Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos Simon Creak Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015, xvi+337p. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on an under-studied country, Laos, on an also under-studied topic, sport in relation to nationalism and masculinity. […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
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Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 The Female Voice of Myanmar: Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi Nilanjana Sengupta Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 407p. The female voice of the title of Nilanjana Sengupta’s book belongs to four twentieth century women writers and activists: Khin Myo Chit, Ludu Daw […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Remembering the Samsui Women: Migration and Social Memory in Singapore and China Kelvin E. Y. Low Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2014, xiv+252p. The term “Samsui” refers to a specific location in the Pearl River Delta region in Guangdong province, the southern part of China, […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Women and Sharia Law in Northern Indonesia: Local Women’s NGOs and the Reform of Islamic Law in Aceh Dina Afrianty London and New York: Routledge, 2015, viii+194p. One of the earliest Islamic legal texts available to us from the Malay world was written […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 No Room to Swing a Cat? Animal Treatment and Urban Space in Singapore Ying-kit Chan* * Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University, 211 Jones Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA e-mail: ykchan[at]princeton.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.2_305 Since Singapore’s independence in 1965, the People’s Action Party government has […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Kuo Pao Kun’s Zheng He Legend and Multicultural Encounters in Singapore Rachel Leng* * 凌惠颖, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA e-mail: rleng[at]post.harvard.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.2_287 This paper will examine Kuo Pao Kun’s modern reiteration of the Zheng He theme in his 1995 […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Philanthropy and “Muslim Citizenship” in Post-Suharto Indonesia Hilman Latief* * Board of Research, Publication and Community Development (LP3M), Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Jl. Lingkar Selatan, Tamantirto, Bantul Yogyakarta, Indonesia e-mails: h_latief[at]yahoo.com; h_latief[at]umy.ac.id DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.2_269 The spawning of Muslim philanthropic associations signifies an increasingly visible Islamic social […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Anut Grubyuk in the Voting Process: The Neglected Explanation of Javanese Voters (Preliminary Findings) Wawan Sobari* * Department of Political Science, Brawijaya University, Jl. Veteran Malang 65145, East Java, Indonesia e-mail: wawansobari[at]ub.ac.id DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.2_239 The “Javanese factor” is a strategic consideration in Indonesian electoral politics, […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 The Irony of Democratization and the Decline of Royal Hegemony in Thailand Kasian Tejapira* * เกษียร เตชะพีระ, Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, 2 Prachan Road, Phra Nakorn, Bangkok 10200, Thailand e-mail: kasian[at]tu.ac.th DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.2_219 I intend to approach the current decade-long political crisis in […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 History Reformatted: Vietnam’s Great Famine (1944–45) in Archival Form Ken MacLean* * Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 950 Main Street, Clark University, Worcester MA, 01610, USA e-mail: kmaclean[at]clarku.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.2_187 The number and types of memory projects in Vietnam have proliferated rapidly since […]
Published in August, 2016 CONTENTS History Reformatted: Vietnam’s Great Famine (1944–45) in Archival Form ・・・ Ken MACLEAN The Irony of Democratization and the Decline of Royal Hegemony in Thailand ・・・ KASIAN TEJAPIRA Anut Grubyuk in the Voting Process: The Neglected Explanation of Javanese Voters (Preliminary Findings) ・・・ WAWAN SOBARI […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 1 Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia Sarah Turner, ed. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2013, 320p. One of the most striking changes observed while working in the uplands of Laos over the past decade is the rapid growth in the number of […]