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Chiara Formichi, “Islam and Asia: A History” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Chiara Formichi
Islam and Asia
A History
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 30, 2020 Shobhana Xavier

Challenging the geographical narrative of the history of Islam, Chiara Formichi’s new book Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), helps us to rethink how we tell the story of Islam and the lived expressions of Muslims without privileging certain linguistic, cultural, and geographic realities. Focusing on themes... Read More
Viet Thanh Nguyen, “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Nothing Ever Dies
Vietnam and the Memory of War
Harvard University Press, 2016

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 28, 2020 Michael G. Vann

According to Viet Thanh Nguyen, all wars are fought twice: first on the field of battle, and then in the struggles over memory. In Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016) he explores the various ways in which the American War in Vietnam has... Read More
Wasana Wongsurawat, “The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation” (U Washington Press, 2019)
Wasana Wongsurawat
The Crown and the Capitalists
The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation
University of Washington Press, 2019

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 18, 2020 Patrick Jory

One can’t understand modern Thailand without understanding the role of the ethnic Chinese. And one can’t understand the role of the ethnic Chinese without understanding the history of their relationship to the Thai monarchy. This is exactly what Wasana Wongsurawat has documented in her new book, The Crown and the... Read More
Laurence Monnais, “The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam” (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Laurence Monnais
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 4, 2020 Lucas Richert

Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam under French rule. In The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Laurence Monnais... Read More
Sara E. Davies, “Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Sara E. Davies
Containing Contagion
The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

New Books in MedicineNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Southeast Asian Studies April 15, 2020 Nick Cheesman

At the start of 2020 few of us would have recognized the face of the current director general of the World Health Organization. Three months later, and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic he and other senior WHO officials appear on television and online almost daily, exhorting governments around... Read More
C. Baker and P. Phongpaichit, “From the Fifty Jātaka: Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka” (Silkworm Books, 2019)
Dr. Chris Baker and Prof. Pasuk Phongpaichit
From the Fifty Jātaka
Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka
Silkworm Books, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 2, 2020 Alex Carroll

The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source of inspiration in Theravada Buddhism. In addition to these classical Jātaka, a number of other non-canonical Jātaka tales emerged in Southeast Asia and... Read More
Marco Z. Garrido, “The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Marco Z. Garrido
The Patchwork City:
Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila
University of Chicago Press, 2013

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network April 2, 2020 Sneha Annavarapu

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of what sociologist Marco Garrido calls the “patchwork city.” Synthesizing literature in political sociology and urban studies, Garrido shows how experiences along... Read More
Sumit K. Mandal, “Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Sumit K. Mandal
Becoming Arab
Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network March 10, 2020 Nick Cheesman

In the wake of the so-called war on terror we’ve become accustomed to racialized portrayals of the Arab as an inflexible and threatening other to the mores and ways of the non-Arab world. Although these portrayals are new in their historical contingencies and sociological particulars, the manner in which Arabs... Read More

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