Sugilanong Sugboanon: Cebuano Fiction Until 1940
ed. by Erlinda K. Alburo; Vicente Bandillo; Simeon Dumdum Jr; Resil B.
Mojares
December 2009
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Modern prose fiction in Cebuano has its beginnings in the nineteenth century. In this respect, its emergence antedates the appearance of the first short stories and novels in much of Southeast Asia. Beyond this note of historical importance, however, Cebuano fiction is of value in itself, as a body of literary art, and for what it can reveal to us of Cebuano and Philippine culture.
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The Story of Abaca: Manila Hemp's Transformation from Textile to Marine Cordage and Specialty Paper
by Ellizabeth Potter
Sievert
December 2009
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The Story of Abaca is a human story told through the experiences of farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs who cultivate, market, manufacture, and promote the Philippine abaca industry. Often called Manila hemp, abaca is indigenous to the Philippines, where its commercial production has always been centered. The book will take readers to old ropewalks and harbors in London and Salem, to mills of modern pulpers and papermakers, and to research laboratories in the Philippines.
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Translation and Revolution: A Study of Jose Rizal's Guillermo Tell
by Ramon
Guillermo
December 2009
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This is the first comprehensive study of Jose Rizal’s 1886 Tagalog translation of Friedrich Schiller’s last and most famous play, Wilhelm Tell (1804). It introduces new computer-aided methods and techniques of discursive and textual analysis to the broad field of translation analysis and attempts to answer how Schiller’s play, described as the “Agit-prop play of German Idealism,” could have been translated into a language so distant from its original socioeconomic context and so alien from the distinctively German intellectual culture that had produced it. In addition to its methodological contributions, this study is of interest insofar as it may give insight into some of the ideological dynamics constitutive of nineteenth-century nationalism in the Philippines, the implications of which may extend up to the present day.
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Conflict, Religion, and Culture: Domestic and International Implications for Southeast Asia and Australia
ed. by Luca Anceschi; Joseph A. Camilleri; Benjamin T.
Tolosa Jr
December 2009
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Since 9/11 much has been written about U.S. and European responses to terrorism, to Iraq and Afghanistan, and to tensions between Islam and the West. But countries in Asia Pacific have attracted much less attention—yet their responses reveal much not only about their respective foreign policies, but also about their internal electoral politics, the tensions of plural societies, the sway of ethnic-cultural stereotypes, the perceived sociopolitical roles that religions play, the conditioning of the mass media, and the international implications of internal armed conflicts.
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Tatlong Nikkeijin and Six Photos: Culture, People and State Power
ed. by Lydia N. Yu
Jose
December 2009
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Talong Nikkeijin presents two novel ways of capturing the intimacy of contemporary Philippines-Japan relations.
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Populism in Asia
ed. by Kosuke Mizuno; Pasuk Phongpaichit
December 2009
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Across Asia, “populist” leaders emerged on an unprecedented scale around the start of the 21st century. Populism in Asia is the first book to examine this phenomenon.
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The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives
ed. by Minako Sakai; Glenn Banks; John H. Walker
December 2009
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The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia: Social and Geographical Perspectives is a thought-provoking examination of the local politics and the dynamics of power at Indonesia’s geographic and social margins. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new relations with Jakarta. The volume deals with power struggles and local-national tensions, looking among other things at resource control, the historical roots of regional identity politics and issues relating to Chinese-Indonesians.
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Love and Dread in Cambodia: Weddings, Births, and Ritual Harm under the Khmer Rouge
by Peg LeVine
December 2009
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For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975–79), filming their return to these locations. In the process she uncovered evidence of the way severe dislocation, induced starvation and other murderous activities paved the way for reconstructed communes. Group marriages, along with prescriptions for sex, pregnancies, and births, were a central feature of the remaking of Cambodian society and contributed to the dissolution of the country's ritual practices. This "ritualcide" caused a mass loss of spirit-protective places, objects, and arbitrators, and had a traumatic impact on Khmer society. Group marriages did, however, give spouses a reprieve from further dislocation.
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Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature
ed. by Angelia Poon; Philip Holden; Shirley Geok-lin Lim
December 2009
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The first comprehensive historical anthology of English-language writing from Singapore, this volume covers more than a century of literary production in a variety of genres. It provides readers in Singapore with an easy point of access to compelling narratives and poems, some of which have been forgotten or are difficult to obtain. For readers outside Singapore, it introduces a neglected but important range of works that represent the historical and contemporary imaginaries and realities of one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities.
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Southeast Asia-China Interactions: Reprint of Articles from the Journal of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
ed. by Geoff Wade
December 2009
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The relations between the societies and states of Southeast Asia and China have been of enormous significance to both these regions, extending back for literally thousands of years. This useful single-volume edition of key studies on Southeast Asia-China interactions published in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and its precursors includes classics such as Wang Gungwu's “The Nanhai Trade” and Paul Wheatley's “Geographical Notes on Some Commodities Involved in Sung Maritime Trade.” In this compendium, 18 studies examine political, economic, and social interactions, as well as the flows of people and technologies that have tied these regions together over that period. The work provides a comprehensive summation of the Southeast Asia-China historical relationship, while situating the various individual works in their broader context.
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A History of Singapore, 1819-2005: Revised Edition
by C. M. Turnbull
December 2009
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When C.M. Turnbull’s A History of Singapore, 1819-1975 appeared in 1977, it quickly achieved recognition as the definitive history of Singapore. A second edition published in 1989 brought the story up to the elections held in 1988. In this fully revised edition, rewritten to take into account recent scholarship on Singapore, the author has added a chapter on Goh Chok Tong’s premiership (1990–2004) and the transition to a government headed by Lee Hsien Loong. The book now ends in 2005, when the Republic of Singapore celebrated its 40th anniversary as an independent nation.
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Sugilanong Sugboanon: Cebuano Fiction, 1941–2005
ed. by Erlinda K. Alburo; Vicente Bandillo; Simeon Dumdum Jr; Resil B. Mojares
December 2009
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“In the work of some practitioners, many of them represented in this book, Cebuano fiction has acquired a more mellow, more confident voice. The output of English-Cebuano fictionists, also here showcased, has added a healthy, cross-fertilizing influence on contemporary Cebuano writing.
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Verbal Arts in Philippine Indigenous Communities: Poetics, Society, and History
by Herminia Menez Coben
December 2009
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This work examines the centrality of verbal arts in social life and the dynamic roles of verbal artists as religious and political leaders, as guardians of tradition, as well as agents of cultural change. The subtitle highlights its emphasis on poetics and social change, poetics and gender politics, the poetics of violence, and of pacifism, tropes in social and historical contexts, and on colonialism, ethnic identity, and political power.
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Transnationalizing Culture of Japan in Asia: Dramas, Musics, Arts and Agencies
ed. by Tito Genova Valiente; Hiroko Nagai
December 2009
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This volume is an attempt to tackle the topic of transnationalization of Japanese culture in Asia in the domains of drama, music, and the arts. Along the way, the contributors generate questions as they develop the themes of the hybrid and the reactionary, the localizing and accommodating in film and art, even nostalgia for a place that—imagined by strangers and outsiders—becomes a landscape and at once a performance stage.
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The Tropical Frontier: America's South Sea Colony
by Joseph Kennedy
December 2009
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For more than two thousand years the Samoan Islands were among the most forgotten places on earth, but by the late nineteenth century they suddenly attracted the attention of some of the most powerful nations on the globe. Germany and the United Kingdom became interested in the western islands, but it was the U.S. that eventually obtained suzerainty over Pago Pago harbor on the island of Tutuila in the east and began its one and only South Seas colonial experiment.
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