Journeys through Southeast Asia [[electronic resource] ] : ceritalah2 / / Karim Raslan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782448303321
• Autore: Karim Raslan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore, : Times Books International, c2002
• ISBN: 981-261-925-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 915.9/0453; 959.5
• Soggetti: Islam - Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia Politics and government; Southeast Asia Social conditions; Southeast Asia Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Newspaper columns, mostly from 1999 to 2002.; Vita.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Contents; Preface; Culture And Society; The Past is Another Country; Malaysia at Forty; Asia in Europe and Europe in Asia; Coming Home to the City; The Credibility Syndrome; The Emperor's Clothes; The Dot Com Boom; The Modern Malay Dilemma; The Clash of Liberal and Literal Islam; People And Places; Cambodia - Coping With the Aftermath; The Women of Ban Krua; Malang and the Indonesian Chinese Predicament; Puey Ungpakhorn; Pak Ngah; Solo and Jogjakarta; Michelle Yeoh; Kuala Lumpur is not Kabul...; The Singaporean Dilemma; Ulil Abshar-Abdalla; Political Life; Only an Australian...; Ho Chi Minh - the Reluctant CommunistAbhisit Vejjajiva; Pak Lah - the Underestimated Man; Dr Mahathir - Twenty Years On; The Malaysian Chinese Mood; Lee Kuan Yew Visits Malaysia; Paul Keating - an Ozzie Visionary?; America - the Lone Ranger; Moderate Muslims Must Speak Up!; The Turnaround; Intellectual Terrorism; UMNO's Renewal; Art And Literature; The World According to Sir Vidia; Simryn Gill - the Kampung Girl; U Ba Nyan - Amidst Globalisation; Montien Boonma - Alchemist of the Soul; Latiff Mohidin - The Line from Point To Point; I Made Budi; Faith and Despair in Manila; Wong Hoy Cheong - From Urban Guerilla toCountry FarmerIn Search of the Essence of ASEAN; THE SHOCK OF THE NEW AND THE POSTMODERNISTFUTURE; THE ART OF PATRONAGE; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: How can we define Southeast Asia - a region that has a plethora of diverse (and seemingly irreconcilable) faiths and cultures?. Karim Raslan, one of Asia's leading commentators and the author of Ceritalah: Malaysia in Transition, addresses this puzzle as he trudges through the vast landscapes of the region. From Mahathir to Michelle Yeoh, from Islam to Indonesian rap music, Journeys Through Southeast Asia: Ceritalah 2 puts together the pieces of a massive puzzle that is Southeast Asia. By revealing facets of the region that have escaped our detection, Karim sweeps us from our familiar environs