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A comprehensive historical anthology of English-language literary works from Singapore. It attempts to place the texts that have imagined the territory and the people who are now recognizably Singaporean in a historical narrative, to be read, studied, critiqued and treasured.

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The history of Singapore's Chinese community is carved in stone and wood: in the epigraphic record of 62 Chinese temples, native-place associations, clan and guild halls, from 1819 to 1911. These materials, available in Chinese and in English translation, open a window into the world of Chinese communities in Singapore. They can also be appreciated for their exceptional artistic value.

Grounding the story of Singapore within an understanding of its environment opens the way to an account of the past that is more than a story of trade, immigration and nation building. Each of the chapters in this volume - focusing on topics ranging from tigers and plantations to trade in exotic animals and the greening of the city - examines how humans have interacted with and understood the natural environment in Singapore, and conversely ho...

Landscape is not only the visible material surface of places but also refers to ways of interpreting fluid or contested social relations and spatial arrangements. The essays in this book critically examine how material and immaterial landscapes take shape in Singapore and their impacts on the population. They further assess how different social groups in Singapore inhabit landscapes and negotiate changing societal dynamics and conditions.

This wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia. Using tools based in a variety of disciplines - organisational analysis and sociology, cultural and media studies, and political science and history - it elucidates the underlying cultural economics and the ...

The idea of 'Asian space' is undergoing a transformation as a result of rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes. Following the shift to a global economy and an urban population explosion, Asian cities have projected as one of the mainstays of progress, national pride, identity, and positioning on the global stage. The extraordinary pace and intensity of the changes have created a situation unique in the history of urban deve...

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Looks at labor in Malaysian services, and uses the labor market segmentation approach to study Malaysian labor. This study of workers in services also covers those in private enterprises, both modern (for example, financial services) and traditional (for example, transportation services).

An examination of social imaginary surrounding Thai kingship and Thainess that yield an intriguing amalgam of ideas concerning popular religion, Buddhist kingship, nationalism, and material culture. It explores the contemporary appeal of King Chulalongkorn and considers what this ruler's unprecedented popularity says about Thai society.

In the early 20th century, outlaws became local heros in the countryside near the border between the northern Malaysian state of Kedah and Siam. Cheah Boon Kheng's account of peasant banditry and the society where it flourished draws on colonial records, literary sources and interviews to examine the circumstances that led the Governor to call the border area "one of the most lawless and insecure districts” in British Malaya during the 1920s.

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While contributors to this volume discuss Indonesian-language expression at the national level, a particular focus on the collection is on regional, local and minority languages, where problems associated with decentralization find their counterpart in the role that language plays in the workings of regional and national identity politics.

The twelve chapters of this book all derive from the reflections of a prominent historian on the nature of modern Indonesian history, over a 40-year time span. A central thread running through the book is the importance of the fact that Indonesia entered the modern community of nation-states through political revolution. All the chapters except one have been revised and updated, with the injection of some additional optimism called for by post...

Engages with poems not as historical documents to be mined for data but as complex literary works. It develops a nuanced textual analysis of this material, and explores the interplay between social reality and literary fiction.

Across Asia, 'populist' leaders emerged on an unprecedented scale around the start of the 21st century. This book examines this phenomenon. It considers the many faces of contemporary populism in the region, analyzing the phenomenon through case studies of political leaders with populist credentials.

Designed to accompany the author's "Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook", this basic Thai reading textbook provides simple texts along with exercises in vocabulary, syntax, reading and writing for students learning the language at the elementary level. It prepares students for higher level study of the Thai reading and writing system.

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