The latest issue of Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia  — Volume 56, Issue 1, Year 2020  — is now available. Visit the Asian Studies website (link below) to download the articles for free. The theme of the issue is "Othering in Asia: Peansats, Women, Migrants, and Tourists. "

INTRODUCTION

Othering in Asia: An Introduction
     Janus Isaac NOLASCO and Michelle PALUMBARIT

ARTICLES

Receiving a New Kind of Others: Korean Tourism in the Philippines
    Mari-Elina EKOLUOMA

Local History from Below: The Pulahanes of Masbate, Philippines (1898–1905)
    Renato PELORINA 

Symbolic Vengence for the Japayuki and Filipino Comfort Woman: The Appropriation of Japanese Theatrical Forms in Anton Juan Jr.’s Tuko! Tuko!
    Melissa Vera MARAMARA

COMMENTARIES

Aileen Baviera (1959–2020): A Multilateral Life
    Janus Isaac NOLASCO

Insurgencies in Northeast India: Analyzing the Vicious Cycle of Underdevelopment, Poverty and Ethnic Conflicts
    Debajit DATTA and Chandreyi SENGUPTA

A Lauriat of Chinese Filipino Dishes
    Caroline HAU

Performing the Traditional Fiesta in Batanes: Pistang Chavayan in Sabtang, Island, Philippines
    Sir Anril TIATCO

TRAVEL NARRATIVES

Border-crossing as a Latin American Scholar of Asia: A Year Back in an (Un)Likely City for Asian and Southeast Asian Studies
    Jorge BAYONA

No Storm "Shall Return" Without a Promise of Safety: Reflections on a Visit Six Years after Yolanda
    Leonardo  MUNALIM

REVIEWS

An Introduction to Yōkai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts, and Outsiders in Japanese History
    Reviewed by Alona GUEVARRA

Genocide on the Mongolian Steppe: First-hand Accounts of Genocide in Southern Mongolia during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Vol. I
    Reviewed by Jason MORGAN

The State Department Boys: Philippine Diplomacy and its American Heritage
    Reviewed by Wogie TABU-PACALA

POETRY

A Morning in Pratunam
    Eunice Barbara NOVIO

Pinoy Patriot no. 1
    Noel Christian MORATILLA

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