Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
by Peter Borschberg
February 2010
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In February 1603, Admiral Jakob van Heemskerk plundered a Portuguese merchantman, the Santa Catarina, traveling from Macao to Melaka. The episode raised legal questions and the United Dutch East India Company commissioned the young Hugo Grotius to defend Heemskerk’s actions. This book explores the Santa Catarina incident and Grotius’ resulting treatise on free trade in the East Indies. |
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The Singapore and Melaka Straits: Violence, Security and Diplomacy in the 17th Century
by Peter Borschberg
February 2010
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The first half of the 17th century brought heightened political, commercial, and diplomatic activity to the Straits of Singapore and Melaka. Key elements included rivalry between Johor and Aceh, the rapid expansion of the Acehnese Empire, the arrival of the Dutch East India Company, and the waning of Portuguese power and prestige across the region. Archives in Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands contain detailed information on these developments in the forms of maps, rare printed works, and unpublished manuscripts, many of them unfamiliar to modern researchers. |
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Latent Images: Film in Singapore, Second Edition
by Jan Uhde; Yvonne Ng Uhde
February 2010
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Latent Images is the pioneer reference on Singapore cinema. This extensively updated edition with new illustrations presents a comprehensive examination of the country’s film landscape from the early days of local film production to the end of 2007.
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Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century: The Ming Factor
ed. by Geoff Wade; Sun Laichen
February 2010
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This work draws together the great changes that occurred in Southeast Asia during the fifteenth century, and considers the extent to which Ming China’s engagement with the region helped usher in the early modern period of Southeast Asian history.
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Farmers of Forty Centuries,: or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
by F. H. King
ed. by J. P. Bruce
February 2010
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First published in 1926, this classic survey examines the traditional farming methods of the densely populated lands of China, Korea, and Japan, and shows how fertility can be maintained over many centuries through conserving and utilizing natural resources.
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The History of Mongolia
ed. by David Sneath; Christopher Kaplonski
February 2010
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The History of Mongolia is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, enhanced by excerpts from source documents translated from Mongolian and other languages selected by the editors. All entries are fully contextualized and situated by introductory essays to each volume. |
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Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925-2006
by Hy V. Luong
February 2010
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Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village examines both continuity and change over eight decades in a small rural village deep in the North Vietnamese countryside. Son-Duong, a community near the Red River, experienced firsthand the ravages of French colonialism and the American war, as well as the socialist revolution and Vietnam’s recent reintegration into the global market economy. In this revised and expanded edition of his 1992 book, Revolution in the Village, Hy V. Luong draws on newly available archival documents in Hanoi, narratives by villagers, and three field seasons from the late 1980s to 2006. He situates his finely drawn village portrait within the historical framework of the Vietnamese revolution and the recent reforms in Vietnam.
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Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea
by Timothy S. Lee
February 2010
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Known as Asia’s “evangelical superpower,” South Korea today has some of the largest and most dynamic churches in the world and is second only to the United States in the number of missionaries it dispatches abroad. Understanding its evangelicalism is crucial to grasping the course of its modernization, the rise of nationalism and anticommunism, and the relationship between Christians and other religionists within the country.
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Hart Wood: Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii
by Don J. Hibbard; Glenn E. Mason; Karen J. Weitze
February 2010
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This lavishly illustrated book traces the life and work of Hart Wood (1880–1957), from his beginnings in architectural offices in Denver and San Francisco to his arrival in Hawaii in 1919 as a partner of C. W. Dickey and eventual solo career in the Islands. An outspoken leader in the development of a Hawaiian style of architecture, Wood incorporated local building traditions and materials in many of his projects and was the first in Hawaii to blend Eastern and Western architectural forms in a conscious manner. Enchanted by Hawaii’s vivid beauty and its benevolent climate, exotic flora, and cosmopolitan culture, Wood sought to capture the aura of the Islands in his architectural designs.
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Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy
by Tatiana
Gabroussenko
March 2010
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An understanding of contemporary North Korea’s literature is virtually impossible without an investigation of its formative period, 1945–1960, which saw a gradual transformation from the initial “Soviet era” to a Korean version of “national Stalinism.” This turbulent epoch established a long-lasting framework for North Korean literature and set up an elaborate system of political control over literary matters, as well as over the people who served in this field.
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Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting and Recognizing Women and Men
ed. by Helle Rydstrom
March 2010
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Global processes with flows in money, commodities, and people have made it increasingly varied and blurred what it means to be a female or male in Asia today. Socio-economic and cultural patterns in Asia intersect with one another and, in doing so, they translate into power relations that create both possibilities and constraints for women and men. By focusing on unequal access to political and religious power, occupation, and health facilities, as well as different options when it comes to family life and sexuality, the recognition of women and men are explored in this volume as manifestations of ideas about femininity and masculinity.
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Population, Family and Society in Pre-Modern Japan
by Akira Hayami
March 2010
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Written by the doyen of demography studies in Japan at the University of Tokyo, this collection of Akira Hayami’s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan.
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Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, 1644-1912
ed. by Arthur W. Hummel
March 2010
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First published in 1943-44, Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the single indispensable reference tool for Chinese history since 1644.
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The Story of Joseph (Kyssa'i Yusuf)
by Kul Gali
trans. by Fred Beake; Ravil Bukharaev
March 2010
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Discovered in 1989 in Kazan, Tatarstan, Kyssa’i Yusuf (The Story of Joseph) is today the only surviving work by the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature Kul Gali (1183-1236) and is here rendered into English for the first time.
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China's Destiny and Chinese Economic Theory
by Chiang Kai-shek
March 2010
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Chiang’s classic work, first published in 1947, examines the challenges facing the modernization of China—from the humiliation of the unequal treaties, through to the struggles of the first half of the twentieth century.
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