NUS PRESS NEW BOOKS

JANUARY–JUNE 2021

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Award Winners

Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia Vannessa Hearman Winner, Early Career Book Prize 2020, Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)

Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age: Filipinos, Indonesians and Popular Culture, 1920–1936 Peter Keppy Honorable Mention, 2020 Bruno Nettl Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology

Hard at Work: Life in Singapore Gerard Sasges and Ng Shi Wen Finalist, Singapore Literature Prize 2020 Finalist, Singapore Book Awards (Best Non-fiction Title) 2020, Singapore Book Publishers Association

Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819–1942 Timothy P. Barnard Finalist, Singapore Book Awards (Best Non-fiction Title) 2020, Singapore Book Publishers Association

Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist John van Wyhe Finalist, Singapore Book Awards (Best Digital Marketing Campaign) 2020, Singapore Book Publishers Association

Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era Adil Johan Finalist, Singapore Book Awards Best Non-Fiction Title, 2019 Shortlisted, Penang Book Prize 2019

Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking the State in 20th-century Philippines Lisandro E. Claudio Winner, 2019 George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies

The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45: A Social and Economic History Paul H. Kratoska Shortlisted, Penang Book Prize 2019

Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case against China (published by Ateneo de Manila University Press and distributed by NUS Press in the rest of Southeast Asia) Marites Danguilan Vitug Winner, Best Book in Journalism at the 38th National Book Awards 2019 in the Philippines

Cat NUS Cover Jan_June 2021_LD final.indd 4 9/2/21 11:23 AM 1 Shashi Jayakumar

A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985–2015

The People’s Action Party (or PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in power continuously since Singapore gained self-rule in 1959. Such longevity is the hallmark of an institution that is itself dynamic and responsive. But remarkably, the story of the party as an institution has not received the sustained study it deserves, from historians or political scientists. This narrative history of the PAP follows the decisions made by party leaders as they have sought to respond to the changing demands and expectations of the Singapore electorate, over a 30-year period that saw Singapore enter the ranks of developed nations. The focus is on change in four dimensions: in the communications methods and styles the party adopted, in the mechanisms it developed for managing institutional change, the sometimes vexed question of leader­ ship renewal, and the evolution of economic and social policy. Drawing on internal party documents and multiple interviews with key leaders over a 10-year period, this work provides a detailed portrait of a robust political institution and establishes a distinctive new narrative of Singapore politics.

Shashi Jayakumar is head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

June 2021

Hardback • US$38 / S$46 ISBN: 978-981-325-128-1 632pp / 254 x 178mm 24 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 1 9/2/21 11:23 AM 2 Justin Thomas McDaniel

Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand

When more than 93 per cent of the citizens of one country profess a single religion, as Thais do Buddhism, and when that religion is deeply integrated into national institutions and ideologies, it becomes tempting to think of the religion as a textual, institutional, cultural and conceptual whole. But at the same time it is obvious that expressions of Buddhism in Thailand reflect anything but a single order: they are often gaudy, cacophonous, variegated, and jumbled: almost technicolor. Diversity and contradiction are everywhere. A more open engagement with Buddhism in Thailand will require a willingness to be distracted, to step away from received hierarchies and follow the intriguing detail in the ornate design, the odd textual reference, to prefer “thin description” over a search for meaning. Justin Thomas McDaniel’s book-length writings in Buddhist and Theravada Studies are well known and widely cited, but his approach cannot be understood without taking into account his shorter writings, what he calls his wayward distractions. Collected together for the first time, and set in place by a compelling introduction that argues for a strongly materialist approach, these essays cover subjects ranging from ornamental art to marriage and emotion, the role of Hinduism, neglected gender and ethnic diversity, Buddhist inflections in contemporary art practice, and the boundaries between the living, the dead and the undead. These writings will be of importance to students of Theravada and Thailand, of religion in Southeast Asia and more generally, of the materialist turn in studies of religion.

Justin Thomas McDaniel is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of x JAPAN the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, won the Harry Benda Prize. His second book, The Lovelorn KYOTO-CSEAS SERIES Ghost and the Magic Monk, won the Kahin Prize. ON ASIAN STUDIES

June 2021

Paperback • US$32 / S$36 ISBN: 978-981-325-150-2 360pp / 229 x 152mm 24 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_4 final.indd 2 16/2/21 10:52 AM 3 Takashi Shiraishi

The Phantom World of Digul: Policing as Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926–1941

Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners established in 1926 in West Papua. It is key to understanding Indonesia’s colonial rule between the failed communist rebellion in 1926 and the fall of the Indies to the Japanese in 1942, a time when the Dutch regime attempted to impose “rust en orde”, or peace and order, on the Indonesian people via the suppression of politics by the police. The political policing regime the Dutch Indies state created was both a success and a failure. The native terrain was never completely pacified. Activists linked up with each other in fluid networks that cut across spatial and ideational boundaries. How did the government deploy political policing to achieve its policy objectives? What were the consequences and challenges for Indonesian activists? How was the government able to fashion its policing apparatus as the most potent instrument to achieve peace and order when the Great Depression hit the Indies, nationalist and communist forces were gaining strength in other places of the world and war was coming both in Europe and Asia? This long-awaited sequel to Takashi Shiraishi’s acclaimed An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912–1926, attempts to answer these questions.

Takashi Shiraishi has taught at Tokyo University, Cornell University, Kyoto University, and National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). He currently serves as chancellor at the Prefectural University of Kumamoto.

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“A life-long project comes to its magnificent May 2021

culmination with Shiraishi’s new book, a worthy Paperback • US$32 / S$36 sequel to his Age in Motion.” ISBN: 978-981-325-141-0 360pp / 229 x 152mm – Rudolf Mrázek 8 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 3 9/2/21 11:23 AM 4 Yeo Kang Shua

Divine Custody: A History of Singapore’s Oldest Teochew Temple

Teochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers were early settlers of Singapore at the turn of the 19th century. The Wak Hai Cheng Bio, now surrounded by the skyscrapers of Singapore’s­ central business district, traces its history back to the earliest days of the colony. Its two deities—the Emperor of Heaven and Mazu, the Goddess of the Seas, tutelary deities of the Teochew people and travellers by sea respectively, long accompanied the sojourns of Teochew-speakers in the region. No written sources or inscriptions commemorate the founding of the temple, but the author’s research in the history of land tenure of Singapore and old maps and title deeds provides new evidence for the temple’s foundation. Just as eloquent as these forms of textual evidence, and the many poetic and commemorative inscriptions that enliven the temple and charge its spaces with meaning, is the testimony of the building itself, its siting, materials, its ornamentation and artworks. The author led the UNESCO award-winning effort to restore the temple from 2010 to 2014, and so is uniquely placed to understand what its architecture can tell us of the legacies and histories of the communities that formed and were formed by the temple. The book is an exemplary in the way it uses material culture and architectural history as historical sources, and so will be of interest to heritage studies, history and those seeking to understand the experience of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia.

Yeo Kang Shua teaches at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and is an architectural restoration specialist. PUBLISHED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD, SINGAPORE

June 2021

Hardback • US$48 / S$56 ISBN: 978-981-325-144-1 288pp / 235 x 187mm 74 colour images, 43 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 4 9/2/21 11:23 AM 5 Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench and Jean-Christophe Galipaud editors

Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present

Sea nomads have been part of the economic and political landscape of Southeast Asia for millennia. They have played many roles over the longue-durée: in certain periods proving central to the ability of land-based polities to generate wealth, by providing valuable maritime commodities, facilitating trade, forming a naval force to secure and protect vital sea lanes and providing crucial connectivity. They have existed in complex, co­ dified relations with different sedentary populations, as pirates, guardians of the sea-lanes, merchants and explorers. Parado­ xically,­­ as modern states emerged, the sea nomads became progressively marginalized and impoverished. For many years, the sea nomads were assumed to be without history, and even without archaeology. This has proven far from the case, and recent archaeological findings allow us to more closely describe sea nomadism from the Pleistocene through the early Holocene up to the present. Integrating these findings with the latest in historical research, linguistics, ethnography and historical genetics allows us to better understand sea- nomad ways of life over a scale of millennia and to appreciate the diversity and flexibility of this sea-nomad world. This in turn enriches our understanding of nomadism and mobility as a way of life, and the sea not only as a landscape of resources, but as a home and spiritual landscape as well.

Bérénice Bellina is an anthropological archaeologist using archaeological techniques to study cultural exchange. Roger Blench is a linguist, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He conducts fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Jean-Christophe Galipaud is an archaeologist specialising in Pacific islands archaeology and maritime archaeology.

May 2021 “An ambitious and provocative book.… It forces Paperback • US$32 / S$36 scholars to re-examine the role of sea nomads, ISBN: 978-981-325-125-0 particularly in the history of Southeast Asia.” 448pp / 229 x 152mm 56 b/w images, – Leonard Y. Andaya, University of Hawai’i at Manoa 36 b/w maps, 20 tables

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 5 9/2/21 11:23 AM 6 Sandeep Ray

Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia

How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conven­ tional written sources? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film in Indonesia to show how a critically-, historically- and cinematically-informed reading of colonial film in the archive can be a powerful and unexpected source, and one more easily accessible today via digitisation. The language of film and the conventions and forms of non-fiction film were still in formation in the first two decades of the 20th century. Colonialism was one of the drivers of this development, as the picturing of the native “other” in film was seen as an important tool to build support for missionary and colonial efforts. While social histories of photography in non- European contexts have been an area of great interest in recent years; Celluloid Colony brings moving images into the same scope of study.

Sandeep Ray is a filmmaker and a historian of Southeast Asia and is senior lecturer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

“… of as much interest to the historians of cinema as to the historians of colonialism. While its subject matter is relatively narrow—Dutch documentary films about ‘the Indies’—it successfully argues a much April 2021

larger case for the inclusion of documentary cinema Paperback • US$36 / S$42 as a source of historical knowledge.” ISBN: 978-981-325-138-0 240pp / 229 x 152mm – Krishna Sen, The University of Western Australia 49 b/w illustrations

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Innovation and China’s Global Emergence

China is working hard to shift to an economy driven by inno­ vation and productivity growth. The global implications of this transition will be significant, given the size of China’s economy and the degree of its integration into world trade and global value chains. The degree of scrutiny on the manner and means of transition will likewise be intense, particularly given the rise of techno-nationalism and a changing strategic calculus around the world. China is attempting to balance the reliance on overseas sources of technology that has served it so well, with efforts to strengthen purely domestic innovation capabilities, not least as a hedge against the risks of a US-led “decoupling”. In these circumstances, a better understanding of the many different forces of change within China, and the way it responds to outside changes, is essential. The evolution of China’s innovation economy will be one of the key economic stories of the early 21st century, and the world will need China as a source of innovation in the decades ahead. The aim of this book is to help build a better framework for policy makers overseas and in China to find a new equilibrium in negotiating the terms of this engagement.

Erik Baark is visiting research professor at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore and emeritus professor, Division of Social Science and the Division of Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Bert Hofman is director and professor at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Jiwei Qian is senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.

April 2021

Paperback • US$32 / S$36 ISBN: 978-981-325-148-9 328pp / 229 x 152mm 20 graphs, 21 tables

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Culture City. Culture Scape.

Art in public spaces is increasingly viewed from the perspective of placemaking, a holistic approach which engages the diverse functions of a space, and attends closely to spaces in everyday life. As a professional practice it integrates landscape architecture, urban planning and cultural management. This book documents a major public art commission in Singapore, featuring works by artists Dan Graham, Zul Mahmod, Tomás Saraceno, and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), situated in a business park. The project, and the resulting book, is a unique collaboration between NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, part of Nanyang Tech­ nological University, and Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, a Singa­ porean state-owned property developer with global operations. The multiple points of view that must be reconciled to create successful public spaces are comprehensively represented in conversations with the artists, reflective essays from the curators, and an interview with the Chairman of Mapletree Investments. The commissioned works draw upon regional histories as well as urban politics while the commissioner presents the perspective of the corporation on the role that art can play in public education and social corporate investment. Culture City. Culture Scape. is a much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions, and on community engagement through the arts in urban Asia.

Ute Meta Bauer is a curator of exhibitions and presentations, and the founding director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, School of Art, Design and Media. Sophie Goltz is assistant professor, School of Art, Design and Media, NTU. Khim Ong is an independent curator based in Singapore. DISTRIBUTED FOR THE NTU CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART “The dazzling stature of the artists involved and the sparkling reputations of the editors and artist March 2021

contributors make Culture City. Culture Scape. a must- Paperback • US$24 / S$28 have contribution to this vital discussion.” ISBN: 978-981-14-4377-0 130pp / 240 x 180mm – Lewis Biggs OBE, Chairman, Institute for Public Art 82 colour images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 8 9/2/21 11:23 AM 9 David Elliott

Art & Trousers: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art

Cultural historian David Elliott is a key figure of the international contemporary art world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In his work as a curator and museum director since his groundbreaking exhibitions in the 1980s at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Elliott has contributed to the global conversation on art through biennales and major exhibitions from Stockholm to Shanghai, Kyiv to Sydney, and as the founding director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and the Istanbul Modern. A collection of more than 30 essays, fully illustrated with 356 colour images, Art & Trousers moves deftly between regional analysis, portraits of individual artists, and a metaphorical history of trousers, presenting a panoramic view of modern and contemporary Asian art, and focusing on the various impacts of invention, tradition, exchange, colonization, politics, social development, and gender. Elliott spotlights the practice of many leading global artists of the early 21st century, including Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Rashid Rana, Bharti Kher, Makoto Aida, Chatchai Puipia, and Yeesookyung, among many others. Art & Trousers offers insight into the development of a key curatorial practice for our times, and is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand contemporary art and the way it operates across borders.

David Elliott is a specialist in modern and contemporary Asian art, as well as in the Soviet and Russian avant-garde. He was the founding director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo and Istanbul Modern. He is currently senior curator at the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou, China.

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Hardback • US$56 / S$65 ISBN: 978-0989-688-53-6 368pp / 255 x 192mm 356 colour images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 9 9/2/21 11:23 AM 10 Heather Sutherland

Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600 – c.1906

The eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of their inhabitants are regarded as “people without history”, while colonial borders cut across shared underlying patterns of relations. Yet many of these societies were linked to trans-oceanic trading systems for millennia. Indeed, some of the world’s most prized commo­ dities once came from territories which were either “stateless” or under the tenuous control of loosely structured polities in this region. Trade provides the integrating framework for local and regional histories that cover more than 300 years, from the late 16th century to the beginning of the 20th, when new tech­ nologies and changing markets signaled Western dominance. The Seaways introduction considers theories from the social sciences and economics which can help liberate writers from dependence on states as narrative frameworks. This book will also appeal to those working on wider themes such as global history, state formation, the evolution of markets and anthropology.

Heather Sutherland is a retired professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

“From Mindanao to Timor, Bali to New Guinea, Sutherland finds new linkages and discovers fresh fractures down the centuries. A brilliant re-imagining of March 2021 how people thought and lived, with a dazzling command Paperback • US$46 / S$48 of the sources. The book transforms the way we see the ISBN: 978-981-325-122-9 past of island Southeast Asia.” 560pp / 254 x 178mm 47 b/w images, – Campbell Macknight, Australian National University 23 b/w maps

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 10 9/2/21 11:23 AM 11 François Tainturier

Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma

Drawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship and mapping, Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in emphasis and scale from a protocol that established the royal city as a ‘cosmic city’ to one that materialized the royal capital as a sanctuary. In the process, the founding protocol used Buddhist narratives as models for action and drastically altered patterns of spatial order prevalent at former royal capitals. The book renews scholarly discussion on Southeast Asian urban traditions and offers a critical investigation into the ‘cosmic’ dimensions of one of the region’s centers of power. It provides further insight into how rulers articulated lineage, power, and promotion of Buddhism by creating potent landscapes. The systematic planning of Mandalay and construction of its potent landscape constituted the expression, not formulated in words but in tangible form, of the throne’s claim of Burma as a ‘Buddhist land’ (Buddha-desa) at a time when Lower Burma had been annexed by non-Buddhist believers.

François Tainturier is the Executive Director of the Inya Institute, a Yangon- based higher learning institute dedicated to advancing the social sciences and the humanities as they are related to Myanmar. He specializes in the study and preservation of past built environments and the development of cartography and geographical thought in Southeast Asia.

PUBLISHED WITH “François Tainturier has provided an historically THE SUPPORT OF YALE-NUS COLLEGE grounded, thoroughly original interpretation of AND THE ROYAL the last Burmese royal capital, seeing it not merely ASIATIC SOCIETY as an expression of age-old cosmic symbolism, but as an imaginative response to unprecedented March 2021

psychological and cultural pressures created by Hardback • US$45 / S$48 British encroachment.” ISBN: 978-981-472-277-3 272pp / 235 x 187mm – Victor Lieberman, author of Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in 80 colour images, Global Context, c. 800–1830 5 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 11 9/2/21 11:23 AM 12 Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah editors

Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution

The last 150 years has seen extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia’s cultural heritage. Art objects from the region were distributed to museums and private collections around the world (including to collections in the region). But in the 21st century, power relations are shifting, a new awareness is growing, and new questions are emerging about the representation and ownership of Southeast Asian cultural material. This book is a timely consideration of object restitution and related issues across Southeast Asia, bringing together different viewpoints including from museum professionals and scholars in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia — as well as Europe, North America and Australia. The objects themselves are at the center of most narratives—from Khmer art to the Mandalay regalia (repatriated in 1964), Ban Chiang archaeological material and the paintings of Raden Saleh. Legal, cultural, political and diplomatic issues involved in the restitution process are considered in many of the chapters; others look at the ways object restitution is integral to evolving narratives of national identity. The book’s editors conclude that restitution processes can transform narratives of loss into opportunities for gain in building knowledge and reconstructing relationships across national borders.

Louise Tythacott is the Woon Tai Jee Professor of Asian Art at Northumbria University, United Kingdom. Panggah Ardiyansyah is an MPhil/PhD student of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London. ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA: HINDU-BUDDHIST “Intriguing and thought-provoking angles on the TRADITIONS SERIES history and the process of returning of artefacts to where they belong. It encompasses multiple voices January 2021

and time periods, and captures the meaning of Hardback • US$42 / S$46 object return to local societies.” ISBN: 978-981-325-124-3 320pp / 235 x 185mm – Rasmi Shoocongdej, Silpakorn University 54 colour images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 12 9/2/21 11:23 AM 13 Steve Ferzacca

Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore

Singapore, Rock City. On any given day in the basement of Peninsula Plaza, a shopping mall in central Singapore, Singaporeans of different ethnicities and ages can be found imagining and living a way of life through music. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock-and- roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the legendary 1960s “beats and blues” band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. Grounded in sound studies, Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour’s ideas of the social—continually emergent, constantly in-the- making, “associations of heterogeneous elements” of human and non-human “mediators and intermediaries”—to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean.

Steve Ferzacca is a cultural anthropologist interested in exploring the sonics involved in everyday life. He is associate professor at the University of Lethbridge.

“This is an ethnographic exploration about a Singapore that is sonically exciting, versatile, and even joyful. It is one that travels, that morphs and distorts, that slobbers and barks, that forces you to put your stereotypes about September 2020

the country and its people aside, to sit down and have a Paperback • US$32 / S$36 whisky and listen to some music with it….” ISBN: 978-981-325-108-3 288pp / 229 x 152mm – Jamie Gillen, University of Auckland 48 photographs

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 13 9/2/21 11:23 AM 14 Wang Gungwu with Margaret Wang

Home is Where We Are

Does home have to be a country or a city?…We have been fortunate. We seemed always to have been home.

Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad per­ spectives, has held positions in universities around the world, from London and Cambridge to Kuala Lumpur, Canberra, Hong Kong and Singapore. This second volume of his memoirs, written with his wife Margaret, continues the very personal story begun in Home is Not Here (2018). Wang’s account of his years at the University of Malaya, captures the excitement, the ambition—and the naïveté—of young English-educated elites being prepared for leadership by the departing colonial power. He introduces us to some outstanding personalities of this founding generation of two nations, including young medical student Mahathir Mohamad. We also see these years from Margaret’s perspective, her own fascinating family story, and her impressions of this young bearded poet. The exploration of the emotional and intellectual journey towards the formation of an identity, treasured by readers of Home is Not Here, extends in this volume into an appreciation of love, family life, and the life of the mind. Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on identity and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amidst the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.

Wang Gungwu is emeritus professor at Australian National University and university professor at the National University of Singapore. Margaret Wang was educated at the University of Malaya, Homerton College, Cambridge, and the Australian National University. RIDGE BOOKS “A charming intimate modest autobiography of the childhood and schooling of a great historian of China, September 2020

justly acclaimed in Malaysia, China, England, Australia, Hardback • US$22 / S$24 Hong Kong, Singapore.” ISBN: 978-981-325-132-8 288pp / 229 x 152mm – Ezra Vogel, praise for Home is Not Here 10 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 14 9/2/21 11:23 AM 15 Satya N. Nandan with Kristine E. Dalaker

Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is one of the most successful agreements to govern the global commons. If it is a constitution for the oceans, Satya Nandan is one of the founders: one of the few key personalities behind the agreement, and the subsequent development of the law of the sea in the decades since UNCLOS was adopted. He led the drafting of the key negotiating text, most of which made its way, unaltered, into the Convention’s final text. How did a lawyer from the Pacific nation of Fiji come to play such a pivotal role in this important area of diplomacy and international law? Armed with his trademark pencil, Nandan used his creativity, pragmatism and penchant for language to reach compromise and build consensus at nearly every stage in the making of the modern law of the sea. In this book, he elaborates on the techniques and skills he brought to bear on this task, the alliances he formed with colleagues from different countries and the strategies that worked in this complex, multi-dimensional negotiation. At a time when the stakes involved in managing the global commons could not be higher, Nandan’s experience and wisdom could not be more relevant and important.

Satya N. Nandan was a Fijian diplomat and lawyer who specialised in the law of the sea. He served three consecutive terms as the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority. Kristine E. Dalaker is a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea in Tromsø, Norway, where she focuses on ocean governance issues.

“This is the most important book that has been written on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is an indispensable guide to any student, teacher, lawyer, October 2020

diplomat, judge, who is interested in UNCLOS and the Paperback • US$32 / S$36 making of the modern law of the sea.” ISBN: 978-981-325-137-3 320pp / 229 x 152mm – Ambassador Tommy Koh 14 b/w images

Cat NUSP layouts Jan_Jun 2021_LD final.indd 15 9/2/21 11:23 AM 16 C.M. Turnbull

A History of Modern Singapore, 1819–2005

C.M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice, in 1989 and 2006, it remains irreplaceable, even as new research has widened the vistas with which to understand the island city state, over a longer time-period and in broader contexts. In particular, Turnbull’s History provides a solid foundation for understanding the 200-year trajectory from modern colonial outpost to world city. While many modern studies focus on current affairs or very recent events, with most attention to Singapore’s successful transition from the developing to the developed world, Turnbull’s History sets out the key elements of Singapore’s colonial experience, under the East India Company and the British Crown. It is a past which has come under more scrutiny since Singapore devoted considerable resources to marking the bicentennial of the founding of Singapore in 1819. This new edition presents the standard history in a new and more affordable format for students, teachers and those fascinated by the many stories of changing Singapore.

Constance Mary Turnbull (1927–2008) first came to Asia in 1952 as an administrative officer in the Malayan Civil Service. In 1955 she accepted a position teaching history at the University of Malaya in Singapore where she remained until 1971, having earned a PhD at the University of London in 1962. She then moved to the University of Hong Kong where she became professor of History and head of the Department of History.

August 2020

Paperback • US$20 / S$24 ISBN: 978-981-325-116-8 784pp / 198 x 129mm

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Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia

Established by a collective of scholars and curators with the aim of looking and listening closely to the discursive spaces of art in, from, and around the region we refer to as Southeast Asia, from an historical perspective. The journal presents a necessarily diverse range of perspectives not only on the contemporary and modern art of Southeast Asia, but indeed of the region itself: its borders, its identity, its efficacy, and its limitations as a geographical marker and a conceptual category. As such, the journal is defined by a commitment to the need for and importance of rigorous discussion, of the contemporary and modern art of the domain that lies south of China, east of India, and north of Australia. The journal publishes twice a year (March and October). This journal is open access thanks to the support of the Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme at Yale-NUS College and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives.

Annual Subscription Rates Southeast Asia Elsewhere Individuals Print only (inclusive of postage) US$ 40 US$ 60 Institutions Print only US$ 150 US$ 225

For editorial enquiries, contact the editors at [email protected] For individual or institution subscription enquiries, email us at [email protected] https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/collections/southeastofnow

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China: An International Journal (CIJ)

An internationally refereed journal published for the East Asian Institute, NUS in February, May, August and November by NUS Press. Based outside China, America and Europe, CIJ aims to present diverse international perceptions and frames of reference on contemporary China, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The journal invites the submission of cutting- edge research articles, review articles and policy comments and research notes in the fields of politics, economics, society, geography, law, culture and international relations. The unique final section of this journal offers a chronology and listing of key documents pertaining to developments in relations between China and the 10 ASEAN member-states. CIJ is indexed and abstracted in Social Sciences Citation Index®, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Bibliography of Asian Studies and Econlit. CIJ is also available online in Project Muse (an electronic database for journals in the humanities and social sciences). For more details, visit https://muse.jhu.edu or email muse@muse. jhu.edu.

Annual Subscription Rates Singapore Asean/China Elsewhere Individuals Print only S$ 50 US$ 45 US$ 60 Institutions Print only S$ 100 US$ 85 US$ 100 Online only S$ 100 US$ 85 US$ 100 Print & Online S$ 120 US$ 105 US$ 120

Individual copies may be purchased through https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg For institution subscription enquiries, email us at [email protected] For editorial enquiries, contact the editors at [email protected] https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/collections/cij

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Southeast Asian Site Reports epress.nus.edu.sg/sitereports

The Southeast Asian Site Reports series makes archaeological data available for comparative study to all scholars as well as the active community of students of archaeology and volunteers in the region. Aside from descriptions of the archaeological project, these reports generally include:

• research questions addressed by the project, and analysis of results • site maps and stratigraphic drawings • tables providing quantitative data and statistics on specific types of artifacts • illustrations of the main types of artifacts discovered (photographs and drawings) • laboratory analyses of mineral composition, identification of organic materials, the ancient environment, dating methods and results

Currently available Southeast Asian Site Reports include: • Singapore: Colombo Court Site, 2000 • Singapore: The Singapore Cricket Club Excavation, 2003 • Indonesia: The Dieng Plateau Temple Complex Excavation, 2010 • Indonesia: The Lingga Wreck, 2017 • The Myanmar-Singapore Archaeology Training Project (MSATP), ongoing

Forthcoming in 2021: • Singapore: Fort Canning, 2018–19 • Singapore: St Andrews Cathedral • Singapore: Pulau Saigon • Singapore: Parliament House Complex

Goh Geok Yian is associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University. John N. Miksic is emeritus professor at the National University of Singapore.

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Grow your research collection with NUS Press eBooks

Access to NUS Press eBooks is available to institutions and researchers worldwide via JSTOR and Project Muse. This growing collection covers a variety of subjects such as anthropology, economics, science, literature and sociology, delivering cross- disciplinary research from high profile, international authors. For enquiries, email [email protected] or contact your usual sales repre­ sentative.

New releases

e-Book ISBN: 978-981-325-099-4 e-Book ISBN: 978-981-325-097-0

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Information for Authors

NUS Press (formerly Singapore University Press) originated as the publishing arm of the University of Malaya in Singapore, and between 1949 and 1971 published books under the University of Malaya Press imprint. The Singapore University Press imprint first appeared in 1971. In 2006 Singapore University Press was succeeded by a new NUS Press to reflect the name of its parent institution and to align the Press closer to the university’s overall branding. The Press publishes academic, scholarly and trade books of importance and relevance to Singapore and the region. While the Press has an extensive catalog that includes titles in the fields of medicine, mathematics, science and engineering, the Press is par- ticularly interested in manuscripts that address these subjects:

• Japan and Asia • The Chinese overseas and the Chinese diaspora • The Malay World • Media, cinema and the visual arts • Science, technology and society in Asia • Transnational labour and population issues in Asia • Popular culture in transnational perspectives • Religion in Southeast Asia • Ethnic relations • The city, urbanism and the built form in Southeast Asia • Violence, trauma and memory in Asia • Cultural resources and heritage in Asia • Public health, health policy and history of medicine • The English language in Asia

All books are subject to peer review, and must be approved by the University Publishing Committee, drawn from the NUS faculty. Download our detailed author’s guidelines at https:// nuspress.nus.edu.sg/pages/prospective-authors

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Notes 1 S$ prices are applicable for purchases in Singapore only.

2 All prices and information in this catalogue are current at the time of printing (January 2021) and may be subject to change.

3 Potential authors are invited to download our author guidelines at https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/pages/prospective-authors

Cover illustration: A restored Door God of Wak Hai Cheng Bio. Photo by Lim Shao Bin.

Cat NUS Cover Jan_June 2021_LD final.indd 5 9/2/21 11:23 AM NUS Press National University of Singapore NUS PRESS NEW BOOKS NUS Press publishes books and journals with a regional focus on Southeast Asia and a disciplinary focus on the humanities JANUARY–JUNE 2021 and social sciences. NUS Press is heir to a tradition of academic publishing in Singapore that dates back 64 years, starting with the work of the Publishing Committee of the University of Malaya, beginning in 1954. Singapore University Press was created in 1971 as the publishing division of the University of Singapore. The University of Singapore merged with Nanyang University in 1980 to become the National University of Singapore, and in 2006 Singapore University Press was succeeded by NUS Press, bringing the name of the press in line with the name of the university.

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