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.
    Home Is Where We Are
Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore
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
Place.Labour.Capital.
Interpreting Southeast Asia’s Past
It’s a Living
Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Interactions with a Violent Past
Industrialization in Late-Developing ASEAN Countries
Indonesian Women and Local Politics
Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA)
Identity and Pleasure
Iranun and Balangingi
Imperial Creatures
An Indonesian Frontier
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
One or Two Words
Of Whales and Dinosaurs
Organising under the Revolution
The Oil Palm Complex
Noon at Five O’Clock
New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
Nature Contained
Nemesis
Networked
Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia
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
Rickshaw Coolie
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
Gathering
The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942
Moral Politics in the Philippines
Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past
A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy
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
Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia
Malaysia’s Original People
Metamorphosis
Marriage Migration in Asia
Mosques and Imams
The Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth
Malaysian "Bail Outs"?
Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge
Jacques de Coutre’s Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625
Kent Ridge
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
The Loss of Java
Love and Dread in Cambodia
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World
Living with Risk
Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development
Latent Images
Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services
Khian Thai
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia
Love, Money and Obligation
Las Vegas in Singapore
the lives & times of hrh
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand
Gambling with the Land
Guns of February
Celluloid Colony
Entangled Landscapes
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
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
The ASEAN Charter
Admiral Matelieff’s Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616
The Aware Saga
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
Aan Thai
Abolitions as a Global Experience
Asianisms
Aristocracy of Armed Talent
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san
Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia
Borneo Transformed
Bali - An Open Fortress, 1995-2005
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission
The British and the Vietnam War
The Business of Politics and Ethnicity
The Blood of the People
Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos
Cosmopolitan Intimacies
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore
Changing Lives in Laos
Cold War and Decolonisation
Churchill and the Lion City
The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap
The Chinese Question
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
China and the Shaping of Indonesia
Changing Landscapes of Singapore
Champa and the Archaeology of M? So’n (Vietnam)
Central Banking as State Building
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands
China’s Footprints in Southeast Asia
Design for a Contemporary World
De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas
From the Blue Windows
Freedom from the Press
Fields of Desire
Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines
Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
Writing the Modern
Money, Power, and Ideology
Malaysian ’Bail Outs’? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
The Singapore River
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea
Studying Singapore Before 1800
Unequal Thailand
Industrialization with a Weak State
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
A New God in the Diaspora?
Not for Circulation
China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368
Boundaries and Beyond
Culture City. Culture Scape.
Of Haunted Spaces
Returning Southeast Asia’s Past
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Jakarta
Infectious Disease Emergencies
The Cham of Vietnam
If We Dream Too Long
Nature’s Colony
Islam, Nationalism and Democracy
Everyday Modernism
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Victorious Wives
US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975
Unearthing Southeast Asia’s Past
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Unsettling Absences
Words in Motion
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
Southeast Asian Anthropologies
Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture
Savu
State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
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
Singapore’s Permanent Territorial Revolution
Sovereignty and the Sea
Southeast Asia-China Interactions
The Singapore River
The Singapore and Melaka Straits
Studying Singapore’s Past
Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution
Wayang and Its Doubles
World War II Singapore
Writing History in America’s Shadow
Southeast Asia After the Cold War
Asian Aesthetics
Unraveling Myanmar’s Transition
Sonic City
A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021
The Sulu Zone
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005
Champions of Buddhism
Liberalism and the Postcolony
Thomas Stamford Raffles
To’ Janggut
Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age
Towards a New Malaysia?
Till The Break of Day
Translating the Body
A Tiger Remembers
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
Life Under the Palms
Contemporary Indonesian Art
Hard at Work
Liberalism Disavowed
Earthenware in Southeast Asia
The End of Innocence?
Banditry in West Java
Fighting for Health
Ethics, Business and Capitalism
Stone Masters
The Paradox of Agrarian Change
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
To Cage the Red Dragon
BitterSweet
Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary
Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800
The Phantom World of Digul
Artists and the People
A New World in the Making
Extreme Beauty
Tales of an Eastern Port
Singapore’s Grand Strategy
Bandung Revisited
The ASEAN Miracle
Islam and Politics in Indonesia
Playing for Malaya
Singaporean Creatures
Stateless
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land
Wayward Distractions
Tiw-Tiwong
Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
World Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts
War and Peace in Asia
A Gentleman of the Law
Making Home
Early Theravadin Cambodia
In the Mirror
The Airport as Urban Territory
Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang
Seaways and Gatekeepers
Ink Studies
Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials
Being Present
Brunei
Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia
Kebalian
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
Writing Singapore
Unsilent Strangers
Colonial Law Making
UNCLOS at 40
Christian Circulations
Melayu
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
The Annotated Malay Archipelago
The Story of Southeast Asia
Vietnam Documented
An Indonesian History
Images of War
Home Is Not Here
Bangkok Transformed
The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia
Reconstructing God
Divine Custody
The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation
Wanderlust
Print Passages
The Economic History of Singapore
Pursuing Morality
Buddhist Landscapes
Waterways of Bangkok
Early Southeast Asia
Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital
Transient Becoming
    Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore
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
Place.Labour.Capital.
Interpreting Southeast Asia’s Past
It’s a Living
Isan Writers, Thai Literature
Interactions with a Violent Past
Industrialization in Late-Developing ASEAN Countries
Indonesian Women and Local Politics
Index of Drinking Water Adequacy (IDWA)
Identity and Pleasure
Iranun and Balangingi
Imperial Creatures
An Indonesian Frontier
Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore
Innovation and China’s Global Emergence
One or Two Words
Of Whales and Dinosaurs
Organising under the Revolution
The Oil Palm Complex
Noon at Five O’Clock
New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
Nature Contained
Nemesis
Networked
Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia
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
Rickshaw Coolie
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
Gathering
The Men Who Lost Singapore, 1938-1942
Moral Politics in the Philippines
Materializing Southeast Asia’s Past
A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy
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
Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific Asia
Malaysia’s Original People
Metamorphosis
Marriage Migration in Asia
Mosques and Imams
The Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth
Malaysian "Bail Outs"?
Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia
Journal, Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge
Jacques de Coutre’s Singapore and Johor 1594-c. 1625
Kent Ridge
The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45
The Loss of Java
Love and Dread in Cambodia
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World
Living with Risk
Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development
Latent Images
Labour Market Segmentation in Malaysian Services
Khian Thai
Questioning Modernity in Indonesia and Malaysia
Love, Money and Obligation
Las Vegas in Singapore
the lives & times of hrh
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Ghosts of the Past in Southern Thailand
Gambling with the Land
Guns of February
Celluloid Colony
Entangled Landscapes
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
Britain, Southeast Asia and the Impact of the Korean War
Building a New Legal Order for the Oceans
The ASEAN Charter
Admiral Matelieff’s Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616
The Aware Saga
Agriculture in the Malaysian Region
Aan Thai
Abolitions as a Global Experience
Asianisms
Aristocracy of Armed Talent
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san
Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia
Borneo Transformed
Bali - An Open Fortress, 1995-2005
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission
The British and the Vietnam War
The Business of Politics and Ethnicity
The Blood of the People
Britain and the Neutralisation of Laos
Cosmopolitan Intimacies
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore
Changing Lives in Laos
Cold War and Decolonisation
Churchill and the Lion City
The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap
The Chinese Question
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
China and the Shaping of Indonesia
Changing Landscapes of Singapore
Champa and the Archaeology of M? So’n (Vietnam)
Central Banking as State Building
Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands
China’s Footprints in Southeast Asia
Design for a Contemporary World
De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas
From the Blue Windows
Freedom from the Press
Fields of Desire
Electoral Dynamics in the Philippines
Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
Writing the Modern
Money, Power, and Ideology
Malaysian ’Bail Outs’? Capital Controls, Restructuring and Recovery
The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre
The Singapore River
Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
Reflections on the Making of the Modern Law of the Sea
Studying Singapore Before 1800
Unequal Thailand
Industrialization with a Weak State
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619
A New God in the Diaspora?
Not for Circulation
China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368
Boundaries and Beyond
Culture City. Culture Scape.
Of Haunted Spaces
Returning Southeast Asia’s Past
Soldiers and Diplomacy in Burma
Jakarta
Infectious Disease Emergencies
The Cham of Vietnam
If We Dream Too Long
Nature’s Colony
Islam, Nationalism and Democracy
Everyday Modernism
Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Victorious Wives
US-Singapore Relations, 1965-1975
Unearthing Southeast Asia’s Past
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis
Upland Transformations in Vietnam
Unsettling Absences
Words in Motion
Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements
War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
Southeast Asian Anthropologies
Southeast Asia’s Modern Architecture
Savu
State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941
Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
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
Singapore’s Permanent Territorial Revolution
Sovereignty and the Sea
Southeast Asia-China Interactions
The Singapore River
The Singapore and Melaka Straits
Studying Singapore’s Past
Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia
Strong Soldiers, Failed Revolution
Wayang and Its Doubles
World War II Singapore
Writing History in America’s Shadow
Southeast Asia After the Cold War
Asian Aesthetics
Unraveling Myanmar’s Transition
Sonic City
A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021
The Sulu Zone
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005
Champions of Buddhism
Liberalism and the Postcolony
Thomas Stamford Raffles
To’ Janggut
Tales of Southeast Asia’s Jazz Age
Towards a New Malaysia?
Till The Break of Day
Translating the Body
A Tiger Remembers
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
Life Under the Palms
Contemporary Indonesian Art
Hard at Work
Liberalism Disavowed
Earthenware in Southeast Asia
The End of Innocence?
Banditry in West Java
Fighting for Health
Ethics, Business and Capitalism
Stone Masters
The Paradox of Agrarian Change
Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma
To Cage the Red Dragon
BitterSweet
Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary
Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800
The Phantom World of Digul
Artists and the People
A New World in the Making
Extreme Beauty
Tales of an Eastern Port
Singapore’s Grand Strategy
Bandung Revisited
The ASEAN Miracle
Islam and Politics in Indonesia
Playing for Malaya
Singaporean Creatures
Stateless
A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land
Wayward Distractions
Tiw-Tiwong
Chinese Epigraphy in Singapore, 1819-1911
Disease and Demography in Colonial Burma
World Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts
War and Peace in Asia
A Gentleman of the Law
Making Home
Early Theravadin Cambodia
In the Mirror
The Airport as Urban Territory
Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang
Seaways and Gatekeepers
Ink Studies
Contemporary Asian Art at Biennials
Being Present
Brunei
Malaysiakini and the Power of Independent Media in Malaysia
Kebalian
The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory
Writing Singapore
Unsilent Strangers
Colonial Law Making
UNCLOS at 40
Christian Circulations
Melayu
Sundanese Print Culture and Modernity in 19th Century West Java
The Annotated Malay Archipelago
The Story of Southeast Asia
Vietnam Documented
An Indonesian History
Images of War
Home Is Not Here
Bangkok Transformed
The Chinese in Maritime Southeast Asia
Reconstructing God
Divine Custody
The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation
Wanderlust
Print Passages
The Economic History of Singapore
Pursuing Morality
Buddhist Landscapes
Waterways of Bangkok
Early Southeast Asia
Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital
Transient Becoming