Divided selves
Michael Freeman
Language and belonging from the Chinese diaspora
Category: Reviews
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?
The Jarai
Martin Stuart-Fox
How did the Jarai survive colonialism, nationalism, even the Khmer Rouge?
Plain fantasy
Anne Stevenson-Yang
Finally, some great stories from China
Arhats in Clementi
Michael Freeman
A latter-day Baudelaire rambling the streets of Singapore
Home truths
Chath pierSath
Looking for love and home in Vietnam
Writing home
Michael Freeman
From the American diaspora to homeland Vietnam
Orientalism redux
William Gibson
A colonial period piece is brought back to life
In Tiananmen’s shadow
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The similarities—and differences—between Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong
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
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