. Review of The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis.
SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES: Book Review
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. Review of Contesting Indonesia: Islamist,
Separatist, and Communal Violence since 1945 by Kirsten E. Schulze.
. Review of Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish edited by Axel Gasquet and Rocío Ortuño Casanova.
. Review of Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Andrew C. S. Peacock.
. Review of Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region edited by Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer.
, Review of Colonial Law Making: Cambodia
under the French by Sally Frances Low.
, Review of The Intimacies of Intergenerational
Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production by Linh Thủy Nguyễn.
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia Guo-Quan Seng Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. Despite extensive scholarship on Indonesia’s Chinese minority, Strangers in the Family offers a wholly fresh perspective. Spanning from the latter days of the Dutch East India […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art Kathryn Emerson Singapore: NUS Press, 2022. In the 1970s, an influential Indonesian arts administrator was trying to introduce serious reforms in the centuries-old Javanese shadow play (wayang) tradition. Humardani, […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand Sinae Hyun Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. The massacre of leftist student protesters at Thammasat University on the morning of October 6, 1976 is one of the most infamous events in modern […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power Khoo Boo Teik Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2023. This book, as its title clearly states, focuses on Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (2022–present). More precisely, it analyzes Anwar’s evolution ever since he first […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Global Anti-Asian Racism Jennifer Ho, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Racism is a core problem of our times, yet we have only just started to tackle its different dimensions. While some progress has been made, not least due to some important academic contributions […]