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Volume 98- No. 3

September 2025

Articles

  • Democracy Isn’t Enough for Redistribution: Welfare Stagnation and Labour Weakening in South Korea and Taiwan

    Democracy Isn’t Enough for Redistribution: Welfare Stagnation and Labour Weakening in South Korea and Taiwan

    Yunmin Nam and Insub Mah

  • Perceived Protest Efficacy: How Economic and Diplomatic Ties with China Influence Support for Anti-China Protests Over South China Sea Disputes

    Perceived Protest Efficacy: How Economic and Diplomatic Ties with China Influence Support for Anti-China Protests Over South China Sea Disputes

    Mai Truong

  • Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan

    Underrepresentation of Women in Japanese Politics with Comparative Reference to Taiwan

    Yasuo Takao

  • The ‘Hub-and-Spokes Plus Model’: A Case Study of AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific

    The ‘Hub-and-Spokes Plus Model’: A Case Study of AUKUS in the Indo-Pacific

    Tayyaba Jaffery and Muhammad Shoaib Pervez

Perspectives

  • Flight to Quality and a New Prime Minister’s Mandate: Singapore’s 2025 General Election

    Flight to Quality and a New Prime Minister’s Mandate: Singapore’s 2025 General Election

    Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah

  • Gerrymandering and its Effects in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections  

    Gerrymandering and its Effects in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections  

    Netina Tan

Critical Responses

Review Essays

  • Peaks of Policy Analysis: Six National Cases in Asia and the Pacific

    Peaks of Policy Analysis: Six National Cases in Asia and the Pacific

    Hyung Gu Lynn

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

  • 1923 KANTO MASSACRE | Directed and produced by Tae-yeong Kim, Gyu-seog Choi, and Jinhee Josephine Lee / SEPTEMBER 1923 | Directed by Tatsuya Mori

    Joel Matthews

  • VOICES OF THE SILENCED | Directed by Soo-nam Park and Maeui Park; produced by Emi Ueyama

    Jooyeon Rhee

Book Reviews

Asia General
China & Inner Asia
Northeast Asia
South Asia & the Himalayas
Southeast Asia
Australasia & the Pacific Islands
Asia General Back to Tags ^
  • DEGLOBALIZATION: Short Histories | By Edward Ashbee

    Marina Yue Zhang

  • PAST PROGRESS: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea | By Ed Pulford

    Adam Cathcart

China & Inner Asia Back to Tags ^
  • BIRTH OF THE GEOPOLITICAL AGE: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China | By Shellen Xiao Wu

    Q. Edward Wang

  • CHINA’S ASYMMETRIC STATECRAFT: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy | By Yuxing Huang

    Benjamin Robin Barton

  • THE SENTINEL STATE: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China | By Minxin Pei

    Olivia Cheung

  • CHINESE WORKERS OF THE WORLD: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway | By Selda Altan

    Yin Cao

  • THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform | By Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

    Yanjie Huang

  • THE MAKING OF CHINA’S POST OFFICE: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation | By Weipin Tsai

    Patricia Maclachlan

  • CONFUCIAN GOVERNMENTALITY AND SOCIALIST AUTOCRACY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA | By Chih-yu Shih

    Kaixuan Zhang

  • SHIFTING SANDS: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China’s Contemporary Borderlands | By Xiaoxuan Lu

    Tianlong You

  • GINKGO VILLAGE: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China | By Tamara Jacka

    Thomas White

  • CHINA’S RELATIONS WITH AFRICA: A New Era of Strategic Engagement | By David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman

    Deborah Bräutigam

  • QUESTIONING BORDERS: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan | By Robin Visser

    Zikun Yang

  • SODA SCIENCE: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola | By Susan Greenhalgh

    Marion Nestle

  • THE PEOPLE’S WEST LAKE: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976 | By Qiliang He

    Fei Yan

Northeast Asia Back to Tags ^
  • FEELING MACHINES: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements of More-Than-Human Care | By Shawn Bender

    Naonori Kodate

  • SEX, SEXUALITY, AND THE CONSTITUTION: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan | By Shigenori Matsui

    Javier Pang

  • INTIMATE STRANGERS: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020 | By Tritia Toyota

    Nobuko Adachi

  • JAPANESE RACIAL IDENTITIES WITHIN US-JAPAN RELATIONS, 1853–1919 | By Tarik Merida

    Michael Sharpe

  • MILLENNIAL NORTH KOREA: Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance | By Suk-Young Kim

    Esther Eui-Gyeong Kim

  • PASSCODE TO THE THIRD FLOOR: An Insider’s Account of Life Among North Korea’s Political Elite | By Thae Yong-ho; translated by Robert Lauler

    Fyodor Tertitskiy

  • 1923 KANTO MASSACRE | Directed and produced by Tae-yeong Kim, Gyu-seog Choi, and Jinhee Josephine Lee / SEPTEMBER 1923 | Directed by Tatsuya Mori

    Joel Matthews

  • VOICES OF THE SILENCED | Directed by Soo-nam Park and Maeui Park; produced by Emi Ueyama

    Jooyeon Rhee

South Asia & the Himalayas Back to Tags ^
  • RESISTANCE AS NEGOTIATION: Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India | By Uday Chandra

    Edward Moon-Little

  • RIGHTEOUS DEMAGOGUES: Populist Politics in South Asia and Beyond | By Adnan Naseemullah and Pradeep Chhibber

    Sefika Kumral

  • TOWARD A FREE ECONOMY: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India | By Aditya Balasubramanian

    Yasser Ali Nasser

Southeast Asia Back to Tags ^
  • BOYS LOVE MEDIA IN THAILAND: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture | By Thomas Baudinette

    Emi Donald

  • BUILDING LITTLE SAIGON: Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs | By Erica Allen-Kim

    Christina Schwenkel

  • EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE PAST: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970 | By Theara Thun

    Matthew Galway

  • KHMER NATIONALIST: Sơn Ngọc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia | By Matthew Jagel

    Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier

  • IMPERIAL MATERIAL: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire | By Alvita Akiboh

    Scott Kirsch

  • MALAYSIA’S STATE FORMATION: Small Steps and Large Outcomes of a Contested Leviathan | By Abdillah Noh

    Ferhat Durmaz

  • ISLAM, EDUCATION AND RADICALISM IN INDONESIA: Instructing Piety | Edited By Tim Lindsey, Jamhari Makruf, and Helen Pausacker

    Azmil Tayeb

  • THE INDONESIAN PRESIDENCY: Assessing the 2024 Presidential Elections and Beyond | By Bilveer Singh

    M. Zaenul Muttaqin

  • THE PULSE OF THE EARTH: Political Geology in Java | By Adam Bobbette

    Thomas Simpson

Australasia & the Pacific Back to Tags ^
  • CLIMATE POLITICS IN OCEANIA: Renewing Australia-Pacific Relations in a Warming World | Edited by Susan Harris Rimmer, Caitlin Byrne, and Wesley Morgan

    Milla Vaha

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