Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

The latest issue of Asian Studies can now be downloaded for free at the journal's website, www.asj.upd.edu.ph. The issue contains the following articles, commentaries, reviews, and poems.

The latest issue of Asian Studies can now be downloaded for free at the journal's website, www.asj.upd.edu.ph. The issue contains the following articles, commentaries, reviews, and poems.

Vinod Raina (1950–2013)
Eduardo C. TADEM and Katrina S. NAVALLO

Introduction
Eduardo C. TADEM and Janus Isaac V. NOLASCO

ARTICLES

From Cádiz to La Liga: The Spanish Context of Rizal's Political Thought
George ASENIERO

Rural China: From Modernization to Reconstruction
Tsui SIT and Tak Hing WONG

A Preliminary Study of Ceiling Murals from Five Southeastern Cebu Churches
Reuben Ramas CAÑETE

Bayan Nila: Pilipino Culture Nights and Student Performance at Home in Southern California
Neal MATHERNE

COMMENTARIES

Identity Politics in the Developmentalist States of East Asia: The Role of Diaspora Communities in the Growth of Civil Societies
Kinhide MUSHAKOJI

La Liga in Rizal Scholarship
George ASENIERO

Influence of Political Parties on the Judicial Projects in Nepal
Md. Nurul MOMEN

REVIEWS

Sacrificial Bodies: The Oblation and the Political Aesthetics of Masculine Representations in Philippine Visual Cultures
Reuben Ramas CAÑETE | Reviewed by Flaudette May V. DATUIN

Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan
Romit Dasgupta | Reviewed by James ROBERSON

Aesthetic Education in an Era of Globalization
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Reviewed by Reuben Ramas CAÑETE

Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (The Woman in the Septic Tank)
Directed by Marlon Rivera | Reviewed by Emmeviene Ann P. SUELTO

LITERARY WRITINGS

Winter Scene in the Desert of Gansu
Thomas David Chaves

Alone: Three Haikus
Celine Socrates


 

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