Hong Kong rebel
Elaine Yu
Joshua Wong on the future of the protest movement
Category: Issue 20
In Tiananmen’s shadow
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The similarities—and differences—between Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong
White clouds flying
Bao Ninh
A short story by the author of The Sorrow of War
Frozen in Wuhan
Tom Baxter
Fang Fang’s diary helped her compatriots get through the darkest days of the lockdown in Wuhan
Sea mothers
Esther Kim
The extraordinary stories of South Korean famed sea divers
Seeing red
Michael Reilly
Under Chinese influence or guilt by association?
Fallen history
Bryony Lau
In the Philippines, fiction has the power to challenge the official version of history
Asia matters
Anjan Sundaram
What does Black Lives Matter mean for Asian artists and writers?
Jakarta is coming
Lara Norgaard
How a US-sponsored coup in Indonesia was replicated in Brazil
Shanghai’s last race
Paul French
Horse racing, a symbol of British colonialism, went with the empire
Echo in Sahara
Emily Ding
The life of the Taiwanese travel writer Sanmao is the stuff of fiction
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
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