new books 2013

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Being Malay in Indonesia:Histories, Hopes and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago

For over 40 years, the people of Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago resented what they saw as ‘colonial’ control by Mainland Sumatra. In 1999, when the post-authoritarian state committed to democracy and local autonomy, they saw their chance to lobby for the region to be returned to its ‘native’ Malays. In 2004, the islands officially became Riau Islands Province. This book explores what happened next. Living in a new province created ‘for Malays’ forced Riau Islanders to engage with thorny questions over what it meant to be Malay and how to achieve the official goal of becoming globally competitive ‘human resources’. Putting nuanced ethnographic observations of life in the islands into a provocative dialogue with theorists ranging from Žižek to Sartre, this book explains how feelings of unsettledness and doubt came to permeate the province as a result of its very creation. Offering fresh perspectives on commerce, spirit beliefs, education, and culture, Being Malay in Indonesia challenges much of the received wisdom in the anthropology of Southeast Asia and makes a powerful case for the importance of feelings, sentiments and affect in studies of local development and political change.

Nicholas J. LONG is Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nicholas J. Long

“Vividly written and theoretically nuanced, this work is a welcome, important, and fascinating study for students of Indonesia and for anthropologists inter-ested in the politics of subjectivity.”- Robert W. Hefner, Boston University

ASIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA SERIES

History, Borderlands

Paperback • US$ 32 / S$ 38ISBN 978-9971-69-769-3332 pp / 152 x 229 mm

September 2013

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Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore

The crowded, bustling, ‘squatter’ kampungs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few traces of their influence on life in the city-state. In one such settlement, located in an area known as Bukit Ho Swee, a great fire in 1961 destroyed the kampung and left 16,000 people homeless, creating a national emergency that led to the first big public housing project of the new Housing and Development Board (HDB). HDB flats now house more than four-fifths of the Singapore population, making the aftermath of the Bukit Ho Swee fire a seminal event in modern Singapore. Loh Kah Seng grew up in one-room rental flats in the HDB estate built after the fire. Drawing on oral history, official records and media reports, he describes daily life in squatter communities and how people coped with the hazard posed by fires. His examination of the catastrophic events of 25 May 1961 and the steps taken by the new government of the People’s Action Party in response show the consequences of the fire and how relocation to public housing changed people’s lives. Through a narrative that is both vivid and subtle, the book explores the nature of memory and probes beneath the hard surfaces of modern Singapore to understand the everyday life of the people who live in the city.

LOH Kah Seng is Assistant Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, Sogang University.

Loh Kah Seng

“This excellent book—located at the intersections of history, ethnography and sociology—makes a major contribution to our understanding of the social history of post-war/post-colonial Singapore, and more generally to the interdisciplinary field of disaster studies.” – James Francis Warren, Author of Rickshaw Coolie: A People’s History of Singapore (1880–1940)


History, Singapore Studies


July 2013

Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia’s young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country’s parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that they are poorly institutionalized. This book tests such assertions by providing unprecedented and fine-grained analysis of the inner workings of Indonesian parties, and by comparing them to their equivalents in other new democracies around the world. Contrary to much of the existing scholarship, the book finds that Indonesian parties are reasonably well institutionalized if compared to their counterparts in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and other parts of Asia. There is also little evidence that Indonesian parties are cartelized. But there is a significant flaw in the design of Indonesia’s party system: while most new democracies provide state funding to parties, Indonesia has opted to deny central party boards any meaningful subsidies. As a result, Indonesian parties face severe difficulties in financing their operations, leading them to launch predatory attacks on state resources and making them vulnerable to manipulation by oligarchic interests.

Marcus MIETZNER is Senior Lecturer and Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.

Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Marcus Mietzner


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History, Singapore Studies


July 2013

Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia’s young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country’s parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that they are poorly institutionalized. This book tests such assertions by providing unprecedented and fine-grained analysis of the inner workings of Indonesian parties, and by comparing them to their equivalents in other new democracies around the world. Contrary to much of the existing scholarship, the book finds that Indonesian parties are reasonably well institutionalized if compared to their counterparts in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and other parts of Asia. There is also little evidence that Indonesian parties are cartelized. But there is a significant flaw in the design of Indonesia’s party system: while most new democracies provide state funding to parties, Indonesia has opted to deny central party boards any meaningful subsidies. As a result, Indonesian parties face severe difficulties in financing their operations, leading them to launch predatory attacks on state resources and making them vulnerable to manipulation by oligarchic interests.

Marcus MIETZNER is Senior Lecturer and Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.

Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Marcus Mietzner


Political Science, Indonesia

Paperback • US$ 30 / S$ 32ISBN 978-9971-69-768-6 326 pp / 152 x 229 mm

October 2013


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In many Southeast Asian countries, anti-colonial nationalist struggles provided the first arena in which women began to be involved in politics. In post-colonial times nationalism continues to offer women opportunities for political activity. Yet books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little—if any—mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements is therefore groundbreaking both in highlighting the roles of women in nationalist movements in the region and in taking a biographical approach. In this book, experts on 7 countries examine the experiences of 12 women who have been active in nationalist movements in Southeast Asia. The women selected for study range from well known to little known, and the nationalist movements in which they have been involved date from the early 20th century to the present day. The chapters show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. We gain a sense of the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and of what it was like to live in their given time and place.

Susan BLACKBURN is Associate Professor, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Helen TING is Research Fellow, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements

Susan Blackburn & Helen Tingeditors

Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991

Ang Cheng Guan

An important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, based on the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, one of the key players in the complex maneouvers at the end of the Cold War. It was during this period that ASEAN came of age as an organization, at least diplomatically. This study provides a detailed account of the policies and decision making principally (though not exclusively) of Singapore and ASEAN as well as the diplomatic maneuverings of the other major parties and powers involved in the Cambodia conflict. Ang makes use of Singapore and other sources contemporary to the period under study, as well as records which have become available post-1991. It describes Singapore’s role and illustrate how Singapore’s management of the Cambodian issue was shaped by the fundamentals of Singapore’s foreign policy. The account also reveals the dynamics of intra-ASEAN relations, as well as ASEAN’s foreign relations in the context of the Cambodia problem.

ANG Cheng Guan is Adjunct Senior Fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. He is the author of Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War.

Politics, Diplomacy


August 2013

“Ang pieces together the inside story of the Cambodian conflict with masterly confidence. Such are his narrative skills that even those with little knowledge of the issue will not lose their way…His analysis of contending diplomatic positions at the major international conferences and meetings that led to the resolution is compelling…” – The Straits Times


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In many Southeast Asian countries, anti-colonial nationalist struggles provided the first arena in which women began to be involved in politics. In post-colonial times nationalism continues to offer women opportunities for political activity. Yet books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little—if any—mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements is therefore groundbreaking both in highlighting the roles of women in nationalist movements in the region and in taking a biographical approach. In this book, experts on 7 countries examine the experiences of 12 women who have been active in nationalist movements in Southeast Asia. The women selected for study range from well known to little known, and the nationalist movements in which they have been involved date from the early 20th century to the present day. The chapters show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. We gain a sense of the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and of what it was like to live in their given time and place.

Susan BLACKBURN is Associate Professor, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Helen TING is Research Fellow, Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements

Susan Blackburn & Helen Tingeditors

History, Politics


Politics, Diplomacy


August 2013 August 2013


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There has been little research on the lasting impact of the violence of Second and Third Indochina Wars on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today’s Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation camps and resettled villages, the past lingers on in the physical environment. The nine essays in this volume discuss post-conflict landscapes as contested spaces imbued with memory-work conveying differing interpretations of the recent past, expressed through material (even, monumental) objects, ritual performances, and oral narratives (or silences). While Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese landscapes are filled with tenacious traces of a violent past, creating an unsolicited and malevolent sense of place among their inhabitants, they can in turn be transformed by actions of resilient and resourceful local communities.

Vatthana PHOLSENA is a Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Currently based in Singapore, she is also the representative for the Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC). Oliver TAPPE is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Vatthana Pholsena & Oliver Tappeeditors

IRASEC STUDIES OF CONTEMPORARY SOUTHEAST ASIA

Anthropology, History


Jointly published with IRASEC

Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State

Soldiers and Diplomacy addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma’s foreign policy. The authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor for the BBC, provide a fresh perspective on Burma’s foreign and security policies, which have shifted between pro-active diplomacies of neutralism and non-alignment, and autarkical policies of isolation and xenophobic nationalism. They argue that key elements of continuity underlie Burma’s striking postcolonial policy changes and contrasting diplomatic practices. Among the defining factors here are the formidable dominance of the Burmese armed forces over state structure, the enduring domestic political conundrum and the peculiar geography of a country located at the crossroads of India, China and Southeast Asia. The authors argue that the Burmese military still has the tools needed to retain their praetorian influence over the country’s foreign policy in the post-junta context of the 2010s. For international policymakers, potential foreign investors and Burma’s immediate neighbors, this will have strong implications in terms of the country’s foreign policy approach.

Renaud EGRETEAU is Research Assistant Professor with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Hong Kong, and a Research Associate at IRASEC. Larry JAGAN is a journalist and political analyst based in Bangkok.

Renaud Egreteau & Larry Jagan

“There has long been a need for an objective and well researched study of the role played by Burma’s armed forces in the country’s external relations. This outstanding book, by two experienced analysts of regional affairs, makes a major contribution to modern Burma studies.”– Andrew Selth, Griffith Asia Institute

July 2013


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Anthropology, History



Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma: Understanding the Foreign Relations of the Burmese Praetorian State

Soldiers and Diplomacy addresses the key question of the ongoing role of the military in Burma’s foreign policy. The authors, a political scientist and a former top Asia editor for the BBC, provide a fresh perspective on Burma’s foreign and security policies, which have shifted between pro-active diplomacies of neutralism and non-alignment, and autarkical policies of isolation and xenophobic nationalism. They argue that key elements of continuity underlie Burma’s striking postcolonial policy changes and contrasting diplomatic practices. Among the defining factors here are the formidable dominance of the Burmese armed forces over state structure, the enduring domestic political conundrum and the peculiar geography of a country located at the crossroads of India, China and Southeast Asia. The authors argue that the Burmese military still has the tools needed to retain their praetorian influence over the country’s foreign policy in the post-junta context of the 2010s. For international policymakers, potential foreign investors and Burma’s immediate neighbors, this will have strong implications in terms of the country’s foreign policy approach.

Renaud EGRETEAU is Research Assistant Professor with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Hong Kong, and a Research Associate at IRASEC. Larry JAGAN is a journalist and political analyst based in Bangkok.

Renaud Egreteau & Larry Jagan

“There has long been a need for an objective and well researched study of the role played by Burma’s armed forces in the country’s external relations. This outstanding book, by two experienced analysts of regional affairs, makes a major contribution to modern Burma studies.”– Andrew Selth, Griffith Asia Institute


International Relations, Politics



July 2013 July 2013


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Through interviews and 59 colour photographs, It’s a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk, a college student running an extensive multi-level sales network, and a girl doing promotions but intent on moving into management, are just a few of the people profiled. Based on frank and freewheeling interviews conducted by students, the book engages a broad range of Vietnamese on their feelings about work, life and getting ahead. By providing a ground-level view of the texture of daily working life in the midst of rapid and unsettling change, the book reveals Vietnam today as a place where ordinary people are leveraging whatever assets they have, not just to survive, but to make a better life for themselves, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Gerard SASGES is Assistant Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.

It’s a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today

Gerard Sasgeseditor

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Sociology


iPad edition • US$ 9.99ISBN 978-9971-69-777-8

Fifty-nine original colour photographs

“The range of characters in this book is truly astonishing.“ - Asad Latif, Straits Times

“...vividly illuminates the intersection between processes of social and economic transformation and the everyday... We come to learn what change means, how it is experienced, and the myriad ways that ordinary people, in often quite extraordinary ways, navigate the shoals of life. Their stories are both instructive and humbling.”- Jonathan Rigg, author of Unplanned Development: Tracking Change in South-East Asia

July 2013


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RIDGE BOOKS

Sociology


iPad edition • US$ 9.99ISBN 978-9971-69-777-8

Fifty-nine original colour photographs

“...beguiling in simplicity, but epic in scope, cutting a clean slice from the Vietnamese social economic strata from top to bottom... The best non-fiction work on Vietnam I’ve seen in a decade.”- Andrew X. Pham, author of Catfish & Mandala: a Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

“Hot This Week”, US iBookstore, September 2013

July 2013

photographs by Mai Huyen Chi


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Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300–1800

Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city. The picture that emerges is of a port where people processed raw materials, used money, and had specialized occupations. Within its defensive wall, the city was well organized and prosperous, with a cosmopolitan population that included residents from China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. Fully illustrated, with more than 300 maps and colour photos, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea presents Singapore’s history in the context of Asia’s long-distance maritime trade in the years between 1300 and 1800: it amounts to a dramatic new understanding of Singapore’s pre-colonial past.

John N. MIKSIC is Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies, at the National University of Singapore, and Head of the NSC Archaeology Unit, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

John N. Miksic Peter Borschberg & Roopanjali Royeditor & translator

The Memoirs and Memorialsof Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 17th- Century Southeast Asia:

Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day. In addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region. Annotated and translated into English for the first time, these materials provide a valuable first-hand account of the issues confronting the early colonial powers in Southeast Asia, as well as insights into the societies De Coutre encountered in the territory that today makes up Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. The book is lavishly illustrated with 62 maps and drawings of the period, including many examples not previously published.

Peter BORSCHBERG is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.

History, Archaeology

Hardback • US$ 65 / S$ 68ISBN 978-9971-69-574-3


Published with The National Museum of Singapore

October 2013


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History, Memoir

Paperback • US$37 / S$ 45ISBN: 978-9971-69-528-6

Hardback • US$58 / S$ 72ISBN: 978-9971-69-783-9488 pp / 180 x 253 mm

Peter Borschberg & Roopanjali Royeditor & translator

The Memoirs and Memorialsof Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia

Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid. Written in the form of a picaresque tale, with an acute eye for the cultures he encountered, the memoirs tell the story of his adventures in the trading centres of the day. In addition to his autobiography, De Coutre wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in Southeast Asia, particularly against the backdrop of early Dutch political and commercial penetration into the region. Annotated and translated into English for the first time, these materials provide a valuable first-hand account of the issues confronting the early colonial powers in Southeast Asia, as well as insights into the societies De Coutre encountered in the territory that today makes up Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. The book is lavishly illustrated with 62 maps and drawings of the period, including many examples not previously published.

Peter BORSCHBERG is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.

October 2013

History, Archaeology

Hardback • US$ 65 / S$ 68ISBN 978-9971-69-574-3


Published with The National Museum of Singapore

October 2013


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Isan Writers, Thai Literature: Writing and Regionalism in Modern Thailand

Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. In northeastern Thailand’s Isan region, authors write primarily in Thai, but it is possible nonetheless to identify an Isan literature, which played a significant and at times pivotal role in the development of Thai literature in the second half of the twentieth century, as authors grappled with how their origins and experiences related to the Thai centre. Martin Platt’s account of Isan literature is an important first step toward a broader study of regional literatures in Thailand, and shapes a model that has relevance for examining literary works in other Asian countries.

Martin B. PLATT is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Martin B. Platt

Language & Literature


NUS Press & NIAS Press

August 2013

At the heart of the ongoing armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental disagreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom ‘since time immemorial,’ Patani Malay nationalists look back to a golden age when the Sultanate of Patani was an independent, prosperous trading state and a renowned center for Islamic education and scholarship in Southeast Asia—a time before it was defeated, broken up, and brought under the control of the Thai state. While still influential, in recent years these diametrically opposed views of the past have begun to make way for more nuanced and varied interpretations, and more interaction between scholars writing in Thai, Malay and English. Patani scholars, intellectuals and students now explore their history more freely and confidently than in the past, while the once-rigid Thai nationalist narrative is open to more pluralistic interpretations. In Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand, 13 scholars who have worked on this sensitive region evaluate the current state of current historical writing about the Patani Malays of southern Thailand.

Patrick JORY is Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at the University of Queensland. He was formerly coordinator of the Regional Studies program at Walailak University in southern Thailand.

Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani

Patrick Joryeditor


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Language & Literature


NUS Press & NIAS Press

August 2013

At the heart of the ongoing armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental disagreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom ‘since time immemorial,’ Patani Malay nationalists look back to a golden age when the Sultanate of Patani was an independent, prosperous trading state and a renowned center for Islamic education and scholarship in Southeast Asia—a time before it was defeated, broken up, and brought under the control of the Thai state. While still influential, in recent years these diametrically opposed views of the past have begun to make way for more nuanced and varied interpretations, and more interaction between scholars writing in Thai, Malay and English. Patani scholars, intellectuals and students now explore their history more freely and confidently than in the past, while the once-rigid Thai nationalist narrative is open to more pluralistic interpretations. In Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand, 13 scholars who have worked on this sensitive region evaluate the current state of current historical writing about the Patani Malays of southern Thailand.

Patrick JORY is Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at the University of Queensland. He was formerly coordinator of the Regional Studies program at Walailak University in southern Thailand.

Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the History and Historiography of Patani

Patrick Joryeditor

History



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Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java, 1945–48

The years 1945–48 marked the peak of the Indonesian revolution, but they were also formative years for state-labour relationships in modern Indonesia. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Jafar Suryomenggolo reconstructs labour’s initial drive to form and orient unions during this critical period. The historical narrative captures early unions’ nationalist spirit and efforts to defend members’ socio-economic interests, and shows the steps taken by the labour movement to maintain its independence and build institutional capacity within the new Indonesian state. Organising under the Revolution challenges the prevailing assumptions that see labour movements as political arms of the post-colonial state. The author’s conclusions provide a comparative lens for the study of labour movements in Southeast Asia, and developing countries in general.

JAFAR Suryomenggolo is Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University.

Jafar Suryomenggolo

Surabaya, 1945–2010 presents one of Indonesia’s great port cities from the perspective of a crowded low-income neighbourhood or kampung. Depicting the lives of Dinoyo residents over three generations, this book gives a new complexion to landmark moments in Indonesian history, including the 1945–49 struggle for independence, the destruction of the Communist Party in 1965, the annihilation of street gangs in the early 1980s, the fall of the New Order and rise of democracy in 1998, and intrusive anti-terror and urban renewal campaigns after 2000. Using rich ethnographic detail gathered during long periods spent living in the kampung, Robbie Peters examines how its residents have coped with the tumultuous processes of economic growth and political reform in Indonesia. His account describes a vibrant informal economy set amidst the onslaught of urban redevelopment, and a ‘participative’ citizenship that has resisted the state’s attempts to reshape community around a more exclusive form of urban citizenship. Despite being a significant proportion of Indonesia’s vast urban population, kampung residents rarely appear in the telling of its history, making this book a remarkable contribution to the literature on one of Asia’s largest and most complex countries.

Robbie PETERS is an anthropologist and Director of the Master of Development Studies Program at the University of Sydney.

Surabaya, 1945–2010: Neighbourhood, State and Economy in Indonesia’s City of Struggle

Robbie Peters


History, Urban Studies



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Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java, 1945–48

The years 1945–48 marked the peak of the Indonesian revolution, but they were also formative years for state-labour relationships in modern Indonesia. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources, Jafar Suryomenggolo reconstructs labour’s initial drive to form and orient unions during this critical period. The historical narrative captures early unions’ nationalist spirit and efforts to defend members’ socio-economic interests, and shows the steps taken by the labour movement to maintain its independence and build institutional capacity within the new Indonesian state. Organising under the Revolution challenges the prevailing assumptions that see labour movements as political arms of the post-colonial state. The author’s conclusions provide a comparative lens for the study of labour movements in Southeast Asia, and developing countries in general.

JAFAR Suryomenggolo is Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University.

Jafar Suryomenggolo

KYOTO CSEAS SERIES ON ASIAN STUDIES 9

History


NUS Press & Kyoto University Press


History, Urban Studies



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General 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 dynamics of this change remain poorly understood. Drawing on propaganda publications, profiles of the country’s political elites, and original documents in Burma’s military archives, Yoshihiro Nakanishi offers a fresh look at the involvement of the Tatmadaw in Burma’s ideological discourse and civil-military relations. Nakanishi’s discussion reveals many heretofore-unknown facts about this “dark age” in the country’s political history, and highlights its institutional legacy for the post-1988 military regime and the reformist government that succeeded it. His thought-provoking conclusions are significant for Southeast Asia specialists and for students of politics generally, and his insights will be useful for anyone seeking to engage with Myanmar as it comes to terms with an outside world it once kept at arm’s length.

Yoshihiro NAKANISHI is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) in Japan. He previously worked with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University.

Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution: The State and Military in Burma, 1962–88

Yoshihiro Nakanishi


History, Politics

Paperback • US$ 38 / S$ 42ISBN: 978-9971-69-702-0384 pp / 152 x 229 mm


This is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare than any other high-income country. Singapore achieves its results at less than one-fourth the cost of healthcare in the United States and about half that of Western European countries. This is the first book to set out a comprehensive system-level description of healthcare in Singapore, with a view to understanding what can be learned from Singapore’s unique system design and development path. The lessons from Singapore will be of interest to those currently planning the future of healthcare in emerging economies, as well as those engaged in the urgent debates on healthcare in the wealthier countries. Policymakers, legislators, public health officials responsible for planning, finance and operations, as well as students of healthcare policy should understand how the Singapore system works to achieve affordable excellence.

William A. HASELTINE is President and Founder of ACCESS Health International dedicated to promoting access to high quality affordable health worldwide, and is President of the William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts. He was Professor at Harvard Medical School and was the Founder and CEO of Human Genome Sciences.

Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story: How to Create and Manage Sustainable Healthcare Systems

William A. Haseltine

“Nakanishi’s book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on the subject....[the book] brings readers up to date with more information about the present power structure in a country where the military is still very much in control.” - Bertil Linter, Asia Times

“A persuasive study of Singapore’s cost-effective medical system” - The Financial Times

“A valuable account” - The Lancet


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History, Politics

Paperback • US$ 38 / S$ 42ISBN: 978-9971-69-702-0384 pp / 152 x 229 mm


This is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare than any other high-income country. Singapore achieves its results at less than one-fourth the cost of healthcare in the United States and about half that of Western European countries. This is the first book to set out a comprehensive system-level description of healthcare in Singapore, with a view to understanding what can be learned from Singapore’s unique system design and development path. The lessons from Singapore will be of interest to those currently planning the future of healthcare in emerging economies, as well as those engaged in the urgent debates on healthcare in the wealthier countries. Policymakers, legislators, public health officials responsible for planning, finance and operations, as well as students of healthcare policy should understand how the Singapore system works to achieve affordable excellence.

William A. HASELTINE is President and Founder of ACCESS Health International dedicated to promoting access to high quality affordable health worldwide, and is President of the William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts. He was Professor at Harvard Medical School and was the Founder and CEO of Human Genome Sciences.

Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Healthcare Story: How to Create and Manage Sustainable Healthcare Systems

William A. Haseltine

RIDGE BOOKS

Public Policy, Healthcare, Singapore Studies


Co-published with the Brookings Institution

“A persuasive study of Singapore’s cost-effective medical system” - The Financial Times

“A valuable account” - The Lancet


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Malaysia’s transition from a country dependent on agriculture and mining to an industrialized society is readily apparent, but the process of change remains poorly understood. When R.D. Hill began studying agriculture in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in the 1960s, he found swiddening, market-gardening, semi-commercial wet-rice cultivation and large scale plantations. Today, Malaysian agriculture has become highly capital-intensive and increasingly specialized, and many forms of production have all but disappeared. Once dependent on the export of primary products such as tin, rubber and palm oil, Malaysia is now an industrialized, middle income country. Singapore has nearly abandoned its primary sector. This completely revised edition of Hill’s 1982 study, with two lengthy new chapters, explains the evolution of agriculture in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore over the last forty years, with particular attention to the agro-ecosystems of the major crops.

R.D. Hill is concurrently Honorary Professor in the Department of History and in the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. He taught at the University of Singapore from 1962 until 1973.

Agriculture in the Malaysian Region

R.D. Hill

Geography


Gambling with the Land

Gambling with the Land surveys and analyzes systematically the production and trade of all major agricultural crops throughout Southeast Asia between 1960 and the late 2000s. After reviewing the specific economic, social and political role of agriculture in eight major agricultural countries—Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, the authors show how Southeast Asian agricultures have satisfied local demand for food while catering increasingly to the world market for agricultural produce, predominantly through the export of industrial crops. In terms of food security, the region has even been able to improve its position. All this has largely been achieved through massive intensification of cultivation and equally significant territorial expansion of the agricultural realm, a dynamic combination rarely achieved anywhere else in the world. Expansion of agriculture (and aquaculture) is accentuating the pressure on environmental resources, particularly forests, including mangroves. It remains to be seen whether this gambling with the land and the sea can be sustained. Providing an insightful and critical overview of Southeast Asia’s agricultural dynamism, Gambling with the Land is an indispensable reference book for all those interested in agricultural and environmental issues and an essential component of any library collection dealing with Asia.

Rodolphe DE KONINCK is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Montreal and holder of the Canada Chair of Asian Research. Jean-François ROUSSEAU is a doctoral candidate in Geography at McGill University in Montreal.

Rodolphe De Koninck & Jean-François Rousseau


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Geography


Gambling with the Land

Gambling with the Land surveys and analyzes systematically the production and trade of all major agricultural crops throughout Southeast Asia between 1960 and the late 2000s. After reviewing the specific economic, social and political role of agriculture in eight major agricultural countries—Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, the authors show how Southeast Asian agricultures have satisfied local demand for food while catering increasingly to the world market for agricultural produce, predominantly through the export of industrial crops. In terms of food security, the region has even been able to improve its position. All this has largely been achieved through massive intensification of cultivation and equally significant territorial expansion of the agricultural realm, a dynamic combination rarely achieved anywhere else in the world. Expansion of agriculture (and aquaculture) is accentuating the pressure on environmental resources, particularly forests, including mangroves. It remains to be seen whether this gambling with the land and the sea can be sustained. Providing an insightful and critical overview of Southeast Asia’s agricultural dynamism, Gambling with the Land is an indispensable reference book for all those interested in agricultural and environmental issues and an essential component of any library collection dealing with Asia.

Rodolphe DE KONINCK is Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Montreal and holder of the Canada Chair of Asian Research. Jean-François ROUSSEAU is a doctoral candidate in Geography at McGill University in Montreal.

Rodolphe De Koninck & Jean-François Rousseau

CHALLENGES OF AGRARIAN TRANSITION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Geography, Sociology

Hardback • US$ 45 / S$ 58ISBN 978-9971-69-553-8190 pp / 210 x 297 mm


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Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, the contributions gathered in this volume focus particular attention on early state formation, development of material cultures, and the transfer of iconographic concepts from late prehistoric to historic times. With chapters on the archaeology and history of the Indonesian archipelago, the multi-directional flows of Buddhist art in Southeast Asia, art and architecture of the Khmers, traditions and actions of various ethnic groups, specific regional phenomena are addressed in order to provide a resource for comparative perspectives. Connecting Empires and States contains 29 papers presented at the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA).

Selected Papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists.

Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz, Andreas Reinecke & Dominik Bonatzeditors

Connecting Empires and StatesVolume 2

Archaeology, Art History


This collection deals with the development of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the Neolithic until the later historic period. The authors present data from recent excavations as well as new analyses of previous finds, with a focus on cultural exchange and interactions with the natural environment. The volume is divided into four parts: the Neolithic period in Southeast Asia; the Bronze-Iron Age in mainland Southeast Asia; long-distance exchange relations between China and the Middle East; and the environment and material culture of early Indianized polities.


The latest historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraphy, and art history on Southeast Asia, these articles offer new understandings of classical Hindu and Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia and their relationship to the region’s medieval cultures. The articles are presented under four headings: art, religion and politics; cultural exchange with South Asia; technology and workmanship in art and material culture; and Southeast Asia between past and present.

Marijke J. KLOKKE is Professor of Art and Material culture of South and Southeast Asia at the Leiden University Institute of Area Studies and concurrently attached to the Ethnological Museum in Leiden. Vèronique DEGROOT is Archaeologist attached to the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient in Jakarta.


Marijke J. Klokke & Veronique Degroot editors


Unearthing Southeast Asia’s Past Volume 1

Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past Volume 2



Archaeology



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Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, the contributions gathered in this volume focus particular attention on early state formation, development of material cultures, and the transfer of iconographic concepts from late prehistoric to historic times. With chapters on the archaeology and history of the Indonesian archipelago, the multi-directional flows of Buddhist art in Southeast Asia, art and architecture of the Khmers, traditions and actions of various ethnic groups, specific regional phenomena are addressed in order to provide a resource for comparative perspectives. Connecting Empires and States contains 29 papers presented at the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA).


Based on recent field research and excavation finds, the contributions in this volume focus on cultural practices and materials which reflect processes of integration, specification and diversification in the prehistory and early history of Southeast Asia. With chapters on the variability and distribution of lithic assemblages, funerary practices, the spread of Neolithic cultures and field agriculture, and the development of Metal Age remains, different approaches are presented to interpret these phenomena in their specific environmental context.

Mai Lin TJOA-BONATZ is Research Associate in the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany. Andreas REINECKE is Archaeologist with the Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures (KAAK) at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Bonn, Germany. Dominik BONATZ is Professor in the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany.




Connecting Empires and StatesVolume 2

Crossing BordersVolume 1

Archaeology




The latest historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraphy, and art history on Southeast Asia, these articles offer new understandings of classical Hindu and Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia and their relationship to the region’s medieval cultures. The articles are presented under four headings: art, religion and politics; cultural exchange with South Asia; technology and workmanship in art and material culture; and Southeast Asia between past and present.

Marijke J. KLOKKE is Professor of Art and Material culture of South and Southeast Asia at the Leiden University Institute of Area Studies and concurrently attached to the Ethnological Museum in Leiden. Vèronique DEGROOT is Archaeologist attached to the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient in Jakarta.



Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past Volume 2




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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 contemporary 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 perceptions 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 sponsored 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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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 sponsored 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.

NUS Press (formerly Singapore University Press) originated as the publishing arm of the University of Malaya in Singapore, and between 1949 and 1971 published books under the University of Malaya Press imprint. The Singapore University Press imprint first appeared in 1971. In 2006 Singapore University Press was succeeded by a new NUS Press to reflect the name of its parent institution and to align the Press closer to the university’s overall branding. The Press publishes academic, scholarly and trade books of importance and relevance to Singapore and the region. While the Press has an extensive catalog that includes titles in the fields of medicine, mathematics, science and engineering, the Press is particularly interested in manuscripts that address these subjects:

• Japan and Asia• The Chinese overseas and the Chinese diaspora• The Malay World• Media, cinema and the visual arts• Science, technology and society in Asia• Transnational labour and population issues in Asia• Popular culture in transnational perspectives• Religion in Southeast Asia• Ethnic relations• The city, urbanism and the built form in Southeast Asia• Violence, trauma and memory in Asia• Cultural resources and heritage in Asia• Public health, health policy and history of medicine• The English language in Asia

All books are subject to peer review, and must be approved by the University Publishing Committee, drawn from the NUS faculty. Download our detailed author’s guidelines at www.nus.edu.sg/nuspress/submit.pdf

Information for Authors


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