Asian Studies 2021 HIGHLIGHTS SOUTHEAST ASIA AFTER THE COLD WAR
TRANSMUTATIONS OF DESIRE
Ang Cheng Guan
Qiancheng Li
Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China
A Contemporary History
Crucial as a tool to make sense of the dynamics of the region, this account of Southeast Asia’s international relations will be of immediate relevance to those who engage with the region, with its young, dynamic population, and its strategic position across the world’s key chokepoints of trade.
In the West, love occupies centre stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. Qiancheng Li concentrates on the nuances of a similar trend manifested in the Chinese context, critically reading the texts that shaped this trend, including important Ming and Qing dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts and other religious and philosophical works. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
THE ANNOTATED MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
Alfred Russel Wallace Edited by John van Wyhe
2015 616pp 9789971698201 Paperback US$28.00
Wallace’s Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia, and has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first annotated edition in English. This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. NUS Press
Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia Sandeep Ray
May 2021 288pp, 75 images 9789813251380 Paperback US$36.00
Uses the case of Dutch colonial film in Indonesia to show how a critically-, historically- and cinematically-informed reading of colonial film in the archive can be a powerful and unexpected source, and one more easily accessible today via digitisation. NUS Press
CHRISTIAN CIRCULATIONS
Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000 Jean DeBernardi
Nov 2020 472pp, 45 images 9789813251090 Paperback US$36.00
Nov 2020 216pp 9789813251069 Paperback US$28.00
Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies
Through an examination of the commonalities, differences and interactions of Japanese and Filipino histories, ideas of history, modernisation theory, and area studies, Serizawa makes an important contribution to sorting through the tangled histories of Asia in the complicated matrix of colonial, wartime and Cold War contexts.
A HISTORY OF MODERN SINGAPORE, 1819-2005 Constance Turnbull
Sep 2020 824pp, 63 illustrations 9789813251168 Paperback US$20.00
Offers a transregional history of the Brethren movement and its emplacement in Singapore and Malaysia. However, the book is also a history of discontinuous continuities that have shaped the modern field of religious practice in China and Southeast Asia.
An essential resource on Singapore’s history. Starting with the establishment of the East India Company’s trading post in 1819, Turnbull’s text is the standard Singapore story all other histories are written against, showing how the development of the colony set the stage for Singapore’s success post-independence in 1965.
NUS Press
NUS Press
A DEATH IN HONG KONG
The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal, Second Edition Nigel Collett
CELLULOID COLONY
Takamichi Serizawa
NUS Press
NUS Press
BESTSELLER
Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism
Dec 2020 316pp 9789882371224 Hardback US$50.00
Jan 2020 296pp 9789813250789 Paperback US$30.00
“A brilliantly conceived book.” - Michael Montesano, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
WRITING HISTORY IN AMERICA’S SHADOW
Aug 2020 552pp 9789629375577 Paperback US$45.00 Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series
In January 1980, a young police officer named John MacLennan committed suicide in his Ho Man Tin flat. His death came mere hours before he was to be arrested for committing homosexual acts - still, at that point, illegal in Hong Kong. With endorsements from human rights researchers and the local community, this book provides insight into Hong Kong during a time of social unrest and corruption scandals. The City University of Hong Kong Press
HOME IS WHERE WE ARE Wang Gungwu & Margaret Wang
Dec 2020 288pp, 10 images 9789813251328 Hardback US$22.00
Wang Gungwu has held positions in universities around the world, from London and Cambridge to Kuala Lumpur, Canberra, Hong Kong and Singapore. This second volume of his memoirs, written with his wife Margaret, is a fascinating reflection on identity and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amidst the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world. Also available:
HOME IS NOT HERE Wang Gungwu
2018 216pp 9789814722926 Hardback US$22.00
NUS Press
Edited by Lam Kin-chung et al Jul 2020 508pp 9789882371781 Hardback US$50.00
A concise encyclopaedia of Hong Kong in the Belt and Road. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the national initiative and exploring various opportunities for the territory in the Belt and Road as well as Hong Kong’s cooperation with relevant regions along the routes, offering many valuable policy recommendations.
MOSQUES AND IMAMS
Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia Edited by Kathryn Robinson
Nov 2020 288pp, 15 images 9789813251205 Paperback US$36.00
Offers a rich introduction to the myriad ways of being Muslim across the diverse archipelago, from Sulawesi to Maluku and Nusa Tenggara Timor, as seen through the role of imams and the institution of the local mosque, examining it from the perspective of the individuals and institutions that embody Islam in local communities. NUS Press
Language and Politics in the Toraja Highlands of Indonesia
IMPERIAL CREATURES
Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942
Aurora Donzelli
Nov 2020 328pp, 30 images 9789813251144 Hardback US$52.00
Timothy P. Barnard
Jan 2020 336pp, 23 images 9789813250871 Paperback US$34.00
The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animals. This is one of the first books to look across species at animals in a colonial, urban society. If imperialism is a series of power relationships, it involves not only the subjugation of human communities, but also animals. NUS Press
Offers an analysis of the power relations between centres and peripheries in one of the world’s most linguistically diverse countries. The book explores how people forge forms of collective belonging to a distinctive locality through the exchange of spoken words, WhatsApp messages, ritual gifts, and elaborate political speeches and ritual chants. NUS Press
A LIBRARY OF CLOUDS
The Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and the Rewriting of Daoist Texts J.E.E. Pettit & Chao-Jan Chang
Nov 2020 376pp 9789882371811 Hardback US$65.00 New Daoist Studies Series
SEAWAYS AND GATEKEEPERS
Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906 Heather Sutherland
Apr 2021 636pp, 65 images 9789813251229 Paperback US$46.00
Focuses on the rewriting of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth and fifth century China. The book constructs new ways of understanding the complex authorship of texts like the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen and their place in early medieval Daoism.
In this book, trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than three hundred years, from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, when new technologies and changing markets helped lead to Western dominance.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
NUS Press
THE LIVES AND TIMES OF HRH
SONIC CITY
Herman Ronald Hochstadt
Nov 2020 192pp 9789813251199 Hardback US$32.00
Herman Hochstadt, or hrh, joined the civil service in 1959, moving to the position of secretary to Lee Kuan Yew’s Prime Minister’s Office. hrh had an unusual ability to inspire those working for him, and his wit and charm are on display here, as he weaves together stories of his career and some of the key moments of Singapore’s development.
Jin Siyan Translated by Isabelle Lee
Oct 2020 468pp 9789629967871 Hardback US$52.00
Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of twentieth-century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ONE OR TWO WORDS
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
SUBJECTIVE WRITING IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE LITERATURE
Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore Steve Ferzacca
Nov 2020 288pp, 48 images 9789813251083 Paperback US$36.00
Ridge Books
Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centred around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore.
NUS Press
NUS Press
THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES Schemer or Reformer? Syed Hussein Alatas
Nov 2020 144pp 9789813251182 Paperback US$12.00
Read nearly 50 years after its original publication, this extended essay on Raffles reads as fresh and relevant. Presented here for a new audience, it sets out the key elements of the debate in understanding Raffles’ own political philosophy through the record of his actions across Southeast Asia. NUS Presss
BESTSELLER
WHITHER CHINA’S DEMOCRACY Democratization in China since the Tiananmen Incident Edited by Joseph Y. S. Cheng
2011 440pp 9789629371814 Paperback US$38.00
Examines the legal foundation of Chinese democracy, middle-class politics, Internet baseddemocratisation debates and pro-democratic mobilisations, civic society activism, the external and international media’s input, democracy and China’s ethnic minorities, and the relationship between the PRC and the Vatican. City University of Hong Kong Press
BESTSELLER
THE TRUE STORY OF AH Q Lu Xun
2002 160pp 9789629960445 Paperback US$8.00
While echoes of Lu Xun’s short stories can still be heard in fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, The True Story of Ah Q has become an intrinsic part of the Chinese vocabulary. This edition contains the Chinese version and an English translation, along with an introduction. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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