The reluctant activist
Minh Bui Jones
An Australian activist takes on China
Category: Issue 29
Holding court
James Crabtree
An interview with Bilahari Kausikan
Trauma
Lok Man Law
Life in the new Hong Kong
Brother
Shah Tazrian Ashrafi
A short story from Bangladesh
Port of call
Didier Pujol
32 years of Hong Kong’s only French language bookshop
In the hot seat
Elizabeth Becker
Truth and reflection at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Family values
Ruby Thiagarajan
Alternative lifestyles under the spotlight in Singapore
No surrender
Michael Vatikiotis
Civil war in Myanmar is killing thousands of civilians
After Mao
Robert Templer
The Chinese Communist Party consolidates it’s power
Out of Cambodia
Trent Walker
Where does the national language of Cambodia come from?
The last generation
Kang-Chun Cheng
Chinese – and Taiwanese – identity in the New World
Sapped
Wayne McCallum
A new book examines the challenges facing Cambodia’s ‘Great Lake’
Sufi circles
Adil Amin Akhoon and Bisma Farooq
Sufi poet Zareefa Jan spins words in Kashmir
China calling
Paul French
The spy novel in the ‘Chinese century’
Heavy lifting
Annika Yates
The women of the Vietnamese national weightlifting team overcoming cultural norms
Paper gods
James Flath
China’s popular prints beguile and enchant
Never alone
Tsering D. Gurung
You are never alone in a Kathmandu neighbourhood – or are you?
Batak
Dayaneetha De Silva
Indonesia in the 1960s, through the prism of post-colonialism
Beyond doctrines
Paul Fuller
Buddhist amulets as essential expressions of Buddhist religiosity
Town life
Rhoda Feng
Cho Nam-joo puts Korean society under the spotlight
Floating people
Parthiban Muniandy
Undocumented and displaced communities in Malaysia
Cabin
Johanna Carissa Fernandez
A poem from Johanna Carissa Fernandez.
Winter City
Ivan Stacy
A poem from Ivan Stacy
All at sea
Bill Hayton
The history of maritime Southeast Asia
Evening at the Dhaba
Daniel J. Dolley
A poem from Daniel J. Dolley
Jhal muri
Sadaf Saaz
Bangladeshi street food evokes childhood memories
Tripping out
Aileen Blaney
Business – and ‘un-business’ – in Goa