Asian Studies Review

Perceptions of Meritocracy in Singapore: Inconsistencies, Contestations and Biases

The “Smart Work” Myth: How Bureaucratic Inertia and Workplace Culture Stymied Digital Transformation in the Relocation of South Korea’s Capital

Whatever Happened to Civil Islam? Islam and Democratisation in Indonesia, 20 Years On

The Entrepreneurial Developmental State: What is the Perceived Impact of South Korea’s Creative Economy Action Plan on Entrepreneurial Activity?

State Officials’ Entanglement with Vigilante Groups in Violence against Ahmadiyah and Shi’a Communities in Indonesia

Civic Islam: Muhammadiyah, NU and the Organisational Logic of Consensus-making in Indonesia

The Daily Politics of Inter-ethnic Mingling in the Xinjiangban

The Emergence of Life Politics among Neidiban Tibetan College Graduates and its Implications for Pedagogy

Muslim Women in Contemporary Indonesia: Online Conflicting Narratives behind the Women Ulama Congress

Uyghur Graduates’ Ethnicity in their Dislocated Life Experience: Employment Expectations, Choices and Obstacles

Towards a Chinese Hip-hop Feminism and a Feminist Reassessment of Hip-hop with Breakdance: B-girling in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China

Embodied Notions of Belonging: Practices of Beauty among Waria in West Papua, Indonesia

So Similar, So Different, So Chinese: Analytical Comparisons of the Confucius Institute with its Western Counterparts

Biography and History: The Historiography of Lee Kuan Yew

Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and Clothing Workers in Bangladesh and Malaysia

Electoral Secularism in Singapore: Political Responses to Homosexuality

Remigration and Re-establishing Home: The Turbulent Lives of the Returned Overseas Chinese in Yingde, Guangdong

Corpse Brides: Yinhun and the Macabre Agency of Cadavers in Contemporary Chinese Ghost Marriages

Marketised “Educational Desire” and the Impetus for Self-improvement: The Shifting and Reproduced Meanings of Higher Education in Contemporary China

The Ethics of Social Care in Indonesia: Women’s Perspectives on Care in Politics, Development and Policy*

Open or Bordered? Singapore, Industrialisation and Malaysian Workers

On Parties’ Terms: Gender Quota Politics in South Korea’s Mixed Electoral System

Reform of State-owned Enterprises in China: The Chinese Communist Party Strikes Back

Asia’s reckoning: the struggle for global dominance

Why terrorists quit – the disengagement of Indonesian jihadists, by Julie Chernov Hwang

The traffic in hierarchy: masculinity and its others in Buddhist Burma, by Ward Keeler

Contributors

Schooling diaspora: women, education and the overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s–1960s, by Karen M. Teoh

Monastery, monument, museum: sites and artifacts of Thai cultural memory, by Maurizio Peleggi

Myth and Reality in Taiwan’s Democratisation

Civil Islam Revisited

Contributors

Miyazawa Kenji and his illustrators: images of nature and Buddhism in Japanese children’s literature, by Helen Kilpatrick

Scale of Change: The Small Group in Chinese Politics, 1919–1921

Theorising Sensory Cultures in Asia: Sociohistorical Perspectives

LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION Professional development of English language teachers in Asia: lessons from Japan and Vietnam

In women’s words: violence and everyday life during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, 1975–1999, by Hannah Loney

The new Pakistani middle class, by Ammara Maqsood

Asian video cultures: in the penumbra of the global, edited by Joshua Neves & Bhaskar Sarkar

War as Membership: International Society and Thailand’s Participation in World War I

The Limits of the Chinese Welfare State: Evidence from the Dibao Program in Chengdu

Eurasian encounters: museums, missions, modernities, edited by Carolien Stolte & Yoshiyuki Kikuchi

The Contestation of “Good Politics”: Explaining Conflict and Polarisation in Thailand

Ghost in the Shell as a Cross-cultural Franchise: From Radical Posthumanism to Human Exceptionalism

Media transparency in China: rethinking rhetoric and reality, by Baohui Xie

Transgression as a Postfeminist Masquerade: The Representation of Female Perpetrators in Hong Kong Crime Films

Beyond the Chaebol? The Social Purpose of Entrepreneurship Promotion in South Korea