The first in-depth study of book culture and history in Indonesia.

Moving beyond the familiar story of Siam fending off European colonialism, this book reveals a ne...

Accounts of the Great War tend to focus on Europe, the epicentre of this conflict, and find in it...

What did nineteenth-century travellers actually see when they journeyed through the Malay Archipe...

Why have some Southeast Asian cities become laboratories of reform while others remain mired in o...

What new framings emerge when we revisit the vibrant world of Malay-Indonesian manuscripts, looki...

How do faith, family, and migration intersect in the intimate lives of transnational couples? Thi...

In a complete collection of works by one of Malaysia’s foundational poets, Wong confronts the str...

Over the past thirty years, contemporary art in Vietnam has emerged as a dynamic field shaped by ...

In postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape...

The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attem...

Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural...