Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Greater Mekong Subregion: From Geographical to Socio-economic Integration Omkar L. Shrestha and Aekapol Chongvilaivan, eds. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2013, xvi+270p. The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), arguably the most glittering development opportunity in Asia, is steadily attracting an international audience. After a period of mistrust and […]
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Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Oral History in Southeast Asia: Memories and Fragments Kah Seng Loh, Stephen Dobbs, and Ernest Koh, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xiv+205p. Oral History in Southeast Asia brings together a number of committed young scholars who discuss the applicability of oral history in two […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post-New Order Indonesia Keith Foulcher, Mikihiro Moriyama, and Manneke Budiman, eds. Singapore: NUS Press and Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2012, xi+312p. This book is the outcome […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Redeeming REDD: Policies, Incentives and Social Feasibility for Avoided Deforestation Michael I. Brown London: Routledge and New York: Earthscan, 2013, xii+330p. In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN global authority on climate change, presented its fifth assessment report. Its main […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City Erik Harms Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, xiv+294p. In his introduction to the book, Erik Harms states that there are no Vietnamese poems about Hóc Môn, a district lying on the outskirts of Ho […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice Yoko Hayami, Junko Koizumi, Chalidaporn Songsamphan, and Ratana Tosakul, eds. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press and Bangkok: Silkworm Books, 2012, ix+546p. The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice is a long-awaited addition to […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia Hui Yew-Foong Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2011, xvi+342p. Hui Yew-Foong has written a highly nuanced ethnographic monograph on how the Chinese of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, negotiate their stranger-subjectivity with their host […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 The Cardamom Conundrum: Reconciling Development and Conservation in the Kingdom of Cambodia Timothy J. Killeen Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xxviii+354p. Cambodia is facing two main issues in its struggle over development after a long period of social unrest: development and conservation. Between the 1990s and […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia Mely Caballero-Anthony, Youngho Chang, and Nur Azha Putra, eds. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, ix+121p. Human Security: Securing East Asia’s Future Benny Teh Cheng Guan, ed. Dordrecht and New York: Springer, 2012, xiii+255p. At present, non-traditional security issues […]
Published in April, 2014 CONTENTS Articles Themes of Invention, Help, and Will: Joachim Campe’s Robinson der Jüngere in Tagalog and Bahasa Melayu Translations ・・・ Ramon GUILLERMO Malaysia as the Archetypal Garden in the British Creative Imagination ・・・ Siti Nuraishah AHMAD Beyond the Colonial State: Central Bank Making as State Building […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Malaysia as the Archetypal Garden in the British Creative Imagination Siti Nuraishah Ahmad* * Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak Kuala Lumpur 53100, Malaysia e-mail: snuraishah[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.3.1_49__8211_8 European travel writing (1512–1984) represented Malaysia as a tropical Garden of […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Beyond the Colonial State: Central Bank Making as State Building in the 1930s* Takagi Yusuke** ** The writer revised this paper as a part of the writer’s Ph.D. dissertation, “Nationalism in Philippine State Building: The Politics of the Central Bank, 1933–1964,” which was submitted to […]