VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2
(SUMMER) MAY TO AUGUST 2023

 CONTENTS

RESEARCH ARTICLES

NICOLE SMITH
THE ACTIVISM OF AI WEIWEI’S DOCUMENTARY FILM, HUMAN FLOW,
IN THE MIGRATION CRISIS OF 2015

SALIKYU SANGTAM
“ALL-UNDER-HEAVEN” IS TIMELESS:
AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHINESE STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR

 SARANYA ANTONY A
RUSSIA’S PIVOT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA FACES OLD AND NEW MYTHS,
OBSTACLES, AND OPPORTUNITIES

AISHEEDYUTI ROY
FILM STUDIES
THE REICH, THE HEROINE, AND SAMURAI HIP-HOP:
HISTORICAL SUBJECTS IN POPULAR JAPANESE MANGA AND ANIME

RITISH DUTTA
FILM STUDIES
THE EXCESSES OF PLEASURE:
THE TRANSGRESSIVE WOMAN IN BHASKAR HAZARIKA’S AAMIS

BOOKS

REVIEWS

ASAD LATIF
Ang Cheng Guan. Reassessing Lee Kuan Yew’s Strategic Thought.
London and New York: Routledge, 2023.
MR. SINGAPORE: NEITHER DEIFIED NOR DETHRONED,
BUT VIEWED WITH AGNOSTIC APPRECIATION 

TOH HAN SHIH
George Yeo with Woon Tai Ho. Musings, Series One.
Singapore: World Scientific, 2022.
THE ADROIT BALANCING ACT
OF FORMER SINGAPORE MINISTER GEORGE YEO

VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Tommy Koh, editor. Small States in a Big World: Size is not Destiny.
Singapore: Straits Times Press, 2022.
SMALL STATES, BIG STRIDES

Cover Photos:

1. Kenya, August 2016. Photo by the courtesy of Ai Weiwei, Human Flow. http://www.humanflow.com/gallery/
2. Portrait of Sun Tzu. Image from the Qing Palace Collection Picture Book (Beijing: Palace Museum Press, 1994). This image, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, is in the public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E5%90%B4%E5%8F%B8%E9%A9%AC%E5%AD%99%E6%AD%A6.jpg
3. Chiyoko Fujiwara enacts a character while a startled Kyoji Ida finds himself inside her film in Millennium Actress (2001, Satoshi Kon). Source: Image by the courtesy of All The Anime. https://images.app.goo.gl/6dLNpz2BEnYCbvPY9