New Books in Southeast Asian Studies

by Marshall Poe
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Interviews with Scholars of Southeast Asia about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

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  • Geoffrey Wawro, "The Vietnam War: A Military History" (Basic Books, 2024)
    Jun 6, 2025 – 01:12:52
  • Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
    Jun 1, 2025 – 40:54
  • Xing Hang, "The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    May 30, 2025 – 01:05:09
  • Marine Environment Assessment in Palawan, Philippines
    May 24, 2025 – 25:47
  • Selda Altan, "Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    May 21, 2025 – 55:51
  • Gazi Mizanur Rahman, "In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
    May 20, 2025 – 50:53
  • Qingfei Yin, "State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    May 18, 2025 – 47:15
  • Guo Quan Seng, "Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia" (SAPP, 2023)
    May 15, 2025 – 55:53
  • Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)
    May 3, 2025 – 45:26
  • Lian Sinclair, "Undermining Resistance: The Governance of Participation by Multinational Mining Corporations" (Manchester UP, 2024)
    May 1, 2025 – 36:47
  • Talking Thai Politics: Reporting Thai Politics Internationally
    Apr 29, 2025 – 29:53
  • Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, "The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War" (Oxford UP, 2025)
    Apr 27, 2025 – 01:02:22
  • Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
    Apr 22, 2025 – 55:18
  • Farouk Yahya, "Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts" (Brill, 2015)
    Apr 19, 2025 – 32:26
  • Is Democracy and Peace Possible in Myanmar? A Conversation with Claire Smith
    Apr 16, 2025 – 41:11
  • Insects as a Natural and Cultural Resource across Southeast Asia
    Apr 15, 2025 – 32:22
  • Georgina Banks, "Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre" (Viking Australia, 2023)
    Apr 14, 2025 – 49:22
  • Studying Myanmar in Times of Crises
    Apr 11, 2025 – 27:56
  • Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
    Apr 7, 2025 – 01:09:04
  • Tana Li, "A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Apr 1, 2025 – 46:23
  • Syaifudin Zuhri, "Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition" (Leiden UP, 2022)
    Mar 28, 2025 – 01:10:48
  • Sustainable Teamwork and Team Leadership in Southeast Asia
    Mar 13, 2025 – 26:05
  • Andrew G. Walder, "Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery" (Stanford UP, 2023)
    Mar 9, 2025 – 01:25:41
  • Ian G. Baird, "Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Nation-States in Mainland Southeast Asia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
    Mar 1, 2025 – 45:49
  • Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024)
    Feb 27, 2025 – 43:27
  • David R. Saunders, "Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965" (Cornell UP, 2024)
    Feb 25, 2025 – 01:06:59
  • Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024)
    Feb 16, 2025 – 56:46
  • Bertil Lintner, "The Golden Land Ablaze: Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Feb 13, 2025 – 48:14
  • Agricultural and Resource Economics in Vietnam
    Feb 13, 2025 – 23:25
  • Magic, Death, and Necromancy with Justin McDaniel
    Feb 5, 2025 – 58:39
  • Talking Thai Politics: Chanintorn Pensute, The Cost of Politics in Thailand
    Jan 27, 2025 – 31:28
  • Book Chat: The Life Story of Father Nguyễn, a Vietnamese Refugee Who Migrated to Taiwan, with Lin Shu-fen
    Jan 26, 2025 – 36:45
  • Katharine E. McGregor, "Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
    Jan 19, 2025 – 48:53
  • Adrian de Leon, "Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America" (UNC Press, 2023)
    Jan 11, 2025 – 01:15:36
  • Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2019)
    Jan 1, 2025 – 01:11:30
  • China and the Indo-Pacific: Policies and Global Implications
    Dec 27, 2024 – 29:49
  • Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
    Dec 26, 2024 – 55:31
  • Enze Han, "The Ripple Effect: China's Complex Presence in Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Dec 26, 2024 – 27:33
  • Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    Dec 21, 2024 – 01:01:48
  • Kevin D. Pham, "The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Dec 21, 2024 – 01:11:01
  • Threats to Academic Freedom in Thailand
    Dec 20, 2024 – 17:16
  • Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024)
    Dec 19, 2024 – 01:07:20
  • Mattias Fibiger, "Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    Dec 17, 2024 – 51:40
  • Investing in Southeast Asia: Key insights for Australian Researchers
    Dec 13, 2024 – 30:00
  • Herald van der Linde, "Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire" (Monsoon Books, 2024)
    Dec 12, 2024 – 47:39
  • Pankaj Jain, "Visual Anthropology of Indian Films: Religious Communities and Cultural Traditions in Bollywood and Beyond" (Routledge, 2024)
    Dec 12, 2024 – 28:04
  • Talking Thai Politics: Pornchai Witayalerdpan – What’s Up with the Thai Senate?
    Dec 6, 2024 – 31:18
  • Theara Thun, "Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
    Dec 2, 2024 – 48:03
  • How Are Southeast Asia’s Toxic Alliances Undermining the Region’s Prospects for Democracy?
    Nov 29, 2024 – 42:27
  • Alice Rudge, "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
    Nov 25, 2024 – 01:13:46
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