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Dec 22, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. “Do not let your husband abuse you. Cambodian women have received their share of violence and abuse during the Pol Pot regime. I had one reason [for coming to the United States]…to keep my children safe.”This poignant statement was a response to domestic violence in the 1990s in Lowell, Massachusetts, which is home to the nation’s second-largest Cambodian American population.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow |Andrew Tam
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Singapore hawker culture has made it to a global list of intangible cultural heritage, with the government’s bid for official recognition accepted by UNESCO in 2020. That’s quite the feat for an institution that has existed only about five decades in its present form. But the campaign to put Singapore’s hawker centers on the world map was an unsurprising goal.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | H.M.A. Leow
travel news2 hours agoRick Steves' Favorite Country In The World Isn't Even In EuropeIslands - Eric James Beyer • 2hEuropean travel and Rick Steves are nearly synonymous at this point. The famous writer, author, and TV and radio show host spends hundreds of days a …Indonesia7 hours agoFreeport ‘doesn't belong to the US’, says Jokowi.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow |Krishnendu Ray
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. What’s in a restaurant name? How can a business appeal to locals? Immigrants setting up shop in a new city have to be savvy entrepreneurs to figure these problems out—in fact, almost like amateur anthropologists in the field, proposes sociologist Krishnendu Ray.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Speaking to NPR about his Pulitzer-winning novel The Sympathizer, author Viet Thanh Nguyen remembers being a youth watching Vietnamese soldiers die on screen in Hollywood movies. “I thought, ‘Where am I supposed to be in this particular scene? Am I supposed to be cheering the killing or am I supposed to be identifying with the person being killed?’” he tells the interviewer.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Growing up in Malaya before World War II, most village girls could look forward to a typical life of housework and farm work. But for some, another pathway lay in the glamorous world of the bangsawan stage. “Through bangsawan, women were afforded the unprecedented opportunity for self-expression in public,” writes ethnomusicologist Tan Sooi Beng.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Beautiful princesses appear in many works of classical literature, and Malay texts are no exception. One famous figure from the Sejarah Melayu, also known asSulalat al-Salatin or Malay Annals, is the mythical Hang Li Po—supposed daughter of a Chinese emperor, who becomes the wife of the Raja of Melaka (historic Malacca, Malaysia).
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. How could riots ever break out over a dispute about post offices? Maybe huge sums of money were at stake for migrant workers, as they were in nineteenth-century colonial southeast Asia. For decades, writes historian Lane J. Harris, the Qiaopiju, or “overseas letter office” system, connected southeast Asia with mainland China.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | H.M.A. Leow |Ned Stafford |Leon Comber
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Fans of the Pulitzer-winning novel The Sympathizer surely enjoyed the recent miniseries adaptation from HBO, which follows a Vietnamese communist spy lurking undercover in the United States. Truth, however, can be much, much stranger than fiction.
