MAY–JULY 2024
VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3
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REVISIONISM
3 Sylvie Tanaga
Political nostalgia
ELECTIONS
ECONOMY
CLIMATE
VIETNAM
4 Salil Tripathi
A changing India
5 Ilaria Maria Sala Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang
6 Michael Beltran
Lessons unlearnt
7 Nick J. Freeman Vietnam’s Dissidents: Political Dissonance in the Age of Global Capitalism and Coloniality by Susann Pham
CAMBODIA
INTERVIEW
8 Colin Meyn A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy by Gordon Conochie
9 Seulki Lee
Ibanjiha
NARRATIVES
12 Johanna M. Costigan Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson and The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim
CONNECTIONS 13 Ann Ang The Second Link: An Anthology of Malaysian & Singaporean Writing edited by Daryl Lim Wei Jie, Hamid Roslan, Melizarani T. Selva and William Tham
POEM
PEOPLE
13 John Brixter Tino
14 Amy Webber
Friend
Love and revolution
MONGOLIA
HISTORY
15 Munkhnaran Bayarlkhagva Chinggis worship
16 Brandon C. Yen
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
DEVELOPMENT 17 Dương Mạnh Hùng
Onward the water flows
ART AND NATURE 18 Alicia Izharuddin
Weretigers, we’re tigers
SEEKING HOME 19 Agnès Bun
Landbridge: Life in Fragments by Y-Dang Troeung
PROFILE
MOVEMENT
ART
20 Mili Semlani
Vinay Shukla
22 Emma Pei Yin The China-Australia Migration Corridor: History and Heritage edited by Denis Bryne, Ien Ang and Phillip Mar
23 Naima Morelli
Art beyond tourism
FOOD
FICTION
24 Kang-Chun Cheng
26 Lý Văn Sâm
BOOKSELLER
29 Maureen Tai
IN PARTNERSHIP 30 Linda Collins and Noelle Q. de Jesus
IN PARTNERSHIP 31 Mariyam Haider and Emilie Collyer
Memory and wheat
Child of Heaven gentle books
By the canal
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