Southeast category: 2400 books
by Trin Aiyara, Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, Ngeow Chow-Bing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
In 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) inaugurated the Xi Jinping era when it elected him to be the General Secretary of the CPC. The following year Xi was elected President of the People’s Republic of China. The Xi Jinping era has seen a remarkable transformation of Chinese foreign policy,...
No Man's Land
Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for borders or geography is often taken to be one of the dark consequences of a brave new globalized world. Yet even for terrorists and smugglers, the world is not flat; states exert formidable control over the technologies...
Shadow Commander
The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.
The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky....
by Emma Larkin
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southeast Asia
Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, also known as Myanmar, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal...
Burma Superstar
Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
From the beloved San Francisco restaurant, a mouthwatering collection of recipes, including Fiery Tofu, Garlic Noodles, the legendary Tea Leaf Salad, and many more. Never before have the vivid flavors of Burmese cooking been so achievable for home cooks.
Known for its bustling tables, the sizzle...
Elephant Complex
Travels in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. As The New York Times once noted, “he writes with enormous wit, indignation, and a heightened sense of the absurd.” Writing for both the adventurer and the armchair traveler, he has an eye for unusually telling detail, a sense of wonder, and compelling...
by Lorien Holland
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This stunning travel pictorial and Malaysia travel guide highlights, the landscapes, architecture, food, culture and people of Malasia.
Lying just north of the equator, Malaysia comprises Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah Sarawak on the island of Borneo. A blend of east and west,...
Exciting Malaysia
A Visual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Lying just north of the equator, Malaysia comprises Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo. A blend of East and West, of different lifestyles, cuisines, architectural styles, peoples, religions, and attitudes, Malaysia is a fascinating and at times bewildering...
Imperial Alchemy
Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The mid-twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve...
Chinese in Colonial Burma
A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British...
Frontier Livelihoods
Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as the Miao - in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, contending that individuals and households create livelihoods...
Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.
From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable...
RAND in Southeast Asia
A History of the Vietnam War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies...
Collective Goods
Collective Futures in East and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This edited collection explores issues surrounding the provision of collective goods within the context of post-crisis East and Southeast Asia. It includes case studies on Korea, Indonesia, China, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore among others.