The 100 Greatest Southeast Asian History and Politics Books list has a focus on politics and imperialism in the region.
The intellectual movements of this book are so familiar to me, because that’s how I see my (amateur) relationship to history there too. Even people who work on medieval Indonesia tend to have to rely on the vanishingly few number of travelogues by people like Marco Polo, who went to Su...
For anyone looking to learn more about the Asian American experience, past and present, one of the best ways to get educated is to crack open a book.
Singapore is a southeast Asian city that is one of only three city-states in the world and occupies a particular political and territorial position in that regard. The other two modern city-states are Monaco and the Vatican. I like the term city-state because, to me, it encompasses issues...
He is an author of a number of papers on history, ritual text, culture, and minorities of Southwest China based on his field studies in Guangxi and Yunnan Province, Southwest China.doi:10.1080/14631369.2015.1014633YanjiaQinAsian Ethnicity
History of Assam Gait, Eddwar Albert Year of Publication: 2025 ISBN : 936080035X / 9789360800352 Price : US$ 68.62 Book Code : 45157 History of Sanskrit Literature Macdonell, Arthur A. Year of Publication: 2024 ISBN : 9360800783 / 9789360800789 ...
James Rush is Professor of History at Arizona State University, where he has taught since 1990. He has served as director of Arizona State University's Program for Southeast Asian Studies and as a consultant to The Asia Society, El Colegio de Mexico, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He is...
or the Shibayama Railway line that runs almost entirely under the airport before reaching its one and only stop in the middle of nowhere on the other side. Strange as they may be, they reveal the troubled history of the airport; they are the results of compromises made to appease residents...
Butterfly binding (Korean: hojeobjang; Chinese: hudie zhuang 蝴蝶 裝) Butterfly binding is the first binding or block book in East Asian bookbinding history that announced the folded single-leaf book in contrast to the folded continuous leaf of the concertina binding. It is known that it had...
a locally owned steamship trading among the islands of the southeast Asianarchipelago. During the five or six voyages he made in four and a half months, Conrad was discovering and exploring the world he was to re-create in his first novels,Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands,and...