Arts

Description About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...

Description About the Author & Editor In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental jou...

Description About the Authors On 1 January 2004, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a...

Description Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do wi...

Description About the Author In Trump's Populist America, author Steven Rosefielde argues that the policies Trump fashions are not half measure...

Description About the Author More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a compre...

Description About the Author Postcolonial literature in Chinese from the Nanyang, literally the South Seas, examines the history of Chinese mig...

Description About the Authors Singapore fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Within a matter of days, the occupying army took prisoner ...

Description Praise About the Author Western conceptions of the body differ significantly from indigenous knowledge and explanatory frameworks i...

Description Tao Te Ching, written more than 2,500 years ago, is reputedly the first philosphical works in Chinese history. It presents the phil...

Description About the Author The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to WWII. I...

Description Praise About the Author The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to ...

Description About the Author This book explores a little-known phase in the history of both Indonesia and Singapore: how the dynamics of the In...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...

Description Praise About the Author During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vi...

Description About the Author In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian fact...

Description Praise About the Author Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description Praise About the Author Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way ...

Description About the Author C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended from her 1962 thesis, published i...

Description In 2015, Singapore celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its independence. From its founding as a British colony with no natural r...

Description We know him best as the founder of modern Singapore . He was instrumentral in bringing about the island 's development into a free ...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Description Praise About the Author The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration...

Description About the Editors In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous ...

Description Praise About the Author The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Ind...

Description About the Author The authoritative biography of the 'Father of Singapore'. By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-...

Description Southeast Asia contains some of the world's busiest shipping waters, particularly the Indonesian archipelago, the Straits of Malacc...

Description About the Author The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" syste...

Description About the Authors This book is about the territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, a small but strategi...

Description About the Editors Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and p...

Description About the Author Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has mor...

Description Praise About the Author The Nemesis was the first of a generation of iron-clad, steam-powered naval vessels that established Britis...

Description Praise About the Author Extricating liberalism from the haze of anti-modernist and anti-European caricature, this book traces the r...

Description This 2009 second edition of the 2000 study of the beliefs of Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1923) includes a new afterword by the author. The ext...

Description About the Author In early 1905, a group of Javanese led by Alias bin Ali, started a settlement on a hillside in Singapore, not far ...

Description About the Author Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) fo...

Description About the Author The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account...

Description About the Editors Singapore experienced substantial changes during the 14-year tenure of the country's second Prime Minister, Goh C...

Description Praise About the Author Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand explores the intersections of memory, place, power and touri...

Description Praise About the Editors The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500–1800 is an important chapter in art ...

Description About the Editors English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues sur...

Description Praise About the Editors Changes in the character of the political regime in Laos after 2000, a massive influx of foreign investmen...

Description About the Author In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration...

Description Chinese Fine Arts, we take you to a distingushed gallery featuring Chinese calligraphy, painting, music, dance, theatre, and sculpt...

Description Chinese Folk Customs, we look at folk beliefs in Chinese society, and how they have in all aspects of life: birth, coming -of- age,...

Description Chinese Literature, you will meet great minds among the Chinese literates. Since reading is a form of pleasure that has been enjoye...

Description Chinese Science & Technology, we look at the accumlated knowledge of China still existing today in the form of inventions in d...

Description Praise About the Author Australia’s policy towards Britain’s end of empire in Southeast Asia influenced the course of this decoloni...