Volume 95 – No. 4

Articles

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  Introduction: COVID-19 in Asia: Governance and the Politics of the Pandemic

  John Harriss and Hy V. Luong

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  Why was the Pandemic Poorly Managed by the Government of India? A State-in-Society Approach

  John Harriss

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  The Politics of Pakistan’s COVID-19 Response: A State-in-Society Approach

  Ayaz Qureshi

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  Vietnam’s War against COVID-19

  Hy V. Luong

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  Between Surveillance and Freedom: The Techno-Politics in South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Jaeho Kang

Perspectives

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• MY NAME IS BAI SANMING | Directed by Du Kangwei

  Ellen R. Judd

• DEVELOPMENT ZONES IN ASIAN BORDERLANDS | Edited by Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg

  Anudeep Dewan

• NEW ASIAN DISORDER: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century | Edited by Lowell Dittmer

  David Bachman

• SOUND ALIGNMENTS: Popular Music in Asia’s Cold Wars | Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason

  CedarBough T. Saeji

• CHINA’S CHALLENGES AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER TRANSITION: Beyond “Thucydides’s Trap” | Edited by Huiyun Feng and Kai He

  Nele Noesselt

• CHINA’S GILDED AGE: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption | By Yuen Yuen Ang

  Yan Sun

• INNOVATION AND CHINA’S GLOBAL EMERGENCE | Edited by Erik Baark, Bert Hofman, and Jiwei Qian

  Rajah Rasiah

• DISAGGREGATING CHINA, INC.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order | By Yeling Tan

  Xiaojun Li

• CHINA’S POLITICAL WORLDVIEW AND CHINESE EXCEPTIONALISM: International Order and Global Leadership | By Benjamin Tze Ern Ho

  Xiaoyu Pu

• CLASH OF POWERS: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance | By Kristen Hopewell

  Dawn Murphy

• COMMODITIES OF CARE: The Business of HIV Testing in China | By Elsa L. Fan

  Tiantian Zheng

• MANHUA MODERNITY: Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn | By John A. Crespi

  Kin-Wai Chu

• GOVERNING THE DEAD: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China | By Linh D. Vu

  Chang-tai Hung

• THE FUNERAL OF MR. WANG: Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China | By Andrew B. Kipnis

  Linh D. Vu

• MY NAME IS BAI SANMING | Directed by Du Kangwei

  Ellen R. Judd

• JAPAN’S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: Continuity and Change | Edited by Lam Peng Er and Purnendra Jain

  Paul Midford

• CRISIS NARRATIVES, INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE JAPANESE STATE | Edited by Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth

  Linus Hagström

• FROM COUNTRY TO NATION: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan | By Gideon Fujiwara

  Susan L. Burns

• HARVESTING STATE SUPPORT: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture | By Hanno Jentzsch

  Steven R. McGreevy

• MIDDLEMEN OF MODERNITY: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan | By Christopher Craig

  Kerry Smith

• JAPAN, THE SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY: The Artisanal Ethos, Ordinary Virtues, and Everyday Life in the Age of Limits | By John Lie

  David Leheny

• KARMA AND PUNISHMENT: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan | By Adam J. Lyons

  Justin McDaniel and Kirby Sokolow

• A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SPANISH SPEAKERS IN JAPAN | By Araceli Tinajero; translated by Veronica Karpoich

  Edgar Javier Ulloa Luján

• OISHII: The History of Sushi | By Eric C. Rath

  Sora Skye Osuka 

• THE ART OF PERSISTENCE: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan | By Charlotte Eubanks

  Matías Chiappe Ippolito

• HEGEMONIC MIMICRY: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century | By Kyung Hyun Kim

  Dal Yong Jin

• THE PURPOSE OF INDIA’S SECURITY STRATEGY: Defence, Deterrence and Global Involvement | By Gautam Sen

  Abhishek Choudhary

• POLICE MATTERS: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 | By Radha Kumar

  Uponita Mukherjee

• THE GREATER INDIA EXPERIMENT: Hindutva and the Northeast | By Arkotong Longkumer

  Uday Chandra

• EXPERIMENTS IN SKIN: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam | By Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

  Elizabeth Wijaya

• ON THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy | By Sherry Buchanan

  An Thuy Nguyen

• HISTORY ON THE RUN: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies | By Ma Vang

  Miriam Jaehn

• ELECTORAL REFORM AND THE FATE OF NEW DEMOCRACIES: Lessons from the Indonesian Case | By Sarah Shair-Rosenfield

  Jeremy Menchik

• SWEAT AND SALT WATER: Selected Works | By Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson, and Terence Wesley-Smith

  Peter McQuarrie

• THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD: Control, Self-Preservation and Continuity | By Gonzaga Puas

  Ashley Meredith

• WILD POLICY: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention | By Tess Lea

  Ian Parker