Publications
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Asianisms
(2015-10-30)
At the core of this book is a seemingly simple question: What is Asia?
the answer involves an investigation of the multifarious discursive and material constructions of Asia within the region and in the West. It ...
Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java
(2012-07-01)
The Javanese - one of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic world - were once mostly 'nominal Muslims' with pious believers a minority and the majority seemingly resistant to Islam's call for greater piety. Over the ...
Translating the Body
(2017)
Western conceptions of the body differ significantly from indigenous knowledge and explanatory frameworks in Asia. As colonial governments assumed responsibility for health care, conceptions of the human body were translated ...
Boundaries and Beyond
(2017)
Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China’s maritime southeast in late Imperial times, these linked essays by a senior scholar challenge the usual readings of Chinese ...
Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese, and Free Trade in the East Indies
(2008)
Grotius produced two classic legal texts, The Law of Price and Booty and its spin-off, The Free Sea, among the greatest works in the history of international legal and political thought. His observations dealt with free ...