Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Inclusive Spirituality: The Bodhisattva Kuan-yin as Moral Exemplar and Self-Cultivation in a Malaysian Dharma House Arthur C. K. Chia* *谢志健, Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 e-mail: ckchia[at]ntu.edu.sg DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.4.3_581 Based on an ethnographic study of a lay Buddhist organization in […]
Monthly Archives: December 2015
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Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Tourism and Crime: Evidence from the Philippines Rosalina Palanca-Tan,* Len Patrick Dominic M. Garces,* Angelica Nicole C. Purisima,* and Angelo Christian L. Zaratan* * Department of Economics, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, 1108, Metro Manila, Philippines Corresponding author (Palanca-Tan)’s e-mail: rtan[at]ateneo.edu DOI: […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Jakarta “Since Yesterday”: The Making of the Post-New Order Regime in an Indonesian Metropolis Arai Kenichiro* * 新井健一郎, Faculty of International Social Studies, Kyoai Gakuen University, 1154-4 Koyaharamachi, Maebashi-shi, Gunma 379-2192, Japan e-mail: kenichiroarai[at]hotmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.4.3_445 This paper is an attempt to explore the features […]
Published in December, 2015 CONTENTS Articles Jakarta “Since Yesterday”: The Making of the Post-New Order Regime in an Indonesian Metropolis ・・・ ARAI Kenichiro Local Politics and Chinese Indonesian Business in Post-Suharto Era ・・・ Wu-Ling CHONG Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia ・・・ Elizabeth CHANDRA Tourism and Crime: Evidence […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia Elizabeth Chandra* *Department of Politics, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan; Socio-Cultural Research Institute, Ryukoku University, 1-5 Yokotani, Seta Oe-cho, Otsu, Shiga 520-2194, Japan e-mail: ec54[at]cornell.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.4.3_533 In the early decades of the twentieth […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Local Politics and Chinese Indonesian Business in Post-Suharto Era Wu-Ling Chong* *鍾武凌, Department of South East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia e-mail: chong.wu.ling[at]um.edu.my; chong.wu.ling[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.4.3_487 This article examines the relationships between the changes and […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment: Eco-Cities in East Asia LYE LIANG FOOK and CHEN GANG, eds. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010, 222 p. Economic developments in East Asia since the end of World War II have fascinated many observers. From Japan’s post-war recovery […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Revolutionary Spirit: Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia JOHN NERY Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011, 280 p. Written on a research fellowship at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, this book with a yellow cover perhaps betrays the author’s sympathies for the […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia MICHAEL R. DOVE, PERCY E. SAJISE and AMITY A. DOOLITTLE, eds. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011, 372 p. In recent years, numerous collections on natural resource conservation in Southeast Asia have hit the bookshelf. […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region KATE LAZARUS, NATHANN BADENOCH, NGAA DAO and BERNADETTE P. RESURRECCION, eds. London and Washington, D.C.: Earthscan, 2011, 285 p. My attention was immediately attracted to the book’s case studies of water rights and social justice of […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 The Language Difference: Language and Development in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region PAULIN G. DJITÉ Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011, 264 p. English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model ANDY KIRKPATRICK Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010, 236p. Dealing with Diversity: Language Policy […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia CAROLINE S. HAU and KASIAN TEJAPIRA, eds. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2011, 318 p. Studies of modern Southeast Asian history and politics have gone […]