Book Reviews
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Review of Misalliance
17 May 2013 1:00 PM | No CommentsKeith Weller Taylor argues that this new book is thoughtful, lucid, original, analytical, and readable
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Review of Thailand’s Hidden Workforce
05 April 2013 9:15 AM | 1 CommentInga Gruß reviews a book about the work conditions of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand at this time of immense change.
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Review of Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets
21 February 2013 9:10 AM | 1 CommentSri Ranjani Mei Hua reviews a book dealing with experiences of women in Southeast Asia.
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Review of Authority of Influence
06 January 2013 5:31 AM | 3 CommentsScholarly treatments of gender in Myanmar, past or present, remain scarce. Jessica Harriden’s book thus fills a gap in our understanding of an important and controversial topic.
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Review of The King in Exile
04 December 2012 8:35 AM | 4 CommentsDonald M. Seekins argues that this book is the story of a dynasty that belongs truly to Burma’s past.
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Review of Buddhist Fury
13 November 2012 7:57 AM | 21 CommentsThis book explores the relationship between religion and violence in far southern Thailand, where Buddhist monks are a marginalized local minority.
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Review of Revisiting Rural Places
30 October 2012 7:54 AM | 2 CommentsRevisiting Rural Places should become an essential reference text for researchers who work on social, cultural, political and economic change in Asia.
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Review of The Institutional Imperative
16 October 2012 7:00 AM | 9 CommentsDe-agrarianisation often isn’t very pretty, but economic disparity may well be the price to be paid for pursuing it as slowly as Thailand has over the past 50 years.
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Review of Imagining Gay Paradise
09 October 2012 6:55 AM | 2 CommentsThe creation of make-shift, idiosyncratic queer paradises provides shelter, community, and belonging for many who have refused to fit into standard narratives of Southeast Asia.
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Review of The Fate of Rural Hell
12 September 2012 7:56 AM | 6 CommentsThe models of eroticism and faith in the Hell Garden have been left behind by the robust urban bourgeois consumerist culture increasingly prominent across contemporary Thai society.
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Review of Revolution Interrupted
24 July 2012 11:46 AM | 6 CommentsQuestioning received notions of revolution, this book offers a passionate and rigorous reconsideration of the period in Thailand between October 1973 and October 1976.
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Review of Land and Loyalty
17 July 2012 9:18 AM | 9 Comments
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Review of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
11 July 2012 3:44 PM | 9 Comments
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Review of Saying the Unsayable
19 June 2012 6:27 AM | 19 Comments
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Review of Economic Disparity and of Economic Transition
17 May 2012 8:05 AM | 2 Comments
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China
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Cross-border Shan: Naw Kham and Twet Nga Lu
Posted on 7 April 2013 | 3 CommentsSince modern borders were first established in the Mekong region, opportunists like Naw Kham have used them to pursue their own economic and political agendas. -
The swordsman in Tibet
Posted on 19 October 2012 | No CommentsTravelling in Tibet with village projectionists, Jinghong Zhang reports on the popularity of swordsman films. -
Kuomintang in northern Thailand
Posted on 4 June 2012 | 10 CommentsOn his Old World Wandering website, Iain Manley has presented a terrific interview with a Kuomintang soldier, Zhan Dening, who settled... -
Rising Anti-China resentment in Singapore
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 11 CommentsOn 26 May 2012, Singapore’s attention will be focused on the Hougang constituency by-election between the Workers’ Party’s (WP) Png... -
Shan warlord captured?
Posted on 27 April 2012 | 4 CommentsI have received a report, informal but well connected, that Shan drug “kingpin” Naw Kham was captured yesterday by Lao... -
Kam ‘big song’ down under
Posted on 26 April 2012 | 2 Comments(Image: © Catherine Ingram 2012) February and March of this year saw a large-scale performance from China called Wind of Colourful... -
Placing Shanghai
Posted on 11 April 2012 | 4 CommentsPlacing Shanghai: Housing, Heritage, and the Conflicts over Contested Urban Space “Why are you interested in our neighborhood, Mr. Wang?”... -
Review of Chinese Schools in Peninsular Malaysia
Posted on 28 March 2012 | No CommentsLee Ting Hui, Chinese Schools in Peninsular Malaysia: The Struggle for Survival Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011. Pp.... -
Where China meets India
Posted on 6 January 2012 | 2 CommentsLate last year I wrote an essay reflecting on Thant Myint-U’s new book, Where China meets India: Burma and the New... -
Chinese merchants of Vientiane
Posted on 22 December 2011 | 16 CommentsIn 1959, the American journalist Stanley Karnow visited Laos for Life magazine. He described it as “an improbable little landlocked...