Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980 Gregor Benton and Hong Liu Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. Despite repeated attention being given to the significance of overseas Chinese communities as the world’s largest diaspora, its historiography has not yet reached a level comparable with […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
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Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene Paul Jobin, Ming-sho Ho, and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, eds. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021. With ecological crises on a planetary scale threatening the mass destruction of human and nonhuman species, the book Environmental Movements and […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance Vilashini Somiah Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Vilashini Somiah, the author of Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance, makes her book-publishing debut on […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Media Representation of China in Malaysia: Television News Coverage of Najib Razak’s Visit in 2016 Ng Hooi-Sean* *Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia e-mail: khsng79[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.11.3_477 The increasing prominence of China on […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Sending Money Back Home: Banking Digitalization, Myanmar Migrant Workers, and the Thailand-Myanmar Border Trade Akkanut Wantanasombut* *อรรคณัฐ วันทนะสมบัติ, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 7th Floor, Prajadhipok-Rambhai Barni Building, Phayathai Road, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand e-mail: akkanut.w[at]chula.ac.th https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5686-7688 DOI: 10.20495/seas.11.3_451 In 2021 Thailand’s Ministry […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Semi-archives and Interim Archives: A History of the National Wages Council in Singapore* Loh Kah Seng** and Jeremy Goh*** *This article forms part of the research output of the Heritage Research Grant (HRG) Project From Colony to Nation: Continuity and Change in the Singapore Economy, […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Mount Bromo Will Take Care of Us: Tenggerese Religious-Ecological Knowledge, Challenge of Modern Reason, and Disaster Mitigation in Postcolonial Times Ikwan Setiawan,* Albert Tallapessy,** and Andang Subaharianto,*** *English Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Jember, Jl. Kalimantan No. 37 Jember Jember East Java 68121, Indonesia […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 “Anak ng Bayang Dukha”: A Computational and Comparative Keyword Analysis of Sakdalista and Communist Discourses from 1925 to 1941 Dominic Sy* *Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman, Roxas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City, 1101, Philippines e-mail: […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 3 Son Preference in a Welfare State: The Case of Vietnamese Australian Families Tran T. T. Giang,* Karen Farquharson,**and Deborah Dempsey*** *Faculty of Family Studies and Social Work, Hanoi University of Culture, 418 La Thanh, Dongda District, Hanoi 1000, Vietnam Corresponding author’s e-mail: giangttt[at]huc.edu.vn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0875-657X **School […]
Published in December, 2022 CONTENTS Articles Son Preference in a Welfare State: The Case of Vietnamese Australian Families ・・・ Tran T. T. Giang Karen Farquharson Deborah Dempsey “Anak ng Bayang Dukha”: A Computational and Comparative Keyword Analysis of Sakdalista and Communist Discourses from 1925 to 1941 ・・・ Dominic Sy Mount […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 Capitalism Magic Thailand: Modernity with Enchantment Peter A. Jackson Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2022. Customers in malls shop for amulets that attract money like magnets. Monks pronounce incantations for businesspeople to win over customers. Spirit mediums become possessed to predict winning lottery numbers. Anyone familiar with […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market Giang Nguyen-Thu Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019. Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market by Giang Nguyen-Thu discusses the reordering of Vietnam’s nationhood and nationalism in the post-Reform era and how this reordering took place […]