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1Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java: A Political, Social, Cultural and Religious History, c. 1930 to Present

The Javaneseone of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic worldwere once mostly nominal Muslims with the majority seemingly resistant to Islams call for greater piety. Over the tumultuous period analyzed here, that society has changed profoundly to become an extraordinary example of the rising religiosity that marks the modern age.

Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java draws on a formidable body of sources, including interviews, archival documents and a vast range of published material, to situate the Javanese religious experience from the 1930s to the present day in its local political, social, cultural and religious settings. The concluding part of the authors monumental three-volume series assessing more than six centuries of the on-going Islamisation of the Javanese, the study has considerable relevance for much wider contexts.

M.C. Ricklefs is Professor Emeritus of the Australian National University. He was formerly Professor of History at the National University of Singapore and Monash University, and Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He is the author of Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions (c.18301930) (NUS Press, 2007) and Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamisation from the Fourteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Centuries (EastBridge, 2006).

M.C. Ricklefs

July 2012

Paperback US$38 / S$45ISBN: 978-9971-69-631-3560pp / 229 x 152mm

(Reannounced)

Winner of the 2015 George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. The book prize is given biennially to an outstanding scholar of Southeast Asian studies to recognize distinguished scholarly work on Southeast Asia beyond the authors first book.

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2Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century

Now an energy-rich sultanate, for centuries an important trading port in the South China Sea, Brunei has taken a different direction than its Persian Gulf peers. Immigration is restricted, and Bruneis hydrocarbon wealth is invested conservatively, mostly outside the country.

Today home to some 393,000 inhabitants and comprising 5,765 square kilometres in area, Brunei first appears in the historical record at the end of the 10th century. After the Spanish attack of 1578, Brunei struggled to regain and expand its control on coastal West Borneo and to remain within the trading networks of the South China Sea. It later fell under British sway, and a residency was established in 1906, but it took the discovery of oil in Seria in 1929 before colonial power began to establish the bases of a modern state.

Governed by an absolute monarchy, Bruneians today nevertheless enjoy a high level of social protection and rule of law. Ranking second (after Singapore) in Southeast Asia in terms of standards of living, the sultanate is implementing an Islamic penal code for the first time of its history. Focusing on Bruneis political economy, history and geography, this book aims to understand the forces behind Bruneis to-and-fro of tradition and modernisation.

Illustrated with 6 maps and 12 B&W photographs.

Marie-Sybille de Vienne is a Professor at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations, INALCO, Paris, Faculty of Southeast Asian Studies.

Marie-Sybille de Vienne

March 2015

Paperback US$32 / S$38ISBN: 978-9971-69-818-8368pp / 229 x 152 mm

3Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban life revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, everyday activities took place in a field of pavilions and walls that shaped collective ways of living. Changing Chinese Cities explores the reciprocal relations between compounds and how they inform a distinct and legible urbanism.

Following thirty years of economic and political containment, cities are now showcases whose every componentstreet, park, or buildingis designed to express distinctiveness. This propensity for the singular is erasing the relational fields that once distinguished each city. In Chinas first tier cities, the result is a cacophony of events where the extraordinary is becoming a burden to the ordinary.

Using a lens of urban fields, Renee Y. Chow describes life in neighborhoods of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and its canal environs. Detailed observations from courtyard to city are unlayered to reveal the relations that build extended environments. These attributes are then relayered to integrate the emergence of forms that are rooted to a place, providing a new paradigm for urban design and master planning. Essays, mappings and case studies demonstrate how the design of fields can be made as compelling as figures.

Fully illustrated in colour with 82 maps and architectural drawings, and 33 photographs.

Renee Y. Chow is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at University of California Berkeley as well as a founding principal of Studio URBIS.

Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism

Renee Y. Chow

May 2015

Hardback US$45 / S$56 ISBN: 978-9971-69-833-1224pp / 235 x 187mm

4This book of short stories by Goh Poh Seng tells of his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought up in post-war Kuala Lumpur, the impressionable young man finds himself transported to a totally different milieu and culture. The stories follow him from the first tentative steps of his voyage to Europe, to his sojourn in a hostel for Asian students and the shock of boarding life in a Catholic boys school; continues with his early awakening to the possibility of becoming a writer, together with a total embrace of the cultural and literary pleasures of Dublin. Along the way, he met a colourful tapestry of characters, among them a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry, the suave and charming Tom Pierre from the West Indies, and the much-loved Irish poet Paddy Kavanagh.

Goh Poh Seng (19362010) was a pioneer of Singapore litera ture in English. His first novel, If We Dream Too Long, is a coming-of-age novel set in Singapore, and is recognized as the first Singaporean novel published in English. Goh was distinguished as a novelist, poet and playwright. He wrote all his life, and has published four novels and five books of poetry. In 1986, he emigrated with his family to Canada. He was working on Tall Tales and MisAdventures when he passed away.

Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman

Goh Poh Seng

March 2015


5New Books on Singapore

Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus

Arguably the most stimulating and provocative book ever written on public policy in Singapore. Vikram Khanna, Business Times

Paperback US$24 / S$24ISBN: 978-9971-69-816-4

Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 13001800

An essential read for anyone interested in history, archaeology and cultural anthropology of Singapore and Southeast Asia.


Hardback US$58 / S$68ISBN: 978-9971-69-574-3

Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore

Documents more than 200 years of continual, and sometimes, disastrous, change on the island. Christian Razukas, Jakarta Post


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

A major contribution to our understanding of the social history of post-war/post-colonial Singapore. James Francis Warren, Murdoch University


6Singapores collection of Southeast Asian animalsone of the worlds largestdates back to the old Raffles Museum, officially established in 1878. With the opening of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in 2015, the original Raffles Museum has reincarnated and the loop on its remarkable 127-year history has closed.

Beneath the sleek exterior of todays modern museum building lies a saga of titanic struggles and changes. That the collections survived at allthrough the multiple challenges of the nineteenth century, the disruption of World War Two, and its potential disintegration in the face of Singapores modernizationis nothing short of miraculous. This book is not only an institutional history of the museum but also tells the story of the frustrations, commitment and courage of the numerous individuals who battled officialdom, innovated endlessly and overcame the odds to protect Singapores natural history heritage.

The book features 108 historical photographs and natural history illustrations printed in full colour throughout.

Kevin Y.L. Tan is Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and Adjunct Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapores Natural History Museum

Kevin Y.L. Tan

April 2015

(ARDBACKs533ISBN: 978-9971-69-855-3304pp / 160 x 230mm

7The Annotated Malay Archipelagoby Alfred Russel Wallace

Wallaces Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the firstand long overdueannotated edition in English.

This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction, and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The 52 illustrations from the original edition are supplemented by 16 pages of newly-selected colour illustrations dating from the period.

The content of the Malay Archipelago has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers kill on an average a Chinaman every day in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes.

By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallaces letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications, this edition reveals Wallaces work as never before.

John van Wyhe is a historian of science and one of the worlds leading experts on Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. He is a Fellow of Tembusu College, National University of Singapore, and a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of History and Biological Sciences.

John van Wyheeditor

October 2014


8In August 1883 massive volcanic eruptions destroyed two-thirds of the island of Krakatau, in the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java. It was the day the world exploded. A tsunami wreaked havoc in the region, causing countless deaths, and shock waves were recorded around the world. Ash from the eruption affected global weather patterns for years.

Since that time Krakatau has been the subject of more than 1,000 reports and publications, both scholarly and literary but the only surviving account of the event written by an indigenous eyewitnessSyair Lampung Karam (The Tale of Lampung Submerged), by Muhammad Salehhas only now, 130 years after its first publication in Singapore, found its way into English translation. This edition brings together the jawi text of the third edition of 1886, a romanized Malay transcription and an original verse translation into English.

Muhammad Saleh was an eyewitness to the eruption of Krakatau. John McGlynn is an experienced translator of Indonesian and a Director of the Lontar Foundation.

Krakatau: The Tale of Lampung Submerged

Muhammad SalehTranslated by John H. McGlynn

October 2014

Paperback S$24ISBN: 978-9971-69-850-8224pp / 140 x 215mm

9Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya

In Malaysia race is viewed not as an external attribute attached to a person but rather as an innate characteristic. Starting from this foundation, race and indigeneity have featured prominently in Malaysian politics throughout the post-war era, influencing both the civil status and property rights of broad sectors of the population. Much of the discussion rests on concepts developed within the discipline of anthropology and by the colonial administration in a process that dates back to the early nineteenth century.

Taming the Wild examines the complex history of indigeneity and racial thought in the Malay Peninsula, and the role played by the politics of knowledge in determining racial affinities, by charting the progression of thought concerning indigenous or aboriginal people. The author shows that the classifications of indigenous and Malay depend on a mixture of cultural, social and religious knowledge that is compressed under the heading race but differs according to the circumstances under which it is produced and the uses to which it is put. By historicizing the categorization of aborigines and British engagement with aboriginal groups in Malaya, Taming the Wild situates racial knowledge within larger frames of anthropological and racial thought, and highlights the persistence of nineteenth-century understandings of indigeneity and Malayness in racial contestations in modern Malaysia.

Sandra Khor Manickam is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.

Sandra Khor Manickam

ASIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA: SOUTHEAST ASIAN PUBLICATION SERIES

April 2015


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This compelling book explores the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally collapses. The old, long-term community-based model of rubber plantation production introduced by British and French companies in colonial Malaya has been replaced by a model based upon migrant labor, mechanization, and a gradual contraction of the plantation economy. Tamils find themselves increasingly resentful of the fact that lands that were developed and populated by their ancestors are now claimed by others as their own. Includes 14 B&W photographs.

Andrew C. Willford is associate professor of anthropology at Cornell University.

Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysias Plantations

Andrew C. Willford

January 2015


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Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia

In an important social change, female Muslim political leaders in Java have enjoyed considerable success in direct local elections following the fall of Suharto in Indonesia. Indonesian Women and Local Politics shows that Islam, gender and social networks have been decisive in their political victories. Islamic ideas concerning female leadership provide a strong religious foundation for their political campaigns. However, their approach to womens issues shows that female leaders do not necessarily adopt a womans perspectives when formulating policies. This new trend of Muslim women in politics will continue to shape the growth and direction of democratization in local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia and will colour future discourse on gender, politics and Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia. Includes 10 B&W photographs and 1 map.

Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi is senior researcher at the Research Center for Politics, Indonesian Institute of Sciences in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi

KYOTO CSEAS SERIES ON ASIAN STUDIES

March 2015

Paperback US$34 / S$38 ISBN: 978-9971-69-842-3272pp / 229 x 152mm

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Islam and Politics in Indonesia: The Masyumi Party Between Democracy and Integralism

The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a literalist application of Islamic doctrine but rather inspired by the values of Islam. It set out moderate policies which were both favourable to the West and tolerant towards other religious communities in Indonesia.

Although the party made significant strides towards the elaboration of a Muslim democracy, its achievements were nonetheless precarious: it was eventually outlawed in 1960 for having resisted Sukarnos slide towards authoritarianism, and the refusal of Suhartos regime to reinstate the party left its leaders disenchanted and marginalised. Many of those leaders subsequently turned to a form of Islam known as integralism, a radical doctrine which contributed to the advent of Muslim neo-fundamentalism in Indonesia.

This book examines the Masyumi Party from its roots in early twentieth-century Muslim reformism to its contemporary legacy, and offers a perspective on political Islam which provides an alternative to the more widely-studied model of Middle-Eastern Islam. The partys experience teaches us much about the fine line separating a moderate form of Islam open to democracy and a certain degree of secularisation from the sort of religious intransigence which can threaten a countrys denominational coexistence.

Rmy Madinier is a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and co-director of the Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE-EHESS).

Rmy Madinier

June 2015


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Indonesias trajectory towards successful economic growth has been long and capricious. Studies of the process often focus either on the Netherlands Indies or independent Indonesia, suggesting the existence of fundamental discontinuities. The authors of the 17 essays in this book adopt a long-term perspective that transcends regimes and bridges dualist economic models in order to examine what did and did not change as the country moved across the colonial-postcolonial divide, and shifted from reliance on exports of primary products to a multi-centred economy. The aim is to analyse how economic development grew out of the interplay of foreign trade, new forms of entrepreneurship and the political economy.

The authors deal with entrepreneurship and economic specialization within different ethnic groups, the geographical distribution of exports and resource drains from exporting regions, and connections between an export economy and mass poverty. A study of Indonesias international sugar trade shows how regime change fostered co-operation between different ethnic groups and nationalities involved with trading networks, inter-island shipping, urban public transport, and the construction sector. A comparison of export earnings and population groups involved in trade before and after 1900 shows that unexpected agricultural and industrial transitions could underpin a fundamental shift in income growth, with improved living standards for broad sectors of the population. Includes 18 figures and 22 tables.

Alicia Schrikker is Lecturer in Colonial and Global History at Leiden University. Jeroen Touwen is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at Leiden University.

Promises and Predicaments: Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Alicia Schrikker & Jeroen Touweneditors

March 2015


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Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History

C. Michele Thompson

While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompsons new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems.

Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompsons detailed historical and linguistic research restores agency and voice to practitioners of Vietnamese medicine, showing how the adoption of Chinese and then Western ideas of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries relied on indigenous Vietnamese concepts of health and the human body. She mines medical manuscripts in Chinese and in Nom (vernacular Vietnamese) to capture various aspects of the historical interaction between Chinese and Vietnamese thought. She presents a detailed analysis of the Vietnamese response to a Chinese medical technique for preventing smallpox, and to the medical concepts associated with it, looking at Vietnamese healers from a variety of social classes.

Thompsons account brings together colorful historical vignettes, contemporary observations and interviews, and textual analysis. It stands out as a demonstration of the power of the history of medicine to illuminate adjacent fields of enquiry. It will be of interest to historians of medicine globally and in East Asia, as well as to students of Vietnam and its complex process of modernization.

C. Michele Thompson is Professor of Southeast Asian History at Southern Connecticut State University. She holds an M.A. in East Asian History and a PhD in Southeast Asian History, and specializes in the history of medicine and science in East and Southeast Asia.

April 2015


NEW SERIESHISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

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Writing history and making heritage are different but intimately intertwined practices that operate in local, national, and international heritage initiatives. Sites, Bodies and Stories elaborates on this relationship in the context of postcolonial Indonesia. Sites refers to places, like Borobudur, a megalithic village in Flores, or an ancestor house in Alor; Bodies deals with legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies; whereas Stories presents an analysis of a range of performing practices, from the Mambesak movement in Papua to wayang as a UNESCO masterpiece of intangible heritage in Paris, or subaltern history writing by the people in Blambangan and their search for national heroes. As argued throughout the book, issues with respect to citizenship entitlement always play a role in these heritage initiatives.

Contemporary heritage formation in Indonesia is inherently linked to earlier colonial canonization processes. This canon of Indonesian art and culture has been institutionalized in Indonesias heritage infrastructure inherited from the Dutch, while resonating in the Netherlands and in major museums all over the world. In this book, however, the authors argue against a colonial determinism. Without ignoring the colonial legacies, they investigate how contemporary heritage initiatives can lead to new interpretations of the past.

Susan Legne is professor of Political History and Head of the Department of Art and culture, History, Antiquity at the Faculty of Humanities, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Bambang Purwanto is Professor of History at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. Henk Schulte Nordholt is Head of Research at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, and Professor of Indonesian History at Leiden University.

Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History

Susan Legne, Bambang Purwanto & Henk Schulte Nordholteditors

May 2015


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Trade and Society: The Amoy Network on the China Coast, 16831735

The book examines the social and economic changes in south Fukien (Fujian) on the southeast coast of China during late imperial times. Faced with land shortages and overpopulation, the rural population of south Fukien turned to the sea in search of fresh opportunities to secure a livelihood. With the tacit support of local officials and the scholar gentry, merchants established a long-distance trade, with commercial networks spanning the entire China coast, making the port city of Amoy (Xiamen) a major centre for maritime trade.

In the work, the author discusses four interrelated spheres of activity, namely, the traditional rural sector, the port cities, the coastal trade and overseas trade links. He argues that the creative use of clan organizations was key to the growth of the Amoy network along the coast as well as overseas.

Ng Chin-keong was Professor of Chinese History at the National University of Singapore until his retirement in 2006.

Ng Chin-keong

December 2014


This study of the traders of Amoy provides an illuminating backdrop to their activities in Southeast Asia during the eighteenth century and after. It is an authoritative work that is indispensable to any student of that period of East Asian history. Wang Gungwu

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Immediately recognisable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapores Samsui womenimmigrants from the Samsui region of Guangdong, Chinahave become icons of Singapores twentieth century economic transformation. Working in construction, in factories and as domestics, the Samsui women have become celebrated in Singapore for their hard work and their resilience, and in China for the sacrifices they made for their families.

Kelvin Low explores the lives and legacy of the Samsui women, both through media and state representations and through the oral histories of the women themselves. His work sheds light on issues of their identity, both publicly constructed and self-defined, and explores why they undertook their difficult migration.

Remembering the Samsui Women is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten. Illustrated with 6 figures and 1 map.

Kelvin E.Y. Low is an assistant professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China

Kelvin E.Y. Low

March 2015


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Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades during the early 17th century, set sail from the Dutch Republic in 1605. He launched an attack on Portuguese Melaka in 1606 and signed landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607). After his return to the Netherlands in the autumn of 1608 he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

These materials contributed to the formulation of early VOC policy for the Southeast Asian region in the period 160520, and they yield candid insights into key issues of trade, security and the diplomacy of regional polities and their relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, and presented with 67 illustrations and maps from the period, this collection of treaties, reports and excerpts from Matelieffs travelogue will be of great interest to students of Southeast Asian and early colonial history and of the history of international law.

Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and a Guest Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald.

Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge: Security, Diplomacy and Commerce in 17th-century Southeast Asia

Peter Borschbergeditor

May 2015


Hardback US$58 / S$64ISBN: 978-9971-69-527-9

688pp257 x 178mm

A first person account of the rise of Dutch power in Southeast Asia in the 17th century.

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The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account of his experiences provides a glimpse of Singapore, Johor and the Straits of Melaka during an era for which little written material has survived. This special edition, which presents highlights from the full translation, is designed to provide students, teachers and the wider public with a glimpse of this tumultuous region when it was still controlled by local rulers, and Western colonialism was just gaining a foothold. The author describes dangerous intrigues involving fortune hunters and schemers, as well as local rulers and couriers, adventures that on several occasions nearly cost him his life.

The manuscripts come from a bundle of documents preserved at the National Library of Spain in Madrid that includes De Coutres autobiography and several memorials to the Crowns of Spain and Portugal. Chapters from the autobiography have been excerpted from book I, which covers the writers life in Southeast Asia between 1593 and 1603. A glossary and list of place names provide information about officials, goods and places mentioned in the text that will be unfamiliar to readers of English. Presented with 12 illustrations.

Peter Borschberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and a Guest Professor in Modern History at the University of Greifswald.

Jacques de Coutres Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625

Peter Borschbergeditor

January 2015


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Managing the commonsnatural resources held in common by particular communitiesis a complex challenge in a time of increasing marketization and quickly growing demand for resources. What are the different models of this sort of resource management followed by Asian societies? How have they changed over time, with state formation, modernization, development and globalization?

This volume brings clarity, detail and historical understanding to this question, across a variety of Asian societies and ecological settings. Fisheries, forests and other environmental resources are in particular focus, and case studies are drawn from Japan, Korea, Thailand, India and Bhutan. While theres a tendency to imagine that traditional communities all shared socially equitable and environmentally-friendly systems for managing the commons, in fact 19th century Asia natural resources were frequently under free-access regimes, with resource management systems only developed in response to pressure. The state has been at various times both a beneficial and a negative influence on the development of community-level systems of managing the commons. The institutional changes involve sequences that cannot be summarized readily within a simple modernist framework.

Haruka Yanagisawa is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He was awarded the Okita Memorial Prize for International Development Research in 2014.

Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia

Haruka Yanagisawaeditor

June 2015

Paperback US$36 / S$42ISBN: 978-9971-69-853-9264 pp / 229 x 152 mm

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During the First World War, ill-advised steps by colonial officials responsible for the finances of the Philippines caused a crisis that lasted from 1919 until 1922 and shook the foundations of the American colonial state. This episode, which contributed to Manuel L. Quezons successful effort to replace Sergio Osmea as leader of the politically dominant Nacionalista Party, has generally been blamed on corruption at the Philippine National Bank. Established in 1916 as a multi-purpose semi-governmental agency, the bank provided loans for the agricultural export industry, issued bank notes, served as a depository for government funds, and also functioned as a commercial bank.

Basing her conclusions on detailed archival research, Yoshiko Nagano argues that the crisis in fact resulted from irregularities in foreign exchange operations and mismanagement of currency reserves by American officials. She traces ideas that there was a corruption scandal to a colonial discourse that masked problems within the banking and currency systems, and in the U.S. colonial administration. Her analysis of this episode provides a fresh perspective on the political economy of the Philippines under American rule, and suggests a need for further scrutiny of historical accounts written on the basis of reports by colonial officials.

Yoshiko Nagano is Professor of International Relations and Asian Studies, Kanagawa University, Yokohama.

State and Finance in the Philippines, 18981941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony

Yoshiko Nagano

March 2015


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What it is like to live in a world where witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief? Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the predominantly Christian community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.

Witches (known as gua in the Buli language) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience.

Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesnt explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derridas concept of aporiaan interminable experience that remains continuously in doubtBubandt suggests the need to take seriously peoples experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.

Nils Bubandt is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University. He is the author of Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia.

The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island

Nils Bubandt

May 2015


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During the half century following Malaysian independence in 1957, the countrys National Museum underwent a transfor-mation that involved a shift from serving as a repository for displays of mounted butterflies and stuffed animals and accounts of the colonial experience to an overarching national narrative focused on culture and history. These topics are sensitive and highly disputed in Malaysia, and many of the countrys museums contest the narrative that underlies displays in the National Museum, offering alternative treatments of subjects such as Malaysias pre-Islamic past, the history and heritage of the Melaka sultanate, memories of the Japanese Occupation, national cultural policy, and cultural differences between the Federations constituent states.

In Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia, Abu Talib Ahmad examines museum displays throughout the country, and uses textual analysis of museum publications along with interviews with serving and retired museum officers to evaluate changing approaches to exhibits and the tensions that they express, or sometimes create. In addition to the National Museum, he considers museums and memorials in Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Kelantan and Terengganu, as well as memorials dedicated to national heroes (such as former Prime Ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, and film and recording artist P. Ramlee). The book offers rich and fascinating insights into differing versions of the countrys character and historical experience, and efforts to reconcile these sometimes disparate accounts.

Abu Talib Ahmad is Professor of Southeast Asian History at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia

Abu Talib Ahmad

September 2014


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Malaysias rubber manufacturing sector is a prime example of an industry based on a locally produced agricultural resource. In Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia, C.C. Goldthorpe draws on industrial policy theory along with many years of practical experience to examine the growth of rubber manufacturing in Malaysia. Over the past century, a series of technological discoveries resulted in the worldwide rise of a rubber production industry that manufactures tyres for motor vehicles, engineering components, household gloves and medical products. Goldthorpe argues that the production of rubber goods has played a significant part in the transformation of the country from primary commodity producer to newly industrialized economy, a position he supports by tracing the historical development of rubber-based industrial production and the effects of government policies promoting industrialization.

Taken as a whole, the rubber industry is vertically integrated, with locally produced natural and synthetic rubbers used by the rubber manufacturing sector to produce latex products and general rubber goods for export markets.

C.C. Goldthorpe has 45 years experience in the natural rubber industry as a planter, agricultural project planning consultant, international civil servant and university researcher.

Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia: Resource-based Industrialization in Practice

C.C. Goldthorpe

June 2015


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

Published thrice yearly in April, August, and December by Singapores 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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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 universitys 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 par-ticularly 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 authors guidelines at www.nus.edu.sg/nuspress/submit.pdf

Information for Authors

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Our home territory is Southeast Asia, and NUS Press works very closely with APD Singapore and APD Malaysia to distribute to libraries, institutions and to the bookstores in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the other countries of Southeast Asia. We service the NUS campus bookshops directly, and conduct sales to students and staff from our office on the NUS campus.

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NUS Press issues around 40 publications per year, maintaining a regional focus on Southeast Asia and a disciplinary focus on the humanities and social sciences. Established books series include the Southeast Asia Publications Series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies, Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Southeast Asia, the IRASEC Studies of Contemporary Southeast Asia (published in conjunction with the Institut de Recherche Sur lAsie du Sud-Est Contemporaine in Bangkok), as well as the HOMSEA Series on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia. NUS Press is heir to a tradition of academic publishing in Singapore that dates back nearly 60 years, starting with the work of the Publishing Committee of the University of Malaya, beginning in 1954. Singapore University Press was created in 1961 as the publishing division of the University of Singapore. The University of Singapore merged with Nanyang University in 1980 to become the National University of Singapore, and in 2006 Singapore University Press was succeeded by NUS Press, bringing the name of the press in line with the name of the university. Within NUS, the Press is positioned as a unit of NUS Enterprise.

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