The Emerging East Asian Community: Security & Economic Issues. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-764-1 (paperback). 344 pp. RM 50.00. Lee P

The Emerging East Asian Community: Security & Economic Issues. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-764-1 (paperback). 344 pp. RM 50.00. Lee Poh Ping, Tham Siew Yean & George T. Yu (eds.)

The East Asian Summit (EAS) convened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2005 will be attended by the heads of states from Australia, New Zealand, India and the countries in the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) grouping. This EAS marks the latest development towards an East Asian regional grouping since Mahathir Mohamed, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, proposed the East Asian Economic Grouping (EAEG) in 1990. It would thus seem an East Asian Community is emerging. But to say that an East Asian Community is emerging is not to say it has arrived. Many of the issues that have plagued the formation of Asian regional groupings in the past and, as indeed a new one, like the role of China, still dog the formation of this East Asian Community, such ‘old’ issues being the membership, the structure and the role of ASEAN in this community. This book is an attempt to consider such issues and the security and economic aspects that underlie many of these issues. The book takes both a comparative approach and an individual country analysis. As to the former, there are chapters by two of the most senior scholars working on Asia, Wang Gung Wu and Robert A. Scalapino. Wang offers his reflections on an East Asian Community while Scalapino analyses the trends in the international relations of Asia. As to the latter, there are contributions by authors from not only the APT countries but also Australia and India. This book is thus highly recommended for those looking for a comprehensive approach towards the study of the East Asian Community.

LEE POH PING, Ph. D., Professor and Principal Fellow at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. His other work with Penerbit UKM is Whither the Look East Policy (2003 co-authored with Khadijah Khalid). THAM SIEW YEAN, Ph. D., the Deputy Director of IKMAS, UKM is a Professor in International Trade. GEORGE T. YU, Ph. D., is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is immediate past Director of the Centre for East Asian and Pacific Studies and former Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois.

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Composing Meanings Media Text and Language. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-762-5 (paper back). 190 pp. RM20.00. Lee Swee Chin & Tan Kim Hua

Composing Meanings Media Text and Language. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-762-5 (paper back). 190 pp. RM20.00. Lee Swee Chin & Tan Kim Hua

In general, theories, concepts, approaches and research methods from language and linguistics, discourse analysis and communication are primarily engaged together with those from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, among others. This provides a broad multidisciplinary base for this book, which is important in an area which is increasingly multi-and interdisciplinary. The work is also richly situated in the particulars of multilingual or cultural and the rapidly changing language or communication contexts as in the case of Malaysia. All the chapters have significant local-global knowledge to contribute. This book is relevant to an understanding of media texts in this rich multilingual and cultural part of the world. In terms of the general and specifics, this book as a whole can be seen as an important and fresh contribution to the field of language and media text. This book also offers valuable and fresh perspectives in terms of findings in the field. Notable findings reported are not only situated in the rapidly changing communication and language contexts of Malaysia but may be generalisable across similar contexts. At the same time, the work provides significant insights into ways of doing research in media language and texts which will be relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in the area of language and media communications.

LEE SWEE CHIN and TAN KIM HUA, both are lecturers at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

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Studies on Women in Malaysia 1990-2004 An Overview and Bibliography

Studies on Women in Malaysia 1990-2004 An Overview and Bibliography. 2006. Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-806-0 (paper back). 366pp. RM30.00. Zainab Awang Ngah.

This Bibliography updated previous bibliographies compiled on women in Malaysia and scopes the literature to those published between 1990 and 2004. The bibliography lists 3346 publications, which indicate a sharp increase in studies and research activities on women averaging about 258 per year. This bibliography includes a short essay as an introduction entitled, “Women studies in Malaysia: a bibliometric analysis”, which traces the growth of publications between 1990 and 2004 and make comparisons with those published in the pre-1990s. Types of publications produced, the active authors and the authorship pattern are also described. The main text is divided into thirteen sections; general works and history; crime and delinquency; economic conditions, employmentaspects, status and women’s role in development; education; feminism and women’s rights; health and welfare; legal status, women and family law; literary aspects, women in literature, mass media and the arts; marriage and divorce, fertility and demography; muslim women and Islam; political activities and public life; socio-cultural conditions, status in society, sociological and anthropological studies; and technology and science. The publications listed under the thirteen sections indicate heavier activities in economic studies, social cultural studies, women’s health and welfare and women in literature. The main types of publication produced are research reports in the form of final year academic reports, master dissertations and doctoral theses. Conference presentations and journal articles are equally popular. Most author in this field are one time contributors and about eighteen authors produced ten or more publications. The majority of authors work alone and very few works are co-authored indicating low collaboration rate. An author and subject index is included.

ZAINAB AWANG NGAH, Ph. D., teaches in the Master of Library and Information Science programme at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya since 1994. She receives her BA and MA (Education) from the University of Wales, Cardiff. She also obtained an additional MSc in Information Studies (with excellence) and Ph. D. degree in Information Science from Loughborough University. She was awarded the J. D. White Memorial Prize for her dissertation from Loughborough University in 1991. Her areas of research interests includes digital libraries, computer aided instruction in the field of library and information science, especially cataloguing, collection development, user information needs, information seeking behaviour, assessing the predictors of research productivity, scholarly communications, and information dissemination behaviour of scholars. She has published numerous articles in local and international refereed journals and has compiled as well as edited a number of bibliographies. She is also the editor in chief of the print and e-journal, Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science.

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