For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from the region to museums and private collections around the world. Today, however, power relations are shifting, a new awareness is growing, and new questions are emerging about the representation and ownership of Southeast Asian cultural material located in the West. This book offers a timely considerat...
Information on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse. This book covers the Watanabe Military Administration, and Japanese research activities in Malaya, Japan's Economic Policies, Malayan Communist Party Leaders and the Anti-Japanese Resistance, and the Massacre of Chinese in Singapore.
In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the city and is a pervasive presence in the Malaysian countryside. Transported to rural communities, urbanism has motivated migration, transformed the social lives of rural inhabitants, and created a deep ambivalence about personal identity. This has left rural Malays feeling out of place in both the city and the village. Kuala Lumpur epitomises moderni...
Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping, Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in emphasis and scale during its planning from a protocol that established the royal city as a "cosmic city" to one that viewed the royal capital as a sanctuary. As part of that shift, François Tainturier shows, the founding protocol used Buddhist narrativ...
This is a study of human melioidosis, an infectious diseases which affects predominantly poor people. Melioidosis strikes slowly, is difficult to diagnose and is potentially fatal.
With over 100 archival photographs, maps and illustrations, this book gives a pictorial history of the various forms of public transport used in George Town, Penang from the 1880s to 1963. It also throws light on the role that the transport network played in the development and growth of the island's economy, social and cultural life.
Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of the Singapore river and of the people who made it their home and workplace. This text should be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's numerous transformations.
The moral, social, economic and legal issues raised by work in the life sciences are immense. These include the legal issues that concern the use and abuse of genetic information. This book is an introductory survey of the relations between the life sciences and the law.
Provides useful elements of Singapore's higher education landscape through photos, quotable quotes from university staff, students, alumni, educationalists and leaders in society. Published in a handy format, this book contains more than 120 photos and lists milestones chronologically, starting from 1905.
In Revisiting Agrarian Transformations, scholars of agrarian change return to sites of their earlier research in Southeast Asia to examine how the rapid pace of change in the countryside is affecting the places, spaces and people that they originally studied, sometimes as long as four decades ago. Each of the 14 core chapters is organised around a change that, based on broader trends, the authors did not anticipate.
This is an attempt at putting into context Kofi Annan's agenda for the United Nations. It assesses the possibilities of reforms at the UN, highlights key issues that will dictate the nature of future discussion on this topic, and updates the reader on what has happened thus far to the proposals.
This handbook is designed to aid the management of acute medical emergencies as an easy reference source. It represents the collective wisdom from the Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, and should provide practical help in most medical emergencies.
This text examines internal political challenges and the wider regional perspective, including the progress of economic integration through ASEAN, the mobility of labour and capital throughout the region and East Asia, and the way big power relations shape the international environment.
The fifth book in the "Folio" series features leading architects as they test out their ideas and designs among the students and staff of the National University of Singapore's Department of Architecture. The ideas cover a range of issues, including tropicalism, dreams and architecture.
Part of the "NUS Architecture Folio" series, which highlights the developments of contemporary Asian architectural education and debate. This title deals with global and local architectural issues, and brings topical issues into discussion among architecture professionals, teachers and research scholars in Asia and around the world.
An introduction to the concepts of biodiversity-sampling that outlines standardized field methods for macroalgae and seagrass communities developed by NaGISA. This book provides a text for field courses, a manual for coastal managers, and a reference guide for researchers studying biodiversity or preparing species inventories.
