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  • China and Southeast Asia in the Xi Jinping Era

    by Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Frank Cibulka, Trin Aiyara, Ngeow Chow-Bing, Stephen C. Druce, Narayanan Ganesan, Abdul Hai Julay, Amrita Jash, Tai Wei Lim0, William B. Noseworthy1, Victor R. Savage2, Bilveer Singh3, Andrea Chloe Wong4, Teri Shaffer Yamada5 ...
    In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the People’s Republic of China. The Xi Jinping era has seen a remarkable transformation of Chinese foreign policy, which has been adjusted to facilitate the achievement of what Xi has proclaimed as “the Great ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Origins, History and Social Structure in Brunei Darussalam

    Edited by Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    This wide-ranging book re-evaluates in detail the early history and historiography of Brunei Darussalam, the origins of the sultanate, its genealogical foundations and the structure and administration of Brunei society.Contributors draw on the seminal work of Donald E. Brown whose major monograph on the sultanate was published in 1970 and marked the beginnings of advanced sociological, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam

    Edited by Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    This book analyses the processes of social and economic change in Brunei Darussalam.Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic Monarchy in Brunei Darussalam in a historical context and examines these in an increasingly challenging ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Series series The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, ‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensive examination of the origins and development of Malay identity, ethnicity, and consciousness over ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
    People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as ... Read more

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  • Young and Malay: Growing Up in Multicultural Malaysia

    by Kee Beng Ooi ...
    "This excellent volume, edited by Ooi Kee Beng and Wan Hamidi Hamid, discusses what it means to be Malay in Malaysia. And in doing that, it seeks to be much more..Being a Malay is about expressing the cultural interactions and assimilations that undeniably take place among the various ethnie that inhabit and have inhabited Malaysia. It is not only about being Malay, or being Malaysian. It is about ... Read more

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  • Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia

    An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature

    by Frode F. Jacobsen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. For centuries migration has played a vital part in Hadrami adaptation. External forces, such as the expanding powers of the Portugese in the Indian Ocean and the Turkish conquering ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

    Edited by Alfian Sa'at, Faris Joraimi, Sai Siew Min ...
    Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Brunei – History, Islam, Society and Contemporary Issues

    Edited by Ooi Keat Gin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Brunei, although a relatively small state, is disproportionately important on account of its rich resource base. In addition, in recent years the country has endeavoured to play a greater role in regional affairs, especially through ASEAN, holding the chair of the organisation in 2013, and also beyond the region, fostering diplomatic, political, economic and educational ties with many nations. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • In Asian Waters

    Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

    by Eric Tagliacozzo ...
    A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a ... Read more

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  • Swahili Port Cities

    The Architecture of Elsewhere

    by Sandy Prita Meier ...
    On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing. Meier understands architecture as more than a way to remake local space. Rather, the architecture ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Imperial Alchemy

    Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia

    by Anthony Reid ...
    The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve such a transformation from the immense diversity of these Asian empires required a different set of ... Read more

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