Volume 52 Issue 4 — Critical Asian Studies

(formerly the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars)

Asia and the Coronavirus Pandemic

From Social Drama to Political Performance: China’s Multi-front Combat with the Covid-19 Epidemic

Jiacheng Liu

Fragmented Restrictions, Fractured Resonances: Grassroots Responses to Covid-19 in China

Yao Song, Tianyang Liu, Xiangyang Wang, and Tianru Guan

Labor and Class Matters

As Far Apart as Earth and Sky: A Survey of Chinese and Cambodian Construction Workers in Sihanoukville

Ivan Franceschini

The People’s Commune is Good: Precarious Labor, Migrant Masculinity, and Post-Socialist Nostalgia in Contemporary China

Xia Zhang

Gender, Labor Migration, and Changes in Small-scale Farming in Vietnam

Nozomi Kawarazuka, Tuan Duong Minh, and Elisabeth Simelton

Articles

Governing Through Trustworthiness: Technologies of Power and Subjectification in China’s Social Credit System

Chenchen Zhang

Farmer-Plant Breeders and the Law on Java, Indonesia

Christoph Antons, Yunita T. Winarto, and Adlinanur F. Prihandani

Reviews

China’s Illiberalism and Liberalism’s Ills

Don Nonini

The PRC on the Tibetan Frontier in the 1950s

A. Tom Grunfeld