BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet, and Michitake Aso, eds. Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2024. Reviewed by Atsuko Naono* *Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2518-0701 DOI: […]
Monthly Archives: March 2026
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BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 David Lockwood. The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948. Singapore: NUS Press, 2024. Reviewed by Jason Ng Sze Chieh* *Center for American Education, INTI International College Subang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-0729 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br26007
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 Herbary Cheung. Single Mothers in Thailand: Women, Motherhood, and Going It All Alone. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Reviewed by Kai Chen* *陈锴, School of International Relations, Xiamen University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0891-3408 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br26006
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 Phi-Van Nguyen. A Displaced Nation: The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. Reviewed by Olga Dror* *Department of History, Texas A&M University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5642-9506 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br26005
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 Leo Suryadinata, ed. Rising China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia: Impact on Education and Popular Culture. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024. Reviewed by Enze Han* *韓恩澤, Department of Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8948-3843 DOI: […]
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 Chie Ikeya. InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2024. Reviewed by Fujimura Hitomi* *藤村瞳, Faculty of Law and Letters, Ehime University DOI: 10.20495/seas.br26003
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 Michael O’Sullivan. No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023. Reviewed by Tanaka Tetsuya* *田中鉄也, School of Global Studies, Chukyo University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1714-7239 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br26002
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: March 23, 2026 Tyrell Haberkorn. Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024. Reviewed by Gregory V. Raymond* *Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5047-881X DOI: 10.20495/seas.br26001
Advance Publication Accepted: November 21, 2025 Published online: March 23, 2026 Visual Narratives: Colonial Photography and the Ngepan Iban Cultural Shift in Borneo Gregory anak Kiyai @ Keai* *Visual Art Program, Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Malaya, Lengkungan Budi, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia e-mail: gregory.kiyai[at]um.edu.my https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3714-1347 DOI: 10.20495/seas.26010 This […]
Advance Publication Accepted: November 21, 2025 Published online: March 23, 2026 Maneuvering between Resistance and Collaboration: Wartime Violence and the Informal Economy at the Margins during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Ara Satoshi* *荒哲, Department of Economics, Ohtsuki City College, 1-16-2 Mitachi Otsuki City, 4010011 Yamanashi, Japan e-mail: ara[at]ohtsuki.ac.jp […]
Advance Publication Accepted: November 13, 2025 Published online: March 23, 2026 Eroding the Ethics: Resource Extraction, Water Infrastructure, and Insecure Farmers in Indonesia Denny Riezki Pratama* *Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka Nishi Ward, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan e-mail: pratama.denny.335[at]s.kyushu-u.ac.jp https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6319-2271 DOI: 10.20495/seas.26008 This article […]
Advance Publication Accepted: July 3, 2025 Published online: March 23, 2026 Antecedents to Rodrigo Duterte’s Drug War: The Anti-Drug Campaigns of Joseph Estrada (2000) and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2003) Gideon Lasco* *Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman, 3/F Palma Hall, Quezon City, Philippines; Department of Development Studies, Ateneo […]