Strait defiance
Michael Reilly
Why China’s heavy-handed denial of a separate Tawainese identity will fail
Category: Reviews
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
Thai Drama
James Weitz
Ethical predicaments in modern Thai fiction
Last show
David Scott Mathieson
An ode to Thailand’s lost movie theatres
Trouble
Richard Heydarian
China is facing a regional backlash
Extinction
Jeff Sparrow
The future as a threat not a promise
Loss and chance
Michael Vatikiotis
The Lisu in China, Myanmar and Thailand
The gadfly
Sean Gleeson
Michael Vickery’s flawed history
Unthink
Joe Freeman
Meditation and its discontents
Displaced
James Weitz
Art and assimilation in Borneo
Marginal
Paul Arthur
Nha Thuyen’s essays on Vietnamese poetry
War myths
Alexander Wells
A new Australian film misses the mark
The pushback
Antony Dapiran
Challenging China’s authority
The killings
Margaret Scott
Time for a full account of 1965
Have faith
George Styllis
The great escape from Tham Luang
Paper estate
Jeff Sparrow
Shaping Australia’s print landscape
No limit
Alice Dawkins
A millennial in Beijing
Tithes that bind
Nick Freeman
Sending money back to Vietnam
Upon the crags
Rupert Arrowsmith
For love and empire
The gambler
Hugo Pinto
The life of a Macau casino tycoon
One of us
Preeta Samarasan
Tash Aw writes about migrant labour