(formerly the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars)

volume 52 issue 1

Spotlight on Hong Kong and Macau

 

A city and a SAR on fire: as if everything and nothing changes

Daniel Vukovich  

Solidarity in the Anti-Extradition Movement in Hong Kong

Francis Lee

Economic power of the politically powerless in the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy movement

Debby Sze Wan Chan and Ngai Pun

One formula, different trajectories: China’s coalition-building and elite dynamics in Hong Kong and Macau

Mathew Y.H. Wong and Ying-ho Kwong

New Expressions of the far right: Cyber wars and street protests in South Korea and Japan

Vigilante video: digital populism and anxious anonymity among Japan’s new netizens

Nathaniel M. Smith

Reconciling progressivism and xenophobia through scapegoating: anti-multiculturalism in South Korea’s online forums

Jiyeon Kang  

“Extreme pressure”: gendered negotiations of violence and vulnerability in Japanese antiracist movements

Vivian Shaw  

Article

The roots of conservative radicalism in southern Thailand’s Buddhist heartland

Patrick Jory and Jirawat Saengthong  

Book Reviews

Patrick McEachern, North Korea— What Everyone Needs to Know

John Cussen

Mark Pavlick and Caroline Luft (editors), The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory

A. Tom Grunfield

Film Review

The swan song of China’s labor NGOs: Wang Bing’s “Bitter Money” (2016) and Wen Hai’s “We the Workers” (2017)

Ivan Franceschini

 

COVER IMAGE: A protester in Hong Kong holds aloft a black balloon and a sign calling on Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to resign, June 16, 2019.

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