New Books in Southeast Asian Studies

In Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok (University of Hawaii Press, 2016), Serhat Un... Read more

Billed as “an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 r... Read more

In Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Kathlene Baldanz... Read more

Dr. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez‘s new book, The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digit... Read more

Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2... Read more

In a foreword to Tyrell Haberkorn‘s first book, Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law and Violence in Northern ... Read more

For many Muslim communities particular religious identities were formulated or hardened within colonial realities. These... Read more

In Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s (Oxfor... Read more

Paul Thomas Chamberlin has written a book about the Cold War that makes important claims about the nature and reasons fo... Read more

Erik Braun‘s recent book, The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw (Universi... Read more

Recent years have seen an upsurge in studies asking questions about, and in, borderlands. The topic is certainly not new... Read more

Reading Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter‘s book Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade (... Read more

More than forty year after its end the Vietnam War casts a long shadow over our understanding of Vietnam’s modern histor... Read more

How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam? In this episode of New... Read more

Can justice heal? Must there be justice in order to heal? Is there such a thing as justice, something to be striven for ... Read more

In Authoritarian Rule of Law: Legislation, Discourse and Legitimacy in Singapore (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Jot... Read more

From the sidelines of the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s biennial conference, where she presented the inaugura... Read more

Over the course of the 1930s, Vietnamese author Vũ Trọng Phụng published eight novels, hundreds of works of narrative no... Read more

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-centur... Read more

Increasing levels of globalization have led to the proliferation of spaces of international exchange. In her new book, G... Read more