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The Annotated Malay Archipelagoby Alfred Russel Wallace

Wallace’s Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first—and long overdue—annotated edition in English.

This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction, and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The 52 illustrations from the original edition are supplemented by 16 pages of newly-selected colour illustrations dating from the period.

The content of the Malay Archipelago has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers “kill on an average a Chinaman every day” in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes.

By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace’s letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications, this edition reveals Wallace’s work as never before.

John van Wyhe is a historian of science and one of the world’s leading experts on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. He is a Fellow of Tembusu College, National University of Singapore, and a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of History and Biological Sciences.

John van Wyheeditor

October 2014

Paperback • US$28 / S$32ISBN: 978-9971-69-820-1836pp / 229 x 152mm

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Starry Island:New Writing from Singapore

Essays, fiction and poetry from more than two dozen contemporary writers — including Alfian Sa’at, Philip Jeyaretnam, Kim Cheng Boey, Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Cyril Wong — are featured in Starry Island: New Writing from Singapore. The collected works range in style from meditative essays to lyric poetry to magical realist fiction. Photographs in Starry Island are of Singapore’s ultra-modern architecture, juxtaposed with archival portraits of Peranakan and Chinese families.

Starry Island is the Summer 2014 issue in the MÄNOA series of international literature published by the University of Hawai‘i Press.

Contributions by Philip Jeyaretnam, Jason Erik Lundberg, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ng Yi-Sheng, Wena Poon, Desmond Kon, Alfian Sa’at, O Thiam Chin, Amanda Lee Koe, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Karen Kwek, Jerrold Yam, Jeffrey Greene, Nicholas Liu, Eleanor Neo, Chris Mooney-Singh, Grace Chua, Cyril Wong, Jee Leong Koh, Khoo Seok Wan, Dan Ying, Toh Hsien Min, Kim Cheng Boey, Jee Leong Koh and Wong Yoon Wah

Frank Stewart & Fiona Sze-Lorraineditors

July 2014

Paperback • US$20 / S$24ISBN: 978-0-8248-4797-5240pp / 253 x179mm

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This book of short stories by Goh Poh Seng tells of his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought up in post-war Kuala Lumpur, the impressionable young man finds himself transported to a totally different milieu and culture. The stories follow him from the first tentative steps of his voyage to Europe, to his sojourn in a hostel for Asian students and the shock of boarding life in a Catholic boys’ school; continues with his early awakening to the possibility of becoming a writer, together with a total embrace of the cultural and literary pleasures of Dublin. Along the way, he met a colourful tapestry of characters, among them a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry, the suave and charming Tom Pierre from the West Indies, and the much-loved Irish poet Paddy Kavanagh.

Goh Poh Seng (1936–2010) was a pioneer of Singapore litera ture in English. His first novel, If We Dream Too Long, is a coming-of-age novel set in Singapore, and is recognized as the first Singaporean novel published in English. Goh was distinguished as a novelist, poet and playwright. He wrote all his life, and has published four novels and five books of poetry. In 1986, he emigrated with his family to Canada. He was working on Tall Tales and MisAdventures when he passed away.

Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman

Goh Poh Seng

October 2014

Paperback •US$20 / S$24ISBN: 978-9971-69-634-4214pp / 140 x 217mm

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The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929: Historical and Folk Perceptions

Cheah Boon Kheng

In the early twentieth century, social banditry was endemic in the countryside near the border between the northern Malaysian state of Kedah and Siam, and some outlaws became local heroes. Cheah Boon Kheng’s account of peasant banditry and the society where it flourished draws on colonial records, literary sources and interviews to examine the circumstances that led the Governor, Sir Laurence Guillemard, to call the border area “one of the most lawless and insecure districts” in British Malaya during the 1920s. Considering banditry from the perspective of the peasant community, Cheah concludes that it grew out of lax government, weak policing, the geography of the border region and underdevelopment, and suggests that bandit heroes might be seen as symbols of rural protest. His discussion of the details of rural life in the early twentieth century and the conditions that underlay rural crime provide a unique social history of rural society in Malaya.

This innovative volume broke new ground in Malaysian studies when it first appeared in 1988. It is now reprinted for a new audience.

Cheah Boon Kheng retired as Professor of History at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang in 1994. He is currently a vice president of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and editor of the society’s journal.

August 2014


“… this book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Southeast Asian history, politics, and law”– Michael G. Peletz, Colgate University

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During the half century following Malaysian independence in 1957, the country’s National Museum underwent a transfor-mation that involved a shift from serving as a repository for displays of mounted butterflies and stuffed animals and accounts of the colonial experience to an overarching national narrative focused on culture and history. These topics are sensitive and highly disputed in Malaysia, and many of the country’s museums contest the narrative that underlies displays in the National Museum, offering alternative treatments of subjects such as Malaysia’s pre-Islamic past, the history and heritage of the Melaka sultanate, memories of the Japanese Occupation, national cultural policy, and cultural differences between the Federation’s constituent states.

In Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia, Abu Talib Ahmad examines museum displays throughout the country, and uses textual analysis of museum publications along with interviews with serving and retired museum officers to evaluate changing approaches to exhibits and the tensions that they express, or sometimes create. In addition to the National Museum, he considers museums and memorials in Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Kelantan and Terengganu, as well as memorials dedicated to national heroes (such as former Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, and film and recording artist P. Ramlee). The book offers rich and fascinating insights into differing versions of the country’s character and historical experience, and efforts to reconcile these sometimes disparate accounts.

Abu Talib Ahmad is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia

Abu Talib Ahmad

September 2014


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Between 1999 and 2000, sectarian fighting fanned across the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. What began as local conflicts between migrants and indigenous people over administrative boundaries spiraled into a religious war pitting Muslims against Christians and continues to influence communal relationships more than a decade after the fighting stopped. Christopher R. Duncan spent several years conducting fieldwork in North Maluku, and in Violence and Vengeance, he examines how the individuals actually taking part in the fighting understood and experienced the conflict.

Rather than dismiss religion as a facade for the political and economic motivations of the regional elite, Duncan explores how and why participants came to perceive the conflict as one of religious difference. He examines how these perceptions of religious violence altered the conflict, leading to large-scale massacres in houses of worship, forced conversions of entire communities, and other acts of violence that stressed religious identities. Duncan’s analysis extends beyond the period of violent conflict and explores how local understandings of the violence have complicated the return of forced migrants, efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation.

Christopher R. Duncan is Associate Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies and in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. He is the author of Civilizing the Margins, also published in Asia by NUS Press.

Violence and Vengeance:Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia

Christopher R. Duncan

September 2014


“...an important and unsettling book. Uncompromising in its analysis but deeply humane, it presents an account of one of the bloodiest conflicts that accompanied Indonesia’s democratic transition.” – Edward Aspinall, Australian National University

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Prisms on the Golden Pagoda:Perspectives on National Reconciliation in Myanmar

Just as the prismatic effects of glass mosaics or mirrors produce the spectrums of colour that give Myanmar’s pagodas their glittering iridescence, Prisms on the Golden Pagoda offers a spectrum of views on the country’s national reconciliation process. Because many of Myanmar’s outlying ethnic groups straddle the country’s borders with neighbouring countries in South and Southeast Asia and with China, the outcome of this process is crucial not only for the country’s current domestic liberalization but also for regional geopolitics.

The editor of this volume, Kyaw Yin Hlaing is a US-trained academic who currently serves as an advisor to Myanmar’s President. He has assembled contributions from veteran activists such as the Shan leader U Shwe Ohn, the Chin politician Lian H. Sakhong, Widura Thakin Chit Maung, once leader of Burma’s “Red Socialists”, and Thamarr Taman, formerly a senior civil servant. Commentary by the editor, and by Robert H. Taylor and British diplomat-turned activist Derek Tonkin, explains the context and significance of these materials. By showing how the national reconciliation effort has been viewed inside the country, the contributors provide an important insider’s perspective on Myanmar’s difficult legacies of violence and separatism.

Kyaw Yin Hlaing is Director of the Political Dialogue Program at the Myanmar Peace Center and the Center for Diversity and National Harmony, as well as Advisor to the President of Myanmar. He was formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong and is one of the founding members of Myanmar Egress.

Kyaw Yin Hlaingeditor

August 2014


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Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After his return to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608 he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

These materials contributed to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 1605–20, and they yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security and the diplomacy of regional polities and their relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, and presented with 70 illustrations and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieff’s travelogue will be of great interest to students of Southeast Asian and early colonial history and of the history of international law.

Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald.

Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia

Peter Borschbergeditor

October 2014

Paperback • US$38 / S$42ISBN: 978-9971-69-798-3

Hardback • US$58 / S$64ISBN: 978-9971-69-527-9

650pp257 x 178mm

A first person account of the rise of Dutch power in Southeast Asia in the 17th century.

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Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia

Diplomatic 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 preserving the independence and integrity of Cambodia through a policy of neutrality grew ever more challenging as the Cold War heated up in Indochina and conflict in Vietnam became a proxy war between the superpowers. Despite its alliance with the United States, Britain’s diplomatic objectives in the region largely aligned with Cambodia’s, and British criticism of US policy towards Cambodia was a problem in the alliance.

British diplomatic records present a fascinating window into Cambodian decision-making, and the rationale behind Sihanouk’s sometimes apparently irrational policies. The reports yield new insights into Sihanouk’s efforts to sustain Cambodia’s integrity vis-à-vis its more powerful neighbours. Equally, a fine-grained analysis of British-Cambodia relations reveals much about the dynamics of British foreign policy in the period. Britain’s ultimate dependence on its powerful American ally limited its influence in the region. After 1967, indeed, it ceased to have a strategic role. Over the period, British frustrations grew, even as it remained consistent in its foreign policy objectives and approaches.

Nicholas Tarling was Professor of History at the University of Auckland 1968–97 and has since been a Fellow of its New Zealand Asia Institute.

Nicholas Tarling

July 2014


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The scale and speed at which Asian cities are growing and densifying is without historical precedent. Continued recycling of existing urban planning and architectural models will lead to devastating effects on land, infrastructure, and the environment.

The Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition and Symposium were created to encourage design explorations and research into the prospects of new models for the increasingly vertical, dense, and intense urban environments in Asia. Editions one (Chengdu, 2011) and two (Seoul, 2012) of the five-year programme were themed ‘Everyone Needs Fresh Air’ and ‘Everyone Ages’. The third edition (Hanoi, 2013) was themed ‘Everyone Harvests’, and sought potential solutions for an entirely new approach to urban agriculture. The competition called for new modes of urban agriculture forged with consideration of energy and water resources. This book—fully illustrated in colour and beautifully presented with special Swiss-style cut-flush binding—presents the spectrum of innovative design and theoretical approaches proposed in the competition entry schemes and symposium.

Ng Wai Keen is an Associate Professor and Miyauchi Tomohisa is Senior Lecturer in the School of Design & Environment, NUS. The Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition and Symposium is organised by the National University of Singapore’s School of Design and Environment, and is sponsored by Beijing Vantone Citylogic Investment Corporation and the World Future Foundation. The participating universities are The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Delft University of Technology, National University of Singapore, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Tongji University, Tsinghua University, University of California (UC) Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Tokyo. Cheah Kok Ming and Cho Im Sik assisted in the editing, while texts were translated by Wang Liangliang and Han Jie.

Vertical Cities AsiaInternational Design Competition and Symposium 2013 Volume 3 - Everyone Harvests

Ng Wai Keen & Miyauchi Tomohisaeditors

DISTRIBUTED ON BEHALF OF THE NUS DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, SCHOOL OF DESIGN & ENVIRONMENT

July 2014

Paperback • US$32 / S$38Swiss-style cut-flush bindingISBN: 978-9-810-91116-4192pp / 230 x 305mm

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Fields of Desire:Poverty and Policy in Laos

In this important new book, High argues that poverty reduction policies are formulated and implemented in fields of desire. Drawing on psychoanalytic understandings of desire, she shows that such programmes circulate around the question of what is lacking. Far from rational responses to measures of need, then, the politics of poverty are unconscious, culturally expressed, mutually contradictory, and sometimes contrary to self-interest.

Based on long-term fieldwork in a Lao village that has been the subject of multiple poverty reduction and development programmes, High’s account looks at implementation on the ground. While these efforts were laudable in their aims of reducing poverty, they often failed to achieve their objectives. Local people received them with suspicion and disillusionment. Nevertheless, poverty reduction policies continued to be renewed by planners and even desired locally. High relates this to the force of aspirations among rural Lao, ambivalent understandings of power and the “post-rebellious” moment in contemporary Laos.

Holly High is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

Holly High

“[High’s] meditation on the ambiguity of desire in state-society relations is path-breaking and offers new insights into the nature of rural citizenship in Southeast Asia and beyond.” – Philip Taylor, Australian National University

CHALLENGES OF AGRARIAN TRANSITION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

February 2014

Paperback • US$34 / S$38ISBN: 978-9971-69-770-9232pp / 229 x152mm

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Temiar Religion, 1964–2012: Enchantment, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Malaysia’s Uplands

The Temiar are a Mon-Khmer-speaking group living in the uplands of northern Peninsular Malaysia. People in the region once practised Mahayana Buddhism and later Islam, but when Geoffrey Benjamin began his fieldwork in 1964, the Temiar practised a localised and unexportable animistic religion. Over a period of nearly 50 years he has followed the Temiar community, witnessing a series of changes that have seen them become ever more embedded in broader Malaysian society.

Benjamin’s work traces a process of religious enchantment, disenchantment and re-enchantment, as the Temiars reacted in various ways to Baha’i, Islam and Christianity, including developing their own new religion. In a text enriched by detailed ethnographic reportage and 69 photographs and illustrations, Benjamin draws on the Temiar experience to set out a novel theory of religion, and to explore the changing intellectual framework of anthropology over the past half-century.

Geoffrey Benjamin has taught at the former University of Singapore, the Australian National University, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. He is currently Senior Associate at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) at Nanyang Technological University.

Geoffrey Benjamin

August 2014


The result of nearly 50 years of fieldwork from one of the region’s top anthropologists.

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Hidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikza shape Burmese culture by bringing together practices of supernatural power and a mission to protect Buddhism. This exciting new research on an often hidden aspect of Burmese religion places weikza in relation to the Vipassana insight meditation movement and conventional Buddhist practices, as well as the contemporary rise of Buddhist fundamentalism. Featuring research based on fieldwork only possible in recent years, paired with reflective essays by senior Buddhist studies scholars, this book situates the weikza cult in relation to broader Buddhist and Southeast Asian contexts, offering interpretations and investigations as rich and diverse as the Burmese expressions of the weikza cults themselves. Champions of Buddhism opens the field to new questions, new problems, and new connections with the study of religion and Southeast Asia in general.

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière is a researcher with the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) and is the current Director of the Center of Southeast Asia Studies in Paris. Guillaume Rozenberg is with the CNRS and Alicia Turner is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University in Toronto.

Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg & Alicia Turnereditors

July 2014


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The Khmer Lands of Vietnam:Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty

Philip Taylor

The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which Vietnam and Cambodia have competing claims. Regarded with ambivalence and suspicion by nationalists in both countries, these in-between people have their own claims on the place where they live and a unique perspective on history and sovereignty in their heavily contested homelands. To cope with wars, environmental re-engineering and nation-building, the Khmer Krom have selectively engaged with the outside world in addition to drawing upon local resources and self-help networks. This groundbreaking book reveals the sophisticated ecological repertoire deployed by the Khmer Krom to deal with a complex river delta, and charts their diverse adaptations to a changing environment. In addition, it provides an ethnographically grounded exposition of Khmer mythic thought that shows how the Khmer Krom position themselves within a landscape imbued with life-sustaining potential, magical sovereign power and cosmological significance. Offering a new environmental history of the Mekong River delta this book is the first to explore Southern Vietnam through the eyes of its indigenous Khmer residents.

Philip Taylor is Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at The Australian National University.

“In this meticulous, absorbing and often poignant book, Philip Taylor draws on years of fieldwork to take us among the appealing, resilient and ecologically gifted Khmer speaking minority in southern Vietnam.” – David Chandler, Monash University

ASIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA: SOUTHEAST ASIAN PUBLICATIONS SERIES

April 2014


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The years following the fall of Suharto have been full of promises of liberation but also apprehension for the future. The period brought an unprecedented rise in the public profile of Islamic politics, new and public debates on past human rights violations, protracted and irrevocable divisions within the top political elite, the rise of Asian popular culture, and a digital communication revolution passionately welcomed by young Indonesians along with youths all around the world.

Identity and Pleasure: The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture critically examines what media and screen culture reveal about the ways urban-based Indonesians attempted to redefine their identity in the first decade of this century. Through a richly nuanced analysis of their expressions and representations across screen culture (cinema, television and social media), it analyses the waves of energy and optimism, and the disillusionment, disorientation and despair, that arose in the power vacuum after the dramatic collapse of the militaristic New Order government.

The overall narrative provides much reason for optimism, but it also suggests that the deep reservoir of creativity that gave rise to Indonesia’s local hybrid modernities has been targeted by competing groups of modernists, who favour a narrow definition of what it means to be Indonesian.

Ariel Heryanto is Professor and Deputy Director (Education), at The School of Culture, History and Language of The Australian National University’s College of Asia and The Pacific.

Identity and Pleasure:The Politics of Indonesian Screen Culture

Ariel Heryanto

KYOTO CSEAS SERIES ON ASIAN STUDIES

July 2014


“Heryanto has a rare ability to connect sharp analysis of Indonesia’s media landscape with wider theoretical questions in cultural studies.”

- Krishna Sen, Winthrop Professor, University of Western Australia

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Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a degree of political consensus that ordinary democratic arrangements cannot produce, and that the country’s success requires a competitive meritocracy accompanied by relatively little income or wealth redistribution.

But the policy and political conundrums that Singapore faces today are complex and defy easy answers. Confronted with a political landscape that is likely to become more contested, how should the government respond? What reforms should it pursue? This collection of essays suggests that a far-reaching and radical rethinking of the country’s policies and institutions is necessary, even if it weakens the very consensus that enabled Singapore to succeed in its first 50 years.

Donald Low is Associate Dean for executive education and research at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh is the author of Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore.

Donald Low & Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

“These wide-ranging, diverse, and richly stimulating essays deserve to be read by anyone seriously interested in Singapore’s future.” – Donald Emmerson, Stanford University

“Donald Low and Sudhir Vadaketh are two of our most original thinkers.” – Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large

April 2014

Paperback • US$24 / S$24ISBN: 978-9971-69-816-4256pp / 229 x 152 mm

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From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campaigns in the past six years, Singapore’s gay rights activists have sought equality and justice in a state that does not recognise their rights to seek protection of their civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book, Mobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua tells the history of the gay rights movement in Singapore and asks what a social movement looks like under these circumstances. She examines the movement’s emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes.

Chua uses in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement’s activities, movement documents, govern-ment statements, and media reports. She shows how activists deployed (and still deploy) “pragmatic resistance” to gain visibility and support, and tackle political norms that suppress dissent, while avoiding direct confrontations with the law.

Lynette J. Chua is Assistant Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore.

Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State

Lynette J. Chua

April 2014


“Chua’s exhaustive ethnographic interviews and careful data analysis exemplify ethnographic fieldwork at its best. This publication is outstandingly readable, almost addictive.”– David Engel, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Let’s Speak Indonesian: Ayo Berbahasa Indonesia, Volumes 1 & 2

This brand new language learning series provides beginning and intermediate learners with an introduction to conversational Indonesian. Using a relaxed variety of standard Indonesian spoken among educated native speakers, it offers 15 thematically-based chapters in two volumes that are rich with photographs, illustrations, and cultural explanations.

The volumes take the novice learner to the intermediate-high level while following a set of fictional students through their university studies. Each lesson presents four to six language functions (e.g., how to greet a stranger, introduce oneself, ask for directions, apologize, offer a suggestion) in socially appropriate contexts. Students begin with the language functions needed to communicate about self, family, and the immediate environ-ment; later lessons expand to topics about the community and broader social issues.

Each lesson offers the following: a list of language functions in Indonesian and English, a dialogue (and online recording) exemplifying the language functions taught in the lesson, structured activities to develop accuracy using the language functions, open-ended tasks to develop fluency in communicative events, a vocabulary list with English definitions, and cultural notes. Each volume concludes with a glossary of vocabulary items introduced in the text.

Ellen Rafferty is Professor of Indonesian language and literature in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Erlin Barnard is the Pedagogy Coordinator for Less Commonly Taught Languages at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Lucy Suharni teaches Indonesian at the National University of Singapore.

Ellen Rafferty, Erlin Barnard & Lucy Suharni

February 2014

Paperback • vol 1 US$27 / S$32ISBN: 978-9971-69-811-9 234pp


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Indonesian Grammar in Context (Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia)provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic grammatical structures of Indonesian in three richly illustrated volumes. Although numerous varieties of Indonesian exist throughout the archipelago, the authors use a relaxed, conversational style of Indonesian acceptable for interethnic communication among educated native speakers and commonly used in the media. Students engage in task-based activities set in real-life situations as they speak and write in Indonesian, thus acquiring grammatical accuracy while immersing themselves in the cultural context. Each lesson revolves around a grammatical construction presented in a conversation, narrative, or letter. Online recordings are available, allowing students to reinforce the learning of the grammatical forms. Lessons first offer the student the opportunity to see and hear the grammar in use, then to practice the grammatical form, and finally to read an explanation of the grammatical rule in English. Numerous illustrations and photographs aid in learning the language and culture without excessive use of translation. In addition, cultural notes at the end of each lesson allow students to explore the relationship between language use and socio-cultural values and customs.

Ellen Rafferty is professor of Indonesian language and literature in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Molly F. Burns has several years of language teaching experience in the United States and abroad, most recently teaching English as a Second Language at Portland Community College and Portland State University in Oregon. Shintia Argazali-Thomas is a librarian at the Tomah Public Library in Tomah, Wisconsin.

Indonesian Grammar in Context:Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia, Volumes 1, 2 & 3

Ellen Rafferty, Molly Burns & Shintia Argazali-Thomas

February 2014



August 2014


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In northern Sumatra, as in Malaya, colonial rule embraced an extravagant array of sultans, rajas, datuks and ulèëbalangs. In Malaya the traditional Malay elite served as a barrier to revolutionary change and survived the transition to independence, but in Sumatra a wave of violence and killing wiped out the traditional elite in 1945–46. Anthony Reid’s The Blood of the People, now available in a new edition, explores the circumstances of Sumatra’s sharp break with the past during what has been labelled its “social revolution”.

The events in northern Sumatra were among the most dramatic episodes of Indonesia’s national revolution, and brought about more profound changes even than in Java, from where the revolution is normally viewed. Some ethnic groups saw the revolution as a popular, peasant-supported movement that liberated them from foreign rule. Others, though, felt victimised by a radical, levelling agenda imposed by outsiders. Java, with a relatively homogeneous population, passed through the revolution without significant social change. The ethnic complexity of Sumatra, in contrast, meant that the revolution demanded an altogether new “Indonesian” identity to override the competing ethnic categories of the past.

Anthony Reid is Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian History at the Australian National University and a former Director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.

The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra

Anthony Reid

March 2014


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In this original and perceptive study Donna J. Amoroso argues that the Malay elites’ preeminent position after the Second World War had much to do with how British colonialism reshaped old idioms and rituals – helping to (re)invent a tradition. In doing so she illuminates the ways that traditionalism reordered the Malay political world, the nature of the state and the political economy of leadership. In the postwar era, traditionalism began to play a new role: it became a weapon which the Malay aristocracy employed to resist British plans for a Malayan Union and to neutralise the challenge coming groups representing a more radical, democratic perspective and even hijacking their themes.

Leading this conservative struggle was Dato Onn bin Jaafar, who not only successfully helped shape Malay opposition to the Malayan Union but was also instrumental in the creation of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that eventually came to personify an “acceptable Malay nationalism”. Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya is an important contribution to the history of colonial Malaya and, more generally, to the history of ideas in late colonial societies.

Donna J. Amoroso taught in Ohio and Tokyo, and ran the academic writing programme of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya

Donna J. Amoroso

May 2014


“Beautifully written, impressively researched, tightly organised, quietly humorous and ‘nice shooting’ in the jungle of Malaysian history and politics.” – Benedict Anderson, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University

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China: An International JournalVol. 1 (2003) through current issue

Published thrice yearly in April, August, and December by Singapore’s East Asian Institute, China: An International Journal focuses on con-temporary China, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, covering the fields of politics, economics, society, geography, law, culture and international relations.

Based outside China, America and Europe, CIJ aims to present diverse international percep-tions and frames of reference on contemporary China, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The journal invites the submission of cutting-edge research articles, review articles and policy comments and research notes in the fields of politics, economics, society, geography, law, culture and international relations. The unique final section of this journal offers a chronology and listing of key documents pertaining to developments in relations between China and the 10 ASEAN member-states.

CIJ is indexed and abstracted in Social Sciences Citation Index®, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Bibliography of Asian Studies and Econlit.

Journal of Burma StudiesVolume 1 (1997) through current issue

The Journal of Burma Studies is one of the only scholarly peer-reviewed printed journals dedicated exclusively to Burma. Jointly spon-sored by the Burma Studies Group and the Center for Burma Studies at Northern Illinois University, the Journal is published twice a year, in June and December. The Journal seeks to publish the best scholarly research focused on Burma/Myanmar and its minority and diasporic cultures from a variety of disciplines, ranging from art history and religious studies, to economics and law. Published since 1997, it draws together research and critical reflection on Burma/Myanmar from scholars across Asia, North America and Europe.

Asian Bioethics ReviewInaugural edition (2008); Vol. 1 (2009) through current issue

The Asian Bioethics Review covers a broad range of topics relating to bioethics. An online academic journal, ABR provides a forum to express and exchange original ideas on all aspects of bioethics, especially those relevant to the region. The Review promotes multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary studies and will appeal to all working in the field of ethics in medicine and healthcare, genetics, law, policy, science studies and research.

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