Asian Studies Review

Article	Citations
Negotiating Identities in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study of Xinjiangban Students in China	27
The King of Bangkok	23
Contributors	11
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea	10
An Anatomy of Satirical Cartoons in Contemporary Vietnam: Political Communication and Representations of Systemic Corruption in a One-party State	10
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: fluidity and fragmentation	8
The Global Imperative: Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce and its Political-Economic Implications in a Deglobalising World	8
Empire and righteous nation	8
Correction	7
Facilitating the Market with a Gift: The Politics of the ECFA between China and Taiwan (2008–2016)	6
Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia: An Introductory Essay	6
The Discourse of Self-learning: An Analysis of Japan’s EPA Programme for Healthcare Workers from Southeast Asia	6
Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia	6
Contributors	5
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil	5
Siting postcoloniality: critical perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere	5
Making Mao’s steelworks: industrial Manchuria and the transnational origins of Chinese socialism	5
Gods of Mount Tai: familiarity and the material culture of North China, 1000–2000	4
The politics of Muslim identities in Asia	4
Rising China and new Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia	4
The promise and peril of things: literature and material culture in late imperial China	4
Fighting on the cultural front: U.S.–China relations in the Cold War	4
A history of Chinese studies in Australia and New Zealand (Ao Xin hanxue yanjiushi 澳新汉学研究史)	4
Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics	4
How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects: Insights from Parliamentary Debates on Letpadaung Mines and Myitsone Dam in Myanmar	4

Informality, Paradiplomacy, and Cross-Border Cooperation: The Development of Tourism on Bintan Island, Indonesia	4
Digital Vigilantism and Chinese Digital Feminisms: The Shi Hang Case and the Double-Edged Sword of Online Justice-Seeking	4
Borderland infrastructures: trade, development, and control in Western China	4
Musicophilia in Mumbai: performing subjects & the metropolitan unconscious	4
How to read Chinese drama: a guided anthology How to read Chinese drama: a guided anthology , edited by Patricia Sieber & Regina Llamas, Columbia University Press, 2	3
Higher education in market-oriented socialist Vietnam: new players, discourses and practices	3
Authoritarian populism and bovine political economy in Modi’s India	3
The Changing Geographies of Childhood in Southeast Asia: Narrative Maps from Three Generations in Hanoi and Yogyakarta	3
Reconstructing Japan’s security policy: the role of military crises	3
A Research Agenda for the Study of Southeast Asian Liberalisms	3
West Papuan ‘Housewives’ with HIV: Gender, Marriage, and Inequality in Indonesia	3
Homes, Home Lives and Precarious Privilege: Older Western Residents and Differing Lifestyle Mobilities in Ubud, Bali	3
Witnessing and Remembering Trauma in Northeast Asia in the Visual Age	2
Ruling the stage: social and cultural history of opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People’s Republic of China	2
Contributors	2
Resisting Foreign Hostility in China’s English-language News Media during the COVID-19 Crisis	2
Unsilent strangers: music, minorities, co-existence, Japan	2
Everyday justice in Myanmar: informal resolutions and state evasion in a time of contested transition Everyday justice in Myanmar: informal resolutions and state evasion in a time of co	2
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea	2
Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police	2
Contesting China-funded Projects in Cambodia: The Case of Stung Chhay Areng Hydropower	2
The Electoral Paradox of Party Institutionalisation: The Case of PKS in Eastern Indonesia	2
The Politics of STEMM Collaboration between Australia and China: National Security, Geopolitics, and Academic Freedom	2
The BJP Government and the Kashmiri Pandits: Managing the Politics of Displacement in India	2
Semiotics of rape: sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India	2
The Civic and Political Participation of Non-Citizen Residents in Japan: Multi-Ethnic Cities in an Ethno-Nationalist Society	2
Educational evaluation and improvement in Japan: linking lesson study, curriculum management and school evaluation	2
Out of place: the lives of Korean adoptee immigrants Out of place: the lives of Korean adoptee immigrants , by SunAh M. Laybourn, New York University Press,2024, 240 pp.	1
Chinese English: names, norms and narratives	1
Coming home to a foreign country: Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843–1938	1
Two Outstanding Articles Share Wang Gungwu Prize for 2023	1
Brand Nohomonationalism: Guofeng (‘National Style’) Framings of Boys’ Love Television Series in China	1
Civic activism in South Korea: the intertwining of democracy and neoliberalism	1
The theory of guanxi and Chinese society	1
Federalism in Myanmar	1
‘Too Unattached’: Literary Representations of Singleness and Gendered Aloneness in Urban India	1
Global Middle East: into the twenty-first century	1
Carving status at Kŭmgangsan: elite graffiti in premodern Korea	1
Graduate employability of South Asian ethnic minority youths: voices from Hong Kong	1
Co-Constructing a Gender–State Entanglement in Canonical Three Kingdoms Fandom: A Discourse-Historical Approach	1
The culture of language in Ming China: sound, script, and the redefinition of boundaries of knowledge The culture of language in Ming China: sound, script, and the redefinition of bound	1
Dirty hearts – the history of Shindo Renmei	1
Caravan Modernity: The Strategic Revitalisation of China’s Dynastic Transportation System during the Second Sino–Japanese War	1
Japanese Authorities, the ‘Comfort Project’, and Tacit Contracts under Militaristic Rule during the Pacific War	1
No Royal Road: Urban Transportation, Capitalist Development, and Monarchy in Thailand	1
Cornerstone of the nation: the defense industry and the building of modern Korea under Park Chung Hee	1
Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India	1
Beijing from below: stories of marginal lives in the capital’s centre	1
Article about Male Cosmetic Surgery in China Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2021	1
Multilingual education in South Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice Multilingual education in South Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice , edite	1

Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia	1
Affective geographies and narratives of Chinese diaspora	1
Historical Continuities and Changes in the Ethnic Politics of Hmong-Miao Millenarianism	1
Rabindranath Tagore: A Sectarian or a Cosmopolitan Writer?	1
Boys Love media in Thailand: celebrity, fans, and transnational Asian queer popular culture	1
Children affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Thailand	1
The handbook of Asian Englishes	1
Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War	1
International terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’: history, modernity	1
Making sense of Indian democracy	1
Liberalism in Cambodia: Broken Lineages	1
Legitimation Game: The Anti-Japanese Textbook Issue in Sino–Japanese Relations, 1914–1937	0
Unmasking the Middle Class in the Philippines: Aspirations, Lifestyles and Prospects for Sustainable Consumption	0
The Chineseness of Urban Cultural Policy in Taiwan	0
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong	0
Improbable diplomats: how ping-pong players, musicians, and scientists remade US–China relations	0
State and family in China: filial piety and its modern reform	0
The Modern Boy as the New Body of Modernity? Contesting the Meaning of Masculinity in Early 20th-century Japan	0
Business Leaders and Nationalism in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy in the Middle East	0
Taking China to the world: the cultural production of modernity	0
Constructing a Discourse of Hope and Inspiration: A Positive Discourse Analysis of Joko Widodo’s Press Statements on COVID-19	0
Contributors	0
Face and Favours: Network Norms among Chinese Migrants and Non-Migrants in Australia	0
The Politics of Displays: Science and Technology Exhibitions in Cold War Japan	0
The Gendered Construction of the Japanese Language-Learning Boom in Postcolonial Korea	0
SOUTH ASIA Curing madness? A social and cultural history of insanity in colonial North India, 1800–1950s	0
Democratic Regression and Environmental Politics in Indonesia	0
Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia: ethnicity, education, and enterprise	0
The Emergence of Transcultural Humanistic Buddhism through the Lens of Religious Entrepreneurship	0
Cross-border traders in northern Laos: mastering smallness	0
Supercorporate: distinction and participation in post-hierarchy South Korea	0
Post-Covid Asia: deglobalization, fourth Industrial Revolution, and sustainable development Post-Covid Asia: deglobalization, fourth Industrial Revolution, and sustainable development	0
Buying the Tokyo Dream! Working Women’s Metropolitan Romance in Japanese Television Drama	0
The Process of Marketisation and Economic Realities in the DPRK	0
Nationalism First: Late Cold War Politics and the ‘Really Secret War’ in Laos	0
Article about Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2022	0
Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands	0
BOOK REVIEW	0
Korea: a history	0
Perspectives on Chinese Soft Power by Kazakh Repatriates from China	0
Performance as Apology: Deconstructing the Legacy of the Japanese Empire in Shin’ya Eiko’s Shinsetaryon	0
Linking language, trade and migration – Economic Partnership Agreements as language policy in Japan	0
Comfort women of the Japanese empire: colonial rule and the battle over memory	0
The Paradoxical State: The Political Economy of Multidimensional Gender Inequality in Korea	0
Memory making in folk epics of China: the intimate and the local in Chinese regional culture	0
Taiwan in dynamic transition: nation building and democratization Taiwan in dynamic transition: nation building and democratization , edited by Ryan Dunch & Ashley E	0
Contributors	0
Performing the socialist state: modern Chinese theater and film culture	0
Hiding in the Shadows: Resistance and Antagonism of Everyday Minority Nationalism in China	0
English as a Lingua Franca in Japan: towards multilingual practices	0
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self	0
InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism	0
The League of Red Cross Societies’ Development Programme, the 1964 South East Asian Forum, and the Silencing of Asia	0
Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan	0
Contributors	0
Disciplining Statelessness: Fragmentary Outcomes of the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy in India	0
Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech	0
Cultures of modernity and the U.S.–Japan Cold War alliance	0
The cornucopian stage: performing commerce in early modern China	0
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema	0
Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ: his European network and the origins of the Jesuit Library in Peking, Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ: his European network and the origins of the Jesuit Li	0
New world orderings: China and the Global South	0
Navigating the Stigma of Caste: Identity Work among Dalits in West Bengal, India	0
Female Labour Force Participation and the Reduction in Son Preference in China	0
Collective Memory and Everyday Politics in North Korea: A Qualitative Text Analysis of New Year Statements, 1946–2019	0
Making peace with nature: ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ	0
Towards a new paradigm for English language teaching: English for specific purposes in Asia and beyond	0
On saving face: a brief history of Western appropriation	0
Active Waiting and Hope in Transnational Adoptions: Nepali Birth Families and their Children	0
Swimming with the Whales: Inflection Points in Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Foreign Policy	0
A young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: the diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856 A young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: the diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856	0
Ummah yet proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the making of the Indonesian republic	0
Snake sisters and ghost daughters: feminist adaptations of traditional tales in Chinese fantasy	0
‘Marriage is like Gambling’: Interpreting and Narrating Stories of Hakka Chinese Indonesians’ Marriage Migration	0
Rights refused: grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar Rights refused: grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar , by Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Stanford	0
Where great powers meet: America and China in Southeast Asia	0
A Transmedia ‘Third’ Space: The Counterculture of Chinese Boys’ Love Audio Dramas	0
I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today	0
Performing the arts of Indonesia: Malay identity and politics in the music, dance, and theatre of the Riau Islands	0
Ōrui Noburu’s Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Histories of the Renaissance as a Critique of Modernity	0

Higher Education as an Instrument of Decolonisation: The Community Service Programme in Indonesia, 1950–1969	0
Concepts in Contexts: Discourse-based Semantic Networks of Ideologies in Taiwan (1945–1949)	0
Article on Tibet in Meiji Japan and Qing China Wins 2020 Wang Gungwu Prize	0
Contributors	0
Haruki Murakami – storytelling and productive distance	0
Education and social justice in Japan	0
Chiang Mai between empire and modern Thailand: a city in the colonial margins	0
Televising Chineseness: gender, nation, and subjectivity	0
The discursive construction of hierarchy in Japanese society: an ethnographic study of secondary school clubs	0
The Rubber Stock Boom in Shanghai and the Kadoorie Enterprises, 1910–1949	0
Mediatisation, the Ambivalent Preservation of Cultural Tradition, and the Appeal of Luxurious Death in Toraja, Indonesia: Social Media Depictions of Rambu Solo in a Digi	0
Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context , by Mairin Hennebry-Leung & Xuesong (A	0
Piracy and the making of the Spanish Pacific world	0
The Weakening of Social Control in North Korea since the Arduous March: The Case of Physical Education	0
Queering Chinese kinship: queer public culture in globalizing China	0
Contributors	0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century	0
Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia	0
Women’s work in the unorganized sector: issues of exploitation and globalization in the beedi industry Women’s work in the unorganized sector: issues of exploitation and globalization i	0
Engaging with Labour Migrants: Emigration Policy in Tajikistan	0
The stage in the temple: ritual opera in village Shanxi	0
The contest for the Indian Ocean and the making of a New World Order	0
Constitutional bricolage: Thailand’s sacred monarchy vs. the rule of law Constitutional bricolage: Thailand’s sacred monarchy vs. the rule of law , by Eugénie Mérieau, H	0
Ten Years as Boundary Object: The Search for Identity and Belonging as ‘Hongkongers’	0
32 new takes on Taiwan cinema 32 new takes on Taiwan cinema , edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, & Wenchi Lin, University of Michigan Press, 2022,	0
Fragrant frontier: global spice entanglements from the Sino–Vietnamese uplands	0
China–Swiss relations during the Cold War, 1949–1989: between soft power and propaganda	0
Rivers of iron: railroads and Chinese power in Southeast Asia	0
Long Live Patriarchy! The Thai Monarchy’s Position on Gender Equality and Justice	0
China’s Push for Greater Influence in the Popular Culture Arena: The Ip Man Saga	0
Contemporary Bali, contested space and governance	0
The Politics of Toys: What Potential for Inter-Korean Reconciliation?	0
Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi’s The Reluctant Mother	0
Happy together: bridging the Australia–China divide	0
Kartini, Online Media, and the Politics of the Jokowi Era: A Critical Discourse Analysis	0
The End of Compromise: Political Meanings of Thailand’s First National Day Celebrations on 24 June 1939	0
A region of regimes: prosperity and plunder in the Asia–Pacific	0
Is ‘Easy Japanese’ a Language Option? Local Responses to the Increasing Foreign Resident Population from Southeast Asia	0
Contributors	0
Spirit of antiquity: an art archaeological study on the origin of the artistic style of bronze mirrors in the Sui and Tang dynasties ( Guyi: Sui-Tang tongjing yishu fengge yuanyuan de m	0
Recasting the Body: Self-production of Japanese Disabled Veterans’ Image	0
The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singa	0
Women’s Political Participation in Post-conflict Settings: The Case of Timor-Leste	0
Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present	0
Indebted mobilities: Indian youth, migration, and the internationalizing university	0
The State and Civil Society in Laos: Asymmetry and Symbiosis	0
Chinese Settler-Colonialism and the Borderless National Imagination in Lü Sheng’sA Madman’s Dream	0
Between Collective Will and Individual Standards: Levels of Discourse within the Japanese Military’s Kōgun Ideal, 1937–1945	0
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe: A Zomian Jewish Community in Israel	0
China’s Responses to the US-Led Security Network: Coercion and Alternatives to ‘Non-Alignment’	0
BOOK REVIEW Humour in Asian cultures: tradition and context , edited by Jessica Milner Davis, Routledge, 2022, 336 pp., £145.00 (hardback), £35.09 (eBook)	0
The opium business: a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China	0
Envoy Trade and the End of the Tribute Relationship between Vietnam and China, 1802–1885	0
Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms	0
Pursuing morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in southeastern Myanmar	0
Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture , edited by Shengqing Wu & Xuelei Huang, Routledge,	0
Emerging from the horizon of history: modern Chinese women’s literature, 1917–1949	0
Inside the circle: queer culture and activism in northwest China	0
Rethinking education in the context of post-pandemic South Asia: challenges and possibilities Rethinking education in the context of post-pandemic South Asia: challenges and possibiliti	0
Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media: The Politics of Islamic Consumerism in Indonesia	0
Deities and divas: queer ritual specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond	0
‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos	0
Chinese cinema: identity, power, and globalization	0
Spaces of solidarity: Karen activism in the Thailand–Burma borderlands	0
Japanese Business Leadership: Business for Peace in Practice	0
Malaysian crossings: place and language in the worlding of modern Chinese literature	0
Silencing Shanghai: language and identity in urban China Silencing Shanghai: language and identity in urban China , by Fang Xu, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2021, US$105.00	0
Deifying Communist Soldiers: The Coastal Defence Culture and the Continuation of Apotheosis in Contemporary China	0
When do Labour Unions Fight for Migrant Workers? The Nexus of Collective Identity and Institutional Legacies in Taiwan and South Korea	0
Employment Disadvantages among Asian NESB Skilled Migrants in Australia: The Case of Japanese Independent Professionals	0
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand	0
Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation	0
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	0
Japanese politics in comparative perspective: from the East to the West, and then whither? Japanese politics in comparative perspective: from the East to the West, and then whither?	0
Organisational Learning, Environmental NGOs, and Policy Advocacy in China	0
Reimagining Scholars and Eunuchs: Nationalism, Masculinities, and Historicism in King Hu’s Martial Arts Films	0
How Propaganda Affects Public Opinion in China: Evidence from the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Living on the Line: Gendered Invisibilities among Queer Women and Transmen in Indonesia	0
Singapore Comes to Terms with its Malay Past: The Politics of Crafting a National History	0
Future Forward: the rise and fall of a Thai political party	0
Paris and the art of transposition: early twentieth century Sino-French encounters	0
Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in Outward State Translation of Chinese Literature in the PRC (1949–1966)	0
A contemporary history of the Chinese zheng	0
Humanitarian internationalism under empire: the global evolution of the Japanese Red Cross movement, 1877–1945	0
Frontier fieldwork: building a nation in China’s borderlands, 1919–45 Frontier fieldwork: building a nation in China’s borderlands, 1919–45 , by Andres Rodriguez, UBC Pr	0
Political warfare: strategies for combating China’s plan to ‘win without fighting’	0
Packaging, Persuasion and Propaganda: Popular Preaching and Islamic Counter-publics in Indonesia	0
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media	0
Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore	0
Champassak royalty and sovereignty: within and between nation-states in mainland Southeast Asia	0
Impossible speech: the politics of representation in contemporary Korean literature and film Impossible speech: the politics of representation in contemporary Korean literature and film	0
While East meets West: a Chinese diaspora scholar and social activist in Asia-Pacific While East meets West: a Chinese diaspora scholar and social activist in Asia-Pacific	0
Sound of the border: music and identity of Korean minority in China	0
Migration, Vulnerability, and Protection: Changing Labour Law Regime in Contemporary India	0
Chinese theatre troupes in Southeast Asia: touring diaspora, 1900s–1970s Chinese theatre troupes in Southeast Asia: touring diaspora, 1900s–1970s , by Beiyu Zhang, Routl	0