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

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3
(AUTUMN) SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2025

CONTENTS

SPECIAL ISSUE
TALES FROM THE PRINCIPALITIES
ANCIENT CHINESE SHORT STORIES
ERIC HENRY, Guest Editor & Translator
Emeritus Professor, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
ALL STORIES ARE TRANSLATED BY ERIC HENRY
ERIC HENRY

CHAPTER ONE
THE NATURE OF THE WORK
Some Extremely Ancient Stories

CHAPTER TWO
TALES FROM THE WESTERN ZHŌU

CHAPTER THREE
TALES FROM THE EASTERN ZHŌU

CHAPTER FOUR
TALES FROM LǓ AND QÍ

CHAPTER FIVE
TALES FROM JÌN – 1

CHAPTER SIX
TALES FROM JÌN – 2
PRINCE CHÓNG’ĚR

CHAPTER SEVEN
TALES FROM JÌN—3

CHAPTER EIGHT
TALES FROM ZHÈNG AND CHǓ

CHAPTER NINE
TALES FROM WÚ AND YUÈ

THE RISING ASIA REVIEW OF BOOKS

REVIEW BY SHAKTHI DE SILVA
Lecturer, Royal Institute of Colombo
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, The Conspiracy To Oust Me From The Presidency: How Internationally Sponsored Regime Change Made A Mockery Of Democracy In Sri Lanka, published by Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo, 2024.
GOTABAYA FAILS TO OFFER EVIDENCE
Where’s the “International Conspiracy” That Toppled His Regime?

REVIEW BY POR HEONG HONG
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Loh Kah Seng and Hsu Li Yang, Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022: Lessons for the Age of COVID-19. Abingdon, Oxon, UK, and New York: Routledge, 2024.
A NUANCED STUDY OF SINGAPORE’S PAST HISTORY OF MEDICINE
It Urges Historical Thinking in Navigating Modern Pandemics

REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM
Tetso College
Nirmal Ghosh, Backlash: Donald Trump And The Remaking Of America. Singapore: World Scientific, 2025.
THE FLAWED “SUPERHERO” AND THE CRISIS OF VALUES
How One Big Guy Manipulates The “Little Guys” 

Front Cover Image caption: Wú Zǐ Xū eludes pursuit in Chǔ before finding refuge in Wú. Wikipedia image is in the public domain. https://tinyurl.com/yw3uumfz