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Books Received

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  • State and society in the Philippines, second edition By Abinales, Patricio and Amoroso, Donna J. Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-5381-0394-4

  • Southeast Asia's Cold War: An interpretive history By Guan, Ang Cheng Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-8248-7257-1

  • Rubber and the making of Vietnam: An ecological history, 1897–1975 By Aso, Michitake Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-4696-3715-0

  • Khao Sam Kaeo: An early port-city between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea Edited by Bellin, Brénice Paris: École française d'Extrême-Orient, 2017 ISBN: 9-782-85539-427-5

  • Cold War and decolonisation: Australia's policy towards Britain's end of empire in Southeast Asia By Benvenuti, Andrea Singapore: NUS Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-981-4722-19-3

  • War in the blood: Sex, politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia, second edition By Beyer, Chris London: Zed Books, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-78699-193-5

  • Musical minorities: The sounds of Hmong ethnicity in northern Vietnam By Ó Briain, Lonán New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-19-062697-6

  • Philippine modernities: Music, performing arts, and language, 1880 to 1941 Edited by Buenconsejo, José S. Diliman: University of the Philippines Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-971-542-857-6

  • Border capitalism, disrupted: Precarity and struggle in a Southeast Asian industrial zone By Campbell, Stephen Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-5017-1110-7

  • What is political Islam? By Cesari, Jocelyne Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-62637-692-2

  • Cauldron of resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s southern Vietnam By Chapman, Jessica M. Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-5017-2510-4

  • Liberalism discovered: Communitarianism and state capitalism in Singapore By Huat Chua, Beng Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-5017-1344-6

  • US-Singapore relations, 1965–1975: Strategic non-alignment in the Cold War By Boon Chua, Daniel Wei Singapore: NUS Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-981-4722-32-2

  • The Dasmariñases, early governors of the Spanish Philippines By Crossley, John Newsome New York: Routledge, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-4724-6489-7

  • The business of transition: Law reform, development and economics in Myanmar Edited by Crouch, Melissa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-108-41683-2

  • China's Asia: Triangular dynamics since the Cold War By Dittmer, Lowell Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-4422-3756-8

  • Svay: A Khmer village in Cambodia By Ebihara, May Mayko; Edited by Mertha, Andrew, with an introduction by Ledgerwood, Judy Ithaca and London: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-5017-1512-9

  • Passionate revolutions: The media and the rise and fall of the Marcos regime By Espiritu, Talitha Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-89680-312-1

  • Becoming China: The story behind the state By Gescher, Jeanne-Marie Croydon, UK: Bloomsbury, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-4088-8723-3

  • Buddhist visual cultures, rhetoric, and narrative in late Burmese wall paintings By Green, Alexandra Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-988-8390-88-5

  • Maintenir l'ordre aux confins de l'Empire: Pirates, trafiquants et rebelles entre Chine et Viêt Nam 1895–1940 By Grémont, Johann Paris: Hémisphères Éditions, 2018 ISBN: 978-2-37701-016-5

  • Die Deutschen Und Ihre Kolonien: Ein Überblick Edited by Gründer, Horst and Hiery, Hermann Berlin: Be.Bra Verlag, 2018 ISBN: 978-3-89809-137-4

  • In plain sight: Impunity and human rights in Thailand By Haberkorn, Tyrell Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-299-31440-8

  • Handbook of East and Southeast Asian archaeology Edited by Habu, Junko, Lape, Peter V. & Olsen, John W.; Managing editor: Eastep, Alisha M. New York: Springer, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-4939-6519-9

  • Anthropological perspectives on history, culture and museum: Theoretical practice in Japan and China Edited by Se Yin, Han Min. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2018 ISBN: 978-4-906962-62-4

  • Siam and World War I: An international history By Hell, Stefan Bangkok: River Books, 2017 ISBN: 978-616-7339-92-4

  • Chinese ways of being Muslim: Negotiating ethnicity and religiosity in Indonesia By Weng, Hew Wai Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-87-7694-210-6

  • Ruling before the law: The politics of legal regimes in China and Indonesia By Hurst, William Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-108-42720-3

  • Sedentarization among nomadic peoples in Asia and Africa Edited by Ikeya, Kazunobu Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2017 ISBN: 978-4-906962-58-7

  • Devotion: Image, recitation, and celebration of the Vessantara epic in Northeast Thailand By Kaiser, Thomas, Lefferts, Leedom and Wernsdörfer, Martina Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2017 ISBN: 978-3-89790-500-9

  • The traffic in hierarchy: Masculinity and its Others in Buddhist Burma By Keeler, Ward Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018 ISBN: 9780824865948

  • Sovereign women in a Muslim kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641–1699 By Khan, Sher Banu A.L. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-981-4722-20-9

  • Becoming better Muslims: Religious authority and ethical improvement in Aceh, Indonesia By Kloos, David Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-691-17665-9

  • The Vietnam War re-examined By Kort, Michael G. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-107-62817-5

  • Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious rites, colonial migrations, national rights Edited by Laffan, Michael London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-350-02261-4

  • Planting empire, cultivating subjects: British Malaya, 1786–1941 By Lees, Lynn Hollen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-107-03840-0

  • White Métisse By Lefèvre, Kim, translated by Yeager, Jack A. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-8248-7268-0

  • Strangers next door? Indonesian and Australia in the Asian century Edited by Lindsey, Tim and McRae, Dave Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-5099-1816-4

  • Suma oriental, by Tomé Pires Edited by Manuel Loureiro, Rui Lisboa: Centro Científo e Cultural de Macau, I.P., 2017 ISBN: 978-972-8586-52-2

  • Becoming Arab: Creole histories and modern identity in the Malay world By Mandal, Sumit K. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-316-64749-3

  • Indonesian Manuscripts from the Islands of Java, Madura, Bali and Lombok By van der Meij, Dick Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017 ISBN: 9789004347625

  • Frustrated ambition: General Vincente Lim and the Philippine military experience, 1910–1944 By Meixsel, Richard B. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-8061-5905-8

  • Opium weights: Old animal-shaped bronze weights from Southeast Asia. Commerical, ethnic, symbolic and historical perspectives By Mikkelsen, Leif Bering Odense, Denmark: Historia, 2017 ISBN: 978-87-93528-62-8

  • Structural transformation in globalizing South Asia: Comprehensive area studies for sustainable, inclusive, and peaceful development Edited by Mio, Minoru, Fujita, Koichi, Tomozawa, Kazuo and Awaya, Toshie Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2017 ISBN: 978-4-906962-60-0

  • Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway: Narratives of history and memory By Oliver, Lizzie London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-350-02412-0

  • Migrant returns: Manila, development, and transnational connectivity By Pido, Eric J. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-8223-6369-9

  • Singapore Indian Heritage: The Indian Heritage Centre's inaugural publication Edited by Rai, Rajesh and Mani, A. Singapore: Indian Heritage Centre, 2017 ISBN: 9789811135095

  • Let's talk about trees: Genetic relationships of languages and their phylogenic representation Edited by Ritsuko, Kikusawa and Reid, Lawrence A. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2018 ISBN: 978-4-906962-61-7

  • Siamese melting pot: Ethnic minorities in the making of Bangkok By Van Roy, Edward Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2017 ISBN: 978-981-4762-83-0

  • Japanese Occupation of South-East Asia, 1942–1945: Selected documents By Sareen, T.R. New Delhi: Life Span Publishers and Distributers, 2017 ISBN: 978-81-934188-0-2

  • Human rights in Thailand By Selby, Don F. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-8122-5022-0

  • Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts Edited by Sugahara, Yumi and van der Molen, Willem Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), 2018 ISBN: 978-4-86337-258-0

  • A subaltern history of the Indian diaspora in Singapore: The gradual disappearance of untouchability 1872–1965 By Solomon, John New York: Routledge, 2016 ISBN: 9781138955899

  • Jesus in Asia By Sugirtharajah, R.S. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press ISBN: 978-0-674-05113-3

  • The monologic imagination Edited by Tomlinson, Matt and Millie, Julian New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-19-065281-4

  • Gods, heroes, and ancestors: An interreligious encounter in eighteen-century Vietnam By Tran, Ang Q. New York: Oxford Univerity Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-19-067760-2

  • Familial properties: Gender, state, and society in early modern Vietnam, 1463–1778 By Tran, Nhung Tuyet Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-0-8248-7482-7

  • H. Nasution and Indonesia's elites: “People's resistance” in the war of indeoendence and postwar politics By Turner, Barry Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-4985-6011-5

  • Classical Chinese poetry in Singapore: Witnesses to social and cultural transformations in the Chinese community By Wang, Bing Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2018 ISBN: 978-2-4985-3515-1

  • Vamping the stage: Female voices of Asian modernities Edited by Weintraub, Andrew N. and Barendregt, Bart Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-8248-6986-1

  • Retrospective: A historiographical aesthetic in contemporary Singapore and Malaysia By Yap, June London: Lexington Books, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-4985-5581-4