Asian Studies Review

Article	Citations
Hidden wars: gendered political violence in Asia’s civil conflicts	29
Chinese cinema: identity, power, and globalization	25
Nationalism First: Late Cold War Politics and the ‘Really Secret War’ in Laos	19
Article on Tibet in Meiji Japan and Qing China Wins 2020 Wang Gungwu Prize	10
Taiwan literature in the 21 st century: a critical reader	10
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.	9
Contributors	8
Contemporary Bali, contested space and governance	8
Performing the arts of Indonesia: Malay identity and politics in the music, dance, and theatre of the Riau Islands	8
Mumbai taximen: autobiographies and automobilities in India	7
Sovereignty, space and civil war in Sri Lanka: porous nation	7
Carving status at Kŭmgangsan: elite graffiti in premodern Korea	6
Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India	6
Sound of the border: music and identity of Korean minority in China	6
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	6
Facilitating the Market with a Gift: The Politics of the ECFA between China and Taiwan (2008–2016)	6
Cross-border traders in northern Laos: mastering smallness	5
Contributors	5
Making peace with nature: ecological encounters along the Korean DMZ	5
Haruki Murakami – storytelling and productive distance	4
Why Are You Learning Japanese? Vietnamese University Students’ Perspectives on Work and Life between Vietnam and Japan	4
Inside the circle: queer culture and activism in northwest China	4
SOUTH ASIA Curing madness? A social and cultural history of insanity in colonial North India, 1800–1950s	4
Chinese English: names, norms and narratives	4
The Discourse of Self-learning: An Analysis of Japan’s EPA Programme for Healthcare Workers from Southeast Asia	4

Global Middle East: into the twenty-first century	4
An Anatomy of Satirical Cartoons in Contemporary Vietnam: Political Communication and Representations of Systemic Corruption in a One-party State	3
Recasting the Body: Self-production of Japanese Disabled Veterans’ Image	3
Article about Male Cosmetic Surgery in China Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2021	3
Empire and righteous nation	3
Where great powers meet: America and China in Southeast Asia	3
International terrorist organization ‘Islamic State’: history, modernity	3
‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos	2
Liberalism in Cambodia: Broken Lineages	2
Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia: An Introductory Essay	2
The Intimate Other: Screening North Korean Defectors in Multicultural South Korea	2
Violent intimacy: family harmony, state stability, and intimate partner violence in post-socialist China	2
Who will be Asia’s Next Unicorn? Comparing Marriage Equality in Taiwan with Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea	2
Televising Chineseness: gender, nation, and subjectivity	2
Interpreting modernism in Korean art: fluidity and fragmentation	2
Brand Nohomonationalism: Guofeng (‘National Style’) Framings of Boys’ Love Television Series in China	2
The centre is everywhere: Southeast Asian and Australian literature	2
Chiang Mai between empire and modern Thailand: a city in the colonial margins	2
Bureaucrats on Douyin: The Official Appropriation of Egao in Promoting Tourism on Chinese Social Media	2
The King of Bangkok	2
Chinese Settler-Colonialism and the Borderless National Imagination in Lü Sheng’sA Madman’s Dream	2
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	2
A region of regimes: prosperity and plunder in the Asia–Pacific	2
Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia	2
The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness’	2
Envisaging East Asia: Korean Daily Newspapers’ Interpretations of Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech	1
Chinese grammatology: script revolution and literary modernity, 1916–1958	1
Negotiating Identities in Cross-Cultural Contexts: A Case Study of Xinjiangban Students in China	1
Retrospective Witnessing: Paintings of Grievous Deaths in the Korean War	1
Business Leaders and Nationalism in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy in the Middle East	1
Going Solo: An Analysis of China’s ‘Single Economy’ through the Date-renting Industry	1
Rabindranath Tagore: A Sectarian or a Cosmopolitan Writer?	1
Oral Traditions and Local Authority: Viewing the Indonesian Revolution through a Cultural Lens	1
Demobilising and Reorienting Online Emotions: China’s Emotional Governance during the COVID-19 Outbreak	1
Brokerage in the Cross-border Labour Market: Recruitment and Training of Vietnamese IT Workers by Japanese Temporary Staffing Firms	1
Contributors	1
Beijing from below: stories of marginal lives in the capital’s centre	1
Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present	1
The Immigration and Strategic Assimilation of Bene Menashe: A Zomian Jewish Community in Israel	1
Making women pay: microfinance in urban India	1
Historical Continuities and Changes in the Ethnic Politics of Hmong-Miao Millenarianism	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
The Modern Boy as the New Body of Modernity? Contesting the Meaning of Masculinity in Early 20th-century Japan	1
Correction	1
How Australia is studied in China	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
Two Outstanding Articles Share Wang Gungwu Prize for 2023	1
Gendered Moralities and Cinematic Representations of Indonesian Muslims and their Arab Others	1
Unmasking the Middle Class in the Philippines: Aspirations, Lifestyles and Prospects for Sustainable Consumption	1
Histories of children and childhood in Meiji Japan	1

Making sense of Indian democracy	1
The Paradoxical State: The Political Economy of Multidimensional Gender Inequality in Korea	1
Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema	1
The handbook of Asian Englishes	1
Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia	1
The Global Imperative: Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce and its Political-Economic Implications in a Deglobalising World	1
The Process of Marketisation and Economic Realities in the DPRK	1
Gentle yet Manly: Xiao xian rou, Male Cosmetic Surgery and Neoliberal Consumer Culture in China	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 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
Swimming with the Whales: Inflection Points in Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Foreign Policy	1
Piracy and the making of the Spanish Pacific world	1
Champassak royalty and sovereignty: within and between nation-states in mainland Southeast Asia	1
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
Transnational Familyhood and Migration Strategies among Parachute Kids-turned-Parents from Hong Kong	0
Navigating Digital Transformation in Pakistan: A Discourse Analysis of the Media Representation of the Digital Pakistan Initiative	0
The Politics of Toys: What Potential for Inter-Korean Reconciliation?	0
Hiding in the Shadows: Resistance and Antagonism of Everyday Minority Nationalism in China	0
Love for a laugh: the comic in romantic chuanqi plays of the 17 th and 18 th centuries	0
The stage in the temple: ritual opera in village Shanxi	0
Performance as Apology: Deconstructing the Legacy of the Japanese Empire in Shin’ya Eiko’s Shinsetaryon	0
Pursuing morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in southeastern Myanmar	0
Singapore Comes to Terms with its Malay Past: The Politics of Crafting a National History	0
The opium business: a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China	0
Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media	0
Becoming a Bone Buddha: Fragmenting and Remaking Death Rites in Contemporary Japan	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
Cultivating Cotton in the Red Earth of Kampong Cham: Self-Sufficiency, Alternative Modernities and Wartime Refugees in Cold War Cambodia, 1955–1970	0
On saving face: a brief history of Western appropriation	0
Negotiating and Contesting Confucian Workplace Culture in South Korea	0
In the Name of Traditions? Legitimating Homophobic Discourse in Chinese News Media	0
Higher education in market-oriented socialist Vietnam: new players, discourses and practices	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
Contributors	0
The political economy of Southeast Asia: politics and uneven development under hyperglobalisation	0
Islam, education, and radicalism in Indonesia: instructing piety	0
Between Collective Will and Individual Standards: Levels of Discourse within the Japanese Military’s Kōgun Ideal, 1937–1945	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
Contributors	0
China–Swiss relations during the Cold War, 1949–1989: between soft power and propaganda	0
Contesting China-funded Projects in Cambodia: The Case of Stung Chhay Areng Hydropower	0
Questioning borders: ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan	0
Evaluating Everyday Politics in North Korea	0
Educational evaluation and improvement in Japan: linking lesson study, curriculum management and school evaluation	0
‘I call it self-love now’: Indian Women’s Experiences of Self-Partnering	0
Contributors	0
Towards a History of Conservative Liberalism in Thailand after the 1932 Siamese Revolution: An Ideological Analysis	0
These islands are ours: the social construction of territorial disputes in Northeast Asia	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
Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand	0
Personal Networks, Group Dynamics, and Local Party Politics: Luo Yinong and the Moscow Faction in the CCP, 1920–1927	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
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
Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore	0
Capital, Charity and the Crown: Philanthrocapitalism and Monarchy in Thailand	0
Supercorporate: distinction and participation in post-hierarchy South Korea	0
Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia	0
Graduate employability of South Asian ethnic minority youths: voices from Hong Kong	0
The Electoral Paradox of Party Institutionalisation: The Case of PKS in Eastern Indonesia	0
Active Waiting and Hope in Transnational Adoptions: Nepali Birth Families and their Children	0
Ruling the stage: social and cultural history of opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People’s Republic of China	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
Migration, Vulnerability, and Protection: Changing Labour Law Regime in Contemporary India	0
The Gendered Construction of the Japanese Language-Learning Boom in Postcolonial Korea	0
Bloom & other poems Bloom & other poems , by Xi Chuan, trans. Lucas Klein, New Directions Books, 2022, 204 pp., $22.95 (paperback)	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
‘I Didn’t Realise There Are So Many of Them’: Ethnic Chinese Women in Civic Life in Australia	0
China’s Responses to the US-Led Security Network: Coercion and Alternatives to ‘Non-Alignment’	0
Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police	0
Digital Payments on the Agenda: How Supply-side Actors Framed Cash and Digital Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India	0
Hajj across empires: pilgrimage and political culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857	0
Xi Jinping’s anticorruption campaign: the politics of revenge	0
The Weakening of Social Control in North Korea since the Arduous March: The Case of Physical Education	0
The contest for the Indian Ocean and the making of a New World Order	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
China’s asymmetric statecraft: alignments, competitors, and regional diplomacy	0
Unsilent strangers: music, minorities, co-existence, Japan	0
Baptizing Burma: religious change in the last Buddhist kingdom	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
Hindu nationalism in South India: the rise of saffron in Kerala	0

Education and social justice in Japan	0
Is ‘Easy Japanese’ a Language Option? Local Responses to the Increasing Foreign Resident Population from Southeast Asia	0
Coming home to a foreign country: Xiamen and returned overseas Chinese, 1843–1938	0
Negotiating linguistic and religious diversity: a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia	0
Taiwan in dynamic transition: nation building and democratization Taiwan in dynamic transition: nation building and democratization , edited by Ryan Dunch & Ashley E	0
An Arab Indonesian Singing Preacher, an Islamic Mass Concert, and the Historic Capture of a Public Space in Malaysia	0
How Propaganda Affects Public Opinion in China: Evidence from the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic	0
Sharia Cooperatives and Mosque Ecosystems: The Devolution of Halal Entrepreneurship in Indonesia	0
Indonesians and their Arab world: guided mobility among labor migrants and Mecca pilgrims	0
Liberalism in Indonesia: Between Authoritarian Statism and Islamism	0
Trauma, precarity, and war memories in Asian American writings	0
Reimagining Scholars and Eunuchs: Nationalism, Masculinities, and Historicism in King Hu’s Martial Arts Films	0
A contemporary history of the Chinese zheng	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
West Papuan ‘Housewives’ with HIV: Gender, Marriage, and Inequality in Indonesia	0
Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context Language learning motivation in a multilingual Chinese context , by Mairin Hennebry-Leung & Xuesong (A	0
Resisting Foreign Hostility in China’s English-language News Media during the COVID-19 Crisis	0
Semiotics of rape: sexual subjectivity and violation in rural India	0
Ten Years as Boundary Object: The Search for Identity and Belonging as ‘Hongkongers’	0
Witnessing and Remembering Trauma in Northeast Asia in the Visual Age	0
Religion, Cult or the Truth? The Struggle of Yiguan Dao in Thailand’s Competitive Religious Field	0
Contributors	0
Legitimation Game: The Anti-Japanese Textbook Issue in Sino–Japanese Relations, 1914–1937	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
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Contributors	0
Ruling the Borderlands: An Ethnography of the Pakistani State’s Everyday Practices in Dir	0
Performing the socialist state: modern Chinese theater and film culture	0
The Shadow Economy and Social Change in North Korea	0
The Chineseness of Urban Cultural Policy in Taiwan	0
Women’s Political Participation in Post-conflict Settings: The Case of Timor-Leste	0
Your Bodies are Our Future: Vietnamese Men’s Engagement with Korean Television Dramas as a Technology of the Self	0
Long Live Patriarchy! The Thai Monarchy’s Position on Gender Equality and Justice	0
The Paradoxes of “Vernacularised” Liberalism in Southeast Asia	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
Japan’s aging peace: pacifism and militarism in the twenty-first century	0
Engaging with Labour Migrants: Emigration Policy in Tajikistan	0
Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in Outward State Translation of Chinese Literature in the PRC (1949–1966)	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
Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan	0
The Civic and Political Participation of Non-Citizen Residents in Japan: Multi-Ethnic Cities in an Ethno-Nationalist Society	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
The Bittersweet Temporality of Belonging: Dwelling in Zhujiajiao Water Town	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
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
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
Authoritarianism at School: Indoctrination Education, Political Socialisation, and Citizenship in North Korea	0
Deities and divas: queer ritual specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond	0
Face and Favours: Network Norms among Chinese Migrants and Non-Migrants in Australia	0
Fifty Years of Australian Diplomatic Relations with China: Some Reflections	0
Rivers of iron: railroads and Chinese power in Southeast Asia	0
A Transmedia ‘Third’ Space: The Counterculture of Chinese Boys’ Love Audio Dramas	0
Comfort women of the Japanese empire: colonial rule and the battle over memory	0
Co-Constructing a Gender–State Entanglement in Canonical Three Kingdoms Fandom: A Discourse-Historical Approach	0
Heritage and history in the China–Australia migration corridor	0
English as a Lingua Franca in Japan: towards multilingual practices	0
Concepts in Contexts: Discourse-based Semantic Networks of Ideologies in Taiwan (1945–1949)	0
Kartini, Online Media, and the Politics of the Jokowi Era: A Critical Discourse Analysis	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
I am the people: reflections on popular sovereignty today	0
Malaysian crossings: place and language in the worlding of modern Chinese literature	0
Ummah yet proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the making of the Indonesian republic	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
Reconstructing Japan’s security policy: the role of military crises	0
Article about Sun Yatsen’s Pan-Asianism Speech Wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2022	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
Dynamics of Trust and Mistrust in the Afghanistan–Pakistan Relationship	0
The Politics of STEMM Collaboration between Australia and China: National Security, Geopolitics, and Academic Freedom	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
Rethinking Pakistan: a 21st century perspective	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
Towards a new paradigm for English language teaching: English for specific purposes in Asia and beyond	0
The BJP Government and the Kashmiri Pandits: Managing the Politics of Displacement in India	0
Fragrant frontier: global spice entanglements from the Sino–Vietnamese uplands	0
New world orderings: China and the Global South	0
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Envoy Trade and the End of the Tribute Relationship between Vietnam and China, 1802–1885	0
Affective geographies and narratives of Chinese diaspora	0
Taking China to the world: the cultural production of modernity	0
Crime and control in China: the myth of harmony	0
Securing Taiwan: Separating the Two Sides of the Taiwan Strait in Japan’s China Policy	0
The End of Compromise: Political Meanings of Thailand’s First National Day Celebrations on 24 June 1939	0
The Art of Monument Politics: The North Korean State,Jucheand International Politics	0
Behind China’s Overseas Food Investments: A Tale of Two Dairies	0
‘Marriage is like Gambling’: Interpreting and Narrating Stories of Hakka Chinese Indonesians’ Marriage Migration	0
Packaging, Persuasion and Propaganda: Popular Preaching and Islamic Counter-publics in Indonesia	0
Paris and the art of transposition: early twentieth century Sino-French encounters	0
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Colonial Hero: Son Kijŏng in Narratives of Popular and National Korean History	0
Narrating democracy in Myanmar Narrating democracy in Myanmar , by Tamas Wells, Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 212 pp., US$115.62 (hardback)	0
A tiger rules the mountain: Cambodia’s pursuit of democracy	0
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Ōrui Noburu’s Cross-Cultural Inquiry into the Histories of the Renaissance as a Critique of Modernity	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
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