Palmos Publication Year: 2015 224 pages, 229mm x 152mm ISBN: 978-9971-69-844-7, Paperback US$24.00 Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, alias "Hario Kecik", Revolution in the City of Heroes is an evocative first-hand account of the popular uprising in Surabaya. The book vividly portrays the chaotic swirl of events and the heady emotion of young people ready to sacrifice their lives for a great cause.

17. Abolitions as a Global Experience Edited by Hideaki Suzuki Contributions by Hideaki Suzuki, Sue Peabody, Kumie Inose, Isabel Tanaka-Van Daalen, Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ei Murakami, Amitava

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Chowdhury, Yuriko Yokoyama, Martin A. Klein and Alessandro Stanziani

Publication Year: 2015 312 pages, 229mm x 153mm ISBN: 978-9971-69-860-7, Paperback US$32.00 The 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 these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed. Chapters cover a variety of different settings, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British, French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal developments in Russia and Japan. What part of the abolition decision was due to international pressure, and what part due to local factors? Furthermore, this collection does not solely focus on the moment of formal abolition, but looks hard at the aftermath of abolition, and also at the ways abolition was commemorated and remembered in later years.

18. Malaysia's "Original People": Past, Present and

Future of the Orang Asli Edited by Kirk Endicott Contributions by Duncan Holaday, Signe Howell, Sandra Khor Manickam, Alan G. Fix, David Bulbeck, A.S. Baer, Niclas Burenhult, Nicole Kruspe, Rosemary Gianno, Peter Laird, Juli Edo, Kamal Solhaimi Fadzil, Andy Hickson, Sue Jennings, Alberto G. Gomes, Wazir Jahan Karim, Mohd Razha Rashid, Barbara S. Nowak, Diana Riboli, Ivan Tacey, Csilla Dallos, Yogeswaran Subramaniam, Shanthi Thambiah, Zanisah Man, Rusaslina Idrus, Karen Heikkilä and Anthony Williams-Hunt

Publication Year: 2015 464 pages, 229mm x 153mm ISBN: 978-9971-69-861-4, Paperback US$34.00

The Malay-language term used for indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, Orang Asli, covers at least 19 culturally and linguistically distinct subgroups. Until about 1960 most Orang Asli lived in small camps and villages in the coastal and interior forests, or in isolated rural areas, and made their living by various combinations of hunting, gathering, fishing, agriculture, and trading forest products. By the end of the century, logging, economic development projects such as oil palm plantations, and resettlement programmes have displaced many Orang Asli communities and disrupted long-established social and cultural practices.