Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the
emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the …

A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast
Asia Today, Southeast Asia stands uniquely exposed to the waxing power of the new China …

The title of this book pays tribute to Max Weber and suggests that what is being attempted
lies in the shadow of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. That is so, and …

Anyone who deals with people from different cultures needs intercultural communication
skills whether they are in the workplace, on a business trip overseas, dealing with foreign …

The conventional interpretation of the “race problem” in Peninsular Malaysia (Malaya) is
founded upon the supposedly inevitable frictions between ethnic communities with sharply …

Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was …

Since independence in 1965 Singapore has strengthened its own national identity through a
conscious process of nation-building and promoting the active role of the citizen within …

Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, a distinct form of Islamic thought and practice
developed among Muslim trading communities of the Indian Ocean. Sebastian R. Prange …

During a visit to Beruas, a small village-town in West Malaysia in 2005, I was alarmed by the
fact that more and more grandmothers were speaking to their grandchildren in bad …

While deepening our understanding of Southeast Asia, this fine introduction reminds us of
the importance of history itself.'-Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History …