Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia was marked by massive death and suffering. The memoir of Phi Phuon tells a different story, however. Portraying much of t... Lees meer

Creating Laos

Soren Ivarsson

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• This book examines the process through which Laos came into existence under French colonial rule through to the end of World War II. Here, Laos's posi... Lees meer

Fishers, Monks and Cadres

Edyta Roszko

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with s... Lees meer

Divinity and Diversity

Alexandra Kent

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• The "911" attacks on the United States and subsequent "war on terrorism" have brought a discussion of transnational "religious" networks onto center s... Lees meer

Indonesian Literature vs. New Order Orthodoxy

Anna-Greta Nilsson Hoadley

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• Perhaps we shall never know the truth about Indonesia's failed (supposedly Communist) coup of 1965. This book analyzes Indonesian literature produced ... Lees meer

The Up Saga

Susan M Martin

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• Histories of the plantations sector in Malaysia have largely focused on the rubber industry and on the rise and fall of big British-owned colonial ent... Lees meer

Belittled Citizens

Giuseppe Bolotta

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national cit... Lees meer

Asian Cities

Malcolm McKinnon

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• Asian Cities challenges Western paradigms of urban growth and questions the status accorded globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arg... Lees meer

Pattern and Loom

John Becker

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• Posthumously published in 1987, Pattern and Loom reveals new knowledge on the development of weaving techniques across the centuries from China throug... Lees meer

Governing Cambodia's Forests

Andrew Cock

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• The widespread destruction of Cambodia's forests in recent decades saw the loss of the last major area of pristine tropical forest in Southeast Asia. ... Lees meer

Belittled Citizens

Giuseppe Bolotta

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• What does childhood mean in contemporary Thailand? What constitutes childhood in a slum? How does childhood figure in the construction of national cit... Lees meer

Modern Muslim Identities

Gerhard Hoffstaedter

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• This book explores a central tension in identity politics: how the state, civil society, and people want to create and maintain cultural, religious, a... Lees meer

Hot Science, High Water

Eren Zink

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• Hot Science, High Water explores the work of different generations of Vietnamese scientists as they engage with local and international efforts to con... Lees meer

Wu Song Fights the Tiger

Vibeke Børdahl

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• The focus of Chinese literary studies has long been on the written word even though Chinese fiction and drama have strong oral roots and have been sha... Lees meer

Mobile Citizens

Natasha Pairaudeau

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose... Lees meer

Modern China-Myanmar Relations

David I Steinberg, Hongwei Fan

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• This volume examines the changing relations between China and Burma/Myanmar since Burmese independence in 1948 and the formation of the People's Repub... Lees meer

Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka

Nordin Hussin

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• This pioneering work from a member of Malaysia's new generation of historians is a tale of two very different cities, the one with a trading heritage ... Lees meer

Modern Muslim Identities

Gerhard Hoffstaedter

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• This book explores a central tension in identity politics: how the state, civil society, and people want to create and maintain cultural, religious, a... Lees meer

Mobile Citizens

Natasha Pairaudeau

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose... Lees meer

Civil Society and Democratization

Somchai Phatharathananunth

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• This book investigates the struggle of an important social movement in Thailand, the Small Scale Farmers' Assembly of Isan (SSFAI), and examines the r... Lees meer

Asian Cities

Malcolm McKinnon

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• Asian Cities challenges Western paradigms of urban growth and questions the status accorded globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arg... Lees meer

Recruit to Revolution

John Coast

• Paperback | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• This gripping memoir narrates the formative years of the Indonesian nation through the lens of English adventurer John Coast. After years in Japanese ... Lees meer

Tanegashima

Olof Lidin

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of storm-blown Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island i... Lees meer

Governing Cambodia's Forests

Andrew Cock

• Hardcover | Engels | NIAS Monographs
• The widespread destruction of Cambodia's forests in recent decades saw the loss of the last major area of pristine tropical forest in Southeast Asia. ... Lees meer