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This book presents a holistic perspective across various facets of culture, history, politics, economics and strategy in India’s relations with neighbouring South and Southeast Asian countries. This……続きを見る

The first definitive biography of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning spiritual leaderーa story by turns inspiring, surprisingーfrom an acclaimed Tibetan scholar. The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and com……続きを見る

The exploits of the Mosquito crews in Burma, skimming at low-level and at speed along rivers and over treetops to their targets, are the stuff of legend. Surprisingly, however, only five RAF squadro……続きを見る

This book employs a biographical approach to comprehensively study a set of Tang era-tomb guardian figurines, known as the Four Gods (Sishen), comprising a pair of warriors (Dangkuang and Dangye) an……続きを見る

"Elf Jahre Gouverneur in Deutsch-Südwestafrika" von Theodor Leutwein. Veröffentlicht von e-artnow. e-artnow ist Herausgeber einer breiten Büchervielfalt mit Titeln jeden Genres. Von bekannten Klassi……続きを見る

First published in 1978, The Indonesian Tragedy is a controversial book that argues that Indonesia’s lack of economic development is due to the blind attempt to force a Western economic model on a p……続きを見る

In the wake of the ravaging Khmer Rouge regime, a Cambodian family flees their war-torn homeland. The Khmer Rouge had been overthrown, but the nation was still reeling from the impact of their deva……続きを見る

A profile of a Chinese street opera musician in Singapore and Malaysia from 1940s to 1990s. Based on his true life story of dedication to his craft and how he made difficult choices in regards to hi……続きを見る

The French Indochina War (1946–54) was the largest of the first generation of post-World War II wars of decolonization as Vietminh insurgents sought to topple their French colonial masters. It was a……続きを見る

《菲律賓探秘：一本書讀懂菲律賓》 對許多台灣人或華人而言，菲律賓一直是個陌生又神祕的國度。作者賈幫主秉持著探險者的心靈，走訪了這片熱情沃土的各個角落，本書是其14年旅菲的深刻觀察與精彩生活的一部分心得……続きを見る

The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverberate through the community. In this book, Briana L……続きを見る

This book comes up with the Contested Leviathan Framework to describe the essence of Malaysia’s political economy. The framework is developed from tracing Malaysia’s political economy over approxima……続きを見る

In the early morning of 1st October 1965, six high-ranking generals of the Indonesian Army were murdered under grisly circumstances. 続きを見る

Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. Yet belief in wi……続きを見る

Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplu……続きを見る

The pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures, as loved and feared in Southeast Asia as Dracula is in the West. In animist tradition, she is a woman who ha……続きを見る

In just a few short years, the Khmer Rouge presided over one of the twentieth century’s cruelest reigns of terror. Since its 1979 overthrow, there have been several attempts to hold the perpetrators……続きを見る

A play on George Orwell’s famous novel, Burmese Days, Burmese Haze provides a uniqueーand personalーperspective on the historical events and foreign ties that shaped Myanmar and its relationship wit……続きを見る

In July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in Rangoon to preach the gospel. Celebrated in the Protestant press, which ran dramatic accounts of exotic adventures, the attempt to conver……続きを見る

The Philippine Revolution of 1896–1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asi……続きを見る

Since obtaining independence in 1957, Malaysia has had two historic general elections, the first in 2018 and the second in 2022. The 2018 election brought the reformist Pakatan Harapan government in……続きを見る

Written with high school and undergraduate students as the target audience, this volume is ideal for anyone interested in Philippine history. It pieces together evidence from the precolonial era, il……続きを見る

In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now ea……続きを見る

Sideth was born in Cambodia in the midst of the US aerial bombardment of the Vietminh/Vietcon who took sanctuary along the border near Vietnam. Cambodia was fighting a civil war. In 1975 when the Kh……続きを見る

The remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot's Cambodia, now available in English translation for the first time "...among the earliest, most detailed, and most vividly rendered accounts of the K……続きを見る

Am 28. Februar 1968 versammelten sich auf einem verödeten Plateau an der Koromandelküste Südindiens etwa 4000 Menschen aus der ganzen Welt zu einer höchst ungewöhnlichen Zeremonie. Abgesandte hatten……続きを見る

Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archives of Spain’s Asian empire, Kristie Patri……続きを見る

Singapore's political firmament is crowded with stars who could have lit up to the island state's history, but were snuffed out by detention and harassment before they could do so. One of the bright……続きを見る

The University Socialist Club (USC) was formed in February 1953. In the 1950s and 1960s the USC and its organ Fajar were a leading voice advocating the cause of the constitutional struggle for freed……続きを見る

An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities. As climate change accelerates and urbani……続きを見る