South-East Asian history

Cambridge Celebrates the National Day of Singapore

Singapore celebrates 52 years of independence. To mark the occasion, we are offering free access to journal articles and book chapters as well as a 20% discount on our latest titles on South-East Asia!

20% discount on recent titles

Simply click here, or on the images below, to buy the following books at a 20% discount.

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Chapter
1 - The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: Global Origins in a Global War
Heather Streets-Salter, Northeastern University, Boston
Book: World War One in Southeast Asia

Chapter
4 - Malaysia: Religion, Ethno-Nationalism, and Turf-Guarding
Joseph Chinyong Liow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Book: Religion and Nationalism in Southeast Asia

Chapter
1 - The Technocrats
from Part I - The Colonial State
Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge
Book: Taming Babel

Chapter
2 - The colonial legacy
Anne Booth, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Book: Economic Change in Modern Indonesia

Chapter
1 - Understanding political change in Southeast Asia
Jacques Bertrand, University of Toronto
Book: Political Change in Southeast Asia

Chapter
2 - Understanding Southeast Asian nationalisms
Anthony Reid, National University of Singapore
Book: Imperial Alchemy

Southeast Asia from our journals

Article
Who is a Brahmin in Singapore?
ASHVIN PARAMESWARAN, RODNEY SEBASTIAN
Modern Asian Studies, Volume 41, Issue 2

Article
Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground *
TIM HARPER
Modern Asian Studies, Volume 47, Issue 6

Article
Democracy with Asian Characteristics
Mark R. Thompson
The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 74, Issue 4

Article
The 1959 Singapore General Election *
Ong Chit Chung
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1

The National Day of Singapore

Cambridge Celebrates the National Day of Singapore

20% discount on recent titles

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1 - The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: Global Origins in a Global War

4 - Malaysia: Religion, Ethno-Nationalism, and Turf-Guarding

Introduction: Seeing through the City

1 - The Technocrats

2 - The colonial legacy

Chapter 1 - Our colonial soil

1 - Understanding political change in Southeast Asia

2 - Understanding Southeast Asian nationalisms

Southeast Asia from our journals

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SINGAPORE, HONG KONG AND THE END OF EMPIRE

Who is a Brahmin in Singapore?

Singapore, 1915, and the Birth of the Asian Underground *

Overseas Chinese Nationalism in Singapore and Malaya 1877–1912

Manufacturing Authenticity: The Cultural Production of National Identities in Singapore

Subcommunal Participation and Leadership Cohesiveness of the Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Singapore

Nation, Race, and Language: Discussing transnational identities in colonial Singapore, circa 1930

Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore

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Rigidity of System Boundary among Major Chinese Dialect Groups in Nineteenth-Century Singapore: A Study of Inscription Data

Urban Chinese Social Organization: Some Unexplored Aspects in Huiguan Development in Singapore, 1900–1941

Weakening Ties with the Ancestral Homeland in China: The Case Studies of Contemporary Singapore and Malaysian Chinese

Class Structure and Social Mobility in the Chinese Community in Singapore and Malaya 1800–1911

Chinese Politics in Malaya *

Re-engaging Chineseness: Political, Economic and Cultural Imperatives of Nation-building in Singapore

Malaya including Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo

The Malayo-Muslim World of Singapore at the Close of the Nineteenth Century

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The Relationship between Chinese Law and Common Law in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong

Democracy with Asian Characteristics

The 1959 Singapore General Election *

Australia, the ‘Marshall experiment’ and the decolonisation of Singapore, 1955–56

Singapore: Its Growth as an Entrepot Port, 1819–1941 *

Singapore's Struggle For Nationhood 1945–1959 *

Between History and Heritage: Post-Colonialism, Globalisation, and the Remaking of Malacca, Penang, and Singapore

Complementary Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Everyday Politics of Constituency Service in Singapore