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  • River Cities in Asia

    Waterways in Urban Development and History

    Edited by Rita Padawangi, Paul Rabé, Adrian Perkasa ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so too have humans impacted the flow and health of rivers. In Asia, the sheer scale of urbanization increases the urgency of addressing challenges ... Read more

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  • George Yeo On Bonsai, Banyan And The Tao

    by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee ...
    Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation with him.The book has a rather unusual title because there are many aspects to George Yeo which ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Singapore Ethnic Mosaic, The: Many Cultures, One People

    by Mathews Mathew ...
    Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and cultures. This volume provides an updated account of the heterogeneity within each of the main communities — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and Others. It also documents the ethnic cultures of these communities by discussing their histories, celebrations, cultural symbols, life ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Asian Tourism: Growth and Change

    Edited by Janet Cochrane ...
    Tourism in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, driven by the increasing wealth of countries like Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia, and by the huge populations of China, India and Indonesia -the first second and fourth biggest countries in the works. Despite the significance of the tourism industry in this area it is still under researched. Asian Tourism is a unique book and the ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • 50 Years Of Indian Community In Singapore

    by Gopinath Pillai, K Kesavapany ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    From Tamils to Malayalees, from Bengalis to Punjabis, the diverse Indian community in Singapore has played a large part in building the country. To understand the Indian community, one must know certain basic facts about them.First is their love for culture which transcends religious and linguistic differences. Some of the best classical Hindustani singers are Muslims. The best Malayalam singer of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Mapping Shangrila

    Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

    by Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism ... Read more

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  • Breaking Barriers

    Portraits of Inspiring Chinese-Indonesian Women

    by Aimee Dawis ...
    As members of a tiny ethnic minority in Indonesia—the world's largest Islamic nation—Chinese-Indonesian women face hurdles of race and gender that others would find insurmountable. In Breaking Barriers, author Aimee Dawis profiles nine highly accomplished women who have overcome these obstacles and thrived. In this book you'll meet:an Olympic gold medalista world-class concert pianista media mogul ... Read more

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  • Places in Knots

    Remoteness and Connectivity in the Himalayas and Beyond

    by Martin Saxer ...
    Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. ... Read more

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  • Fashionable Traditions

    Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion

    by Ayami Nakatani, Monisha Ahmed, Eriko Aoki, Willemijn de Jong, Michele A. Hardy, Miwa Kanetani, Aarti Kawlra, Sachiko Kubota, Chie Miyawaki, Okpyo Moon0, Susan Rodgers1, Seiko Sugimoto2, Ulara Tamura3, Yoko Ueba4 ...
    Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Singapore

    Negotiating State and Society, 1965-2015

    Edited by Jason Lim, Terence Lee ...
    On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural and political challenges in a short period of time. Whilst this was a celebratory event to acknowledge the role of the People’s Action Party (PAP) government, it was also marked by national remembrance as founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Northeast India

    Edited by Jelle J. P. Wouters, Tanka B. Subba ...
    The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Cultural Engineering and the Singaporean State

    by Khun Eng Kuah ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering. It deals with the relationship between the Singaporean state and local agencies and how the latter negotiated with the state to establish an acceptable framework for social cultural engineering to proceed. The book also highlights the tensions and conflicts that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD