Asian Studies Review, Volume 47, Issue 2 (2023)

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Special Section: New Directions in Asian Studies

Front Matter

Contributors
Pages: iii-v
Published online: 17 Apr 2023
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Research Article

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The Modern Boy as the New Body of Modernity? Contesting the Meaning of Masculinity in Early 20th-century Japan
Debbie Chan
Pages: 209-226
Published online: 21 Apr 2022
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Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan
Alison J. Darby
Pages: 227-245
Published online: 01 Sep 2021
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Disabling Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story: The Problematic Logics of Inclusion in Contemporary Singapore
Kuansong Victor Zhuang
Pages: 246-263
Published online: 08 Jan 2023
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Leftover or Individualised? Representations of Chinese Single Womanhood in Western English-language News Media
Yating Yu & Felicia F. Tian
Pages: 264-280
Published online: 06 Feb 2022
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Personal Networks, Group Dynamics, and Local Party Politics: Luo Yinong and the Moscow Faction in the CCP, 1920–1927
Shensi Yi
Pages: 281-299
Published online: 28 Nov 2022
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Living on the Line: Gendered Invisibilities among Queer Women and Transmen in Indonesia
Wikke Jansen
Pages: 300-317
Published online: 27 Jun 2022
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Religion, Cult or the Truth? The Struggle of Yiguan Dao in Thailand’s Competitive Religious Field
Yu-sheng Lin
Pages: 318-335
Published online: 27 Feb 2022
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Digital Payments on the Agenda: How Supply-side Actors Framed Cash and Digital Payments during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India
Jillet Sarah Sam, Rajorshi Ray & Anwesha Chakraborty
Pages: 336-354
Published online: 21 Apr 2022
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Fan Conflicts and State Power in China: Internalised Heteronormativity, Censorship Sensibilities, and Fandom Police
Erika Ningxin Wang & Liang Ge
Pages: 355-373
Published online: 29 Aug 2022
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Open Access
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Homes, Home Lives and Precarious Privilege: Older Western Residents and Differing Lifestyle Mobilities in Ubud, Bali
Paul Green
Pages: 374-391
Published online: 30 Jun 2022
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Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Pages: 392-411
Published online: 17 Aug 2022
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BOOK REVIEW

Book Review
Trauma, precarity, and war memories in Asian American writings
by Jade Tsui-yu Lee, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 151 pp., US$60.28 (hardback)
Xuesheng Yuan
Pages: 412-413
Published online: 23 Feb 2022
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Traumatic pasts in Asia: history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present
edited by Mark S. Micale & Hans Pols, Berghahn Books, 2021, 406 pp., US$145.00 (hardback)
Jooyeon Rhee
Pages: 413-415
Published online: 02 May 2022
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Carving status at Kŭmgangsan: elite graffiti in premodern Korea
by Maya K. H. Stiller, University of Washington Press, 2021, xiii + 210 pp., US$65.00 (hardback)
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Pages: 415-416
Published online: 18 Jan 2023
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Book Review
Japan’s aging peace: pacifism and militarism in the twenty-first century
by Tom Phuong Le, Columbia University Press, 2021, 368 pp., £28.00 (paperback)
Ra Mason
Pages: 416-418
Published online: 18 Jan 2023
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Book Review
The opium business: a history of crime and capitalism in maritime China
by Peter Thilly, Stanford University Press, 2022, 316 pp., US$90.00 (hardback), US$30.00 (paperback)
Peter Gibson
Pages: 418-419
Published online: 27 Oct 2022
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Book Review
Making sense of Indian democracy
by Yogendra Yadav, Permanent Black/Ashoka University, 2020, xxxi, 390 pp., ₹995.00 (hardback)
RFI Smith
Pages: 419-421
Published online: 02 May 2022
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Book Review
Mumbai taximen: autobiographies and automobilities in India
by Tarini Bedi, University of Washington Press, 2022, 248 pp., US$30.00 (paperback)
Thomas Birtchnell
Pages: 421-422
Published online: 10 Aug 2022
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Book Review
Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India
by Ravinder Kaur, Stanford University Press, 2020, 360 pp., US$28.00 (paperback)
Priya Chacko
Pages: 422-424
Published online: 27 Oct 2022
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