Through introducing and publishing insightful empirical studies, Monsoon Zone Publishing's vision is to facilitate readers' better understanding of their home places and issues from regional, comparative and historical perspectives.
Network studies, Southeast Asia studies, and imperial governance studies, addressing impact and legacies of flows of ideas, cultures, people and capital, will therefore be the three main themes of Monsoon Zone's forthcoming publications.
Slowork Publishing, founded in 2013 and based in Taiwan, produces documentary comics set in countries across the Asian world. Slowork comics make Asia come alive for the reader through biography, autobiography, memoirs, anecdotes, reportage, vignettes from everyday life, and first-hand personal accounts.
The project aspires to forge a unique form of documentary unlike that of either film or literature, treating topics thus far less often addressed in Asia, as seen through the eyes of talented writers.
VOP BOOKS triggers and encourages visual thinking in a world where vision and reasoning collide, through publications on visual arts, cultures, histories and critiques. VOP BOOKS also publishes Voices of Photography, an independent magazine dedicated to image culture.
