History / History by country / Asia / Southeast Asia

New Girl Law: Drafting a Future for Cambodia

by Anne Elizabeth Moore

The engrossing report on young Cambodian women’s struggles for human rights and media justice continues in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Cambodian Grrrl. This account explains how, in an attempt...

Healing Cambodia One Child at a Time: The Story of Krousar Thmey, A New Family

by Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon & David Rorke

After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided.  Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits...

Singapore at Random: Facts, figure, quotes and anecdotes on Singapore

by Editions Didier Millet

Singapore at Random, an illustrated collection of Singapore trivia, contains anecdotes, statistics, quotations, diagrams, facts, recipes, advice, folklore and other unusual and often useful tidbits. Compiled...

End of Sukarno:A Coup That Misfired: A Purge That Ran Wild

by John Huges

In the early morning of 1st October 1965, six high-ranking generals of the Indonesian Army were murdered under grisly circumstances.

Jim Thompson:The Unsolved Myst

by William Warren

Jim Thompson was already a legend for the James H.W. Thompson Silk Company that he founded, when he disappeared in the Cameron highlands in Malaysia in 1967.

Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait

by Tan Siok Sun

Dr. Goh Keng Swee?s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore?s ruling political party, and played a significant role in creating and shaping the destiny of Singapore...

Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

by Tim Hannigan

On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java....

Where China Meets India

by Thant Myint-U

Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.

From their very beginnings, China and India have been...

Battle Story: Singapore 1942

by Chris Brown

The Fall of Singapore remains a crushing defeat that sent shockwaves around the British Empire during the Second World War. Singapore had always been seen as an impenetrable fortress that would protect the British...

Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History

by G. William Skinner

A history analyzing the relationship between Thais and Chinese immigrants in Thailand. Published in 1957, it includes a contemporary description of Chinese society in Thailand at a time when China was a newly-emerged...