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Gregory V. Raymond
Tyrell Haberkorn. Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-gregory-v-raymond/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26001/_article/-char/en
Tanaka Tetsuya
Michael O’Sullivan. No Birds of Passage: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities,1800–1975.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2023.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-tanaka-tetsuya/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26002/_article/-char/en
Fujimura Hitomi
Chie Ikeya. InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-fujimura-hitomi/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26003/_article/-char/en
Enze Han
Leo Suryadinata, ed. Rising China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia: Impact on Education and Popular Culture.
Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-enze-han/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26004/_article/-char/en
Olga Dror
Phi-Van Nguyen. A Displaced Nation: The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-olga-dror/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26005/_article/-char/en
Kai Chen
Herbary Cheung. Single Mothers in Thailand: Women, Motherhood, and Going It All Alone.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-kai-chen/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26006/_article/-char/en
Jason Ng Sze Chieh
David Lockwood. The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948.
Singapore: NUS Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-jason-ng-sze-chieh/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26007/_article/-char/en
Atsuko Naono
C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet, and Michitake Aso, eds. Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia.
Singapore: NUS Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-atsuko-naono/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26008/_article/-char/en
Amy Rothschild
Lia Kent. The Unruly Dead: Spirits, Memory, and State Formation in Timor-Leste.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-amy-rothschild/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26009/_article/-char/en
Peter A. Jackson
Nathan McGovern. Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion.
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-peter-a-jackson/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26010/_article/-char/en
Rosalie Stolz
Micah F. Morton. Enchanted Modernities: Ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-rosalie-stolz/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26011/_article/-char/en
Nagaike Kazumi
Thomas Baudinette. Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture.
London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-nagaike-kazumi/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26012/_article/-char/en
Sally Low
Theara Thun. Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970.
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-sally-low/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26013/_article/-char/en
Reuven Pinnata
Lin Hongxuan. Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-reuven-pinnata/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26014/_article/-char/en
Li Yuqing
Enze Han. The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-li-yuqing/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26015/_article/-char/en
Ramnath Reghunadhan
Natenapha Wailerdsak. Business Groups and the Thailand Economy: Escaping the Middle-Income Trap. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-ramnath-reghunadhan/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26016/_article/-char/en
Geronimo Cristobal
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez. Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2025.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-geronimo-cristobal/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26017/_article/-char/en
Majid Daneshgar
Charles Higham. Early Southeast Asia: From First Humans to First Civilizations.
Singapore: Ridge Books, 2025.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-majid-daneshgar/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26018/_article/-char/en
Oliver Tappe
Ian G. Baird. Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and between Nation-States in
Mainland Southeast Asia. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2025.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-oliver-tappe/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26019/_article/-char/en
Enze Han
Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng Lee, and Decha Tangseefa, eds. China’s BRI in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Methodologies. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press; Tokyo: Trans Pacific Press, 2025.
Yos Santasombat and Kian Cheng Lee, eds. The Impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia: Evaluating Risks and Benefits. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2024.
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2026/03/earlyview-br-enze-han-2/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/seas/advpub/0/advpub_br26020/_article/-char/en
Published online on March 23, 2026