PHILIP GEORGE
Our Man in Tuscany, Malayan-born English Writer, Lawyer, Traveller and Sportsman
ROAD TO MALAYA
THE PLANTATION WITHOUT CHAINS
Malaya, The Caribbean, And the System We Still Live Inside
ERIC HENRY, Guest Editor & Translator
Emeritus Professor, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
VAN NGUYEN, Illustrator
ALL STORIES TRANSLATED BY ERIC HENRY
ILLUSTRATIONS BY VAN NGUYEN
ERIC HENRY
INTRODUCTION
THE NATURE OF THE WORK
Using Magic to Overcome Adversity
BOOK ONE
FOUNDATIONAL LEGENDS
BOOK TWO
HISTORICAL LEGENDS
BOOK THREE
SUPPRESSING MONSTERS AND SPIRITS
BOOK FOUR
HOMEGROWN CONQUERORS, RULERS, AND RESISTANCE LEADERS
BOOK FIVE
BUDDHIST ADEPTS WITH SUPERNATURAL POWERS
BOOK SIX
SAGAS WITH MULTIPLE EPISODES
BOOK SEVEN
SUPERNATURAL MILITARY ASSISTANCE
BOOK EIGHT
ORIGINS OF NAMES AND CUSTOMS
BOOK NINE
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF TEMPLES
REVIEW BY MANASHJYOTI KARJEE
Independent Scholar
Aki Tonami, Asian Foreign Policy in a Changing Arctic: The Diplomacy of Economy and Science at New Frontiers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Nong Hong, China’s Role in the Arctic: Observing and Being Observed. Routledge, 2020.
Chih Yuan Woon and Klaus Dodds (eds.), ‘Observing’ the Arctic: Asia in the Arctic Council and Beyond. Edward Elgar, 2020.
Martin Kossa, The Arctic in China’s National Strategy: Science, Security, and Governance. Routledge, 2024.
WATCHING THE FAR NORTH
Economy, Science, Strategy, And the Politics Of “Observation” In Asian Arctic Engagement
REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM
Logdrum Foundation
Ashley Thompson, ed., Early Theravadin Cambodia: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology. National University of Singapore Press, 2022.
THE ART OF BUDDHISM IN THE KHMER EMPIRE AND BEYOND
And Present-day Thai-Cambodia Border Conflict
REVIEW BY AURKO CHAKRABARTI
Independent Scholar
Viet Thanh Nguyen, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF OTHERNESS
The Other in I, I and the Other
REVIEW BY VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Independent Scholar
Unsilent Strangers: Music, Minorities, Coexistence, Japan, Edited by Hugh de Ferranti, Masaya Shishikura, and Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes.
Singapore: NUS Press, National University of Singapore, 2023.
MUSIC FOR COEXISTENCE IN JAPANESE DOMESTIC
AND DIASPORIC SOCIETIES
Race, Tolerance, and Xenophobic Barriers
Front cover Illustration by Van Nguyen shows the Mountain Spirit doing battle with the Water Spirit.
