'Consumption, Cities and States' examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West. It focuses on a number of theoretical and empirical analyses: developing and amplifying the intersection of …
'Consumption, Cities and States' examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West. It focuses on a number of theoretical and empirical analyses: developing and amplifying the intersection of …
'Consumption, Cities and States' examines the fascinating intersection of consumption, citizenship and the state in a cross-section of global cities in Asia and the West. It focuses on a number of theoretical and empirical analyses: developing and amplifying the intersection of …
"This new edition is the most comprehensive field guide to the birds of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, covering all 673 species known to occur in the region. The birds are illustrated in a series of 74 stunning full-colour plates, painted for this book by Alan Pearson, an ar…
This is an in-depth study of a most important but somewhat controversial Hua-ch'iao (overseas Chinese) of the history of twentieth-century China and South-East Asia - Tan Kah-kee (1874-1961). For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is uniq…
Sheila Bruhn (née Allan) was born in Malaysia before the outbreak of WWII. She was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Singapore in 1941, at the age of seventeen, For the next three and a half years she was a prisoner of the Japanese in Changi Prison and Sime Road Camp. This book …
