Yearly Archives: 2015

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Buddhist Warfare MICHAEL K. JERRYSON and MARK JUERGENSMEYER, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, 272 p. In the opening lines of the introduction to this collection of eight essays (some written originally for a panel at an American Academy of Religion meeting) […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Singapore’s Prescription for Successful Control of Transnational Emerging Infectious Diseases* Minako Jen Yoshikawa** **吉川みな子, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research, Inter-Graduate School Unit for Sustainable Development and Survival Societies, Kyoto University, 4 Ushinomiya-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8302, Japan e-mail: mjenyjp[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.2_301 […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Hidden Transcripts from “Below” in Rural Politics of the Philippines: Interpreting the Janus-facedness of Patron-Client Ties and Tulong (Help) Soon Chuan Yean* *孫傳煙, School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia e-mail: chuanyean[at]usm.my DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.2_273 This paper argues that ordinary people often contest […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Fostering Incentive-Based Policies and Partnerships for Integrated Watershed Management in the Southeast Asian Uplands Andreas Neef* * Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: neef.andreas.4n[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.2_247 This paper attempts to identify the major factors associated with some […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 A Posthumous Return from Exile: The Legacy of an Anticolonial Religious Leader in Today’s Vietnam Janet Hoskins* * Anthropology Department, University of Southern California, Grace Ford Salvatori, Los Angeles, California 90089, U.S.A. e-mail: jhoskins[at]usc.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.2_213 The 2006 return of the body Phạm Công Tắc, […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 “Identity Monarchy”: Interrogating Heritage for a Divided Malaysia Anthony Milner* * School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacifi c, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T 0200, Australia e-mail: Anthony.Milner[at]anu.edu.au DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.2_3 Malaysia, it has been observed, is currently experiencing a “revival” […]

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 […]

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 […]