Select Books is pleased to be appointed as the official bookstore for Singapore Writers Festival 2011.
Singapore Writes Festival 2011 (SWF) is scheduled to be held from 22 October - 30 October. One of Asia’s premier literary events, SWF remains one of the few literary festivals in world that is multi-lingual, focusing on the official languages of Singapore – English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil.
The official bookstore, which will be managed by Select Books, will be located at a pavilion right in the middle of the Festival District, near the Singapore Management University.
This year's SWF will feature ticketing.
Select Books has 6 Festival Passes to give away. They will be the prizes for a small competition we are running.
Please tell us about the most "interesting" book you have purchased from Select Books. It can be "interesting" in a number of ways - the content, or how you heard about the book, or how difficult it was for you to track down the book etc.
The 3 most well-written submissions will be given two Festival Passes each.
Please submit your entry to publishing@selectbooks.com.sg. The closing date for this contest will be 12 October 2011.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
These are recent additions to our wide collection of books on Ceramics:
Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art by Soyoung Lee and Jeong Seung-Chang. Bold, sophisticated, engaging, and startlingly modern, Buncheong ceramics emerged as a distinct Korean art form in the 15th and 16th centuries, only to be eclipsed on its native ground for more than 400 years by the overwhelming demand for porcelain. Elements from the Buncheong idiom were later revived in Japan, where its spare yet sensual aesthetic was much admired and where descendants of Korean potters lived and worked. This innovative study features 60 masterpieces from the renowned Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, as well as objects from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and presents current scholarship on Buncheong's history, manufacture, use, and overall significance. The book illustrates why this historical art form continues to resonate with Korean and Japanese ceramists working today and with contemporary viewers worldwide.
Meiji Ceramics: The Art of Japanese Export Porcelain and Satsuma Ware 1868-1912 by Gisela Jahn. This book examines the history of Japanese export porcelain in the Meiji era in the context of political, economic and cultural developments and with special emphasis on stylistic influence from the West. The more than 150 illustrations reproduce major items made in all the main centers of ceramic production by a wide variety of artists-craftsmen. The domestic market and national exhibitions, leading craftsmen, manufacturers and trading companies, inscriptions and marks are the subject of appendices. A detailed chronology, a glossary and a bibliography complete this first-ever comprehensive account of Japanese export ceramics in the Meiji era.
Scientific Research on Historic Asian Ceramics, Proceedings of the Fourth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery Art by Blythe Mccarthy, Ellen Salzman Chase et al.. Asian ceramics in their many forms and functions - utilitarian, aesthetic, and religious - are the subject of this volume. Through analysis of their composition, technology, typology, and use, researchers from all over the world examine their similarities and differences, and explore broader questions regarding their historical and cultural context, such as trade and technology transfer between East and West Asia. Topics include Myanmar ceramics, Seljuq tiles, Korean and Chinese high-fired ceramics, Chinese and Japanese lead-glazed wares, Chinese funerary sculptures, Khmer kilns, and the study of ceramics through inscriptions. With colour plates.
New and Revised Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics by Gerald Davison, Gerald. The 2010 publication of this revised handbook on markings is a major landmark for anyone concerned with Chinese ceramics. An illustrated introduction on the development of Chinese script, the usage, styles and symbolism of markings is followed by inset reproductions of all known markings, a total of 3392. These are all numbered in sections, according to the number of characters and also those in Zhuanshu script and marks which comprise symbols and not characters. The final section is a directory of marks in pinyin romanisation and in English translation with general notes on usage.
Chinese Ceramics by Stacey Pierson. This history of Chinese ceramic design draws on the major collections at the V&A Museum. The extensively illustrated chapters are on: patterns of production, manufacture and industry including blue-and-white ceramics; aesthetics, design and style including decoration and the meaning of dragons over the centuries; consumption in China and beyond including religious usages, global trade and evidences from shipwrecks; and Chinese ceramics in the modern world, including artist-designed and politically motivated post-Imperial artefacts. With map, chronology, bibliography and index.





Monday, September 19, 2011
New Distribution Title: Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné Oil Paintings: Volume Two
Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné Oil Paintings: Volume Two by Rita Wong. Sanyu (1901-1966) was a Chinese artist from Sichuan province who lived and died in Paris. Integrating traditional Chinese aesthetics with Western modernist tenets, Sanyu has created a unique painterly language that is all his own.
Dedicated to discovering as much as possible about Sanyu, the author has interviewed Sanyu's friends and gathered records pertaining to Sanyu's life.
This is the second volume of her catalogue, which in addition to listing Sanyu's works, attempts to construct Sanyu's life in the form of an extended chronology.
You can find out more about Sanyu's life and works at: artofsanyu
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
New Distribution Title: The Path to Remittance
This is a new distribution title: The Path to Remittance: Tales of Pains and Gains of Overseas Filipino Workers by Papias Generale Banados.
The Philippines is the world’s largest exporter of labour – both male and female – and their remittances have helped to keep afloat the Philippines economy for the past three decades. Successful Filipino leaders have praised the Overseas Filipino Workers – or the OFWs as they are popularly known – as modern heroes of the nation. Yet exploitation of OFWs by unscrupulous employment agencies at home and abroad; and by ruthless employers abroad goes on unabated.
The Path to Remittance is a book which sheds light on the hidden issues of the OFW phenomena, which political leaders and government agencies tend to ignore at best or condone at its worse.
About the Author
Papias Generale Banados has been a OFW working in both the Middle East and Southeast Asia for the past 16 years. She has gone through the experience of obtaining overseas employment through recruitment agencies herself, and remitting money to support her family back home. Thus, she has seen exploitation of OFWs first hand.
Papias was born in 1972 and raised in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. She graduated from high school and learned additional skills completing a nursing aide course in Singapore.
The Philippines is the world’s largest exporter of labour – both male and female – and their remittances have helped to keep afloat the Philippines economy for the past three decades. Successful Filipino leaders have praised the Overseas Filipino Workers – or the OFWs as they are popularly known – as modern heroes of the nation. Yet exploitation of OFWs by unscrupulous employment agencies at home and abroad; and by ruthless employers abroad goes on unabated.
The Path to Remittance is a book which sheds light on the hidden issues of the OFW phenomena, which political leaders and government agencies tend to ignore at best or condone at its worse.
About the Author
Papias Generale Banados has been a OFW working in both the Middle East and Southeast Asia for the past 16 years. She has gone through the experience of obtaining overseas employment through recruitment agencies herself, and remitting money to support her family back home. Thus, she has seen exploitation of OFWs first hand.
Papias was born in 1972 and raised in the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. She graduated from high school and learned additional skills completing a nursing aide course in Singapore.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Books on Business in Asia
Here are five titles on doing business in Asia





Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Titles from Selections 105
The latest edition of our catalogue of new titles, Selections 105, has just been released. Here are six titles from the catalogue:






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