From Jail to Jail
By Tan Malaka
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Translation by Helen Jarvis
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Introduction by Harry A. Poeze
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political thinker of twentieth-century Asia, who was one of the most influential figures of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence.
Biography, Activists · Political Science, Asia · Asian History · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
From Jail to Jail
By Tan Malaka
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Translation by Helen Jarvis
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Introduction by Harry A. Poeze
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political thinker of twentieth-century Asia, who was one of the most influential figures of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence.
Biography, Activists · Political Science, Asia · Asian History · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
Not Out of Hate
A Novel of Burma
By Ma Ma Lay
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Edited by William H. Frederick
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Translation by Margaret Aung-Thwin
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Introduction by Anna Allott
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Afterword by Robert E. Vore
Ma Ma Lay’s 1955 novel of the marriage between a rural teenager to a powerful Anglophile twenty years her senior, set in prewar Burma, is an engaging drama, finely observed work of social realism, and stirring rejection of Western cultural dominance by Burma’s foremost female author and one of its preeminent voices for change.
Fiction · Asian Literature · Burma · Southeast Asian Studies · Literature
From Jail to Jail
By Tan Malaka
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Translation by Helen Jarvis
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Introduction by Helen Jarvis
From Jail to Jail is the political autobiography of Sutan Ibrahim gelar Tan Malaka, an enigmatic and colorful political thinker of twentieth-century Asia, who was one of the most influential figures of the Indonesian Revolution. Variously labeled a communist, Trotskyite, and nationalist, Tan Malaka managed to run afoul of nearly every political group and faction involved in the Indonesian struggle for independence.
Asian History · Biography, Activists · World and Comparative History · Political Science, Asia · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
Passionate Revolutions
The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime
By Talitha Espiritu
Passionate Revolutions examines the role of political emotions and media in the rise and fall of the Marcos regime. Focusing on the sentimental stories and melodramatic cultural politics of the press and cinema, Espiritu discusses how aesthetics helped secure the dictator’s control and fuel the popular struggles that led to his overthrow.
Media Studies · Colonialism and Decolonization · Southeast Asian Studies · Media History · Philippines
Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy
A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946
By Fred Lanzing
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Translation by Marjolijn de Jager
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Introduction by William H. Frederick
In this lyrical but controversial memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists during World War II, Lanzing enlivens ongoing discussions of the politics of memory and the powerful—if contentious—contributions that subjective accounts make to historiography and the legacies of the past.
Memoir · World War II · Southeast Asian History · History | Modern | 20th Century · Southeastern Asia · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
Women in the Shadows
Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali
By Jennifer Goodlander
Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and perform in this traditionally male role, an innovation that has triggered resistance and controversy.In
Women’s Studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Bali · Southeast Asian Studies
Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
By Susan F. Quimpo and Nathan Gilbert Quimpo
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Foreword by Vicente L. Rafael
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters that comprise a family saga of revolution, persistence, and, ultimately, vindication, even as easy resolution eluded their struggles.Subversive
Gongs and Pop Songs
Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia
By Jennifer A. Fraser
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition from Sumatra called talempong, long associated with people who identify themselves as Minangkabau.Grounded
Ethnomusicology · Anthropology · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
The Red Earth
A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
By Binh Tu Tran
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Edited by David G. Marr
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Translation by John Spragens
Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection between this early experience and later activities of the author becomes clear as we learn that Tran Tu Binh survived imprisonment on Con Son island to help engineer the general uprising in Hanoi in 1945.
Asian History · Memoir · World and Comparative History · Vietnam · Asian Studies · Southeast Asian Studies
A Comprehensive Indonesian–English Dictionary
Edited by Alan M. Stevens and A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings
This second edition of A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary brings the highly successful first edition up to date with hundreds of new entries in business, law, and finance, as well as specialized terminology in the fields of technology, engineering, mining, and construction.Based
Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement
Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power
By Ingrid Jordt
Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country.Drawing
Social Science | Sociology of Religion · Religion | Religion, Politics & State · Buddhism · Human Rights · Southeastern Asia · Burma · Southeast Asian Studies · Asian Studies
Television, Nation, and Culture in Indonesia
By Philip Kitley
The culture of television in Indonesia began with its establishment in 1962 as a public broadcasting service. From that time, through the deregulation of television broadcasting in 1990 and the establishment of commercial channels, television can be understood, Philip Kitley argues, as a part of the New Order’s national culture project, designed to legitimate an idealized Indonesian national cultural identity.
History · History | Modern | 20th Century · Political Science · Media Studies · Television - History and Criticism · Asian History · Sociology · Asia · Southeastern Asia · Indonesia · Asian Studies · Southeast Asian Studies
Land for the People
The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia
Edited by Anton Lucas and Carol Warren
Half of Indonesia’s massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable returns for peasant farmers. But fifty years later, the law’s objectives of social justice have not been achieved.Land
Southeast Asian History · Agricultural and Food Policy · Indonesia · Southeastern Asia · Asia · Southeast Asian Studies · Asian Studies
Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java
A Tale of Two Villages
By Ann R. Tickamyer and Siti Kusujiarti
Women’s status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture. In some ways, women have high status and broad access to resources, but other situations suggest that Javanese women lack real power and autonomy. Javanese women have major responsibilities in supporting their families and controlling household finances. They may also own and manage their own property.
Gender Studies · Sociology · Women’s Studies · Java · Indonesia · Southeast Asian Studies
