Rising Asia Journal
Rising Asia Foundation
ISSN 2583-1038
PEER REVIEWED | MULTI-DISCIPLINARY | EASTERN FOCUS

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
(AUTUMN) SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2023

 CONTENTS

RISING ASIA FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED ANNUAL LECTURE

BY SENIOR MINISTER OF CAMBODIA, MOULY IENG
Delivered on October 20, 2022
CAMBODIA, HER LAND, HER PEOPLE, HER CIVILIZATION, AND HER PLACE
IN REGIONAL GEOPOLITICS

COLUMNS

ASAD LATIF
WHEN INDIA HAD AN OCEAN

JULIE BANERJEE MEHTA
CELEBRATING PHILIP MICHAEL ONDAATJE’S 80TH
“ONE FINE FRIEND I’VE NEVER MET”

SUDIPTA BHATTACHARJEE
HOW THE SONG OF THE BAMBANENG (BUMBLEBEE) BEGAN MEGHALAYA’S TRADITIONAL MUSICAL CULTURE THAT IS NOW BEING REVIVED

RESEARCH ARTICLES

TIAN MASHUANG
ADVENTURE OF PLANTS (PART I): BOTANICAL BLUEPRINT OF THE FIRST TEA INDUSTRIES IN SOUTH ASIA IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

HM IZHAR ALAM
CASE STUDY OF A LONG-RUNNING CONFLICT, 1947-2023
ETHNIC CLASHES JEOPARDIZE MANIPUR’S ROSEATE ECONOMY AS FLARING VIOLENCE COULD SPREAD ACROSS THE WIDER NORTHEAST

KENDALL BELOPAVLOVICH
THE DANSŌ DANCE AND SHŌJO SUBVERSION: VISUAL PERFORMANCE AS BOUNDARY WORK IN JAPANESE ANIME OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB

THE RISING ASIA REVIEW OF BOOKS

VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Yumi Kitamura, Alan H. Yang, and Ju Lan Thung. When East Asia Meets Southeast Asia: Presence and Connectedness in Transformation Revisited. Singapore: World Scientific, 2023.
HISTORIC EAST ASIAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONNECTEDNESS AND CURRENT BIG POWER RIVALRY

GURJIT SINGH
Winning Hearts and Minds: Public Diplomacy in ASEAN. Edited by Sue-Ann Chia.
Singapore International Foundation, 2022.
ASEAN’S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY GOES BEYOND STATE ACTION TO ALTER NATIONAL IMAGE

HIMADRI LAHIRI
Koushik Goswami. Reimagining Tibet: Politics of Literary Representation.
London and New York: Routledge, 2023.
UNPACKING THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN
NEW TIBETAN WRITING

SALIKYU SANGTAM
Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng. China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter.
Singapore and London: World Scientific, 2022.
O CHINA, WHERE ART THOU?

 

Front Cover photo credits:

The journal thanks the following copyright owners for use of the images:

  • Ouran High School Host Club manga, Volume 1, page 34. Haruhi’s masculine gender performance is realized through her servitude to the host club, whose members give her an expensive makeover. (Copyright: Ouran Koko Host Club © Bisco Hatori 2003/HAKUSENSHA, Inc.)
  • Michael Ondaatje speaks at the Tulane Great Writer Series presented by the Creative Writing Fund of the Department of English, Dixon Hall, October 25, 2010. Image in the public domain by Wikipedia under licence: File:Michael_Ondaatje_at_Tulane_2010.jpg licensed with Cc-by-2.0