Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Enviroment
In the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian ‘five-foot-ways’, and sacred spaces such as burial grounds. Brenda Yeoh’s Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore details these conflicts and how they shaped …
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Buddhism, Modernity and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement
Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia explores the relationships between Buddhism and various nations in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Rather than promulgating a “Buddhist exceptionalism” in which Buddhist actors and institutions transcend politics, Pattana Kitiarsa and John Whalen-Bridge have assembled a collection of essays that closely examine the ways in which Buddhism and …
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Cell Phone Nation
Cell Phone Nation: How Mobile Phones Have Revolutionized Business, Politics and Ordinary Life In India conveys to readers how mobile phones have permeated every strata and sphere of society and is both a blessing and a curse. It gives an account of how this device rose to become a necessary means of communication in current …
China Dreams- 20 Visions of the Future
After celebrating their country’s three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, “What comes next?” How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe? William A. Callahan’s China Dreams gives voice to China’s many different futures by exploring the grand aspirations and deep anxieties of …
WPS 197 The Saemaul Undong: South Korea’s Rural Development Miracle in Historical Perspective
Celebrated as one of the great success stories in rural development in the modern world, the Korean Saemaul Undong (SMU – New Village Movement) began in the 1970s as a community-based village modernization program that, when combined with a green revolution strategy, substantially increased rural incomes and quality of living. Although by the 1980s it …
Journal of Family Issues: Asian Fatherhood (Vol. 34 No. 2)
Profound demographic and socioeconomic transformations in Asia in the second half of the 20th century have significantly affected Asian families (Quah, 2009). Despite significant variation across Asian countries in the nature and intensity of these changes, major trends can be identified to include an increase of nuclear families, a decline in fertility and mortality rates, …
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After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta
This new work explores the formation of populist urban programs in post-Suharto Jakarta and the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen as a result of the continuing influence of the Suharto-era’s neoliberal ideology of development. Analyzing a spectrum of urban agendas from waterfront city to green environment and housing for the poor, Kusno deepens …
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Ancient Harbours in Southeast Asia: The Archaeology of Early Habours and Evidence of Inter-Regional Trade
This book compiles some of the first research by Southeast Asian archaeologists on this significant but neglected subject. It contains much new information on the roles of Southeast Asians in ancient commerce and industry, and on the nature of cultural interaction which has taken place in these sites for over 2,000 years. The bulk of …