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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

September 2015

Paperback • US$20 / S$24ISBN: 978-9971-69-874-4376pp / 215 x 140mm

X INDONESIA“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

October 2015

Paperback • US$24 / S$28ISBN: 978-9971-69-844-7224pp / 229 x 152mm

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Nemesis: The First Iron Warship and Her World

The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established British dominance in Asian waters in the 19th century. The world’s first iron warship, the first vessel with truly watertight compartments, and the first iron vessel to round the Cape of Good Hope, Nemesis represented a staggering new level of military superiority over the oar- and sail-powered forces of Britain’s Asian rivals. With a shallow draft suited to riverine operations, and flexible armaments, she originated “gunboat diplomacy” in operations during the First Opium War.

While her importance is recognized in the military history literature, the Nemesis’ story has not been told to modern audiences. This lively narrative creates a vivid sense of life aboard the ship, and the challenges of the new technology for her captains and crew. The book places Nemesis in the historical context of the last years of the East India Company, and in the history of steam power and of iron ships. It tells of her exploits in the First Opium War, upriver in James Brooke’s Sarawak, in pirate suppression and naval actions across Asia, from Burma to Bombay to the Yangtze River and beyond.

Adrian G. Marshall is the author of The Singapore Letters of Benjamin Cooke 1854–1855.

Adrian G. Marshall

September 2015

Paperback • US$28 / S$32ISBN: 978-9971-69-822-5392pp / 229 x 152mm

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Taming 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

May 2015

Paperback • US$32 / S$36ISBN: 978-9971-69-832-4328pp / 229 x 152mm

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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

Paperback • US$34 / S$38ISBN: 978-9971-69-861-4536pp / 229 x 152 mm

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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

Paperback • US$28 / S$34ISBN: 978-981-4722-00-1216pp / 229 x 152mm

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Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar

With a young population of more than 52 million, an ambitious road map for political reform, and on the cusp of rapid economic development, since 2010 the world’s attention has been drawn to Myanmar or Burma.

But underlying recent political transitions are other wrenching social changes and shocks, a set of transformations less clearly mapped out. Relations between ethnic and religious groups, in the context of Burma’s political model of a state composed of ethnic groups, are a particularly important “unsolved equation”.

The editors use the notion of metamorphosis to look at Myanmar today and tomorrow—a term that accommodates linear change, stubborn persistence and the possibility of dramatic transformation. Divided into four sections, on politics, identity and ethnic relations, social change in fields like education and medicine, and the evolutions of religious institutions, the volume takes a broad view, combining an anthropological approach with views from political scientists and historians. This volume is an essential guide to the political and social challenges ahead for Myanmar.

Renaud Egreteau is a 2015–16 Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington DC, and an IRASEC Associate. He co-authored Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma (NUS Press, 2013). François Robinne is anthropologist, director of research at CNRS, head of IRASEC (2012-16). He co-edited, with Mandy Sadan, Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia: Reconsidering Political Systems of Highland Burma by E.R. Leach (Brill, 2007) and, with Christian Culas, Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other through ethnonyms, territories and rituals (Routledge, 2010).

Renaud Egreteau & François Robinneeditors

September 2015

Paperback • US$38 / S$42ISBN: 978-9971-69-866-9448pp / 229 x 152mm

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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

Paperback • US$36 / S$42ISBN: 978-9971-69-859-1296pp / 229 x 152mm

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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

August 2015

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

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

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“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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Why does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that island’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara.

Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over the course of three centuries the people of Maubara experienced benevolent but precarious Dutch suzerainty, Portuguese colonialism punctuated by multiple uprisings and destructive campaigns of pacification, Japanese military rule, and years of brutal Indonesian occupation. In 1999 Maubara was the site of particularly severe violence before and after the UN-sponsored referendum that finally led to the restoration of East Timor’s independence.

The questions posed in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor about recurring violence and local narratives apply to many other places besides East Timor—from the Caucasus to central Africa, and from the Balkans to China—wherever mass violence keeps recurring.

Douglas Kammen is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He is co-editor of the volume The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia, 1965–1968.

Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor

Douglas Kammen

August 2015

Paperback • US$28 / S$32ISBN: 978-9971-69-875-1240pp / 229 x 152mm

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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

Paperback • US$32 / S$36ISBN: 978-9971-69-860-7320pp / 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 Sukarno’s slide towards authoritarianism, and the refusal of Suharto’s 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 20th-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 party’s 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 country’s denominational coexistence.

Rémy 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). Jeremy Desmond teaches English at the Jean Moulin University in Lyon. He has already translated a number of articles on Southeast Asian studies.

Rémy Madiniertranslated by Jeremy Desmond

August 2015

Paperback • US$40 / S$45ISBN: 978-9971-69-843-0504pp / 229 x 152mm

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Brunei: 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 Brunei’s 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 Brunei’s political economy, history and geography, this book aims to understand the forces behind Brunei’s 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 152mm

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Managing the commons—natural resources held in common by particular communities—is 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 there’s 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 was 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

August 2015

Paperback • US$36 / S$42ISBN: 978-9971-69-853-9272pp / 229 x 152mm

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This extensive reference writes a modern history of forestry in Japan, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and other Asian countries, reflecting industrial and colonial exploitation, periods of exces-sive deforestation, and the alienation of local residents from natural resources. Drawing on their experience as “participant observers” in local practice, the authors suggest new, inclusive approaches to forestry governance that support sustainable development, environmental preservation, and the productive collaboration by various stakeholders.

The mismatched interests of local citizens and outsiders have split the development of Asia’s natural and cultural resources. Taking this complexity into account, the essays in this volume advance a definition of effective governance that achieves more than the successful execution of resource management. It pursues a new vision of society in which all stakeholders collaborate to govern the use of certain resources. This volume outlines two key conditions for effective resource management: sharing and commitment (or graduated membership), which transcend mere material issues to determine the social and cultural value of a resource.

Motomu Tanaka is an associate professor in the Graduate Education and Research Trainings Program in Decision Science for Sustainable Society at Kyushu University, Japan. Makoto Inoue is a professor in the Department of Global Agricultural Science at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Collaborative Governance of Forests:Towards Sustainable Forest Resource Utilization

CO-PUBLISHED WITH UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO PRESS

October 2015

Paperback • US$40 / S$45ISBN: 978-9971-69-862-1464pp / 216 x 155mm

Motomu Tanaka & Makoto Inoueeditors

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Asian cities are developing at an unparalleled pace, fuelled by the rise in urban population and economic development. With development focused on the production and output of commercial industries, the growth of many cities has overlooked disadvantaged citizens, who remain disconnected to basic amenities, transport services and economic opportunities.

The aim of the Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition and Symposium is to encourage design explorations and research into new urban models for urban environments in Asian cities challenged by the task of providing infrastructural services for all citizens. Previous editions of the VCA, “Everyone Needs Fresh Air” (Chengdu, 2011), “Everyone Ages” (Seoul, 2012) and “Everyone Harvests” (Hanoi, 2013), focused on providing urban planning methods to address key environmental and social issues faced by developing cities.

The fourth edition (Mumbai, 2014) is themed “Everyone Connects” and investigates potential solutions to the metro-politan fragmentation and the dispersal of informal settlements throughout cities, and the exclusion of certain members of the populace from economic opportunities and social activities. The solutions include designing and encouraging communal and economic links, revelling in the sense of community and the intimate culture of Mumbai. The theme calls for innovative structural methods that provide significant allowance for citizens to interact with the built environment, to stem the sense of separation from the city. This book presents the wide spectrum of innovative design and theoretical approaches discussed in the competition teams’ schemes and symposium papers.

Tomohisa Miyauchi is senior lecturer at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore.

Vertical Cities Asia: International Design Competition and Symposium 2014 Volume 4: Everyone Connects

Tomohisa Miyauchieditor

DISTRIBUTED ON BEHALF OF THE NUS DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, SCHOOL OF DESIGN & ENVIRONMENT

August 2015

Paperback • US$32 / S$38ISBN: 978-9810-95-994-4226pp / 303 x 230mm

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Until 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 component—street, park, or building—is designed to express distinctiveness. This propensity for the singular is erasing the relational fields that once distinguished each city. In China’s 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

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Indonesia’s 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 Indonesia’s 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

Paperback • US$38 / S$42ISBN: 978-9971-69-851-5352pp / 229 x 152mm

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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. Quezon’s successful effort to replace Sergio Osmeña 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, 1898–1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony

Yoshiko Nagano

March 2015

Paperback • US$32 / S$38ISBN: 978-9971-69-841-6272pp / 229 x 152mm

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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 doesn’t explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida’s concept of aporia—an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt—Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people’s 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

Paperback • US$28 / S$35ISBN: 978-9971-69-863-8320pp / 229 x 152mm

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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 Indonesia’s 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 Legêne 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 Legêne, Bambang Purwanto & Henk Schulte Nordholteditors

June 2015

Paperback • US$36 / S$38ISBN: 978-9971-69-857-7264pp / 229 x 152mm

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