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Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819–1911

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

Kenneth Dean is Professor at the Asia Research Institute and Head of the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. Hue Guan Thye is a Research Fellow in the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity and an Adjunct Lecturer in the Division of Chinese at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Kenneth Dean and Hue Guan Thye

May 2016

Hardback • US$195 / S$245ISBN: 978-9971-69-871-31456pp / 210 x 297mm2 volumes1300 colour and b&w illustrations

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The oil palm industry has transformed rural livelihoods and landscapes across wide swathes of Southeast Asia, generating wealth along with economic, social, and environmental controversy. Who benefits and who loses from oil palm development? Can oil palm development provide a basis for inclusive and sustainable rural development?

This book considers the impacts of specific communities and plantations. It analyses the regional political economy of oil palm, examining how the oil palm industry in Malaysia and Indonesia work as a complex, in which land, labour and capital are closely connected. It unpicks the dominant policy narratives, business strategies, models of land acquisition and labour-processes. Understanding this oil palm complex is a prerequisite to developing improved strategies to harness the oil palm boom for a more equitable and sustainable pattern of rural development.

Rob Cramb is Professor of Agricultural Development in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland. John F. McCarthy is Director of Resources Environment and Development (RE&D) program, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

The Oil Palm Complex:Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia

Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthyeditors

March 2016

Paperback • US$36 / S$38ISBN: 978-981-4722-06-3512pp / 229 x 152mm


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Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society

The serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Moreover peatlands that have been drained and cleared for plantations are a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. This new book explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region. Concerted action will be required to reduce peatland fires, and a successful policy needs to enhance social welfare and economic survival, support natural conservation and provide a return on investment if there is to be a sustainable society in the peatlands. This book argues that regeneration is possible through a new policy of people’s forestry that includes reforestation and rewetting peat soils. The data come from a major long-term research effort—the humanosphere project—that coordinates work done by researchers from the physical, natural and human or social sciences.

Kosuke Mizuno is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Motoko S. Fujita is Researcher at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Shuichi Kawai is Professor at the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University.

Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita and Shuichi Kawaieditors

February 2016

Paperback • US$42 / S$46ISBN: 978-981-4722-09-4536pp / 229 x 152mm30 photographs, 80 maps and diagrams

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Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: A Study in Performance Philology

Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire. Thrilling and profound, Dewa Ruci describes the mighty Bratasena’s quest for the ultimate mystical insight.

The book presents the Dewa Ruci as rendered by the distinguished master puppeteer Ki Anom Soeroto in Amsterdam in 1987. The book’s unusual design presents the performance texts together with descriptions of the sounds and images that would remain obscure in conventional formats of presentation. Copious annotations probe beneath the surface and provide an understanding of the performance as a highly sophisticated and multi-layered creation. These annotations explain the meanings of puppet action, music, and shifts in language; how the puppeteer wove together into the drama the circumstances of the performance in Amsterdam, Islamic and other religious ideas, and references to contemporary Indonesian politics. Also revealed is the performance’s historical multilayering and the picture it paints of the Javanese past.

Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind not only presents an unrivalled insight into the artistic depth of wayang kulit, it exemplifies a new field of study, the philology of performance.

Bernard Arps is Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at Leiden University.

Bernard Arps

May 2016



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Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality & the First Temple of Confucius

The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world’s greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China’s past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices of almost every major dynasty until it was the largest and most richly endowed temple in the Ming and Qing empires. The decline of state-sponsored ritualism in the twentieth century triggered a profound identity crisis for the temple and its worshipers, yet the fragile relic survived decades of neglect, war, and revolution and is now recognized as a national treasure and a World Heritage Site.

Traces of the Sage is the first comprehensive account of the history and material culture of Kong Temple. Following the temple’s development through time and across space, it relates architecture to the practice of Confucianism, explains the temple’s phenomenal perseverance, and explores the culture of building in China. Other chapters consider the problem of Confucian heritage conservation and development over the last hundred years—a period when the validity of Confucianism has been called into question—and the challenge of remaking Confucian heritage as a commercial enterprise. By reconstructing its “social life,” the study interprets Kong Temple as an active site of transaction and negotiation and argues that meaning does not hide behind architecture but emerges from the circulation and regeneration of its spaces and materials.

The most complete work on a seminal monument in Chinese history through millennia,Traces of the Sage will find a ready audience among cultural and political historians of imperial and modern China as well as students and scholars of architectural history and theory and Chinese ritual.

James A. Flath is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

James A. Flath

March 2016

Hardback • US$55 / S$62ISBN: 978-981-4722-16-2256pp / 235 x 156mm


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Unequal Thailand: Aspects of Income, Wealth and Power

Extreme inequalities in income, wealth and power lie behind Thailand’s political turmoil. What are the sources of this inequality? Why does it persist, or even increase when the economy grows? How can it be addressed?

The contributors to this important study—Thai scholars, reformers and civil servants—shed light on the many dimensions of inequality in Thailand, looking beyond simple income measures to consider land ownership, education, finance, business structures and politics. The contributors propose a series of reforms in taxation, spending and institutional reform that can address growing inequality.

Inequality is among the biggest threats to social stability in Southeast Asia, and this close study of a key Southeast Asian country will be relevant to regional policy-makers, economists and business decision-makers, as well as students of oligarchy and inequality more generally.

Pasuk Phongpaichit is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Chris Baker is an independent scholar and long-term resident of Thailand.

Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Bakereditors

November 2015


“Brings rigorous scholarship to this emotionally-charged debate…” —James Stent, Bangkok Post


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Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia:Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots

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

Edward Aspinall is a Professor of politics at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. Mada Sukmajati is a lecturer in the Department of Government and Political Science, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

Edward Aspinall and Mada Sukmajatieditors

March 2016



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Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia

Indonesia is home to diverse peoples who differ from one another in terms of physical appearance as well as social and cultural practices. The way such matters are understood is partly rooted in ideas developed by racial scientists working in the Netherlands Indies beginning in the late nineteenth century, who tried to develop systematic ways to define and identify distinctive races. Their work helped spread the idea that race had a scientific basis in anthropometry and craniology, and was central to people’s identity, but their encounters in the archipelago also challenged their ideas about race.

In this new monograph, Fenneke Sysling draws on published works and private papers to describe the way Dutch racial scientists tried to make sense of the human diversity in the Indonesian archipelago. The making of racial knowledge, it contends, cannot be explained solely in terms of internal European intellectual developments. It was “on the ground” that ideas about race were made and unmade with a set of knowledge strategies that did not always combine well. Sysling describes how skulls were assembled through the colonial infrastructure, how measuring sessions were resisted, what role photography and plaster casting played in racial science and shows how these aspects of science in practice were entangled with the Dutch colonial Empire.

Fenneke Sysling is a historian of science and colonialism. She holds a PhD from the VU University of Amsterdam, and has published on the history of museum collections, environmental history and the making of race. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utrecht.

Fenneke Sysling

May 2016



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Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913–1974

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

Based on a vast range of archival materials and spanning 60 years and 3 continents, Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia shows how pan-Asian sporting events helped shape anti-colonial sentiments, Asian nationalisms, and pan-Asian aspirations in places as diverse as Japan and Iran, and across the span of countries lying between them.

Stefan Huebner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (WiMi) at the Historical Institute, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany.

Stefan Huebner

April 2016



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Men are disadvantaged in the marriage markets of many Asian countries, and in some cases their response is to look abroad for a partner. Receiving countries for marriage migrants include Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, while the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and parts of mainland China supply wives to these territories. In the absence of uniform international regulations concerning the rights and obligations of partners, such unions are treated differently in different jurisdiction. In extreme cases migrants or their children become stateless, and when marriages break down, migrants sometimes face major legal problems.

In such circumstances, marriage migrants are often portrayed as powerless, uneducated victims. Rejecting this perspective, the authors in this volume explore the agency of women who migrate abroad to acquire opportunities unavailable to them in their homelands. They show that the trajectories of marriage migrants are often not a simple movement from home to destination but can involve return, repeated, or extended migrations, and that these transitions that can alter geographies of power in economics, nationality or ethnicity. Based on features shared by many marriage migrants, the book identifies them as an emerging minority at the frontier of the nation-state, a group whose status may well carry over to future generations.

Sari K. Ishii is Associate Professor of sociology at the Department of Social Science, Toyo Eiwa University, Yokohama, Japan.

Marriage Migration in Asia:Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States

Sari K. IshiiEditor


February 2016



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Malaysia’s Original People:Past, Present and Future of the Orang Asli

The Malay-language term for the indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, “Orang Asli”, covers at least 19 culturally and linguistically distinct subgroups. This volume is a comprehensive survey of current understandings of Malaysia’s Orang Asli communities (including contributions from scholars within the Orang Asli community), looking at language, archaeology, history, religion and issues of education, health and social change, as well as questions of land rights and control of resources.

Until about 1960 most Orang Asli lived in small camps and villages in the coastal and interior forests, or in isolated rural areas, and made their living by various combinations of hunting, gathering, fishing, agriculture, and trading forest products. By the end of the century, logging, economic development projects such as oil palm plantations, and resettlement programmes have displaced many Orang Asli communities and disrupted long-established social and cultural practices.

The chapters in the present volume show Orang Asli responses to the challenges posed by a rapidly changing world. The authors also highlight the importance of Orang Asli studies for the anthropological understanding of small-scale indigenous societies in general.

Kirk Endicott is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. He has been researching and writing on the Batek and other Orang Asli since 1971.

Kirk Endicotteditor

October 2015



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Central Banking as State Building:Policymakers and Their Nationalism in the Philippines, 1933–1964

From its creation in 1949 until the 1960s, the Central Bank of the Philippines dominated industrial policy by means of exchange controls, becoming a symbol of nationalism for a newly independent state. The pre-war Philippine National Bank was closely linked to the colonial administration and plagued by corruption scandals. As the country moved toward independence, ambitious young politicians, colonial bureaucrats, and private sector professionals concluded that economic decolonization required a new bank at the heart of the country’s finances in order to break away from the individuals and institutions that dominated the colonial economy. Positioning this bank within broader political structures, Yusuke Takagi concludes that the Filipino policy makers behind the Central Bank worked not for vested interests associated with colonial or neo-colonial rule but for structural reform based on particular policy ideas.

Yusuke Takagi is Assistant Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).

Yusuke Takagi


March 2016



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Asianisms: Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration

At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia? In search of common historical roots, traditions and visions of political-cultural integration, first Japanese, then Chinese, Korean and Indian intellectuals, politicians and writers developed different “Asianisms”: concepts, imaginings and processes which emphasized commonalities or common interests among different Asian regions and nations.

This book investigates the multifarious discursive and mate-rial constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It reconstructs regional constellations, intersections and relations in their national, transnational and global contexts. Moving far beyond the more well-known Japanese Pan-Asianism of the first half of the twentieth century, the chapters investigate visions of Asia that have sought to provide common meanings and political projects in efforts to trace, and construct, Asia as a united and common space of interaction. With a particular focus on the imagination of civil society actors throughout Asia, the volume leaves behind state-centered approaches to regional integration and uncovers the richness and depth of complex identities within a large and culturally heterogeneous space.

Marc Frey is Professor in the history of international relations at the University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany. Nicola Spakowski is Professor of China Studies at the Institute of China Studies of the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Marc Frey & Nicola Spakowskieditors

October 2015



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Faith in Writing:Forty Years of Essays

Through the worst days of Indonesia’s authoritarianism, in the face of the trauma of great violence, through the euphoria of democratic transition and ensuing disillusionment, one Indonesian writer has never lost faith in the act of writing. Goenawan Mohamad’s short essays have a broad readership, through a weekly column published since 1971 for Tempo, the Indonesian weekly magazine that he founded in the same year. Goenawan’s writings are a shared conversation with difference, bringing nuance and sympathy to difficult histories, introducing doubt to damaging certainties, applying clarity of thought and action to times of doubt.

Activist, journalist, editor, essayist, poet, commentator, theatre director and playwright, Goenawan Mohamad’s output is staggering and his vision both uniquely Indonesian and completely universal, setting his work apart from his contemporaries in the region. Goenawan is, indisputably, the leading political thinker and observer in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim land on earth. In this translation and selection of his finest essays, readers unfamiliar to Indonesia will find a voice that also speaks to the urgent global issues of the day.

Goenawan Mohamad (b 1941) is an acclaimed Indonesian writer and man of letters. Jennifer Lindsay has been translating Goenawan’s columns since 1992.

Goenawan Mohamadtranslated by Jennifer Lindsay

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“There is a simplicity, a purity, a ravishing gentleness in these essays … in their melancholy detachment there is a fierce commitment to freedom of thought and to hope.” —Robert Dessaix

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Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, or “Hario Kecik”, Revolution in the City of Heroes, is an evocative first-hand account of a popular uprising. The book vividly portrays the chaotic swirl of events and the heady emotion of young people ready to sacrifice their lives for a great cause.

Newly liberated from nearly four brutal years under Japanese control, the people of Indonesia faced great uncertainty in October 1945. As the British Army attempted to take control of the city of Surabaya, maintain order and deal with surrendered Japanese personnel, their actions were interpreted by the young residents of Surabaya as a plan to restore Dutch colonial rule. In response, the youth of the city took up arms and repelled the force sent to occupy the city. They then held off British reinforcements for two weeks, battling tanks and heavy artillery with nothing more than light weapons and sheer audacity. Though eventually defeated, Surabaya’s defenders had set the stage for Indonesia’s national revolution.

Suhario Padmodiwiryo, “Hario Kecik” to his friends, was born in Surabaya on 12 May 1921. After his extraordinary experiences as a Deputy Commander of forces fighting in Surabaya in 1945, he stayed in the newly formed Indonesian National Army, rising eventually to the rank of General. Later placed under house arrest by President Suharto, General Suhario published his memoirs in Indonesian in 1995. Dr Frank Palmos is a journalist, historian and translator. In 1998 his translation of Bai Ninh’s The Sorrow of War was published to international acclaim.

Revolution in the City of Heroes: A Memoir of the Battle that Sparked Indonesia’s National Revolution

Suhario “Kecik” Padmodiwiryotranslated by Frank Palmos

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The ASEAN Charter:A Commentary

Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a new document was drafted as a result of “bold and visionary recommendations” of an ASEAN Committee of Eminent Persons. The ASEAN Charter, which came into force in 2008, provides ASEAN’s legal status and institutional framework. In effect, it is a legally binding agreement among the 10 ASEAN Member States. And while the strength of ASEAN’s legal character has yet to be fully tested, the Charter is important as a statement of shared norms and aspirations.

Written by one of the persons involved in the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Charter, this meticulously re-searched publication helps readers navigate the ambiguities of the Charter by detailing an insider’s background, provision by provision, of the debates that went into the making of the ASEAN Charter. It not only explains how the provisions of the Charter came to be drafted, but also how they relate to the realities of diplomatic practice. This volume will be an indispen-sable reference for scholars, working diplomats, and businesses and institutions that have a stake in ASEAN.

Walter Woon is David Marshall Professor of Law and Deputy Chairman, Centre for International Law, at the National University of Singapore. He was a Member of the High Level Task Force to draft the ASEAN Charter in 2007, and served as Singapore’s Attorney-General from 2008 to 2010.

Walter Woon

October 2015

Paperback • US$36 / S$46ISBN: 978-981-4722-08-7

Hardback • US$42 / S$60ISBN: 978-9971-69-867-6

296pp / 229 x 152mm

“The ASEAN Charter is a commitment for us to become a rules-based community. It is time for us, especially the weaker countries among us, to be ruled by law rather than by political whim, national interest or military power. Walter Woon’s work will be a major contribution to that end.” —Rodolfo C. Severino, former Secretary-General of ASEAN (1998–2002)


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Abolitions as a Global Experience

The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the 19th century. Considering how tightly bonded were these institutions into each local society and economy, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed in different settings. The chapters cover a variety of different cases, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British, French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal developments in Russia and Japan. What portion of each abolition decision was due to international pressure, and what part due to local factors? Furthermore, this collection does not solely focus on the moment of formal abolition, but looks hard at the aftermath of abolition, and also at the ways abolition was commemorated and remembered in later years.

This book complicates the conventional story that global abolition was essentially a British moralizing effort, “among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations”. Using comparison and connection, this book tells a story of dynamic encounters between local and global contexts, of which the efforts of British abolition campaigns were a part.

Looking at abolitions as a globally shared experience provides an important perspective, not only to the field of slavery and abolition studies, but also the field of global or world history.

Hideaki Suzuki is associate professor at School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University and works on Indian Ocean World history and global/world history.

Hideaki Suzukieditor

October 2015



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

Published in February, May, August and November 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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