Southeast category: 2400 books
by Stephen Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
A lyrical documentary about one of Singapore's most historic areas. This collection of short stories and essays reveals the influences and events that have shaped Southeast Asia and Singapore. Emphasing the food and personalities of the area, I Ate Tiong Bahru avoids the nostalgic and celebrates...
Hello, Shadowlands
Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News
'ensures you’ll never think about Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.' - Geographical Magazine
Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands...
by Arthur Hullett
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This is a collection of storys dealing with some of my personal experiences during the 25 years I lived in Southeast Asia. Plus a couple of items from outside that area (Japan and Sri Lanka).
High-Speed Empire
Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
The story of the world's most audacious infrastructure project.
Less than a decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Today, it owns a network of 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the rest of the world combined. Now, China is pushing its tracks into Southeast...
The U.S. Army in Southeast Asia
Near-Term and Long-Term Roles
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
This RAND report examines the U.S. Army role in Southeast Asia. Under current benign conditions, efforts should focus on supporting defense reform, addressing transnational threats, and balancing China. If the outlook deteriorates, the United States should increase security cooperation, conclude new...
by Larry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Using nearly two hundred color pictures, this guidebook illustrates the charm and adventure of traveling to Thailand and Laos. The guide is aimed at the cost conscious, but not the cost adverse. "A Traveler on a Rope" is neither traveling on a shoestring, nor toting, or having another tote,...
by David Allan, Jeremy Skaggs, Jason Tran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
What martial arts are associated with Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar (Burma)? What makes them unique when compared with other Asian martial systems? This anthology is a convienent collection that focuses on the martial arts of these areas, such as the familiar...
Writing the South Seas
Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing...
Phnom Penh
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008
As a one-time resident of Phnom Penh and an authority on Southeast Asia, Milton Osborne provides a colorful account of the troubled history and appealing culture of Cambodia's capital city. Osborne sheds light on Phnom Penh's early history, when first Iberian missionaries and freebooters and then...
Cities in Motion
Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920–1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants and locals played...
by Zhongjing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Extract: Today let's talk about the history of Diantnam. The three political entities of Diantnam, Bashulia, and Myanmar have a very close relationship in race and culture, which is related to the civilization structure of East Asia and Southeast Asia in prehistoric times.
Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia
Singapore and Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia, Rodan rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology necessarily undermines authoritarian...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast Asia as well as the accompanying smuggling activities of the opium traders, currency...
by Larry Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Using over two hundred color pictures, this guidebook illustrates the charm and adventure of traveling to Cambodia and Myanmar. The guide is aimed at the cost conscious, but not the cost adverse. "A Traveler on a Rope" is neither traveling on a shoestring, nor toting, or having another tote,...