Japan-Vietnam : A Relation Under Influences
規格介紹:出版日期:2008/06/01
作者:Laurent Schwab
頁數:無
開數:無
ISBN:9789971693893
出版社:Nus Pr
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▍內容簡介:
Japan, the reigning economic giant of East Asia, and Vietnam, an industrializing socialist country in Southeast Asia with strong links to China, occupy worlds that seem not to intersect. Yet historical connections between the two countries date back at least to the fourteenth century, when a Japanese merchant community flourished in the city of Hoi An.As Guy Faure and Laurent Schwab point out, relations between the two countries have been greatly influenced by outside powers. In the late nineteenth century, confronted by Western colonialism, Vietnamese nationalists took refuge in Japan and sought inspiration from Japan's economic development and resistance to the West. During the Pacific War Japan's imperial army virtually occupied Vietnam, albeit under a treaty agreement with France. And American B52 bombers flew sorties during the Vietnam War from bases in Okinawa, which made Tokyo an enemy in the eyes of Hanoi. However, the new century has brought a growing convergence of interests and the beginnings of a new relationship based on an emerging convergence of interests.
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Goodbye, My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 To 1975
▍內容簡介: Synopsis Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965. Kampong life in Singapore did not end in 1965 with her independence. In Josephine Chia’s new collection of non-fiction stories, the phasing out of attap-thatched villages, the largest mass movement in Singapore, is set against the backdrop of significant national events. Weaving personal tribulations—her teenage angst—and the experiences of villagers from her kampong, Josephine skilfully parallels the hopes and challenges of a toddling nation going through the throes of industrialisation and rapid changes from 1966 to 1975. These delightful, real-life stories, sprinkled with snippets of her Peranakan culture, reveal the joie-de-vivre of gotong royong or community spirit, despite impoverished conditions, in the last days of kampong life. ▍作者簡介: About the author Josephine Chia is proud of her Peranakan heritage. She is internationally published in both adult fiction and non-fiction. Goodbye My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 to 1975 is her tenth book. She is happiest when she is in the dreamtime flow of creative writing. The impoverished years of her life in Kampong Potong Pasir had taught her to be resilient, to share and to find joy in everyday living. Josephine’s love for stories and story-telling developed from her gotong royong community in kampong life and story-telling evenings. Josephine spent half her life in Singapore and half in UK but now lives in Singapore. She currently nurtures aspiring writers and is Creative Writing mentor to students as well as adults on various MOE, NAC and NBDCS programmes. She has won several literary awards, both in UK and Singapore. Her books have been translated into Bahasa Indonesia and Malay. ▍評價: What others say In this loving sequel to her Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955 to 1965, Josephine Chia brings closure to her life in Potong Pasir and to kampong life in Singapore. Her direct, open voice draws us inexorably back to a time when Singapore was still young, and when Phine and her friends had such hopes for themselves and their new nation. Familiar but forgotten faces, places and events are lovingly interwoven into her narrative, transporting us vividly back to the 1960s and 1970s. Superb!—Kevin YL Tan, historian, lawyer and author Reading this book was like spending a weekend in intimate conversation with a good friend. While savouring the pages, I wanted to shout, “hear hear” as Josephine Chia expressed sentiments concerning kampong life, family relationships, technology, politics and inevitable change. As an expat in Singapore, I am truly appreciative of the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of this tiny country’s roots. Many readers will see that their memories strongly align with those of the author—a poignant reminder that borders and oceans have little signifi cance when considering mankind’s commonalities. Thank you, Josephine Chia, for sharing your passion, and for enriching your readers’ levels of historical awareness.—Margaret Johnson (Teacher and librarian from Australian International School)優惠價 500Malay Sketches
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Alfian was the winner of the SPH-NAC Golden Point Award for Poetry and the Singapore Young Artist Award for Literature in 2001. His other publications include Collected Plays One, Collected Plays Two, Cooling-Off Day, the poetry collections One Fierce Hour, A History of Amnesia, and the short story collection Corridor which is in the midst of a second reprint. ▍插圖畫家簡介: About The Illustrator Shahril Nizam Ahmad is a visual artist based in Kuala Lumpur. He majored in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been exhibited in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Yogyakarta and Melbourne and featured in KLue, August Man and Esquire Malaysia. He has designed several book covers and illustrated for Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things Vol. 1 by Amir Muhammad, Heart & Soul by Bibsy Soenharjo and Malaysian & German Folk Tales and Legends. He periodically dabbles in poetry and has published a book of poems and illustrations titled If Only. Two of his poems from the aforementioned collection were translated into German and included in Tautan, an anthology of Malaysian and German poetry. ▍評價: Reviews “Malay Sketches is a refreshingly honest and insightful depiction of the less savoury realities of life in Singapore, an ostensibly multiracial and meritocratic city-state uncomfortable with its historical Malay core. The stories serve as a stark reminder of a complex and contradictory society that is at once dynamic and dastardly, progressive and oppressive, glittery and ghoulish.”- Associate Professor Lily Zubaidah Rahim,University of Sydney, author of 'The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community' “Alfian’s vignettes of Singapore Malay life are touching and funny, at once full of pathos and nostalgia. They illuminate a life that once was, and now, inevitably, with ‘progress’, what is. But ultimately they speak of dignity, quiet and undiminished.”- Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, columnist,activist, author of 'In Liberal Doses' “The title is the key. Alfian Sa’at uses the name of a late-nineteenth-century colonialist project to frame a body of vignettes exposing the systematic politicisation of race, the socialisation of the Malays, and the individual Malay’s struggle to preserve a knowledge of community in modern Singapore.Cognitively exacting books – with such fragile themes – come once in a lifetime. Shahril Nizam’s beautiful drawings recognise the fact and rise confidently to meet this challenge. Malay Sketches is an unambiguous trailblazer.”- Gwee Li Sui, literary critic, poet, and graphic artist “Subtle, delicate, elliptical, these elegiac sketches are shot through with yearning and brightness. Alongside modern parables of hantu kumkum, hantu tetek, pontianak and toyol, there are stories of separation and reunion, of love and conversion, of nation, class, childhood, gods, angels, death and prayer. There is humour and pathos but above all a longing for something forgotten, something lost.”- Jo Kukathas, Artistic Director of The Instant Café Theatre “These lingering vignettes, told in Alfian Sa’at’s characteristically poetic cadence, disclose a hidden history unlikely to find space in the panegyrics of a state sanctioned, ascriptive multiculturalism. Alfian records a truer account of an anxious settler community’s efforts to relocate an indigenous people to the margins (and then rebuke their marginalisation). It is the narrative of displaced native peoples the world over.”- Vincent Wijeysingha, lecturer, SIM University "...a provocatively powerful and brutally honest work that speaks about the subject of race..."- Laremy Lee, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore "Although Malay Sketches can be seen as a peephole into the Malay psyche, the stories will be relatable to readers, no matter their country or ethnicity. Stories of love, sadness, betrayal and success and failure make this collection accessible and, most importantly, human.”- Goh Cheng Fai Zach, Cha, Asian Literary Journal "Through his vivid sketches of a spectrum of characters, readers will gain rare insights into the Malay psyche as an ethnic minority in Chinese-dominated Singapore... Like an artist who could capture an evocative scene or a haunting portrait with just a few bold strokes of the pen or pencil, Alfian only needs a handful of words and phrases to make his characters and their dilemmas, leap out of the pages to entertain and more important - to illumine delicate issues.”- Ismail Kassim, former senior correspondent at The Straits Times優惠價 63017A Keong Saik Road: A Personal Story
▍內容簡介: 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung's growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of her mother's journey as a young child put up for sale to becoming the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding her story as the daughter of a brothel operator and witnessing these changes to her family, Charmaine traces the transformation of the Keong Saik area from the 1930s to the present, and through writing, finds reconciliation. A beautiful dedication to the past, to memory, and to the people who have gone before us, 17A Keong Saik Road tells the rich stories of the Ma Je, the Pei Pa Zai, and the Dai Gu Liong-marginalised, forgotten women of the past, who despite their difficulties, persevered in working towards the hope of a better future.優惠價 465Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World
▍內容簡介: The first English-language monograph centering on late twentieth- and early twenty-first century Sinophone Southeast Asian literature, and in particular that of Singapore and Malaysia, E. K. Tan’s interdisciplinary Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World makes important contributions to Sinophone studies, Chinese studies, and Southeast Asian Studies, as well as to scholarship on diaspora, comparative literature, and world literature. Well-written and researched, Tan’s volume focuses on the relationship among the Nanyang Chinese, their original homelands of Borneo, Malaysia, and Singapore, and their imaginary homeland of China, through the writings of Kuo Pao Kun (郭宝崑), Chang Kuei-hsing (张贵兴), and Vyvyane Loh (罗惠贤), all of whom have been neglected in English-language scholarship. Of particular concern to Tan is how, by destabilizing notions of “Chineseness,” these writers have “endeavored to reclaim a sense of belonging to the homeland” (3). Rethinking Chineseness centers on the themes of loss and displacement, discussing how and why “Chineseness as an identity category is repeatedly reconstructed in the works of Nanyang Chinese as a way to suggest broader implications of Sinophone cultures in the age of globalization” (3). Tan demonstrates how Nanyang Chinese writers use narrative to evaluate their complex and multifaceted identities.優惠價 3400Chinese Indonesians in Post-Suharto Indonesia:Democratisation and Ethnic Minorities
▍內容簡介: Selfish, obscenely rich, insular, and opportunistic: these remain how Chinese minorities in Indonesia are perceived by the indigenous population. However, far from being passive victims of discrimination and marginalisation, Chong presents a forceful case in which Chinese Indonesians possess the agency to shape their future in the country, particularly in the changing political, business, and socio-cultural environment after the fall of Suharto. While a lack of good governance that promotes the rule of law and accountability allows or even encourages some Chinese to maintain the status quo by perpetuating corrupt business practices inherited from Suharto’s New Order regime, there are other Chinese Indonesians who make full use of the democratic space opened up under the new administrations, acting as agents of reform by participating in electoral politics and establishing inter-ethnic socio-cultural organisations. Building on Anthony Giddens’s structure-agency theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and field, Chong shows that the Chinese minorities have played an active role in the democratic process, even though they continue to occupy an ambivalent position in Indonesia. The Chinese Indonesians’ diverse strategies to safeguard their personal interests and cultural identities make a stimulating case study of what an ethnic minority could do to make a difference.優惠價 2032The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace
▍內容簡介: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a miracle. In an era of growing cultural pessimism, there is a pervasive belief that different civilizations cannot function together. Yet the ten countries of ASEAN are a thriving counter-example of coexistence. Here, more than 625 million people live together in peace.In 1967, leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand struck a landmark agreement, forming ASEAN. They had realized that political and economic cooperation would bring greater stability and prosperity to the region. Fifty years and five additional countries later, the alliance has remained one of the world’s most successful collaborations. Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng explain how this partnership has benefited the ten member countries and why it should serve as a model for other regions of the world, challenging our assumptions about international cooperation. As the world turns to Asia and the United States and China jostle for dominance, the ASEAN region will have an undeniably powerful role in shaping our global systems. Mahbubani and Sng offer an important primer for understanding this immensely successful—and woefully underappreciated—regional organization.優惠價 800Singapore, Incomplete: Reflections on a First World nation’s arrested political development
▍內容簡介: Synopsis As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leadersafter the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election triumph, CherianGeorge considers the unfinished business of political liberalisation and multiculturalintegration. Singapore, Incomplete is a collection of personal reflections about thecountry’s underdeveloped political culture and structure. “Ours is a middle-agedcountry with a maturing economy—but a political system that treats us like children,”he argues. George calls for more open “rules of engagement” that will protect andcelebrate a diversity of ideas and beliefs. He critiques Singapore’s culture of fear, thelack of political transparency, and governmental groupthink. This is his first book for ageneral audience since Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (2000).About the AuthorCherian George is professor of media studies at the Hong Kong Baptist UniversitySchool of Communication, where he also serves as the director of the Centre forMedia and Communication Research. He is the author of four other books, the latestof which is Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat toDemocracy (MIT Press, 2016). He received his Ph.D. in Communication fromStanford University. Born and raised in Singapore, he was a journalist with TheStraits Times before switching to academia. He worked at Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity for ten years before moving to Hong Kong in 2014.優惠價 650Singapore,Disrupted
▍內容簡介:Singapore is in a state of disruption. Change is here – disorienting, disturbing,sometimes distressing change. Disruptive technologies are displacing jobs anddislodging workers. Society is showing signs of splintering. The gap between the“best” and the rest is growing. In establishment circles, members are breaking ranks.People are searching, probing, asking: what’s happening?優惠價 700