Frozen in Wuhan
Tom Baxter
Fang Fang’s diary helped her compatriots get through the darkest days of the lockdown in Wuhan
Category: Reviews
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
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
Homeless and stateless
Helen Jarvis
A Rohingya on the run
Son of terror
Gozde Deniz Altunkeser
A Saudi Crown Prince’s rapid fall from grace
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
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
Yesterday’s tomorrow
Peter Guest
Japan’s otaku culture was crafted from times of hardship
The silence of 1976
Emma Larkin
Forty-four years later, silence still shrouds the Thammasat student massacre in Bangkok
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
Strait defiance
Michael Reilly
Why China’s heavy-handed denial of a separate Tawainese identity will fail
Rebel
David Parrish
How a teenager from Hong Kong came of political age
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
Border crossings
Michael Freeman
A new anthology maps Asia’s identity politics and cultural dislocations
Bangkok Days
Pim Wangtechawat
If you grew up in Bangkok, you’re unlikely to notice its bounty of sensory pleasures
Missing on stage
Mina Bui Jones
A world music festival in Australia where Southeast Asian performers are rarely seen
Onward, Christian soldier
David Scott Mathieson
Despite their Christian zeal, these missionaries are effective in saving lives
Spark to fire
Paul French
The history of mass protest in Hong Kong
Yours and mine
Ashvinder Singh
Secrets and lies in colonial Malaya
Into Burma
Joseph Woods
Travels in post-democratic Myanmar
Waterland
Peter A. Coclanis
The monsoon has shaped much of South Asia
Magical double
Lara Norgaard
Eka Kurniawan’s new collection of short stories
The lives of others
Pauline Fan
Ho Sok Fong writes from the other side of everything
Little airs
Cedric Van Dijck
The book that killed colonialism
Diaspora aporia
Michael Freeman
For poet Monica Sok, the personal is political