Singapore. NUS Press, 2019. xi + 335pp, index, paperback. Anthropology is a flourishing discipline in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian Anthropologies renders visible the development of national traditions and transnational practices of anthropology across the region. The authors are practising anthropologists and Southeast Asian scholars with decades of experience working in... More about Southeast Asian Anthropologies. National Traditions and Transnational Practices

London. Edward Arnold. 1909. Colour folding map, 41 black and white photographic plates of which 7 are photogravures, xix + 331 + [1]pp, appendices, index. Bookplate of Sir Edward Every, Bart laid down front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing and browning. Original cloth gilt stained at head of spine and... More about Sikhim & Bhutan. Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908

[Ishibashi Umekichi]*. 石橋梅吉, Showa 7 [5th December,1932]. Folding print featuring 30 coloured squares which tell the story of the famous peasant leader Sakura Sogoro (1605-1653, also known as Kiuchi Sogo), about whom many semi-historical legends abound. 39 x 53cm. Few tiny tears at margins, some small holes at folds, tape... More about 日本義民之鑑. [Nihon gimin no kan]. [A Public-Spirited Japanese

Singapore. NUS Press. 2012. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, x + 275 pages, index, notes, paperback. Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, 'only told what Reggie wanted you to know.' Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking with apparent openness and using that talk as... More about Playing for Malaya. A Eurasian Family in the Pacific War

Singapore. NUS Press. Colour photographic illustrations, ix + 243 pages, index, paperback. Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to modify traditional... More about Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Singapore. NUS Press. 2010. Maps, black and white and colour photographic illustrations, xvii + 259pp, glossary, bibliography, index, paperback. This is an account of the religious movement De Jiao, which emerged in China as "A Society for the Recitation of Sutra" during Japanese Occupation of the country in the 1930s... More about De Jiao : A Religious movement In Contemporary China And Overseas: Purple Qi From The East

Singapore. NUS Press. 2009. Maps, black and white illustrations, xvi + 317pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, paperback. In what is today Malaysia, the British established George Town on Penang Island in 1786, and encouraged Chinese merchants and labourers to migrate to this vibrant trading port. In the multicultural urban settlement... More about Penang. Rites of Belonging in a Malaysian Chinese Community

Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2nd ed. 1970. Second Edition. xvi + 894pp, biblio, index, dustjacket, very good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 1327). More about Bibliography of Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator

British Museum Publications. (c. 1979). Many black and white and colour and black and white illustrations, x + 150pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Spine faded.28 x 22.5cm. "This book examines and illustrates every kind of floral art except for oil painting. it shows that there have... More about Flowers in Art from East and West

Adelaide: Research Center for Southeast Asia Ceramics. 1987. Black and white maps, black and white photographic illustrations, 41pp, index, bibliography, paperback. Cover is a little browned, otherwise good condition. 28.5 x 21.5cm. A paper from the Research Centre for Southeast Asian Ceramics. Paper 3. Lists over 100 sites for ceramic... More about Ceramic Excavation Sites in Southeast Asia. A Preliminary Gazetter

No place of publication. No details of publisher. (circa 1966-1976). Pocket size Chinese Cultural Revolution red cloth bag in red. One side of the bag depicts four people inspired by the spirit of the "Foolish Old Man" determinedly pushing an enormous rock. A propaganda slogan printed on reverse is a.... More about 愚公移山. [Yu gong yi shan]. [Chinese Cultural Revolution Little Red Bag - Foolish Old Man...

北京. [Beijing]. 中國青年出版社.[Zhongguo qing nian chu ban she]. 1953. 1st Edition, 2nd Printing. 85pp, wrappers chipped and worn with considerable loss spine, a prior owner's signature title page, in secondhand condition. Text in traditional Chinese. 18.3 x 12.9cm. From the series titled 語文學習叢書 "Chinese Language Study Series", this book is... More about 怎樣寫應用文.[Zen yang xie ying yong wen]. [How to Write Practical Composition

No place of publication. No details of publisher. 1970. 7pp, in red wrappers, few minor tears at extremities, light foxing lower cover, good copy. Text in Chinese. A small Chinese political propaganda booklet commemorating the 49th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. It is a joint... More about 共产党员应是无产阶级先进分子. [Gong chan dang yuan ying shi wu chan jie ji xian jin...