Rise of Shenzhen
Anne Stevenson-Yang
China’s most successful modern city was an accident of history
Carried away
Pauline Fan
Teaching Paul Celan to speak Malay and teaching Malay to speak Celan
Homeless and stateless
Helen Jarvis
A Rohingya on the run
Personal history
Louis Raymond
Writing history and searching for identity make bad company
Son of terror
Gozde Deniz Altunkeser
A Saudi Crown Prince’s rapid fall from grace
Records of a Floating Island
Lok Man Law
Poetry from Lok Man Law
Luck out
David Payne
Stories of chance and consequences inside and outside today’s Vietnam
Control nation
Theophilus Kwek
A critical look at Singaporean society stands the test of time
A future darkly
Anna MacDonald
Patrick Allington’s dystopian novel speaks for our times
Three photographs
Siddharth Dasgupta
Poetry from Siddharth Dasgupta
Woman-radical: A feminist lesson in Chinese characters
Yuan Changming
Poetry from Yuan Changming
Shake in our sleep
Michael Freeman
Theophilus Kwek’s poetry probes the complexities of Singapore’s history
Ganesha at large
Rupert Arrowsmith
The poet Jennifer Mackenzie on her engagement with Indonesian literature and art
Ganesha Lost to View
Jennifer MacKenzie
Poetry from Jennifer MacKenzie
In my banjar
Febriana Firdaus
In a short time wearing face masks became the norm in Ubud
Unbroken courage
Olivia Norrmén-Smith
A teacher in Cambodia believes dancing can help overcome trauma
Yesterday’s tomorrow
Peter Guest
Japan’s otaku culture was crafted from times of hardship
Coffee in Jeju
Marc de Faoite
A coffee with a stranger opened up uncomfortable truths
& in
Rory Harris
Poetry from Rory Harris
Danish in Kabul
Andrew Quilty
Disillusioned with the jihad, Asad started a bookshop
Don’t forget us
Erfan Dana
A plea from a refugee in locked-down Indonesia
The silence of 1976
Emma Larkin
Forty-four years later, silence still shrouds the Thammasat student massacre in Bangkok
Made in Japan
Thomas A. Bass
Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan is struggling with the clean up
Deoli Camp
Somak Ghoshal
A little known story of the internment of Indians of Chinese heritage
The coming anger
Richard Heydarian
Get ready for an anti-China backlash over coronavirus
Against Malaysian food
Alicia Izharuddin
Behind the delight of Malaysian food hides a history of exploitation and environmental destruction
Strait defiance
Michael Reilly
Why China’s heavy-handed denial of a separate Tawainese identity will fail
Isolated
Peter Guest
In Tokyo, it’s never clear whether you are in a lockdown or not
Rebel
David Parrish
How a teenager from Hong Kong came of political age
Coronavirus
Anthony Tao
Four poems by Anthony Tao
His history
Prumsodun Ok
Another Western account of Cambodian history fails to hit the mark
Coalition division
Carl Vadivella Belle
Sixty years after independence Malaysia remains a fragmented country
This working life
Simon Vincent
A candid look at how hard Singaporeans work just to make ends meet
Family co.
Peter Tasker
How a Korean company beat the Japanese at their own game
Scholar and believer
Martin Stuart-Fox
How Thailand and Buddhism changed a scholar’s outlook on life
City of hope
Siti Keo
A new translation of a Cambodian novel brings its history to life
Lao lite
Bryan Thao Worra
Laotians may struggle to recognise themselves in Paul Yoon’s novel
Night-shift scenes*
Wong Yi
A short story by Wong Yi
Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
Spirit House (four)
Maw Shein Win
Poetry from Maw Shein Win