In the past five years, Thailand has been beset by coup d’état, street violence, and most recently the devastating floods of 2011. Looming in the background is the failing health of the Thai monarch, that person which has been for Thais the most potent symbol of development of the 20th century. With these events has …
WPS 192 Moral Knowledge and its Enemies: Conspiracy and Kingship in Thailand Read More »
Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …
Women and Malay Voices examines Malay literature by Chinese Peranakan authors in the Dutch East Indies between 1915 and 1940. The narratives, some of them based on sensational murder trials reported in the news, offer insights into women’s lives and experiences and glimpses of female agency. With its primary focus on Malay texts and Asian women, this book …
Women and Malay Voices: Undercurrent Murmurings in Indonesia’s Colonial Past Read More »
This paper examines the formation of history as a modern academic discipline in the context of ideological formations of nationalism and imperialism in mid-Meiji Japan. Scholars have so far studied modern historiography in terms of the relationship between pure scholarship and the suppressive prewar Japanese state. Starting from the point that it is necessary to …
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This paper aims at providing a fresh perspective on the modern, reformed version of ‘Balinese Hinduism’ that came to the fore on the island since the early 20th century. It describes certain important elements of doctrinal continuity and change in the light of the pre-colonial Śaiva religious discourse, on the basis of textual and historical …
WPS 190 Modern Hindu Intellectuals and Ancient Texts: Reforming Saiva Yoga in Bali Read More »
Purpose – Asia’s traditional experiences with care provision differ considerably from those of the West given the prevalent family-based social norms about care and policies in this region. In recent decades, Asia has experienced profound social and demographic transformations and is thus faced with significant challenges around care. However, care in Asian countries is a …
There continues to be a disjuncture between the world’s shifting urban centre of gravity and the location of cities from which knowledge about our increasingly urban world is derived. On the one hand, according to recent UN-HABITAT figures, cities in the Asia-Pacific are now home to around half of the world’s urban population. In addition, …
Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The book analyses the international and …
In 1926, a new syncretistic religion was founded by the educated but dis-enfranchised Vietnamese employees of the French colonial administration in Saigon, Indochina. “Caodaism” (the worship of the “highest power”) was officially called “The Great Way of the Third Er of Redemption” (Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ), and presented an Asian fusion of millenarian …
