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
Margins and Mobilities in Asia: Download the Latest Issue of 'Asian Studies'
Margins and Mobilities in Asia: Download the Latest Issue of 'Asian Studies'
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The latest issue of Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia–Volume 57, Issue 2, Year 2021—is now available in the journal's website. Themed "Margins and Mobilities in Asia," the issue contains three full-length articles, one special article, two essays, four book reviews, two poems, and two pieces of short fiction.
Ang Amo at Maamo: Pangangamuhan among the Ayta Mag-indi of Pampanga Kara Patria DAVID
Difficult but Necessary: Migration Narratives, Aspirations, and Remittance Behavior of OFWs in Hong Kong and Taiwan and their Families Soledad DALISAY and Michael Lim TAN
Exploration and Commitment to Ethnic Identity among Malaysian University Students Su-Hie TING and Marcus Gee-Whai KHO
SPECIAL ARTICLE
The Intramuros Project: Performing Heritage, Performed Ethnography, and Documentary Performance Sir Anril TIATCO, Bryan VIRAY, and Olivia Kristine NIETO
ESSAYS
The Global Reach of East Asian Art, Past and Present: A Review Essay Jason MORGAN
A General’s Lament: Quiet Fury and Deep Regret in Emilio Aguinaldo’s Postwar Poetics about the Filipino Nation, Heroes and Memory-Making MCM SANTAMARIA
REVIEWS
Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience: Disease, State and Society, 1867–2018 by Loh Kah-Seng and Li Yang Hsu Reviewed by Michael Lim TAN
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper Reviewed by Luis Zuriel DOMINGO
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins Reviewed by Tenny KRISTIANA
Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor by Wataru Kusaka Reviewed by Aries ARUGAY
TRAVEL NARRATIVES
Adventure, Data Gathering and Building Networks in Indonesia Abdulwahid PANGANTING
Chasing Waves: Reflections on Southeast Asian Fisherfolk Axle Christien TUGANO