NUS Press is the scholarly publishing division of the National University of Singapore. Established in 1971, the Press is heir to a tradition of academic publishing in Singapore that dates back some 60 years. We publish books and journals with a regional focus on Southeast Asia and a disciplinary focus on the humanities and social sciences. We have built a strong, established presence within Southeast Asia research networks across the world. We were the first Asian press to be awarded a Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. We look forward to continuing our mission of publishing in Asia, on Asia, for Asia, and the world.
Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia
Singapore’s Grand Strategy
Stateless
Seaways and Gatekeepers
Singaporean Creatures
The Story of Southeast Asia
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour
Stone Masters
Wayang and Its Doubles
Writing the Modern
World Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts
War and Peace in Asia
Wanderlust
Wayward Distractions
World War II Singapore
Writing History in America’s Shadow
Waterways of Bangkok
Transient Becoming
Tiw-Tiwong
Tales of an Eastern Port
Unraveling Myanmar’s Transition
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975
Unearthing Southeast Asia’s Past
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Unsettling Absences
Unequal Thailand
To Cage the Red Dragon
Those Days in Muramatsu
Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman
Traveling Nation-Makers
Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Malaya
Trade and Society
To Nation by Revolution
Thai South and Malay North
Temiar Religion, 1964-2012
Teaching English to Students from China
Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind
To’ Janggut
Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age
The Spear Will Bend
The Shan Rebellion
Signs and Signals from Vietnam
Towards a New Malaysia?
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Till The Break of Day
Translating the Body
A Tiger Remembers
Writing Singapore
Words in Motion
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
Vietnam Documented
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Victorious Wives
UNCLOS at 40
Unsilent Strangers
Sovereignty and the Sea
Southeast Asia-China Interactions
The Singapore River
The Sulu Zone
The Singapore and Melaka Straits
Studying Singapore’s Past
Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution
State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Sites, Bodies and Stories
Singapore
Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991
Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century
Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300–1800
Southeast Asia in Ruins
Southeast Asian Anthropologies
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
The Singapore River
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
Sonic City
Singapore’s Permanent Territorial Revolution
Southeast Asia After the Cold War
Studying Singapore Before 1800
Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture
Savu
A New World in the Making
Not for Circulation
The Malay Archipelago Through Travellers’ Eyes
Masters of Their Own Destiny
Making Home
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land
Networked
Nature’s Colony
Noon at Five O’Clock
New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
Nature Contained
A New God in the Diaspora?
Nemesis
Of Whales and Dinosaurs
Organising under the Revolution
The Oil Palm Complex
Of Haunted Spaces
One or Two Words
Place.Labour.Capital.
Playing for Malaya
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia
The Philippines and Japan in America’s Shadow
The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929
Promises and Predicaments
Prisms on the Golden Pagoda
Prince of Pirates
Populism in Asia
Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia
Personal Names in Asia
Penang and Its Region
Pedra Branca
Paths Not Taken
Palace, Political Party and Power
Photography in Southeast Asia
Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974
Rickshaw Coolie
Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia
Print Passages
Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia
Rice in Malaya
Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence
Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics
Red Star Over Malaya
Reading Bangkok
Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia
Revolution in the City of Heroes
Malaysian ’Bail Outs’? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery
Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past
A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
The Maritime Boundaries of the Indian Ocean Region
Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia
Modern Thai Buddhism and Buddhadasa Bhikku
Migration Revolution
Merdeka and Much More
Melayu
Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia
Malaysia’s Original People
Metamorphosis
Marriage Migration in Asia
The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942
Moral Politics in the Philippines
Living with Risk
Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development
Latent Images
Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services
Liberalism Disavowed
Love, Money and Obligation
Las Vegas in Singapore
Kebalian
the lives & times of hrh
Life Under the Palms
Liberalism and the Postcolony
The Loss of Java
Love and Dread in Cambodia
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World
The Paradox of Agrarian Change
The Phantom World of Digul
The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948
Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation
Pursuing Morality
Reconstructing God
Returning Southeast Asia’s Past
Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea
Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia
Mosques and Imams
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
Money, Power, and Ideology
The Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth
Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore
Malaysian "Bail Outs"?
Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
Kent Ridge
Khian Thai
Jakarta
Ink Studies
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge
Jacques de Coutre’s Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625
In the Mirror
Colonial Law Making
The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials
Cosmopolitan Intimacies
Celluloid Colony
Christian Circulations
China’s Footprints in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Indonesian Art
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore
Changing Lives in Laos
Cold War and Decolonisation
Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911
Churchill and the Lion City
The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap
The Chinese Question
The Cham of Vietnam
Crossing Borders
Contesting Malayness
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia
Connecting Empires and States
Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia
Clinical Psychology in Singapore
Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941
Culture City. Culture Scape.
Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary
From the Blue Windows
Freedom from the Press
Fields of Desire
Ethics, Business and Capitalism
The Economic History of Singapore
Early Southeast Asia
Extreme Beauty
Everyday Modernism
Earthenware in Southeast Asia
Economic Development of Burma
The Economic Transition in Myanmar after 1988
Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar
An Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century
Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia
Early Theravadin Cambodia
Entangled Landscapes
The End of Innocence?
Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines
Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
Design for a Contemporary World
De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas
Divine Custody
Home Is Not Here
Hard at Work
A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021
Home Is Where We Are
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005
Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand
Hard Choices
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964
A History of Korean Science and Technology
Iranun and Balangingi
An Indonesian History
Infectious Disease Emergencies
If We Dream Too Long
Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
An Indonesian Frontier
Images of War
Islam, Nationalism and Democracy
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang
Imperial Creatures
Interpreting Southeast Asia’s Past
It’s a Living
Islam and Politics in Indonesia
Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Interactions with a Violent Past
Industrialization with a Weak State
Industrialization in Late-Developing ASEAN Countries
Indonesian Women and Local Politics
Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA)
Identity and Pleasure
Fighting for Health
China and the Shaping of Indonesia
China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368
Changing Landscapes of Singapore
Champions of Buddhism
Champa and the Archaeology of M? So’n (Vietnam)
Central Banking as State Building
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands
Boundaries of Repair
Being Present
Bangkok Transformed
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand
Gambling with the Land
Guns of February
A Gentleman of the Law
Gathering
The ASEAN Miracle
The ASEAN Charter
Admiral Matelieff’s Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616
The Annotated Malay Archipelago
The Aware Saga
Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800
Asian Aesthetics
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
Aan Thai
Abolitions as a Global Experience
Asianisms
Artists and the People
Aristocracy of Armed Talent
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san
The Business of Politics and Ethnicity
The Blood of the People
Brunei
Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos
Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia
Borneo Transformed
Bandung Revisited
Banditry in West Java
Bali - An Open Fortress, 1995-2005
Buddhist Landscapes
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission
The British and the Vietnam War
Boundaries and Beyond
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
BitterSweet
Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
The Airport as Urban Territory
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
Politics and Governance in Urban Southeast Asia
Singapore’s Grand Strategy
Stateless
Seaways and Gatekeepers
Singaporean Creatures
The Story of Southeast Asia
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour
Stone Masters
Wayang and Its Doubles
Writing the Modern
World Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts
War and Peace in Asia
Wanderlust
Wayward Distractions
World War II Singapore
Writing History in America’s Shadow
Waterways of Bangkok
Transient Becoming
Tiw-Tiwong
Tales of an Eastern Port
Unraveling Myanmar’s Transition
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975
Unearthing Southeast Asia’s Past
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Unsettling Absences
Unequal Thailand
To Cage the Red Dragon
Those Days in Muramatsu
Tall Tales and MisAdventures of a Young Westernized Oriental Gentleman
Traveling Nation-Makers
Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Malaya
Trade and Society
To Nation by Revolution
Thai South and Malay North
Temiar Religion, 1964-2012
Teaching English to Students from China
Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind
To’ Janggut
Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age
The Spear Will Bend
The Shan Rebellion
Signs and Signals from Vietnam
Towards a New Malaysia?
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Till The Break of Day
Translating the Body
A Tiger Remembers
Writing Singapore
Words in Motion
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
Vietnam Documented
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Victorious Wives
UNCLOS at 40
Unsilent Strangers
Sovereignty and the Sea
Southeast Asia-China Interactions
The Singapore River
The Sulu Zone
The Singapore and Melaka Straits
Studying Singapore’s Past
Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution
State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Sites, Bodies and Stories
Singapore
Singapore, ASEAN and the Cambodian Conflict 1978-1991
Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century
Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300–1800
Southeast Asia in Ruins
Southeast Asian Anthropologies
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
The Singapore River
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
Sonic City
Singapore’s Permanent Territorial Revolution
Southeast Asia After the Cold War
Studying Singapore Before 1800
Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture
Savu
A New World in the Making
Not for Circulation
The Malay Archipelago Through Travellers’ Eyes
Masters of Their Own Destiny
Making Home
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land
Networked
Nature’s Colony
Noon at Five O’Clock
New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
Nature Contained
A New God in the Diaspora?
Nemesis
Of Whales and Dinosaurs
Organising under the Revolution
The Oil Palm Complex
Of Haunted Spaces
One or Two Words
Place.Labour.Capital.
Playing for Malaya
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia
The Philippines and Japan in America’s Shadow
The Peasant Robbers of Kedah, 1900-1929
Promises and Predicaments
Prisms on the Golden Pagoda
Prince of Pirates
Populism in Asia
Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia
Personal Names in Asia
Penang and Its Region
Pedra Branca
Paths Not Taken
Palace, Political Party and Power
Photography in Southeast Asia
Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974
Rickshaw Coolie
Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia
Print Passages
Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia
Rice in Malaya
Rethinking Thailand’s Southern Violence
Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics
Red Star Over Malaya
Reading Bangkok
Racial Science and Human Diversity in Colonial Indonesia
Revolution in the City of Heroes
Malaysian ’Bail Outs’? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery
Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past
A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
The Maritime Boundaries of the Indian Ocean Region
Museums, History and Culture in Malaysia
Modern Thai Buddhism and Buddhadasa Bhikku
Migration Revolution
Merdeka and Much More
Melayu
Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia
Malaysia’s Original People
Metamorphosis
Marriage Migration in Asia
The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942
Moral Politics in the Philippines
Living with Risk
Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development
Latent Images
Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services
Liberalism Disavowed
Love, Money and Obligation
Las Vegas in Singapore
Kebalian
the lives & times of hrh
Life Under the Palms
Liberalism and the Postcolony
The Loss of Java
Love and Dread in Cambodia
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World
The Paradox of Agrarian Change
The Phantom World of Digul
The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948
Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation
Pursuing Morality
Reconstructing God
Returning Southeast Asia’s Past
Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea
Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia
Mosques and Imams
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
Money, Power, and Ideology
The Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth
Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore
Malaysian "Bail Outs"?
Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
Kent Ridge
Khian Thai
Jakarta
Ink Studies
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge
Jacques de Coutre’s Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625
In the Mirror
Colonial Law Making
The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials
Cosmopolitan Intimacies
Celluloid Colony
Christian Circulations
China’s Footprints in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Indonesian Art
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore
Changing Lives in Laos
Cold War and Decolonisation
Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911
Churchill and the Lion City
The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap
The Chinese Question
The Cham of Vietnam
Crossing Borders
Contesting Malayness
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia
Connecting Empires and States
Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia
Clinical Psychology in Singapore
Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941
Culture City. Culture Scape.
Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary
From the Blue Windows
Freedom from the Press
Fields of Desire
Ethics, Business and Capitalism
The Economic History of Singapore
Early Southeast Asia
Extreme Beauty
Everyday Modernism
Earthenware in Southeast Asia
Economic Development of Burma
The Economic Transition in Myanmar after 1988
Economic Disparity in Rural Myanmar
An Economic History of Cambodia in the Twentieth Century
Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia
Early Theravadin Cambodia
Entangled Landscapes
The End of Innocence?
Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines
Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
Design for a Contemporary World
De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas
Divine Custody
Home Is Not Here
Hard at Work
A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021
Home Is Where We Are
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005
Heritage and Identity in Contemporary Thailand
Hard Choices
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964
A History of Korean Science and Technology
Iranun and Balangingi
An Indonesian History
Infectious Disease Emergencies
If We Dream Too Long
Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
An Indonesian Frontier
Images of War
Islam, Nationalism and Democracy
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang
Imperial Creatures
Interpreting Southeast Asia’s Past
It’s a Living
Islam and Politics in Indonesia
Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Interactions with a Violent Past
Industrialization with a Weak State
Industrialization in Late-Developing ASEAN Countries
Indonesian Women and Local Politics
Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA)
Identity and Pleasure
Fighting for Health
China and the Shaping of Indonesia
China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368
Changing Landscapes of Singapore
Champions of Buddhism
Champa and the Archaeology of M? So’n (Vietnam)
Central Banking as State Building
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands
Boundaries of Repair
Being Present
Bangkok Transformed
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand
Gambling with the Land
Guns of February
A Gentleman of the Law
Gathering
The ASEAN Miracle
The ASEAN Charter
Admiral Matelieff’s Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616
The Annotated Malay Archipelago
The Aware Saga
Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800
Asian Aesthetics
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
Aan Thai
Abolitions as a Global Experience
Asianisms
Artists and the People
Aristocracy of Armed Talent
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san
The Business of Politics and Ethnicity
The Blood of the People
Brunei
Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos
Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia
Borneo Transformed
Bandung Revisited
Banditry in West Java
Bali - An Open Fortress, 1995-2005
Buddhist Landscapes
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission
The British and the Vietnam War
Boundaries and Beyond
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
BitterSweet
Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
The Airport as Urban Territory
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
Politics and Governance in Urban Southeast Asia