Volume 55 Issue 1 — Critical Asian Studies

(formerly the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars)

Civil Society and the State in Xi Jinping’s China

In Stagnation: A Case Study of a Chinese Community-based Labor NGO in the Yangtze River Delta

Diego Gullotta and Lili Lin

Agent Politics of Chinese Think Tanks and Cultural Industry Governance in China’s “New Era”

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Gan Li, and Weiqing Song

The Party-State’s Hegemonic Project and Responses from Civil Society: The Case of Service-oriented NGOs in China

Xuehui Shirley Yang

Articles

The Limits of Civil Society Activism in Indonesia: The Case of the Weakening of the KPK

Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir

Precarity and Islamism in Indonesia: The Contradictions of Neoliberalism

Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih and Vedi R. Hadiz

Rebuffing Bengali Dominance: Postcolonial India and Bangladesh

Willem van Schendel

Review Essays

Reviewing “The Chinese Question” in Southeast Asia Studies

Yong Han Poh

Wukan: Failed Promises of the Era of Reform and Opening

John Tai

Obituary

Remembering Ngô Vĩnh Long, Renowned Scholar of Vietnam and Antiwar Activist

An Thùy Nguyễn and Douglas Allen