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NOVEMBER 2022–JANUARY 2023
VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1
DIARY
3 Lok Man Law
Trauma
CHINA
POEM
HISTORY
4 Robert Templer
5 Daniel J. Dolley
China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter
‘Evening at the Dhaba’
6 Bill Hayton In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo
CAMOBODIA
POEM
INTERVIEW
7 Elizabeth Becker Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal by Alexander Laban Hinton
8 Ivan Stacy
‘Winter City’
9 James Crabtree
Bilahari Kausikan
NOTEBOOK
JOURNAL
POEM
MALAYSIA
ENVIRONMENT
RELIGION
12 Michael Vatikiotis
No surrender
13 Kang-Chun Cheng
The last generation
14 Johanna Carissa Fernandez ‘Cabin’
15 Parthiban Muniandy Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia:
Pelagic Alliance by Vilashini Somiah
17 Wayne McCallum Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in
Cambodia by Abby Seiff
18 Paul Fuller Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel
LITERATURE
19 Trent Walker
Out of Cambodia
SHORT STORY
STREETFOOD
21 Shah Tazrian Ashrafi Brother
23 Sadaf Saaz
Jhal muri
FICTION
24 Dayaneetha De Silva Rejection: A Sumatran Odyssey by Ashadi Siregar
FICTION Rhoda Feng
Saha by Cho Nam-joo
SPY FICTION
POETRY
25 Paul French
26 Adil Amin Akhoon and Bisma Farooq
China calling
Sufi circles
NEIGHBOURHOOD 27 Tsering D. Gurung
PROFILE
28 Minh Bui Jones
Never alone
Drew Pavlou
ART
FILM
SPORT
TRAVEL
BOOKSELLER
30 James Flath Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern
China by David Leffman
31 Ruby Thiagarajan
32 Annika Yates
#LookAtMe by Ken Kwek
Heavy lifting
33 Aileen Blaney
34 Didier Pujol
Tripping up
Parenthèses, Hong Kong mekongreview.com EDITOR Minh Bui Jones DESIGN Jess Barr WEBSITE Nicholas Lhoyd-Owen SUB-EDITOR Eldes Tran PROOFREADER Izzy Souster COVER Erica Eng ARTISTS Charis Loke, Gianluca Costantini, Emily Blundell Owers
Mekong Review is published four times a year; next issue February 2023
