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

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 (SUMMER)
MAY TO AUGUST 2024

CONTENTS

RISING ASIA FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED ANNUAL LECTURE

BY PROFESSOR TOMMY KOH
“WILL ASEAN SURVIVE THE U.S.-CHINA CONFRONTATION?”
DELIVERED ON OCTOBER 11, 2023

RESEARCH ARTICLES

PFOKRELO KAPESA
THE POLITICS OF REORGANIZATION:
THE CASE OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND NAGALAND

NICOLE SMITH
THE BLIND EYE IN SINO-AFRICAN RELATIONS:
SOCIAL TRUST AND BUSINESS SCAMS

SIU HENG
THE “LITTLE WARM SPRING” IN HONG KONG CINEMA, OR THE “HONG KONG LOCALIST NEW WAVE,” IN THE WAX AND WANE OF CIVIL SOCIETY

XINKAI SUN
SPRING AND TIME IN CHINESE POSTWAR CINEMA, 1945-1949:
A NEW TEMPORAL APPROACH

THE RISING ASIA REVIEW OF BOOKS

SNEHA CHAKRABORTY
LITERARY ESSAY
“THE TYRANNY OF NICENESS” IN “LADY LAND”: POLITICS OF WOMEN’S LIBERATION IN SOUTH ASIAN FICTION, 1905-2014

REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM
John F. McCarthy, Andrew McWilliam, and Gerben Nooteboom (eds.), The Paradox of Agrarian Changes: Food Security and the Politics of Social Protection in Indonesia (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2023)
AN EPIDEMIC OF MISMEASURING DEVELOPMENT:
THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE IN INDONESIA

REVIEW BY VINOD KUMAR PILLAI
Revitalising ASEAN Economies in a Post-COVID-19 World: Socioeconomic Issues in the New Normal, edited by Hooi Hooi Lean (Singapore: World Scientific, 2022)
MAPPING THE NEW PANDEMIC IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

REVIEW BY MOHINI MAUREEN PRADHAN
Lion and Dragon Dance in Singapore by Pauline Loh (Singapore: World Scientific, 2023)
FROM THE ZHOU DYNASTY ONWARDS, A CHINESE CULTURAL PHENOMENON IN SINGAPORE AND BEYOND

Front cover photo credits:

  • Photo showing, left to right: Yuwen (Wei Wei), Dai Xiu (Zhang Hongmei), Zhichen (Li Wei). From Spring in a Small Town (1948) accessed from China Movie Official Channel (Channel 6 in CCTV) on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNlusc7NLk
  • Poster of the film A Guilty Conscience, the highest-grossing Hong Kong film of all time. Source: Edko Films.