Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore Steve Ferzacca Singapore: NUS Press, 2020. This book documents the making of rock music in Singapore by a small community of amateur musicians along with their friends, families, and fans, and also the making of […]
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Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912 Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. In her remarkable book Asian Place, Filipino Nation, Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz restores the balance in the literature on the 1896 revolution that overthrew […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power Jiat-Hwee Chang and Imran bin Tajudeen, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2019. What is Southeast Asian architecture? Does the construction of Southeast Asian architecture depend on whether “Southeast Asia” is valid as a geographic unit of […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom Arlo Griffiths, Andrew Hardy, and Geoff Wade, eds. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2019. Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom is the latest publication to come out of a relatively recent international collaboration on […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 The Collapse of British Rule in Burma: The Civilian Evacuation and Independence Michael D. Leigh London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. In his previous work, The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma, Michael D. Leigh covered a time in Burma when the myth of British imperial invincibility was […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Human–Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier Noboru Ishikawa and Ryoji Soda, eds. Singapore: Springer, 2020. The island of Borneo has long occupied a sensationalized niche in the Euro-American imagination, depicted historically as a land of exotic rituals and fierce headhunters, and more […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Hui Yew-Foong, and Philippe Peycam, eds. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2017. Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia probes heritage-making and civil society movements in pivotal locations across Asia. Based on the contributors’ intensive […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Intensification of Rice Cultivation in the Floodplain of the Chao Phraya Delta* François Molle,** Chatchom Chompadist,*** and Thanawat Bremard** *This article is dedicated to the late Professor Takaya and his colleagues from Kyoto University’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, who carried out seminal work on […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Peasant Violence in Early Nineteenth Century Philippines and Guatemala: The Cases of Apolinario de la Cruz and Rafael Carrera in Comparative Perspective Byron Josue de Leon* *Independent Scholar e-mail: bjdeleon.lorini[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.10.1_119 The Philippines and Guatemala belong to a common indigenous Hispanic cultural sphere defined […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Local Politics in the Migration between Vietnam and Cambodia: Mobility in a Multiethnic Society in the Mekong Delta since 1975 Shimojo Hisashi* *下條尚志, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, 1-2-1, Tsurukabuto, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan e-mail: shimojoenator[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.10.1_89 This paper examines the history […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 “No Nation Can Go Forward When It Is Crippled by Disease”: Philippine Science and the Cold War, 1946–65 Vivek Neelakantan* *Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 431 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2426, United States e-mail: vivekneelakantanster[at]gmail.com Quirino, Elpedio. 1949 DOI: 10.20495/seas.10.1_53 This […]
Contents>> Vol. 10, No. 1 Care Relations and Custody of Return-Migrant Children in Rural Vietnam: Cases in the Mekong Delta Iwai Misaki* *岩井美佐紀, Department of Asian Languages, Kanda University of International Studies, 1-4-1 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba 261-0016, Japan e-mail: misakii[at]kanda.kuis.ac.jp DOI: 10.20495/seas.10.1_33 In the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, there are a […]