⭐ The 2025 Wang Gungwu Prize for the best article in the Asian Studies Review has been awarded to Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne) for the article "Becoming a Bone Buddha: Fragmenting and Remaking Death Rites in Contemporary Japan" ⭐

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👷♀️👷 Migrant workers & labour rights
Mason M. Kim asks: when do unions fight for migrants in Taiwan and South Korea?
Find out in Asian Studies Review:

New in Asian Studies Review:
Xiao Yang, “The Cinematic Construction of Social Acceleration: Nice View (2022) and the Other Side of ‘China Speed’”
Read here OPEN ACCESS 👉

🚀 Sci-fi meets the city 🚀
Danxue Zhou & Xi Liu interrogate urbanisation & injustice in post-2000s Chinese science fiction.
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👩 How do nation-building and gender politics intersect in exile?
Gurmeet Kaur examines Tibetan women’s experiences of marginalisation and governance in Asian Studies Review

📊 Politics meets Confucianism
Yu Cheng explores why East-Asian interest groups stay under the radar in US lobbying in Asian Studies Review

New in Asian Studies Review:
Shuk Man Leung, “In the Name of Stability and Prosperity: Place Identity in Hong Kong and the Anti-Cultural Revolution Discourse in the KMT’s Popular Magazine”
Explore identity and discourse in Hong Kong 👉

New in Asian Studies Review:
Seungyop Shin, “The Location of History: The Visions, Discourses, and Limits of Yi Ch’ŏngwŏn’s Marxist Narratives in Late Colonial Korea”
Explore historical narratives in Korea 👉

📉 Democracy in India under the microscope
Meirav Mishali-Ram examines the sociocultural factors behind India’s democratic decline in Asian Studies Review
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New in Asian Studies Review:
Nora Hui-Jung Kim & Zoe Hanrahan, “‘My Fiancé is Very Much a World Citizen’: Gendered Orientalist Habitus and White Women’s Accounts of WWAM Relationships”
Read here 👉

✨ Fan cultures across borders ✨
Amporn Jirattikorn examines how Japanese middle-aged women embrace Thai Boys’ Love dramas in “Reclaiming Youth and Desire: Alternative Civility and Japanese Middle-Aged Women’s Fandom of Thai Boys’ Love Dramas” (Asian Studies Review)
👉 doi.org/10.1080/1035...

📰 Fresh in Asian Studies Review:
Rumi Sakamoto explores memory activism and contested histories in “The Truth of Battleship Island: Memory Activism over Wartime Forced Labour in Japan”
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1035...

📖 New in Asian Studies Review:
Gil-Soo Han, “The Church that Laid the Golden Eggs: Catalysts for Hereditary Succession in South Korea’s Protestant Church”
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1035...

New to Asian Currents: Shobha Elizabeth John explains her recent ASR article on literary representations of singleness and gendered aloneness in urban India

Read the blog post here: asaa.asn.au/too-unattach...

And read the full Asian Studies Review article for free here: doi.org/10.1080/1035...

The latest ASR issue was published online in late April, featuring a diverse collection of articles including works on Rabindranath Tagore, Malaysian party politics, Chinese Indonesians' marriage migration, policy advocacy in China and more

Access the issue here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/cas...

🎉 ASR is now ranked Q1 in all three discipline categories it is listed on the Scimago Journal Ranking website - Cultural Studies, History, and Sociology and Political Science! 🎉

This is due recognition of the quality of research and the excellent work of the journal's editorial board 🙌

New to @asiancurrents.bsky.social: Sarah Turner et al on the shifting geographies of childhood in Southeast Asia

Read the Asian Currents post here: asaa.asn.au/shifting-geo...

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