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  • New Directions in Thai Studies

    Edited by Preedee Hongsaton, Ying-kit Chan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book considers recent developments in Thai history and historiography, examining why Thai studies had suffered under a combination of protectionism, uncritical learning, and unwillingness to engage with scholarship from abroad. The essays collected here explore, from Thai perspectives, innovations in theory and methodology in Thai studies, gathering critical insights from disciplines such as ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Taiwan and Southeast Asia

    Soft Power and Hard Truths Facing China's Ascendancy

    Edited by Karl Chee Leong Lee, Ying-kit Chan ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Lee, Chan and their contributors analyse the different kinds of soft power deployed by Taiwan in its bid to strengthen its relations with its neighbours in Southeast Asia.Despite not having formal diplomatic relations with Southeast Asian countries after their diplomatic recognition of the People’s Republic of China decades ago, Taiwan continues to be a key economic and socio-cultural partner for ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • GEOETHICS

    Works by Ying Kit Chan

    by Ying Kit Chan ...
    Contemporary practice in art is concerned not only with aesthetics but also with ethics. The philosophy of geoethics emphasizes the importance of cultivating our ecological consciousness. Geoethics calls on our ethical responsibility to care for our planet and work toward a harmonious relationship between humankind and the environment. Furthermore, geoethics encourages us to seek out truth within ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Southeast Asia in China

    Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements

    by Ying-kit Chan, Chang-Yau Hoon ...
    As part of “China's south,” Southeast Asia has historically assumed a peripheral position when juxtaposed against the power of the Chinese state. In the existing scholarly literature, the power asymmetry is reflected in the ostensible bias where most studies are about China's presence in or engagement with Southeast Asia rather than the reverse; studies on the presence or influence of Southeast ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Contesting Chineseness

    Ethnicity, Identity, and Nation in China and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Chang-Yau Hoon, Ying-kit Chan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Combining a historical approach of Chineseness and a contemporary perspective on the social construction of Chineseness, this book provides comparative insights to understand the contingent complexities of ethnic and social formations in both China and among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. This book focuses on the experiences and practices of these people, who as mobile agents are free to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War

    Edited by Tze-ki Hon, Ying-kit Chan ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily focuses on their urban landscapes, drawing on the memories embedded in their collective memoryscapes, the ... Read more

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  • Transnational Southeast Asia

    Communities, Contestations and Cultures

    Edited by Hannah Ming Yit Ho, Ying-kit Chan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to nuanced applications of transnationalism, and what the wider cultural and collective implications of that might be. Instead of ... Read more

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  • Multilingual Singapore

    Language Policies and Linguistic Realities

    Edited by Ritu Jain ...
    Series series Routledge Multilingual Asia Series
    This volume brings together researchers whose analysis and insights provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Singapore’s rich linguistic diversity. Applying a combination of descriptive, empirical, and theoretical approaches, the authors investigate not only official languages such as English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil, but also minority languages such as the Chinese vernaculars and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

    Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time. Going beyond existing studies – which concentrate on the politics ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Eating Together

    Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

    by Jean Duruz, Gaik Cheng Khoo ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
    Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space and identity within everyday spaces of “public” eating in Malaysia and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers, markets, cafes, restaurants, “food streets,” and “ethnic” neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways different people ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Why English?

    Confronting the Hydra

    Edited by Pauline Bunce, Prof. Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana, Ruanni Tupas ...
    Series Book 13 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, it explores the use and misuse of English in a wide range of contexts, revealing how the dominance of English is being confronted and counteracted around the globe. The authors explore ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin, Kam-yee Law ...
    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
    Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant ... Read more

    $42.99 USD