The relations between the societies and states of Southeast Asia and China have been an enormous significance to both these regions, extending back for literally thousands of years. This useful single-volume edition of key studies on Southeast Asia-China interactions, which were first published in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society …
The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’, and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism, protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its …
Beginning with the conceptualisation of a framework for an underlying matrix of the large expatriate Indian migrant community abroad, which comprises a number of typologies of models and actors, this paper proposes a way of addressing each of the binaries in the sub-matrixes, while still keeping the issues together under a holistic entity called the …
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 studies …
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of: the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of …
Health Care in Malaysia: The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access Read More »
It would appear to be a simple question: Who are the people at the centre of the violent conflict in Thailand’s “three southern provinces”? Judging by the coverage of the issue by the Thai and international media, the statements by the Thai and Malaysian governments, and the work of a large number of academics, particularly …
In Southeast Asia, medical tourism has taken off in a big way since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, in particular, have developed deliberate marketing strategies to attract foreign patients. This paper examines the development of medical tourism in Malaysia, with some references to its neighbouring competitors, Singapore and Thailand. The analysis …
The assembling of a Singapore history has involved a process of mutation. From a view that when Raffles landed in 1819 Singapore was to all intents and purposes tabula rasa, and that any attempt to argue to the contrary was to highlight the distinctive trajectories of the different ethnic migrant communities, and hence was fissiparous, …
WPS 82 Singapore and its Tensed Pasts: History and Nation-building Read More »
This paper explores the ways in which the production of commercial Hokkien popular culture—including film, music and television—has been transformed over the course of the last half century from a transnational industry into something now associated almost exclusively with ‘nativist’ Taiwan. The paper thus draws on and contributes to wider debates about Diaspora, transnationalism and …
