Wounded queen
Michael Freeman
Hieu Minh Nguyen anatomises the wounds and scars of his identity
Category: Reviews
Capturing Hanoi
Christopher Goscha
Hanoi before capitalism
Keys to chaos
Quinn Libson
A hotel in Phnom Penh unlocks a violent past
Escape
Rupert Winchester
Kirsten Chen leads the SingLit charge
Underground
David Scott Mathieson
Myanmar’s civil war on canvas
Art and context
Peter Yeoh
T.K. Sabapathy opens up a world of art
Made in Hong Kong
Graham Earnshaw
How Bruce Lee made Hongkongers proud of their Chinese heritage
Enough
Carl Vadivella Belle
Lim Teck Ghee saw how Malaysia’s political status quo would end
Deadly populism
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo
Duterte’s anti-drug policy falls hardest on the weak
The local art of war
Michael Vatikiotis
Conflict and regionalism in precolonial Southeast Asia
Lansdale’s ghost
Thomas A. Bass
Resurrecting the architect of America’s Vietnam War
Unbowed
Gareth Richards
Rare glimpses into Japan’s invasion and occupation of Singapore
Survivor stories
Anjan Sundaram
Truth, fiction and the Khmer Rouge
Tunnel visions
Kishore Mahbubani
The West ignores the story of Asia’s remarkable rise at its own risk
Cold War monks
Camille Devries
Zealotry and conflict in Southeast Asia
Tyranny of borders
Francis Wade
How nationalism and colonial legacies shape identity and belonging
State censor
Peter Zinoman
Suppressing free speech in the social media age
Vanishing
Scott Ezell
Trading away priceless heritage
Firefly
Michael Freeman
Exploring grief and defiance in North Korea
From the shadows
Marc de Faoite
Anger, love and alienation permeate K.S. Maniam’s short stories
Being Asian
Pim Wangtechawat
Crazy Rich Asians gets beyond the stereotypes
Gaijin
Peter Tasker
Ian Buruma comes of age in Japan’s warm, wet days of low-tech chaos
A nation’s song
Beth Yahp
Bringing forgotten Malayan music back to vibrant life
Speaking truth to power
Ooi Kee Beng
Lim Teck Ghee has never shied away from the political arena.
Liberalism lite
T.F. Rhoden
Is Singapore a liberal democracy or a social democracy?
My Lai
Michael Uhl
Was it the scale of the killing or the cover-up that made the My Lai massacre a scandal?
Re-reading Greene
Mai Huyen Chi
The passive Vietnamese in ‘The Quiet American’.
Turning east
Sebastian Strangio
What explains Southeast Asia’s periodic lurch to authoritarianism?
Post-1997
David Parrish
Hong Kong’s post-handover generation takes on the political system
Disobedient women
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Intan Paramaditha subverts her country’s notions of womanhood.
Finding holiness
Fahmi Mustaffa
In search of the holy in Malaysia’s many faiths and cultures.
The prison poets
Joseph Woods
The story of the poets who survived Myanmar’s military regime
A lady of distinction
John F. Hartmann
Boonlua’s classic on the Thai aristocracy is a modern-day parable.
Bagan and beyond
Aedeen Cremin
How was Bagan built and how did it become a World Heritage Site?
China calling
David Eimer
Can Aung San Suu Kyi resist China’s influence? The generals before her couldn’t
A broken state
Sean Gleeson
The recent violence against the Rohingya continues a systemic attempt to strip them of their right to exist in Myanmar.
What China wants
Peter Tasker
China is back in charge in Asia.
River politics
Andrew Wells-Dang
Can anything be done to stop the rush of hydroelectric dams being built on the Mekong?
Reformasi, remembered
Kean Wong
Before the rise of conservative Islam in Malaysia, there was reformasi
Miserablism
Rupert Winchester
Modern-day India, where societal oppression is balanced by personal freedom