Buku ini membahas tentang Asia Tenggara dari perspektif arkeologi. Pemahaman dan wawasan yang luas tentang akar peradaban Nusantara dan menghubungkannya dengan kebudayaan Austronesia serta konsep Devaraja di Asia Tenggara dalam masa Hindu-Buddha yang menjadi pemahaman awal tentang peradaban Asia Tenggara. Negara-negara di Asia Tenggara, seperti Thailand, Vietnam, Kamboja, Myanmar, Laos, Indones…
The third edition of Re Orient: Change in Asian Societies provides up-to-date information on the important issues and trends in this dynamic region. It analyses them without resorting to oversimplifications or stereotypes, doing justice to the rich variety of the cultural traditions and historical experience within the region. The discussion is clear, direct and free of jargon, and all subjects…
Islamic renewal and reformism is an ongoing process which is commonly thought to have started only in the twentieth century. Professor Azra's meticulous study, using sources from the Middle East itself, shows how scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were reconstructing the intellectual and socio-moral foundation of Muslim societies.
About 80 per cent of the ethnic Chinese outside China also known as the Chinese overseas live in Southeast Asia. This book examines that community in the context of both national and international dimensions. It first discusses the ethnic Chinese and China, addressing the issues of migration, nationality, business success and ethnic conflict; second, Chinese cultural adaptation and various iden…
The contents of this book: 1. Introduction: Definition, Innovation, and History 2. Language and Ethnicity: The Mon in Burma and Thailand 3. Thailand and the Tai: Versions of Ethnic Identity
Arab immigrants to Southeast Asia and their descendants have not received much attention in comparison with immigrants from other parts of the world such as the Chinese, Indians and Europeans. Numerically the Arabs as they are called up till now, have always paled into insignificance besides other foreign minorities, in particular in the colonial period. Even today their presence is hardly noti…
The interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and chinese communities in Asia and across the globe. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cutural and religious 'other', the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical bussiness networks and the operational machanisms unique to these communities. This volume explores mateia…
This book looks at the Rohingya in the South Asian region, primarily India and Bangladesh. It explores the broader picture of the historical and political dimensions of the Rohingya crisis, and examines subjects of statelessness, human rights and humanitarian protection of these victims of forced migration. Further, it chronicles the actual process of emergence of a stateless community, the tra…
For anyone interested in understanding the rich networks that operate across Asia—from India to Indochina and the ASEAN states that the greater China trio of the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and finally the North Asian powerhouse of Japan and Korea.
September 11 and Political Freedom: Asian Perspectives focuses on political developments in the region following 9/11. In this new volume, arising from a conference of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats on globalisation, thinkers and observers of the region review the impact of 9/11on the development of democracy and freedom in Asia Collecuvely, these 11 essays reflect the after-shocks…