Indonesia has a relatively short history of unified rule. In this history, Heather Sutherland’s l...

Explores the impact of biennials and other large-scale, global exhibitions of Asian art.

A compelling memoir written by a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

As Laos navigates development and globalization, Being Present examines the shifting role of ethn...

A macroeconomic history of Singapore, one of the world's most prosperous economies, spanning over...

Santiago Bose

Bangkok Transformed

This book provides a refreshing new perspective on the 1997-1998 financial crisis in Malaysia and...

Story of NTU CCA Singapore from the perspectives of artists, curators, and scholars who have cont...

For most people in Singapore, having a job is just a fact of life. But that simple fact encompass...

Indonesia's contemporary art scene is fast becoming a favorite among collectors and critics, taki...

Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past contains thirty-one chapters selected from papers given at the...

A study that presents the results of a major interdisciplinary research project that gathered dat...

I found no one to accompany me, and was determined to do; so I trusted to fate, and went alone.

The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that establis...

This study examines population trends in Burma during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, loo...

Market liberalization in Myanmar began in 1988 and had some unanticipated consequences. This book...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pe...

Contains discussions on Singapore's public rhetoric about liberalization and its association with...

Since January 2004, the three Muslim-dominated provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat in the T...

A History of the People's Action Party, 1985-2021

Thai South and Malay North brings together research by academic specialists working on the border...

A fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging.

Since the 1960s, Southeast Asia's agricultural sector has experienced phenomenal growth, with inc...

Marjorie Doggett's Singapore, an evocative interplay of photos and texts, forms a tribute to a pi...

An architectural and historical study of Singapore's oldest Teochew Temple.

Through interviews and 70 photographs, It’s a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world...

Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through...

People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word 'Mel...

This is a convenient guide for those who know little about Southeast Asian orchid species but wan...

Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, in...

A reference work on Singapore cinema. Using illustrations, it catalogues the country's film lands...

The years 1945-48 marked the peak of the Indonesian revolution, but they were also formative year...

This is the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the big city to work as a cy...

For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transf...

Draws together the changes that occurred in Southeast Asia during the fifteenth century, and cons...

Information on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse, and Japanese-language m...

On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to ...

Cross-border movements are often discussed as a high-level abstraction, but people cross borders ...

Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmo...

Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge

Herman Hochstadt, or hrh, as he is better known, joined Singapore's civil service in 1960, rising...

British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirat...

Looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling ...

Founded in 1906, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a cultural and economi...

For years, the study of how culture operates in colonial contexts was dominated by the ideas of t...

In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the c...

Design for a Contemporary World is a textbook that presents the theory and practice of design fun...