Daily Archives: April 27, 2017

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff, and Olivier Ferrari Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015, 168pp. The case studies in this book encompass […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas Holger L. Fröhlich, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Karl Stahr, and Gerhard Clemens, eds. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, x+490pp. There is no promising way of sustainably farming sloping land in a market-oriented […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century Marie-Sybille de Vienne Singapore: NUS Press in association with Institute De Recherche Sur L’Asie Du Sud-Est Contemporaine (Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia), 2015, xviii+345pp. Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Stability and Stagnation Edward Aspinall, Marcus Mietzner, and Dirk Tomsa, eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015, 362pp. A Decade of Missed Opportunities The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Stability and Stagnation is a collection of papers that […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 Transforming Nikkeijin Identity and Citizenship: Untold Life Histories of Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants in the Philippines, 1903–2013 Shun Ohno Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015, xiv+284pp. In January 2016, Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited the Philippines as state guests. Mass […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita, and Shuichi Kawai, eds. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2016, xxvii+466pp. Fires and haze have become regular events during the dry season in tropical areas in […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 Two Crises, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance T. J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015, viii+267pp. More Financial Crises Ahead? Two Crises, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance makes three key assertions: first, contrary to the school attributing the […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Persons from Myanmar: Royal Thai Government Policy and Donor, INGO, NGO and UN Agency Delivery Premjai Vungsiriphisal, Dares Chusri, and Supang Chantavanich, eds. Cham: Springer, 2014, xxi+245pp. Resettlement of Displaced Persons on the Thai-Myanmar Border Benjamin Harkins and Supang Chantavanich, eds. […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898–1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony Yoshiko Nagano Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015, 272pp. In State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898–1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony, Yoshiko Nagano aims to revise the history […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS Women in Modern Burma Tharaphi Than London and New York: Routledge, 2014, 182pp. The 2015 election in Myanmar was a pivotal moment in history due to the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy, led by the world-renowned politician Daw Aung San […]