Publications
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Chapter 2 Trouble with “Status”
(2017)
This chapter has explored the role of training and education as a light-
ning rod for rival models and interpretations of public health nursing. Nurses faced the constraints of conventional British social norms of class ...
CPC Futures
(2022)
Distributed by NUS Press for the East Asian Institute. What will the upcoming 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) bring, and what will the next decade of CPC rule look like? Who will rule China and what ...
Translating the Body
(2017)
Western conceptions of the body differ significantly from indigenous knowledge and explanatory frameworks in Asia. As colonial governments assumed responsibility for health care, conceptions of the human body were translated ...
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
(2008)
Grotius produced two classic legal texts, The Law of Price and Booty and its spin-off, The Free Sea, among the greatest works in the history of international legal and political thought. His observations dealt with free ...
Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java
(2012-07-01)
The Javanese - one of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic world - were once mostly 'nominal Muslims' with pious believers a minority and the majority seemingly resistant to Islam's call for greater piety. Over the ...
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
(2013-07-31)
Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little — if any — mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. This book makes a strong case ...
Islam and Politics in Indonesia
(2015-08-31)
The Masyumi Party, which was active in Indonesia from 1945 to 1960, constitutes the boldest attempt to date at reconciling Islam and democracy. Masyumi proposed a vision of society and government which was not bound by a ...
An Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century
(2010-01-01)
While colonization, protracted war and violent revolution are commonly blamed for Cambodia's failure to modernize its economy in the twentieth century, Margaret Slocomb's Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century ...
Boundaries and Beyond
(2017)
Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China’s maritime southeast in late Imperial times, these linked essays by a senior scholar challenge the usual readings of Chinese ...
Southeast Asian Anthropologies
(2019-02-11)
Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. This book makes visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists ...
Asianisms
(2015-10-30)
At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia?
the answer involves an investigation of the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It ...