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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