Monthly Archives: December 2017

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, xxiv+262pp. The Color Curtain, The Colored Glasses In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah, the protagonist, a strong-willed young woman named Ifemelu, […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia Zane Goebel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xvii+221pp. Zane Goebel’s monograph detailing the face-to-face encounters between residents in the ethnically and linguistically diverse town of Semarang (Central Java) provides an excellent case study of the way linguistic […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation Vicente L. Rafael Durham: Duke University Press; Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2016, xii+255pp. Vicente L. Rafael’s Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation examines the ways in which translation—its […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia Rachmi Diyah Larasati Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, xxii+196pp. In the decades following the violent mass annihilation of suspected Communist sympathizers and members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia) […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa Bernard Berendsen, Ton Dietz, Henk Schulte Nordholt, and Roel van der Veen, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2013, xiv+524pp. The title “Asian Tigers, African Lions” is exactly the issue addressed by this monograph. The […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City Yeoh Seng Guan, ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2014, xiii+220pp. The rapid growth of Asian cities in recent decades, fueled by neoliberal policies, the accelerating production of real estate, and […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945 Daniel F. Doeppers Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016, xvii+443pp. How does one feed a primary colonial city in a span of a century, given its complex social, political, ecological, demographic, and cultural dimensions? Daniel F. Doeppers’s most […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese Jayde Lin Roberts Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016, xvii+200pp. Chinese immigration into Myanmar from Yunnan existed before the colonization of Myanmar in the eighteenth century. However, the trickle of Chinese traders from southern […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand Samson Lim Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016, viii+213pp. Bearing the hallmarks of a fine PhD thesis, Samson Lim’s Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand contributes fresh perspectives, information, and analysis […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS G30S dan Asia: Dalam bayang-bayang Perang Dingin [The September 30, 1965 coup and Asia, under the shadows of the Cold War] Kurasawa Aiko and Matsumura Toshio, eds. Jakarta: Penerbit Buku Kompas, 2016, xxvi+308pp. Similar to Thailand’s October 6, 1976 massacre, Indonesia’s September 30, […]