Daily Archives: April 26, 2018

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam Christopher GoschaLondon: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016. The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha traces the story of modern Vietnamese nationbuilding back thousands of years. The titles of its 14 chapters cover in chronological […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Yearning to Belong: Malaysia’s Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese Patrick PillaiSingapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2015. What are the experiences of ethnic minority communities in present-day Malaysia? How do they negotiate their often multiple and fluid identities with national policies and politics that […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots Edward Aspinall and Mada Sukmajati, eds.Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. A central theme in the debate regarding Indonesian politics after democratization concerns its underlying logic. Democracy qua institution promises a heightened mobilizational power of […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace Ann Marie LeshkowichHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Bến Thành Market, where Ann Marie Leshkowich did her field research for Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace, is the most famous market in Ho Chi Minh […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Animism in Southeast Asia Kaj Århem and Guido Sprenger, eds.London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Animism in Southeast Asia is a rich study that reaches well beyond the bounds of regional and disciplinary expertise. Surely, anthropologists of religion in Southeast Asia will have some commentary […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism Janet Alison HoskinsHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. Founded in 1926 in colonial Cochinchina, Caodaism remains one of the least understood Vietnamese religious traditions. Although the Great Temple of Caodaism in Tây Ninh attracts […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature Brian BernardsSeattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. Wrought from Water: “Nanyang” as Transoceanic Imaginary of the South Seas This book is one of expanse. Of waterways, currents, borders shifting […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate Trần Đình Trụ. Translated by Bac Hoai Tran and Jana K. LipmanHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2017. Among the first words to describe Trần Đình Trụ’s Ship of Fate: […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network Julia Martínez and Adrian VickersHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. Transnational histories from below are notoriously difficult to access through conventional archives. The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s […]

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam Tâm T. T. NgôCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. Ever since the release of James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed (2009), academic research on the […]