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  • Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World

    Diverging Identities in a Dynamic Region

    by Rahil Ismail ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    Southeast Asia has in recent years become a crossroads of cultures with high levels of ethnic pluralism, not only between countries, sub-regions and urban areas, but also at the local levels of community and neighbourhood. Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'post-colonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • George Yeo On Bonsai, Banyan And The Tao

    by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee ...
    Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation with him.The book has a rather unusual title because there are many aspects to George Yeo which ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lion City

    Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

    by Jeevan Vasagar ...
    A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Singapore in the Malay World

    Building and Breaching Regional Bridges

    by Lily Zubaidah Rahim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced security and foreign economic policy orientation and ‘regional outsider’ complex. Focusing on Singapore ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service

    by Emrys Myles Khean Aun Chew, Chong Guan Kwa ...
    Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered, this ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Virtual Thailand

    The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

    by Glen Lewis ...
    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
    Written by an established expert on Thailand, this is one of the first books to fully investigate the Thai media’s role during the Thaksin government’s first term. Incorporating political economy and media theory, the book provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics.Examining the period from the mid ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

    Edited by Kevin Hewison, Ken Young ...
    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first ... Read more

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  • Singapore and Asia - Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-Modern Asian Civilisation

    by Thiow Kong Ti, Edwards SW Ti ...
    Singapore and Asia- Celebrating Globalisation and an Emerging Post-modern Asian Civilisation TK Ti and Edward SE Ti This book examines the history of the global economy and how cultural values have empowered the rapid emergence of Singapore and East Asia. A review of the major world civilizations recounts Western hegemony since the 16th century. With legacies from Classical Mediterranean, Islamic ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Politics of the Temporary: An Ethnography of Migrant Life in Urban Malaysia

    by Parthiban Muniandy ...
    For more than three decades Malaysia's economic growth has been driven in part by the skills and sweat of large numbers of migrant workers. The country has become the temporary home for more than two million documented migrants. Many more than that are undocumented, living precarious lives on the margins of society. In cities like Kuala Lumpur and George Town, workers from Indonesia, Nepal, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

    by Sunil S. Amrith ...
    Series Book 7 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Bangkok

    Place, Practice and Representation

    by Marc Askew ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous contemporary metropolis. Adopting insights from anthropology, urban studies and human geography, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD