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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Book Zone
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Fresh from the fair
Posted on 19 May 2013 | No CommentsThis month's Book Zone 2.0 delivers tasty morsels from the 41st Bangkok International Book Fair (held 29 March – 8 April 2013) fresh to NM readers. -
Thai love between the pages
Posted on 14 February 2013 | No CommentsA special Book Zone post for Valentine's Day, celebrating the theme of love in our National Library of Australia Thai collection -
BookZone 2.0: Honouring Dr Pattana Kittiarsa
Posted on 20 January 2013 | 2 CommentsWe pay respect to the late Dr Pattana Kittiarsa (อาจารย์ พัฒนา กิติอาษา) (1968-2013), a great ethnographer of contemporary Thai society. -
Thai cigarette cards
Posted on 20 September 2012 | No CommentsThe National Library of Australia's significant Thai cigarette card collection has been digitized and the images are now freely available. -
NLA celebrates Australia-Thailand diplomatic ties
Posted on 14 August 2012 | No CommentsWe are pleased to announce to New Mandala readers a special exhibit at the National Library of Australia celebrating 60 years of Thailand-Australia... -
Prem, Thaksin and Chao Anuwong
Posted on 18 May 2012 | 7 CommentsSince the March-May 2010 incident, publications on Thai politics and history have become livelier than ever. Among these, the National... -
The Red Prince
Posted on 1 December 2011 | 2 Comments2009 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous “Red Prince” Souphanuvong, president of the Lao PDR until... -
Burma amnesties
Posted on 18 October 2011 | 5 CommentsThe release of over 6000 prisoners from jails in Burma last week, including over a hundred prisoners of conscience, attracted... -
Yingluck: face of the nation
Posted on 4 September 2011 | 1 CommentThe period from June to August 2011 was undeniably historic for Thai politics, especially Thailand electing her first female prime... -
Aung Gyi’s letters to Ne Win
Posted on 17 June 2011 | 7 CommentsIn 1988, during the last months of the Burma Socialist Programme Party’s rule, Brigadier General (Retired) Aung Gyi (pictured above...