Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

BOOK & BOOK CHAPTERS

BOOK

2020. Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese, and Islamic Currents, c. 1500–1800. Leiden: Leiden University Press. (Co-editor: Jos Gommans).

BOOK CHAPTERS

2020. "Towards Cross-Cultural Understanding: The Contributions of Toyota Motors Philippines to Culture." In Toyota in the Philippines: 30 Years and Beyond in Nation-Building, edited by Joefe B. Santarita, 187–220. Quezon City: Toyota Philippines and Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman.

2018. "Kinship, Islam, and Raiding in Maguindanao, c. 1760-1780." In Warring Societies of Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia: Local Cultures of Conflict Within a Regional Context, edited by Michael Charney and Kathryn Wellen, 73–99. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

2014. "An Exploration into the Political Background of the Maguindanao ‘piracy’ in the Early Eighteenth century." In Piracy and Surreptitious Activities in the Malay Archipelago and Adjacent Seas, 1600-1840, edited by Y. H. Teddy Sim, 105–20. Singapore: Springer.