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What is the modern in Southeast Asia's architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreaking multidisciplinary volume is the first critical survey of Southeast Asia's modern architecture. It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power.

Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exteriors of today's institutions, to the area's geological past, and the wealth of flora and fauna that still can be found here: from indigenous plants such as the tembusu, tiup tiup, and sendudok, to monitor lizards, flying dragons and oriental green snakes.

Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony after 1819. What, then, accounts for the many centuries when it seemed not to thrive? This volume collects studies about Singapore before 1800, bringing together different efforts across the 20th century at reconstructing Singapore's "missing years".

Looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed significantly, and examines how modern states and corporations capitalized on it. Lee Kah-Wee argues that the historical project of the control of vice is also about the control of space and capital.

Shows how competition to manage and control Indonesia's vast natural resources is no longer limited to national level interests, nor can it be restricted only to the local level. The study explains changes in the structure of the national political economy as the result of engagement of local actors in disputes with the central government.

Focuses on the historical trajectories of Savu, an island in the Nusa Tenggara Timur province, eastern Indonesia. It blends historical and anthropological methods, using oral tradition, ethnographic observations, and archival collections. While Savu is a relatively small island, it has gained a wider regional importance.

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Story of NTU CCA Singapore from the perspectives of artists, curators, and scholars who have contributed to the life of the Centre.

Extreme inequalities in income, wealth and power lie behind Thailand's political turmoil. What are the sources of this inequality? Why does it persist, or even increase when the economy grows? How can it be addressed? The contributors to this important study - Thai scholars, reformers and civil servants - shed light on the many dimensions of inequality in Thailand.

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The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism, initially fluid, increasingly homogenised over time. This is the first in-depth study of the film music of the period. It brings together ethnomusicological and cultural studies perspectives.

Argues that notions of Buddhist kingship and theory of the Buddhist state formed the underpinnings of Buddhist states experimented in China and Japan from the late seventh to the mid-eighth century, providing the religio-political ideals that were given visual expression in this International Buddhist Art Style.

Documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore from its humble beginnings in the British colonial period. It should be of interest to health professionals, medical students, historians interested in the development of medicine and psychiatry and members of the public with some basic understanding of psychiatry and psychology.

In 1931 a book appeared in London with the title A Yellow Sleuth: Being the Autobiography of "Nor Nalla". It was met with puzzled enthusiasm, TheStraits Times commenting that the book "presents an interesting problem of distinguishing fact from fiction". In the words of Philip Holden's introduction, "Nor Nalla” is an "impossible fantasy of hybridity".

For forty-four months during World War II, the Japanese occupied Singapore, setting out to drastically change life on the island. As part of the occupation, the Japanese produced detailed reports on the economy. The reports were notoriously difficult to read, and so this exceptional translation by Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima is a true linguistic accomplishment.

Examines the exchange of ideas of landscape practice between Europe and China in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Yue Zhuang and Andrea M. Riemenschnitter explore this through three themes - empire-building, mediators' constraints, and aesthetic negotiations - and challenge our assumptions about how China and Europe influenced one another.

Extricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book traces the role of liberal philosophy in the building of a new nation. It examines the role of toleration, rights, and mediation in the postcolony. Through the biographies of four Filipino scholar-bureaucrats, the author argues that liberal thought served as the grammar of Filipino democracy in the 20th century.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different civilizations cannot function together. Yet the ten countries of ASEAN are a thriving counter-example of coexistence. Here, more than 625 million people live together in peace. In 1967, leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand struck a landmark agreement, forming ...

Indonesia's contemporary art scene is fast becoming a favorite among collectors and critics, taking its place alongside the growing interest in works from China, India, and Korea. Pieces by Indonesian artists are selling for record-breaking prices, and the country is preparing to open its first Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art this fall. After decades of struggling to find representation in international galleries and museums, Indonesia i...

Argues that the Singaporean Stare has been able to consolidate its control over civil society, peacefully and to an extent rarely known in history, by overhauling the island's landscape.