Asian Studies Review, Volume 45, Issue 1 (2021)

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Special Issue on Human Rights and Civil Society in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities. Guest Editors: Ken M. P. Setiawan and Anthony J. Spires

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Contributors
Pages: 4-6
Published online: 03 Feb 2021
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Global Concepts, Local Meanings: How Civil Society Interprets and Uses Human Rights in Asia
Ken M. P. Setiawan & Anthony J. Spires
Pages: 1-12
Published online: 09 Dec 2020
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Can Civil Society Safeguard Rights in Asia?
Meredith L. Weiss
Pages: 13-27
Published online: 08 Oct 2020
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Friends and Foes: Human Rights, the Philippine Left and Duterte, 2016–2017
Jayson S. Lamchek & Emerson M. Sanchez
Pages: 28-47
Published online: 14 Oct 2020
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The “Savage–Victim–Saviour” Story Grammar of the North Korean Human Rights Industry
Jay Song
Pages: 48-66
Published online: 09 Jul 2020
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Tibetan Language Rights and Civil Society in the People’s Republic of China: Challenges of and for Rights
Gerald Roche
Pages: 67-82
Published online: 12 May 2020
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Rights Consciousness in Malaysia: How an Electoral Reform Movement Fostered a Sense of Political Efficacy amongst Citizens
Ying Hooi Khoo, Hema Preya Selvanathan & Brian Lickel
Pages: 83-99
Published online: 06 Jan 2021
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Love, Affection and Intimacy in Marriage of Young People in Vietnam
Thanh Thi Vu
Pages: 100-116
Published online: 02 Aug 2020
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Social Media and Elections in Southeast Asia: The Emergence of Subversive, Underground Campaigning
Ross Tapsell
Pages: 117-134
Published online: 09 Nov 2020
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Whose Suffering? National Identity and the Contest to Define Victimhood in Indonesia’s Genocide
Nicolas Wicaksono
Pages: 135-154
Published online: 09 Sep 2020
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Belonging, Citizenship and Ambivalence among Young Gay, Bisexual and Queer Indian Singaporean Men
Sujith Kumar Prankumar, Peter Aggleton & Joanne Bryant
Pages: 155-174
Published online: 24 Jun 2020
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Book Review
Researching China in Southeast Asia
edited by Ngeow Chow-Bing, Routledge, 2019, 166 pp., US$160.00 (hardback)
Gregory V. Raymond
Pages: 175-188
Published online: 11 Jan 2021
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Queer comrades: gay identity and tongzhi activism in postsocialist China
by Hongwei Bao, Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2018, 277 pp., £22.50 (paperback)
Nathan H. Madson
Pages: 176-177
Published online: 06 Oct 2019
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Making China modern: from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
by Klaus Mulhahn, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2019, 717 pp., US$39.95 (hardback)
Harold Tanner
Pages: 177-179
Published online: 06 Oct 2019
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Driving toward modernity: cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China
by Jun Zhang, Cornell University Press, 2019, xiii, 240 pp., B&W photos, US$115.00 (hardback), US$23.95 (paperback)
Tiantian Zheng
Pages: 179-180
Published online: 08 Nov 2020
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Shadow exchanges along the new Silk Roads
edited by Eva P. W. Hung and Tak-Wing Ngo, Amsterdam University Press, 2020, 298 pp., €99.00 (hardback)
Alessandro Rippa
Pages: 180-182
Published online: 06 Jan 2021
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Book Review
Making meaningful lives: tales from an aging Japan
JAPANby Iza Kavedžija, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 196 pp., US$45.00 (hardback)
Katrina Moore
Pages: 182-183
Published online: 10 Aug 2020
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The Metabolist imagination: visions of the city in postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction
by William O. Gardner, University of Minnesota Press, 2020, 236 pp., US$108.00 (hardback), US$27.00 (paperback)
Marco Pompili
Pages: 184-185
Published online: 10 Aug 2020
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Composing Japanese musical modernity
by Bonnie C. Wade, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014, 271 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index, US$32.00 (paperback)
Henry Johnson
Pages: 185-186
Published online: 26 Mar 2020
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Becoming one: religion, development and environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar
by Chika Watanabe, University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019, 256 pp., US$68.00 (hardback), US$28.00 (paperback)
Jun Zhang
Pages: 187-188
Published online: 08 Nov 2020
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