Ghost labour
Marco Ferrarese
Malaysia’s unrecognised migrant workers
Category: Reviews
So Cambodia
Patrick Allington
Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut
Freedom for some
Sudipto Sanyal
Freedom is still an ideal for many
The missing half
Peter Zinoman
The forgotten stories from Vietnam’s south
The Ogura hundred
Michael Freeman
A new translation of Japan’s seminal poetry collection
In transit
Farah Abdessamad
When Cambodia opened up
Ways of writing
Emily Ding
The trouble with travel writing
China at large
Bryony Lau
How to live with a powerful neighbour
A realist’s lament
Michael Reilly
For China and Australia, a question of values
Prelude to a coup
Kenneth Wong
The preconditions of the coup in Myanmar were there
Hidden country
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Out from sight, poverty remains persistent in rural China
Exile island
Joshua Yang
Social and personal trauma in Taiwan
Clan network
Francis Moriarty
Hong Kong and the history of globalisation
A royal pain
Puangchon Unchanam
Politics and monarchy in Thailand
The occupation
Peter A. Coclanis
Japan’s occupation of Southeast Asia
Bard of the Viets
Thomas A. Bass
A review of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed
Be Filipino
Christopher Cañete Rodriguez Kelly
Contemporary fiction from the Philippines
Versions of a voice
Michael Freeman
Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s final collection
Rocking the burbs
Ken Kwek
A history of rock ’n’ roll in Singapore
Thai strips
Benjamin Tausig
A short history of Thai comics
Rizal’s revolutionaries
Richard Heydarian
The making of Asia’s freedom fighters
Into the labyrinth
David Scott Mathieson
The making of Myanmar’s Rohingya horrors
Solid object
Holmes Chan
Capturing Hong Kong’s protest movement
Dateline Vietnam
Martin Stuart-Fox
Three female journalists shaped how the Vietnam War was understood
Psychobloom
Anne Stevenson-Yang
The rise of therapy in an anxious China
Coal devotion
Jeff Sparrow
Climate change scepticism is entrenched in Australia
Work robots
Charles Brophy
What we lose with each technology disruption
Truth seekers
Christopher G. Moore
A mission to understand the Heart Sutra
Where they belong
Farah Abdessamad
Looting—and returning—Southeast Asia’s treasures
Empire rage
Carl Vadivella Belle
The education of an anti-colonialist
Political terror
Tyrell Haberkorn
A novel takes on the Thammasat massacre
Jakarta stories
Jennifer Lindsay
Ten Indonesian authors capture a sense of place
Divided selves
Michael Freeman
Language and belonging from the Chinese diaspora
Thailand’s future
Chris Baker
The spectre of the Thammasat massacre hangs over the current protest in Thailand
Too toxic
Robert Templer
After four decades of destruction, China is facing an environmental catastrophe
China imagined
Yuan Zhu
Despite claims of exceptionalism, China is a normal country
Osborneland
Paul French
Alienated souls in exotic locations—welcome to Osborneland
The takeover
Antony Dapiran
Beijing has wasted no time in making Hong Kong China
Cross purposes
Michael Reilly
Xi Jinping’s megalomania can’t explain everything in the Taiwan Strait
Losing Hindustan
Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
When did the reimagination of Hindustan begin?