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

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1
(WINTER/SPRING) JANUARY TO APRIL 2024

 CONTENTS

COLUMNS

ASAD LATIF
THE SINGAPORE PRESIDENCY
THE MAN WHO HOLDS THE “SECOND KEY”:
MULTIRACIAL SINGAPORE WINS A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

VIMAL KHAWAS
HIMALAYAN DEVELOPMENT
TEESTA DISASTER: A HUMAN-MADE CATASTROPHE AND THE LESSONS LEARNT

GURJIT SINGH
SOUTHEAST ASIAN POLICY
ASEAN IN A COMPETITIVE WORLD ORDER

RESEARCH ARTICLES

TRẦN ỨNG THUỲ TRANG
TRACING THE FILM HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM WITH HOÀNG VĨNH LỘC’S WAR PICTURE THE FACELESS LOVER:
NEOCOLONIALIST FILM OR NATIONALIST MELODRAMA?

AJAY KUMAR PANDEY, MAN NORBU and PUNYO YARANG
CASE STUDY OF TEZU BLOCK, LOHIT DISTRICT OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH
A NEW DEAL FOR WOMEN OF RURAL ARUNACHAL: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SELF-HELP GROUPS

TIAN MASHUANG
ADVENTURE OF PLANTS (PART II): BOTANICAL INCUBATION OF TEA PLANTATIONS IN INDIA AND CEYLON IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

THE RISING ASIA ROUNDTABLE REVIEW

ROUNDTABLE REVIEW OF ANG CHENG GUAN,
SINGAPORE’S GRAND STRATEGY (SINGAPORE: NUS PRESS, 2023), 195 PAGES.

PARTICIPANTS

INTRODUCTION BY HARISH C. MEHTA
SINGAPORE’S JOURNEY FROM THE DREAM OF BEING THE “NEW YORK” OF MALAYSIA TO A SMALL STATE WITH A “GRAND STRATEGY”

REVIEW BY MANJEET S. PARDESI
SINGAPORE’S (THUS FAR) SUCCESSFUL GRAND STRATEGY OF ENSURING SUCCESS 

REVIEW BY BICH TRAN
HISTORIAN ANG FILLS A GAP IN THE LITERATURE DOMINATED BY POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

REVIEW BY TOH HAN SHIH
SINGAPORE’S GRAND STRATEGY HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE, BUT CAN IT WORK AMIDST WORSENING U.S.-CHINA TENSIONS?

THE AUTHOR’S RESPONSE

BY ANG CHENG GUAN
SINGAPORE’S GRAND STRATEGY IS ALWAYS DYNAMIC
AND IS NOT CAST IN STONE

 THE RISING ASIA REVIEW OF BOOKS

REVIEW BY VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Regime Resilience in Malaysia and Singapore, edited by Greg Lopez and Bridget Welsh (Selangor: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre / Singapore: World Scientific, 2023).
WHY REGIMES IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE ARE SO RESILIENT

REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM
Ching-hwang Yen, While East Meets West: A Chinese Diaspora Scholar and Social Activist in Asia-Pacific (Singapore: World Scientific, 2022).
NOSTALGIA: THE ETERNAL HOMECOMING

 

Front Cover Photo Credits:

  • Mỹ Lan in Người Tình Không Chân Dung [The Faceless Lover], (Giao Chỉ Studio, 1970). Author’s screenshot.
  • Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the World Economic Forum in August 2022. Photo by the courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. https://shorturl.at/irvOZ