Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia Wen-Qing Ngoei Ithaca: Cornell University Press; Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2019. Wen-Qing Ngoei’s Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia is a thought-provoking, compelling, and significant […]
Monthly Archives: December 2019
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Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975 Michitake Aso Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Probably no other industry aside from rubber has such a long and controversial past, which is closely attached to the history of modern Vietnam. […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778 Nhung Tuyet Tran Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. This book is the first English-language, full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the early modern period. In English, the existing studies of women in […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Through Turbulent Terrain: Trade of the Straits Port of Penang Loh Wei Leng with Jeffery Seow Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2018. Penang—the Malaysian port city acquired by the British East India Company in 1786—spearheaded the expansion of British influence in […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands Bradley Camp Davis Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. Bradley Camp Davis provides a meticulously researched account of the complexly interwoven dynamics of imperial and later colonial power, rebellions and outlaws (“bandits”) in the […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Defeating a Political Dynasty: Local Progressive Politics through People Power Volunteers for Reform and Bottom-up Budgeting Projects in Siquijor, Philippines Hara Tamiki* * 原 民樹, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Chiba University of Commerce, 1-3-1 Konodai, Ichikawa-shi, Chiba 272-8512, Japan e-mail: tamiki.h.1985[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.8.3_413 Despite its […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Between State and Family: Biopolitics of Elderly Care and a Case of Emerging Communality in Northern Thailand Hayami Yoko* * 速水洋子, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University e-mail: yhayami[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp DOI: 10.20495/seas.8.3_387 In Thailand, from the beginning of this century, policies on aging, health promotion […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 Did Jose Rizal Die a Catholic? Revisiting Rizal’s Last 24 Hours Using Spy Reports Rene Escalante* * Department of History, De La Salle University, 1501 Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila, Metro Manila 1100, Philippines e-mail: rene.escalante[at]dlsu.edu.ph DOI: 10.20495/seas.8.3_369 There is one issue in Jose Rizal’s life […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 3 “Moving the Kitchen out”: Contemporary Bugis Migration Mukrimin* * School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth WA 6009 Australia; IAIN Sultan Amai, Jl. Gelatik No. 1, Kota Gorontalo, Gorontalo 96124, Indonesia e-mail: mukrimin[at]iaingorontalo.ac.id DOI: 10.20495/seas.8.3_349 This article provides a […]
Published in December, 2019 CONTENTS Articles “Moving the Kitchen out”: Contemporary Bugis Migration ・・・ MUKRIMIN Did Jose Rizal Die a Catholic? Revisiting Rizal’s Last 24 Hours Using Spy Reports ・・・ Rene ESCALANTE Between State and Family: Biopolitics of Elderly Care and a Case of Emerging Communality in Northern Thailand ・・・ […]
Published in December, 2019 CONTENTS Articles “Moving the Kitchen out”: Contemporary Bugis Migration ・・・ MUKRIMIN Did Jose Rizal Die a Catholic? Revisiting Rizal’s Last 24 Hours Using Spy Reports ・・・ Rene ESCALANTE Between State and Family: Biopolitics of Elderly Care and a Case of Emerging Communality in Northern Thailand ・・・ […]