Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Performing the Divine: Mediums, Markets and Modernity in Urban Vietnam KIRSTEN W. ENDRES Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2011, 244 p. The resurgence of popular religion in Vietnam has attracted the attention of a large number of scholars, who have recently published works on the music (Norton […]
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Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Linking an Asian Transregional Commerce in Tea: Overseas Chinese Merchants in the Fujian-Singapore Trade, 1920–1960 JASONN LIM Leiden: Brill NV, 2010, 252 p. This book is a product of Jason Lim’s research into Chinese newspapers in Singapore from 1880 to 1930, where he first learned […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ and BENJAMIN MCKAY, eds. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2012, viii+246 p. The thrill of going over a volume on contemporary popular culture is compounded when the activity betokens a celebrity system whose […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, 325 p. Much has already been written about the sexual migration of female entertainers in Japan.1) While the phenomenon has a fairly contemporary history, the multifarious layers of […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 China and the Shaping of Indonesia, 1949–1965 HONG LIU Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2011, 310 p. This is a long-awaited book on the interaction that took place between Indonesia and China in 1949–65. Based on his dissertation submitted to Ohio […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma CHIE IKEYA Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011, 239 p. Chie Ikeya’s excellent book offers deep insights into Burma’s social and cultural history under colonialism and modernity mainly through depictions of modern Burmese women. Based on archival research […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia JOHAN SARAVANAMUTTU, ed. London: Routledge, 2009, 188 p, with index. The present volume seeks to understand “political Islam” which the editor, Johan Saravanamuttu, describes as “aspirations to political power and the remolding of state and society in accordance with […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos SARINDA SINGH Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012, 192 p. “Muang Metaphysics” The question of how the Lao state maintains legitimacy and authority in the countryside is a key topic of interest for […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-buri YOSHINORI NISHIZAKI Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2011, xvii+254p. When Adhemar de Barros ran as candidate for the governor of São Paulo in the 1947, he anchored his campaign on the […]