Southeast Asia Collection Blog

Upon our own ground : Filipino short stories in English, 1956 to 1972 / edited by Gémino H. Abad. Diliman, Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press, c2008.
This title, a two-volume anthology of Filipino short stories published between 1956 and 1972, is a continuation of the late professor Leopoldo Y. Yabes’s three-volume set of [...]

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Localizing and transnationalizing contentious politics : global civil society movements in the Philippines / [edited by] Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2009.
This volume, which grew out of a broader research project undertaken by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, examines the complex relationship between globalism and civil society movements [...]

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The many ways of being Muslim : fiction by Muslim Filipinos / Coeli Barry, editor. Ithaca, NY : Cornell Southeast Asia Program ; Manila : Anvil, c2008.
This volume brings together for the first time the short stories of nine leading Muslim Filipino fictionists. Much of what we know about the modern literature and intellectual life [...]

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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Asia / Kym Anderson and Will Martin, editors. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2009.
Despite all the far-reaching economic and social changes that have taken place in Southeast Asia since the second world war, a large percentage of the region’s workforce is still engaged in agriculture. It is one of those [...]

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Making modern Muslims : the politics of Islamic education in Southeast Asia / edited by Robert W. Hefner. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2009.
Students of Southeast Asia will benefit from this volume in countless ways. Owing in large part to the Bali bombings in Indonesia in 2002, and the 9/11 attacks in the United [...]

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Forgotten captives in Japanese-occupied Asia / edited by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
The wartime Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia has received a good measure of scholarly attention, particularly in the West. Yet many questions remain unanswered. The present volume is an attempt to address some of these questions.
One [...]

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Reyes, Raquel A. G. Love, passion and patriotism: sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892. Singapore: NUS Press ; Seattle: in association with the University of Washington Press, 2008.
Reyes has written an extraordinary account of the private lives of the young and remarkably talented Filipino patriots who first gave shape to a Filipino national identity [...]

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Mojares, Resil B. Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes, and the production of modern knowledge. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006.
A fascinating, groundbreaking work on the making of the modern Philippine intelligentsia.

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