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Research in International Studies

Southeast
Asia series
This series of publications on Southeast Asia
is designed to present significant research,
translation, and opinion to area specialists and
to a wide community of persons interested in
world affairs. The editors seek manuscripts of
quality in a wide range of disciplines and work
closely with authors to produce high-quality
books. The series, published in association with
the Center for International Studies at Ohio
University, appears in paperback format and
is distributed worldwide.

Gillian Berchowitz William H. Frederick

Ohio University Press Ohio University
Executive Editor Consultant

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 NEW
Sino–Malay Trade
and Diplomacy
from the Tenth
through the
Fourteenth Century
Derek Heng
“A welcome and important
addition to the literature on
the history of maritime trade
during the first age of global
trade. Using a remarkably
broad array of sources, from
Chinese and Southeast Asian
written accounts through
the archaeological record (of
shipwrecks in particular) to
economic sources which he
skillfully mines, Professor Heng
offers the first comprehensive
history of Sino-Malay trade in
the pre-European period. This
is a notable achievement.”
—John W. Chaffee, author of
Branches of Heaven: A History of
the Imperial Clan of Sung China
No. 121  •  2009  304 pages
978-0-89680-271-1  pb $28  No.108  •  2003  344 pages
Southeast Asia Series
Southeast Asian
Lives
Personal Narratives and
Historical Experience
Edited by Roxana Waterson
These histories are from the period of
European colonialism, through the war-
time occupation by the Japanese,
to the new nation states.
No. 113  •  2007  320 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-250-6  pb $28.95 
Copublished by NUS Press
Winner of the 2008
Harry J. Benda Prize
The Komedie
Stamboel
Popular Theater in Colonial
Indonesia, 1891–1903
Matthew Isaac Cohen
“This book makes an important
contribution to the literature both on
Indonesian theater and on the cultural
history of the Netherlands Indies
around the turn of the twentieth
century. It is meticulously and
thoroughly researched and written
in a clear, fluid, accessible style.”
—Barbara Hatley
No. 112  •  2006  492 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-246-9  pb $30
New Terrains in
Southeast Asian
History
Edited by Abu Talib Ahmad
and Tan Liok Ee
New Terrains in Southeast Asian
History captures the richness and
diversity of historical discourse among
scholars.
No. 107  •  2003  480 pages
978-0-89680-228-5  pb $35
Copublished by NUS Press
Locating Southeast
Asia
Geographies of Knowledge
and Politics of Space
Edited by Paul H. Kratoska,
Remco Raben, and
Henk Schulte Nordholt
“This is a book brimming with impor-
tant topics and new approaches
to students of Southeast Asia to
examine and debate. All of the essays
will be useful in university courses
at the undergraduate and graduate
levels.”—Indonesia
No. 111   •  2005  350 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-242-1  pb $28
Copublished by NUS Press
Power Plays
Wayang Golek Puppet Theater
of West Java
Andrew N. Weintraub
“I know of no other study of
con­temporary performing arts
in Indonesia that goes so deeply
into the politics of meaning within
such a complex genre.”
—R. Anderson Sutton
No. 110  •  2004  320 pages CD-ROM, illus.
978-0-89680-240-7  pb $32
Copublished by ISEAS
Secrets Need Words
Indonesian Poetry,
1966–1998
Edited and translated
by Harry Aveling
“Secrets Need Words provides an
intriguing glimpse into Indonesian
poetry . . . this book succeeds in the
best way possible—it leaves the reader
wanting more.”—Pacific Reader
No. 105   •  2001  328 pages
978-0-89680-216-2  pb $26
En face, English and Indonesian
Islam and the
State in Indonesia
Bahtiar Effendy
“Bahtiar’s narrative and analysis
is lucid, detailed and admirably
balanced. . . . an authoritative
and thoughtful contribution on
Indonesian Islamic politics.
—Inside Indonesia
No. 109  •  2004  250 pages
978-0-89680-238-4  pb $26
Tensions of Empire
Japan and Southeast
Asia in the Colonial and
Postcolonial World
Ken’ichi Goto
Edited with an introduction
by Paul H. Kratoska
“This is an excellent collection of
articles written by Japan’s foremost
historian of Japan’s evolving relations
with Southeast Asia during the 20th
century.”—The Japan Times
978-0-89680-231-5  pb $29.95
Copublished by NUS Press
Surabaya, City
of Work
A Socioeconomic History,
1900–2000
H. W. Dick
“With its explicit emphasis on long-
term trends and the socio-political
context, it is a readable book for
the general student of Indonesia or
urban history. At the same time the
richness of the data presented, and
the sophis­tication of his judgment,
make it a rewarding source for the
specialist.”—Heather Sutherland
No. 106  •  2002  480 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-221-6  pb $30
 Southeast Asia Series
The Memoir of a Chinese-Indonesian
Family in the Twentieth Century
BitterSweet
The Memoir of a Chinese
Indonesian Family
in the Twentieth Century
An Utari Sudibjo
Told by Stuart Pearson
An Sudibjo’s story stretches over the
generations as her family’s fortune
waxed and waned through revolution,
riots, war, depression, occupation,
and finally emigration. It is a valuable
resource for studying Indonesian
history and the Chinese Diaspora.
No. 117  •  2008  352 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-264-3  pb $28
Copublished by NUS Press
Being “Dutch”
in the Indies
A History of Creolisation and
Empire, 1500 –1920
Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben
Translated by Wendie Shaffer
In telling the story of the Creole
empire, the authors draw on govern-
ment archives, newspapers, and
literary works as well as genealogical
studies that follow the fortunes of
individual families over generations.
No. 116  •  2008  288 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-261-2  pb $28 
Copublished by NUS Press
Television, Nation,
and Culture in
Indonesia
Philip Kitley
“This book is much more than the
mere translation of a representative
work: it reveals a too well hidden
culture, its refinement and its depth.”­
—Denise Bernot
No. 104  •  2000  426 pages, illus. 
978-0-89680-212-4  pb $30 
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Burma’s Mass Lay
Meditation
Movement
Buddhism and the Cultural
Construction of Power
Ingrid Jordt
“A subtle, sympathetic, and astute
examination of lay piety in Burma
and its political implications.
Jordt combines an insider’s
comprehension of Buddhist
meditation with a capacity to stand
back and take a wider view. The
result is a book rich in illuminating
insights.”—James Scott
No. 115  •  2007  272 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-255-1  pb $28  pb $24
Indonesian
Exports, Peasant
Agriculture
and the World
Economy, 1850–
2000
Economic Structures in
a Southeast Asian State
Hiroyoshi Kano
Kano identifies key actors and
analyzes long-term changes
in agricultural production
and rural society, examining
how they shaped the national
Indonesian economy.
No. 118  •  2008  442 pages
978-0-89680-268-1  pb $27 
Copublished by NUS Press
NEW
Realizing the Dream Wartime in Burma
of R. A. Kartini A Diary, January
to June 1942
Her Sisters’ Letters from
Colonial Java By Theippan Maung Wa
Edited by L. E. Bagshawe
Edited and translated and Anna Allott
by Joost Coté
Wartime in Burma is a stir-
“Coté presents what is probably the
ring memoir that presents a
last of the Kartini-related letters
personal account of Theippan’s
extant . . . a precious and unique
feelings about the war, his anx-
resource. The translations are first-
iety for the safety of his family,
class, and the person who probably
the bombing of Rangoon, and
knows more about Kartini and her
what happened to them dur-
family than anyone else in the world
ing the next six chaotic months
has edited them.”—William H. of the British retreat.
Frederick
No. 120  •  2009  240 pages
No. 114  •  2008  304 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-270-4
978-0-89680-253-7  $28 
 
Copublished by NKITLV
Silenced Voices
Uncovering a Family’s
Colonial History
in Indonesia
Inez Hollander
Hollander’s story comes to
grips with her family’s past by
weaving together personal
records with historical and
literary accounts of the period.
No. 119  •  2008  312 pages
978-0-89680-269-8  pb $28 
 Also in the series
Forthcoming
Not Out of Hate Imagining Indonesia
A Novel of Burma Cultural Politics and Political Culture
Ma Ma Lay Jim Schiller and Barbara Martin-Schiller
Translated by Margaret Aung-Thwin No. 97  •  1997  384 pages
Edited by William H. Frederick 978-0-89680-190-5  pb $34
No. 88  •  1991  260 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-167-7   pb $22 Text/Politics in Island
Southeast Asia
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Essays in Interpretation
Twentieth Century Life in the
East Indies and Abroad Edited by D. M. E. Roskies
Marguérite Schenkhuizen No. 91  •  1993  330 pages
978-0-89680-175-2  pb $30
Edited by Lizelot Stout van Balgooy
No. 92  •  1994  248 pages, illus.
978-0-89680-178-3   pb $32 Military Ascendancy and
Political Culture
Theater and Martial Arts A Study of Indonesia’s Golkar
in West Sumatra Leo Suryadinata
The Return of the Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau No. 85  •  1989  235 pages
Galon King Kirstin Pauka 978-0-89680-154-7  pb $24

History, Law, and Rebellion No. 103  •  1998  288 pages, illus.
in Colonial Burma 978-0-89680-205-6   pb $28 From Jail to Jail
Tan Malaka
Maitrii Aung–Thwin Myth and History in the Translated by Helen Jarvis
“An important contribution to Historiography of Early Burma No. 83  •  1991  (3 vol.) 1209 pages
Myanmar studies, historiography, and 978-0-89680-150-9  pb $60
Paradigms, Primary Sources,
social science methodology.” —Robert and Prejudices
H. Taylor, author of The State in Burma
Michael A. Aung-Thwin
History of the Malay
and Burma: Political Economy under No. 102  •  1998  210 pages Kingdom of Patani
Military Rule 978-0-89680-201-8   pb $28 Ibrahim Syukri
No. 124  •  2010   216 pages Copublished by ISEAS Translated by Conner Bailey and John N. Miksic
978-0-89680-276-6  pb $28 No. 68  •  1985  135 pages
Japanese Empire in the Tropics 978-0-89680-123-3  pb $18
Selected Documents and Reports
of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, The Red Earth
Northwest Borneo, 1941–1945 A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on
Forthcoming Edited and introduced
by Ooi Keat Gin
a Colonial Rubber Plantation
Binh Tu Tran
No. 101  •  1998  (2 vols.) 600 pages
Edited by David G. Marr
Resistance on the 978-0-89680-199-8   pb $55
Translated by John Spagens, Jr.
National Stage Language, Power, and Ideology
No. 66  •  1985  102 pages
978-0-89680-119-6  pb $11
Theater and Politics in Late in Brunei Darussalam
New Order Indonesia Geoffrey C. Gunn
No. 99  •  1996  334 pages Of related interest
Michael H. Bodden 978-0-89680-192-9   pb $26
“The scholarship of the manuscript
A Comprehensive
is impressive, and the research Eight Prison Camps Indonesian-English Dictionary
thorough, painstaking and up SECOND EDITION
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
to date. Its original contribution
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lies in the detailed, perceptive
No. 98  •  1996  219 pages, illus. “This major new dictionary is the most modern and
discussion of theatre activities
978-0-89680-191-2  pb $26
and performances, linked with inclusive Indonesian-English dictionary available.”
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