Volume 98 – No. 4

Articles

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  Perception, Lived Experiences, and Survival Strategies for Everyday Violence: A Case Study of Civil War in Myanmar

  Ardeth Thawnghmung, Angelica Duran-Martinez and Lugyi No

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  Host-Site Dynamics and their Impact on China’s Investment in Malaysia: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

  Miao Zhang and Rui Yang

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  Historical Lessons from Japanese-Russian Trade

  Andrey V. Belov

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  Fandom Makes the World Go Round: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Cultural Translation among Hallyu Fans

  Irina Lyan and Nissim Otmazgin

Perspectives

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  Why “Temu Trumpism” Failed in Australia: Labour’s Landslide Victory and the Pro-Globalization Consensus

  Shiro Armstrong and Liam Gammon

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  Valence Rules: Explaining Opposition Party Performance in Singapore’s 2025 General Elections

  Elvin Ong

Critical Responses

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• PRECARIOUS TIES: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia | By Meg Rithmire

  Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

• GHOST CITIZENS: Decolonial Apparitions of Stateless, Foreign and Wayward Figures in Law | By Jamie Chai Yun Liew

  Christoph Sperfeldt

• CHINA’S GALAXY EMPIRE: Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century | By John Keane and Baogang He

  Hong Yu

• CHINA’S VULNERABILITY PARADOX: How the World’s Largest ConsumerTransformed Global Commodity Markets | By Pascale Massot

  Rhys Jenkins

• CIRCULAR ECOLOGIES: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China | By Amy Zhang

  Fengshi Wu

• EVERYDAY DEMOCRACY: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China | By Anthony J. Spires

  Taiyi Sun

• HIGH WIRE: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy | By Angela Huyue Zhang

  Yukyung Yeo

• THE XI JINPING EFFECT | Edited by Ashley Esarey and Rongbin Han

  Kazuko Kojima

• THE RAILPOLITIK: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development | By Yuan Wang

  Douglas Yates

• THE WAR FOR CHINESE TALENT IN AMERICA: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations | By David Zweig

  Himadree Sonowal

• ZHOU ENLAI: A Life | By Jian Chen

  Pawan Damodar Amin

• ALTERNATIVE POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: New Directions in Social Movements | Edited by David H. Slater and Patricia G. Steinhoff

  Charmaine N. Willis

• PASSING, POSING, PERSUASION: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire | Edited by Christina Yi, Andre Haag, and Catherine Ryu

  Kimberly Chung

• THE BLACK BOX: Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea By | Victor D. Cha

  Justin V. Hastings

• CIVIC ACTIVISM IN SOUTH KOREA: The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism | By Seungsook Moon

  Wondong Lee

• THE STATE’S SEXUALITY: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea | By Jeong-Mi Park

  Jeongmin Kim

• SPYING IN SOUTH ASIA: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War | By Paul McGarr

  Zachary Constantino

• BROWN SAVIORS AND THEIR OTHERS: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India | By Arjun Shankar

  Vineeta Sinha

• REMITTANCE AS BELONGING: Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home | By Hasan Mahmud

  Anand Panamthottam Cherian

• NATION-BUILDING AND FEDERALISM IN NEPAL: Contentions on Framework | By Krishna Hachhethu

  Arjun Guneratne

• POVERTY, GENDER AND HEALTH IN THE SLUMS OF BANGLADESH: Children of Crows | By Sabina Faiz Rashid

  Habibul Khondker

• THE TRADE-OFFS OF LEGAL STATUS: Safe Migration, Documentation, and Debt in Southeast Asia | By Maryann Bylander

  Carli Melo

• THE APATHY OF EMPIRE: Cambodia in American Geopolitics | By James A. Tyner

  Paul Chambers

• BONDING, BRIDGING & BYPASSING: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies | By Colm A. Fox

  Jacques Bertrand

• INTERASIAN INTIMACIES ACROSS RACE, RELIGION, AND COLONIALISM | By Chie Ikeya

  Yi Li

• PURSUING MORALITY: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar | By Justine Chambers

  Yoko Hayami

• STALEMATE: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border | By Andrew Ong

  Kai Chen

• MALAYSIAKINI AND THE POWER OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN MALAYSIA | By Janet Steele

  Melanie Radue

• RESISTING INDONESIA’S CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Aceh’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | Edited by Jess Melvin, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, and Annie Pohlman

  David Webster

• RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN INDONESIA: Booms, Big Business, and the State | By Eve Warburton

  Anna Fünfgeld

• THE COALITIONS PRESIDENTS MAKE: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia | By Marcus Mietzner

  Yoes C. Kenawas

• THE PARADOX OF AGRARIAN CHANGE: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia | Edited by John F. McCarthy, Andrew McWilliam, Gerben Nooteboom

  Helena Varkkey

• DIALOGUES WITH A TRICKSTER: On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands | By Phillip H. McArthur

  Michael A. Rynkiewich

• DIVIDED ISLES: Solomon Islands and the China Switch | By Edward Acton Cavanough

  Rodolfo Maggio