Asian Studies Review

Article	Citations
Gentle yet Manly: Xiao xian rou, Male Cosmetic Surgery and Neoliberal Consumer Culture in China	26
Resisting Foreign Hostility in China’s English-language News Media during the COVID-19 Crisis	19
Social Media and Elections in Southeast Asia: The Emergence of Subversive, Underground Campaigning	16
Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police	16
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong	10
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self	8
The Emergence of Populist Nationalism and ‘Illiberal’ Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka	8
Unmasking the Middle Class in the Philippines: Aspirations, Lifestyles and Prospects for Sustainable Consumption	8
Contesting China-funded Projects in Cambodia: The Case of Stung Chhay Areng Hydropower	7
The Duty to Transform: Properly Refining the Body and (Re)defining Oneself in Thailand	7
Brand Nohomonationalism: Guofeng (‘National Style’) Framings of Boys’ Love Television Series in China	7
Going Solo: An Analysis of China’s ‘Single Economy’ through the Date-renting Industry	6
Demobilising and Reorienting Online Emotions: China’s Emotional Governance during the COVID-19 Outbreak	6
Women’s Political Participation in Post-conflict Settings: The Case of Timor-Leste	6
Body Modification in East Asia: History and Debates	5
The Paradoxes of “Vernacularised” Liberalism in Southeast Asia	5
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea	5
Singapore Comes to Terms with its Malay Past: The Politics of Crafting a National History	5
The Art of Monument Politics: The North Korean State,Jucheand International Politics	4
Engaging with Labour Migrants: Emigration Policy in Tajikistan	4
The Myth of Non-interference: Chinese Foreign Policy in Cambodia	4
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media	4
Liberalism in Indonesia: Between Authoritarian Statism and Islamism	4
Homes, Home Lives and Precarious Privilege: Older Western Residents and Differing Lifestyle Mobilities in Ubud, Bali	4
Negotiating and Contesting Confucian Workplace Culture in South Korea	4

Dynamics of Trust and Mistrust in the Afghanistan–Pakistan Relationship	3
The New Chinese Individual: Confronting the Divided Self inNe Zha: Birth of the Demon Child	3
Towards a History of Conservative Liberalism in Thailand after the 1932 Siamese Revolution: An Ideological Analysis	3
Rights Consciousness in Malaysia: How an Electoral Reform Movement Fostered a Sense of Political Efficacy amongst Citizens	3
Chinese Nationalism through the Prism of the Sino–Japanese Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands	3
Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia: An Introductory Essay	3
China’s Push for Greater Influence in the Popular Culture Arena: The Ip Man Saga	2
Singaporean Women Living in China: The Uneven Burdens of Middle-class Transnational Caregiving	2
Global Concepts, Local Meanings: How Civil Society Interprets and Uses Human Rights in Asia	2
Gendered Moralities and Cinematic Representations of Indonesian Muslims and their Arab Others	2
Packaging, Persuasion and Propaganda: Popular Preaching and Islamic Counter-publics in Indonesia	2
A Research Agenda for the Study of Southeast Asian Liberalisms	2
Disciplining Statelessness: Fragmentary Outcomes of the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy in India	2
Bordering Ladakh, Again: From Ecological Flows to Cartographic Competition	2
Nikah Express: Malay Polygyny and Marriage-making at the Malaysian–Thai Border	2
Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms	2
Co-Constructing a Gender–State Entanglement in Canonical Three Kingdoms Fandom: A Discourse-Historical Approach	2
Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore	2
Staging Images of Everyday Life in Late Colonial Korea: Colonial Visuality and the Proliferation of Amateur Photography	2
Visualising Korea: Critical Moments in History, Society and Politics	2
The Emergence of Transcultural Humanistic Buddhism through the Lens of Religious Entrepreneurship	2
Digital Payments on the Agenda: How Supply-side Actors Framed Cash and Digital Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India	2
The Discourse of Self-learning: An Analysis of Japan’s EPA Programme for Healthcare Workers from Southeast Asia	2
The Politics of Toys: What Potential for Inter-Korean Reconciliation?	2
Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore	2
Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media: The Politics of Islamic Consumerism in Indonesia	1
Securing Taiwan: Separating the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait in Japan’s China Policy	1
Accessories Make the Elephant: Buddhist Thais Worship Ganesha, Indian-style	1
Collective Memory and Everyday Politics in North Korea: A Qualitative Text Analysis of New Year Statements, 1946–2019	1
Constructing ‘Responsive’ Publics: The Politics of Public Engagement under India’s ‘Decade of Innovation’ Framework	1
Japanese Authorities, the ‘Comfort Project’, and Tacit Contracts under Militaristic Rule during the Pacific War	1
Visualising Korea: The Politics of the Statue of Peace	1
Negotiating Identities in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study of Xinjiangban Students in China	1
Evaluating Everyday Politics in North Korea	1
An Anatomy of Satirical Cartoons in Contemporary Vietnam: Political Communication and Representations of Systemic Corruption in a One-party State	1
Ten Years as Boundary Object: The Search for Identity and Belonging as ‘Hongkongers’	1
Why Are You Learning Japanese? Vietnamese University Students’ Perspectives on Work and Life between Vietnam and Japan	1
A Transmedia ‘Third’ Space: The Counterculture of Chinese Boys’ Love Audio Dramas	1
Korea’s “Pushing Hands”: The Story behind the Global Cultural Expansion of Korean Martial Arts	1
How Propaganda Affects Public Opinion in China: Evidence from the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Is ‘Easy Japanese’ a Language Option? Local Responses to the Increasing Foreign Resident Population from Southeast Asia	1
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Resistance to Climate Change in China’s English-Language News Media	1
The End of Compromise: Political Meanings of Thailand’s First National Day Celebrations on 24 June 1939	1
Informality, Paradiplomacy, and Cross-Border Cooperation: The Development of Tourism on Bintan Island, Indonesia	1
An Arab Indonesian Singing Preacher, an Islamic Mass Concert, and the Historic Capture of a Public Space in Malaysia	1
Legitimation and Perversity: A Comparison of the Politics of Minimum Wage Reforms in Japan and South Korea	1
Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War	1
Towards a new paradigm for English language teaching: English for specific purposes in Asia and beyond	1
The Global Imperative: Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce and its Political-Economic Implications in a Deglobalising World	1
Authoritarianism at School: Indoctrination Education, Political Socialisation, and Citizenship in North Korea	1

Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia	1
Behind China’s Overseas Food Investments: A Tale of Two Dairies	1
Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in Outward State Translation of Chinese Literature in the PRC (1949–1966)	1
The BJP Government and the Kashmiri Pandits: Managing the Politics of Displacement in India	1
Active Waiting and Hope in Transnational Adoptions: Nepali Birth Families and their Children	1
How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects: Insights from Parliamentary Debates on Letpadaung Mines and Myitsone Dam in Myanmar	1
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand	1
The Weakening of Social Control in North Korea since the Arduous March: The Case of Physical Education	1
Body Modification in East Asia: An Introduction	1
Language, Mobility and Employability among Southeast Asian Migrant Workers in Japan	1
Female Labour Force Participation and the Reduction in Son Preference in China	1
Markets and the Development of Social Trust in the Everyday Politics of North Korea: Chinese Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives	1
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness’	1
Semiotics of rape: sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India	1
Liberalism in Cambodia: Broken Lineages	1
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea	1
Contested Memories, Precarious Apology: The Vietnam War in Contemporary Korean Art	1
Cinematic Testimony to the Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans to North Korea in Yang Yonghi’s Autobiographical Films	1
Democratic Regression and Environmental Politics in Indonesia	1
Sharia Cooperatives and Mosque Ecosystems: The Devolution of Halal Entrepreneurship in Indonesia	1
The Chineseness of Urban Cultural Policy in Taiwan	1
The art song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 The art song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 , edited by Alison McQueen Tokita & Joys H. Y. Cheung, Ro	0
Haruki Murakami – storytelling and productive distance	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
Visualising Nuclear Futurism and Narrating Queer Futurity in Yanobe Kenji’s The Sun Child and Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary	0
The handbook of Asian Englishes	0
Musicophilia in Mumbai: performing subjects & the metropolitan unconscious	0
The centre is everywhere: Southeast Asian and Australian literature The centre is everywhere: Southeast Asian and Australian literature , by Harry Aveling, Prestige Book	0
Islamist Government in Malaysia under PAS: Ideology, Policies, and Competition	0
Constructing a Discourse of Hope and Inspiration: A Positive Discourse Analysis of Joko Widodo’s Press Statements on COVID-19	0
The Process of Marketisation and Economic Realities in the DPRK	0
Making peace with nature: ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ	0
Future Forward: the rise and fall of a Thai political party	0
Ethnocentrism of Victimhood: Tracing the Discourses of Khmer Ethnicity in Precolonial and Colonial Cambodia	0
Oral Traditions and Local Authority: Viewing the Indonesian Revolution through a Cultural Lens	0
Wu Xun, Song Jingshi and Lin Zexu: Cinema and Historiography in Mao’s China (1949-1966)	0
The opium business: a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China	0
Dirty hearts – the history of Shindo Renmei	0
Two Outstanding Articles Share Wang Gungwu Prize for 2023	0
Situated Knowledge: The Pro-China Trend in China Studies in Cold War Japan	0
Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia , by Katharine E. McGregor,	0
Becoming one: religion, development and environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar	0
Caravan Modernity: The Strategic Revitalisation of China’s Dynastic Transportation System during the Second Sino–Japanese War	0
Facilitating the Market with a Gift: The Politics of the ECFA between China and Taiwan (2008–2016)	0
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Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India	0
Living on the Line: Gendered Invisibilities among Queer Women and Transmen in Indonesia	0
The Bloomsbury handbook of modern Chinese literature in translation The Bloomsbury handbook of modern Chinese literature in translation , edited by Cosima Bruno, Lucas K	0
Swimming with the Whales: Inflection Points in Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Foreign Policy	0
The promise and peril of things: literature and material culture in late imperial China	0
The Modern Boy as the New Body of Modernity? Contesting the Meaning of Masculinity in Early 20th-century Japan	0
No Royal Road: Urban Transportation, Capitalist Development, and Monarchy in Thailand	0
Televising Chineseness: gender, nation, and subjectivity	0
Article about Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2022	0
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Post-Covid Asia: deglobalization, fourth Industrial Revolution, and sustainable development Post-Covid Asia: deglobalization, fourth Industrial Revolution, and sustainable development	0
Voyage to Innumerable Star Worlds: A Forgotten 19th-century Japanese Political Scientific Novel with a Radical Message	0
A region of regimes: prosperity and plunder in the Asia–Pacific	0
Borderland infrastructures: trade, development, and control in Western China	0
NORTH ASIA A half of one-sixth of Pyongyang	0
The rise and fall of imperial China: the social origins of state development The rise and fall of imperial China: the social origins of state development , by Yuhua Wang	0
Children affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Thailand	0
Where great powers meet: America and China in Southeast Asia	0
Gendering and Sexualising Opium Consumption in Manchukuo, 1932–1945	0
Chinese culture in the 21st century and its global dimensions	0
Rationality and Relationality: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Japan’s Strategy for Infrastructure Investment	0
International terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’: history, modernity	0
Higher Education as an Instrument of Decolonisation: The Community Service Programme in Indonesia, 1950–1969	0
Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture , edited by Shengqing Wu & Xuelei Huang, Routledge,	0
Korea: a history	0
Correction	0
Stories about Somewhere Else: Mobility and ‘Spatial Others’ in Hong Kong Cinema	0
Mobilizing for elections – patronage and political machines in Southeast Asia	0
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Deities and divas: queer ritual specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond Deities and divas: queer ritual specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond , edited by Pet	0
Historical Continuities and Changes in the Ethnic Politics of Hmong-Miao Millenarianism	0
English as a Lingua Franca in Japan: towards multilingual practices	0
The deer and the dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21stcentury	0
Snake sisters and ghost daughters: feminist adaptations of traditional tales in Chinese fantasy Snake sisters and ghost daughters: feminist adaptations of traditional tales in Chinese f	0
SOUTH ASIA Curing madness? A social and cultural history of insanity in colonial North India, 1800–1950s	0

Love for a laugh: the comic in romantic chuanqi plays of the 17 th and 18 th centuries	0
Cross-Border Religiosity and the Revival of Theravada Buddhism in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China	0
Rabindranath Tagore: A Sectarian or a Cosmopolitan Writer?	0
Driving toward modernity: cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China	0
Cross-border traders in northern Laos: mastering smallness	0
BOOK REVIEW	0
Gods of Mount Tai: familiarity and the material culture of North China, 1000–2000	0
The specter of materialism: queer theory and Marxism in the age of the Beijing consensus The specter of materialism: queer theory and Marxism in the age of the Beijing consensus	0
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Researching China in Southeast Asia	0
Reforming lesson study in Japan: theories of action for Schools as Learning Communities Reforming lesson study in Japan: theories of action for Schools as Learning Communities	0
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	0
Buying the Tokyo Dream! Working Women’s Metropolitan Romance in Japanese Television Drama	0
Ishtyle: accenting gay Indian nightlife	0
I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today	0
The dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university	0
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	0
Strategies of authoritarian survival and dissensus in Southeast Asia: weak men versus strongmen	0
Carving status at Kŭmgangsan: elite graffiti in premodern Korea	0
The cornucopian stage: performing commerce in early modern China The cornucopian stage: performing commerce in early modern China , by Ariel Fox, Harvard University Asia	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
The King of Bangkok	0
Memory making in folk epics of China: the intimate and the local in Chinese regional culture	0
Language teacher recognition: narratives of Filipino English teachers in Japan	0
Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present	0
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema	0
Spaces of solidarity: Karen activism in the Thailand–Burma borderlands	0
Contemporary Bali, contested space and governance	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
Federalism in Myanmar Federalism in Myanmar , by Pau Sian Lian, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 157 pp., US$95.00 (hardback)	0
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: fluidity and fragmentation	0
Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar and Zehra Naqvi’s The Reluctant Mother	0
The constitution of Myanmar: a contextual analysis	0
Japan’s Role and Presence in the Changing Geopolitics of the Pacific Islands Region	0
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe: A Zomian Jewish Community in Israel	0
Empire and righteous nation	0
A history of Chinese studies in Australia and New Zealand (Ao Xin hanxue yanjiushi 澳新汉学研究史)	0
Social capital in Singapore: the power of network diversity Social capital in Singapore: the power of network diversity , by Vincent Chua, Gillian Koh, Tan Ern Ser, &	0
Global Middle East: into the twenty-first century	0
Madness in the family: women, care, and illness in Japan	0
Deliberative democracy in Asia	0
Beijing from below: stories of marginal lives in the capital’s centre	0
Deifying Communist Soldiers: The Coastal Defence Culture and the Continuation of Apotheosis in Contemporary China	0
Inside the circle: queer culture and activism in northwest China	0
Rising China and new Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia Rising China and new Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia , edited by Leo Suryadinata & Benjamin Loh, ISEAS-Yus	0
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Chinese grammatology: script revolution and literary modernity, 1916–1958	0
Political warfare: strategies for combating China’s plan to ‘win without fighting’	0
Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation	0
Education and social justice in Japan	0
Rivers of iron: railroads and Chinese power in Southeast Asia	0
Business Leaders and Nationalism in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy in the Middle East	0
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A catalog of such stuff as dreams are made on A catalog of such stuff as dreams are made on , by Dung Kai-Cheung, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall & Anders Hansson,	0
The theory of guanxi and Chinese society	0
How Australia is studied in China	0
The discursive construction of hierarchy in Japanese society: an ethnographic study of secondary school clubs	0
Correction	0
The Chinese Communist Party: a century in ten lives	0
Haunting in Chinese-Australian writing Haunting in Chinese-Australian writing , by Xiao Xiong, Springer Nature Singapore, 2023, 151 pp., €99.99 (paperback)	0
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Sound of the border: music and identity of Korean minority in China	0
China’s asymmetric statecraft: alignments, competitors, and regional diplomacy	0
Making women pay: microfinance in urban India	0
The Intimate Other: Screening North Korean Defectors in Multicultural South Korea	0
Emerging from the horizon of history: modern Chinese women’s literature, 1917–1949 Emerging from the horizon of history: modern Chinese women’s literature, 1917–1949 , b	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
Muslim Migration to East Pakistan, 1947–1964: Rehabilitation, Politics, and Language	0
Japanese role-playing games: genre, representation, and liminality in the JRPG	0
Bureaucrats on Douyin: The Official Appropriation of Egao in Promoting Tourism on Chinese Social Media	0
Spatial Dunhuang: experiencing the Mogao Caves	0
Mumbai taximen: autobiographies and automobilities in India	0
Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia: ethnicity, education, and enterprise	0
The political economy of North Korea: domestic, regional, and global dynamics The political economy of North Korea: domestic, regional, and global dynamics , edited by M	0
‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos	0
ASIAN HISTORY Mr. Smith goes to China: three Scots in the making of Britain’s global empire	0
Performing the arts of Indonesia: Malay identity and politics in the music, dance, and theatre of the Riau Islands	0
Making sense of Indian democracy	0
Chinese Settler-Colonialism and the Borderless National Imagination in Lü Sheng’sA Madman’s Dream	0
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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.	0
A Path not Taken: Wei Yung, ‘Multi-System Nations’, and Cross-Strait Relations in the 1980s	0
Happy together: bridging the Australia–China divide	0
Article about Male Cosmetic Surgery in China Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2021	0
The Politics of Displays: Science and Technology Exhibitions in Cold War Japan	0
Article on Tibet in Meiji Japan and Qing China Wins 2020 Wang Gungwu Prize	0
Employment Disadvantages among Asian NESB Skilled Migrants in Australia: The Case of Japanese Independent Professionals	0
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century	0
Recasting the Body: Self-production of Japanese Disabled Veterans’ Image	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
Organisational Learning, Environmental NGOs, and Policy Advocacy in China	0
Chinese English: names, norms and narratives	0
From social visibility to political invisibility: the school in Nationalist Taiwan as fulcrum for an evolving world ethos	0
The politics of Muslim identities in Asia	0
Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech	0