Monthly Archives: April 2018
JCA authors in the media
Editor Kevin Hewison has an op-ed with East Asia Forum titled “Thai junta’s election facade a political throwback.” His piece briefly examines the machinations of Thailand’s military dictatorship as it seeks to rig an election. Guest editor of a forthcoming … Continue reading
What do former Japan PMs do?
“The Afterlives of Post-War Japanese Prime Ministers” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1460389) is a new article at JCA, authored by Hugo Dobson of the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK and Caroline Rose of the Department of East Asian Studies, … Continue reading
Asia’s Conservative Moment: Understanding the Rise of the Right
The Introduction to the special issue “Crisis, Populism and Right-wing Politics in Asia,” is authored by Priya Chacko and Kanishka Jayasuriya. “Asia’s Conservative Moment: Understanding the Rise of the Right” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1448108), is now available for free download.
Issue 2 for 2018 published
Issue number 2 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number is a special issue, featuring two additional research articles and book reviews. The special issue is … Continue reading
Bangladeshi migrants and Singapore
Bangladeshi Migration to Singapore: A Process-Oriented Approach, a new book from Springer, is reviewed by Mathew Mathews of the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Mathews observes that: “In … Continue reading
Trump and US Deficits
JCA co-editor Richard Westra has an op-ed on this topic at countercurrents.org. It begins: “President Trumps’ histrionics over the US trade deficit seem oblivious to the fact that neocon policymakers had already chosen decades ago amongst paths to ‘make America … Continue reading
Art and Politics in China
In another in his series of book reviews of works on China, Kosmas Tsokhas reviews The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance and the Making of Modern China for JCA. Published by Allen & Unwin, the book is authored by Madeleine O’Dea. … Continue reading
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