Asian Studies Review

Article	Citations
Chinese culture in the 21st century and its global dimensions	29
Nationalism First: Late Cold War Politics and the ‘Really Secret War’ in Laos	21
Taiwan literature in the 21 st century: a critical reader	19
Hidden wars: gendered political violence in Asia’s civil conflicts	10
Chinese cinema: identity, power, and globalization	10
The constitution of Myanmar: a contextual analysis	8
Article on Tibet in Meiji Japan and Qing China Wins 2020 Wang Gungwu Prize	8
NORTH ASIA A half of one-sixth of Pyongyang	7
Contemporary Bali, contested space and governance	7
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.	7
Performing the arts of Indonesia: Malay identity and politics in the music, dance, and theatre of the Riau Islands	6
Contributors	6
The Modern Boy as the New Body of Modernity? Contesting the Meaning of Masculinity in Early 20th-century Japan	6
Carving status at Kŭmgangsan: elite graffiti in premodern Korea	5
Mumbai taximen: autobiographies and automobilities in India	5
Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India	5
Sound of the border: music and identity of Korean minority in China	4
Contributors	4
Ishtyle: accenting gay Indian nightlife	4
Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia , by Katharine E. McGregor,	4
Cross-border traders in northern Laos: mastering smallness	4
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	4
Making peace with nature: ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ	4
Historical Continuities and Changes in the Ethnic Politics of Hmong-Miao Millenarianism	3
SOUTH ASIA Curing madness? A social and cultural history of insanity in colonial North India, 1800–1950s	3

Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation	3
Why Are You Learning Japanese? Vietnamese University Students’ Perspectives on Work and Life between Vietnam and Japan	3
The centre is everywhere: Southeast Asian and Australian literature The centre is everywhere: Southeast Asian and Australian literature , by Harry Aveling, Prestige Book	3
Where great powers meet: America and China in Southeast Asia	2
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: fluidity and fragmentation	2
Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia: An Introductory Essay	2
Televising Chineseness: gender, nation, and subjectivity	2
Recasting the Body: Self-production of Japanese Disabled Veterans’ Image	2
Haruki Murakami – storytelling and productive distance	2
Empire and righteous nation	2
Global Middle East: into the twenty-first century	2
Liberalism in Cambodia: Broken Lineages	2
Chinese Settler-Colonialism and the Borderless National Imagination in Lü Sheng’sA Madman’s Dream	2
Article about Male Cosmetic Surgery in China Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2021	2
International terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’: history, modernity	2
Inside the circle: queer culture and activism in northwest China	2
Chinese English: names, norms and narratives	2
An Anatomy of Satirical Cartoons in Contemporary Vietnam: Political Communication and Representations of Systemic Corruption in a One-party State	2
A region of regimes: prosperity and plunder in the Asia–Pacific	2
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema	2
Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia	2
The Discourse of Self-learning: An Analysis of Japan’s EPA Programme for Healthcare Workers from Southeast Asia	2
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness’	1
Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War	1
Ethnocentrism of Victimhood: Tracing the Discourses of Khmer Ethnicity in Precolonial and Colonial Cambodia	1
Hegemonic mimicry: Korean popular culture of the twenty-first century	1
Contributors	1
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	1
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	1
Negotiating Identities in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study of Xinjiangban Students in China	1
Dirty hearts – the history of Shindo Renmei	1
Gendered Moralities and Cinematic Representations of Indonesian Muslims and their Arab Others	1
Gentle yet Manly: Xiao xian rou, Male Cosmetic Surgery and Neoliberal Consumer Culture in China	1
Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms	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
‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos	1
The Intimate Other: Screening North Korean Defectors in Multicultural South Korea	1
The Process of Marketisation and Economic Realities in the DPRK	1
Gods of Mount Tai: familiarity and the material culture of North China, 1000–2000	1
Beijing from below: stories of marginal lives in the capital’s centre	1
Chinese grammatology: script revolution and literary modernity, 1916–1958	1
Haunting in Chinese-Australian writing Haunting in Chinese-Australian writing , by Xiao Xiong, Springer Nature Singapore, 2023, 151 pp., €99.99 (paperback)	1
The New Chinese Individual: Confronting the Divided Self inNe Zha: Birth of the Demon Child	1
Two Outstanding Articles Share Wang Gungwu Prize for 2023	1
Correction	1
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea	1
The handbook of Asian Englishes	1
Oral Traditions and Local Authority: Viewing the Indonesian Revolution through a Cultural Lens	1
Facilitating the Market with a Gift: The Politics of the ECFA between China and Taiwan (2008–2016)	1
Swimming with the Whales: Inflection Points in Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Foreign Policy	1

The Global Imperative: Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce and its Political-Economic Implications in a Deglobalising World	1
How Australia is studied in China	1
Rabindranath Tagore: A Sectarian or a Cosmopolitan Writer?	1
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe: A Zomian Jewish Community in Israel	1
Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech	1
Korea: a history	1
Demobilising and Reorienting Online Emotions: China’s Emotional Governance during the COVID-19 Outbreak	1
The Chinese Communist Party: a century in ten lives	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
Unmasking the Middle Class in the Philippines: Aspirations, Lifestyles and Prospects for Sustainable Consumption	1
Bureaucrats on Douyin: The Official Appropriation of Egao in Promoting Tourism on Chinese Social Media	1
Business Leaders and Nationalism in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy in the Middle East	1
Brand Nohomonationalism: Guofeng (‘National Style’) Framings of Boys’ Love Television Series in China	1
The King of Bangkok	1
The stage in the temple: ritual opera in village Shanxi	0
Witnessing and Remembering Trauma in Northeast Asia in the Visual Age	0
The Gendered Construction of the Japanese Language-Learning Boom in Postcolonial Korea	0
Post-Covid Asia: deglobalization, fourth Industrial Revolution, and sustainable development Post-Covid Asia: deglobalization, fourth Industrial Revolution, and sustainable development	0
Cultivating Cotton in the Red Earth of Kampong Cham: Self-Sufficiency, Alternative Modernities and Wartime Refugees in Cold War Cambodia, 1955–1970	0
The Civic and Political Participation of Non-Citizen Residents in Japan: Multi-Ethnic Cities in an Ethno-Nationalist Society	0
Concepts in Contexts: Discourse-based Semantic Networks of Ideologies in Taiwan (1945–1949)	0
Between Collective Will and Individual Standards: Levels of Discourse within the Japanese Military’s Kōgun Ideal, 1937–1945	0
Engaging with Labour Migrants: Emigration Policy in Tajikistan	0
Bloom & other poems Bloom & other poems , by Xi Chuan, trans. Lucas Klein, New Directions Books, 2022, 204 pp., $22.95 (paperback)	0
Chinese theatre: an illustrated history through Nuoxi and Mulianxi Chinese theatre: an illustrated history through Nuoxi and Mulianxi , by Xiaohuan Zhao, Routledge, 2022	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
Narrating democracy in Myanmar Narrating democracy in Myanmar , by Tamas Wells, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 212 pp., US$115.62 (hardback)	0
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand	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
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
Towards a new paradigm for English language teaching: English for specific purposes in Asia and beyond	0
Transforming tradition: the reform of Chinese theater in the 1950s and early 1960s Transforming tradition: the reform of Chinese theater in the 1950s and early 1960s , b	0
The Politics of Toys: What Potential for Inter-Korean Reconciliation?	0
Homes, Home Lives and Precarious Privilege: Older Western Residents and Differing Lifestyle Mobilities in Ubud, Bali	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
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
Personal Networks, Group Dynamics, and Local Party Politics: Luo Yinong and the Moscow Faction in the CCP, 1920–1927	0
Capital, Charity and the Crown: Philanthrocapitalism and Monarchy in Thailand	0
Democratic Regression and Environmental Politics in Indonesia	0
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Resistance to Climate Change in China’s English-Language News Media	0
On saving face: a brief history of Western appropriation	0
The opium business: a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China	0
Securing Taiwan: Separating the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait in Japan’s China Policy	0
Contributors	0
Legitimation Game: The Anti-Japanese Textbook Issue in Sino–Japanese Relations, 1914–1937	0
Salvaging Buddhism to save Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) Salvaging Buddhism to save Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) , by Gregory N. Evon, Cambria Pre	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
Religion, Cult or the Truth? The Struggle of Yiguan Dao in Thailand’s Competitive Religious Field	0
Human rights and transnational democracy in South Korea Human rights and transnational democracy in South Korea , by Ingu Hwang, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022,	0
Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in Outward State Translation of Chinese Literature in the PRC (1949–1966)	0
Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore	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
Japan’s Role and Presence in the Changing Geopolitics of the Pacific Islands Region	0
River life and the upspring of nature River life and the upspring of nature , by Naveeda Khan, Duke University Press, 2023, 256 pp., US$26.95 (paperback)	0
Trauma, precarity, and war memories in Asian American writings	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
Reconstructing Japan’s security policy: the role of military crises	0
Becoming a Bone Buddha: Fragmenting and Remaking Death Rites in Contemporary Japan	0
Behind China’s Overseas Food Investments: A Tale of Two Dairies	0
New world orderings: China and the Global South	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
Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police	0
Sharia Cooperatives and Mosque Ecosystems: The Devolution of Halal Entrepreneurship in Indonesia	0
Taking China to the world: the cultural production of modernity	0
Deliberative democracy in Asia	0
Authoritarianism at School: Indoctrination Education, Political Socialisation, and Citizenship in North Korea	0
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‘I call it self-love now’: Indian Women’s Experiences of Self-Partnering	0
Contributors	0
Xi Jinping’s anticorruption campaign: the politics of revenge	0
Fifty Years of Australian Diplomatic Relations with China: Some Reflections	0
The Electoral Paradox of Party Institutionalisation: The Case of PKS in Eastern Indonesia	0
The League of Red Cross Societies’ Development Programme, the 1964 South East Asian Forum, and the Silencing of Asia	0
A tiger rules the mountain: Cambodia’s pursuit of democracy A tiger rules the mountain: Cambodia’s pursuit of democracy , by Gordon Conochie, 384 pp., Monash University	0
Comfort women of the Japanese empire: colonial rule and the battle over memory	0
A contemporary history of the Chinese zheng	0
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The Bittersweet Temporality of Belonging: Dwelling in Zhujiajiao Water Town	0
Educational evaluation and improvement in Japan: linking lesson study, curriculum management and school evaluation	0
Reimagining Scholars and Eunuchs: Nationalism, Masculinities, and Historicism in King Hu’s Martial Arts Films	0

Evaluating Everyday Politics in North Korea	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
Migration, Vulnerability, and Protection: Changing Labour Law Regime in Contemporary India	0
How Legislators Frame Contentious Megaprojects: Insights from Parliamentary Debates on Letpadaung Mines and Myitsone Dam in Myanmar	0
Language and truth in North Korea Language and truth in North Korea , by Sonia Ryang, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021, 238 pp., US$80.00 (hardback)	0
State and family in China: filial piety and its modern reform State and family in China: filial piety and its modern reform , by Yue Du, Cambridge University Press, 2021	0
Active Waiting and Hope in Transnational Adoptions: Nepali Birth Families and their Children	0
Co-Constructing a Gender–State Entanglement in Canonical Three Kingdoms Fandom: A Discourse-Historical Approach	0
Japanese Business Leadership: Business for Peace in Practice	0
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media	0
Love for a laugh: the comic in romantic chuanqi plays of the 17 th and 18 th centuries	0
Japan’s aging peace: pacifism and militarism in the twenty-first century	0
Is ‘Easy Japanese’ a Language Option? Local Responses to the Increasing Foreign Resident Population from Southeast Asia	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
Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore	0
Silencing of a Laotian son: the life, work, and enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone Silencing of a Laotian son: the life, work, and enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone	0
Between dreams and ghosts: Indian migration and Middle Eastern oil	0
Supercorporate: distinction and participation in post-hierarchy South Korea	0
Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan	0
Affective geographies and narratives of Chinese diaspora	0
‘I Didn’t Realise There Are So Many of Them’: Ethnic Chinese Women in Civic Life in Australia	0
A Path not Taken: Wei Yung, ‘Multi-System Nations’, and Cross-Strait Relations in the 1980s	0
Packaging, Persuasion and Propaganda: Popular Preaching and Islamic Counter-publics in Indonesia	0
The Politics of STEMM Collaboration between Australia and China: National Security, Geopolitics, and Academic Freedom	0
The Art of Monument Politics: The North Korean State,Jucheand International Politics	0
Negotiating linguistic and religious diversity: a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia	0
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	0
Employment Disadvantages among Asian NESB Skilled Migrants in Australia: The Case of Japanese Independent Professionals	0
Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context , by Mairin Hennebry-Leung & Xuesong (A	0
The art of fate calculation: Practicing divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng The art of fate calculation: Practicing divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng , b	0
Colonial Hero: Son Kijŏng in Narratives of Popular and National Korean History	0
Ummah yet proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the making of the Indonesian republic	0
China–Swiss relations during the Cold War, 1949–1989: between soft power and propaganda	0
One China, many Taiwans: the geopolitics of cross-Strait tourism One China, many Taiwans: the geopolitics of cross-Strait tourism , by Ian Rowan, Cornell University Pres	0
Organisational Learning, Environmental NGOs, and Policy Advocacy in China	0
Ruling the Borderlands: An Ethnography of the Pakistani State’s Everyday Practices in Dir	0
Towards a History of Conservative Liberalism in Thailand after the 1932 Siamese Revolution: An Ideological Analysis	0
Resisting Foreign Hostility in China’s English-language News Media during the COVID-19 Crisis	0
The politics of Muslim identities in Asia	0
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea	0
Higher education in market-oriented socialist Vietnam: new players, discourses and practices	0
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self	0
The deer and the dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21stcentury	0
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Ten Years as Boundary Object: The Search for Identity and Belonging as ‘Hongkongers’	0
The BJP Government and the Kashmiri Pandits: Managing the Politics of Displacement in India	0
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong	0
Article about Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2022	0
Fragrant frontier: global spice entanglements from the Sino–Vietnamese uplands	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
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
Ōrui Noburu’s Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Histories of the Renaissance as a Critique of Modernity	0
These islands are ours: the social construction of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia	0
The Emergence of Populist Nationalism and ‘Illiberal’ Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka	0
The all-seeing eye: collected poems The all-seeing eye: collected poems , by Shang Qin, trans. John Balcom, Cambria Press, 2021, 108 pp., US$15.99 (paperback)	0
Semiotics of rape: sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India	0
China’s Responses to the US-Led Security Network: Coercion and Alternatives to ‘Non-Alignment’	0
Hajj across empires: pilgrimage and political culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857	0
Beyond the Middle Classes, Beyond New Media: The Politics of Islamic Consumerism in Indonesia	0
Islam, education, and radicalism in Indonesia: instructing piety	0
Bordering Ladakh, Again: From Ecological Flows to Cartographic Competition	0
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The Chineseness of Urban Cultural Policy in Taiwan	0
‘Marriage is like Gambling’: Interpreting and Narrating Stories of Hakka Chinese Indonesians’ Marriage Migration	0
The Rubber Stock Boom in Shanghai and the Kadoorie Enterprises, 1910–1949	0
Singapore Comes to Terms with its Malay Past: The Politics of Crafting a National History	0
Islamist Government in Malaysia under PAS: Ideology, Policies, and Competition	0
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Sovereignty in China: a genealogy of a concept since 1840	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
The Weakening of Social Control in North Korea since the Arduous March: The Case of Physical Education	0
Taiwan in dynamic transition: nation building and democratization Taiwan in dynamic transition: nation building and democratization , edited by Ryan Dunch & Ashley E	0
Negotiating and Contesting Confucian Workplace Culture in South Korea	0
Women’s Political Participation in Post-conflict Settings: The Case of Timor-Leste	0
Questioning borders: ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan	0
Activism and post-activism: Korean documentary cinema 1981–2022 Activism and post-activism: Korean documentary cinema 1981–2022 , by Jihoon Kim, Oxford University Press,	0
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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
Coming home to a foreign country: Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843–1938	0
The political economy of Southeast Asia: politics and uneven development under hyperglobalisation	0
Long Live Patriarchy! The Thai Monarchy’s Position on Gender Equality and Justice	0
Hiding in the Shadows: Resistance and Antagonism of Everyday Minority Nationalism in China	0
Indonesians and their Arab world: guided mobility among labor migrants and Mecca pilgrims	0
Contesting China-funded Projects in Cambodia: The Case of Stung Chhay Areng Hydropower	0
The Paradoxes of “Vernacularised” Liberalism in Southeast Asia	0
Dynamics of Trust and Mistrust in the Afghanistan–Pakistan Relationship	0
Rationality and Relationality: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on Japan’s Strategy for Infrastructure Investment	0
A Transmedia ‘Third’ Space: The Counterculture of Chinese Boys’ Love Audio Dramas	0
Malaysian crossings: place and language in the worlding of modern Chinese literature	0
Cinematic Testimony to the Repatriation of Zainichi Koreans to North Korea in Yang Yonghi’s Autobiographical Films	0
Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture , edited by Shengqing Wu & Xuelei Huang, Routledge,	0
Envoy Trade and the End of the Tribute Relationship between Vietnam and China, 1802–1885	0
How Propaganda Affects Public Opinion in China: Evidence from the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Rethinking Pakistan: a 21st century perspective	0
Mobilizing for elections – patronage and political machines in Southeast Asia	0