PHILIP GEORGE
Our Man in Tuscany, Malayan-born English Writer, Lawyer, Traveller and Sportsman
ROAD TO MALAYA
THE SELANGOR RAINFOREST NEVER LEFT ME
The Identities Of A Plantation Boy From Tuscany
LOTUS HO
Independent Scholar, Vinh Long, Vietnam
AN ABBOTT OF COMPASSION
Thích Trung Hiếu And The Making Of “Engaged Buddhism” In Rural Vietnam
BY ROLAND BOER
Professor, School Of Philosophy, Renmin University Of China, Beijing
DELIVERED ON NOVEMBER 19, 2025
A TIME OF GLOBAL CHANGES
What China’s Two-Level Diplomacy Means For The World Today
CHELSEA YUIPCO
PhD Candidate, English Department, University of California, Riverside
MONSTERS EVERYWHERE
The Zombies, The Land, Memory, And Philippine Colonization
In Carlo Ledesma’s Outside (2024)
SEUNGYEON LEE
University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Selangor, Malaysia
BEYOND THE HUMAN IN TIGER STRIPES (2023)
AND JANGSANBEOM (2017)
Malaysian And Korean Cinema In Dialogue
With Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915)
LALDINPUII RUTH, Mizoram University
and SHLOK GOENKA, Manipal University
SKIN CAPITAL
Racial Appearance As Erotic Commodity Among Northeastern Migrant Women In Delhi
NIYAR PRABHAT KALITA, Independent Researcher,
RAKTIMA DUTTA, Tezpur University,
and SWAPNIL BHUYAN, Tezpur University
THE METAPHOR OF COLOR IN PRADIP KURBAH’S LEWDUH
A Sociological Study Of The Market In Shillong
REVIEW BY THOMAS CAFFREY, Dublin City University
Koji Suzuki. The Shining Sea. Translated by Brian Bergstrom. Kodansha, 2022.
JAPAN’S “POST-BUBBLE DECADE” AT SEA
A Masterpiece From “The Stephen King Of Japan”
REVIEW BY LIU JINXINGQI, University of Alberta
Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia: US Hegemony and Local Agency.
Edited by Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi, Shin Kawashima, and Somei Kobayashi.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2025.
CHALLENGING THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF U.S. CULTURAL HEGEMONY
By Disrupting The Dichotomy Of The Provider Versus Receiver Of Knowledge
REVIEW BY MANASHJYOTI KARJEE, Managing Editor, Rising Asia Journal
Rajeev Bhattacharyya, ULFA: The Mirage of Dawn.
New Delhi: HarperCollins India, 2023.
WHEN DAWN BECOMES A MIRAGE
The Insurgency This Book Refuses To Flatten
REVIEW BY SHRUTI DHAUNDIYAL, Independent Scholar
Malene K. Brandshaug and Axel Borchgrevink, eds. The Politics of Riverine Rights: Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India.
Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2026.
MORE THAN LEGAL PERSONS
Rivers And The Politics They Carry
REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM, Tetso College
Dominique Jolly, The Chinese Financial System: Sino-Centricity and Orchestrated Control. Singapore: World Scientific, 2024.
STAGE-MANAGING CHINA’S OPAQUE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Protecting Big Banks, And Making Business Moguls Toe The Party Line
REVIEW BY AURKO CHAKRABARTI, Managing Editor, Rising Asia Journal
Eva Dou. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company.
New York: Portfolio, 2025.
THE PARADOX OF A NATIONAL CHAMPION
Technology, Power, And The Making Of Modern China
REVIEW BY MUHAMMAD SALMAN, National University
of Modern Languages, Islamabad
Neutrality After 1989: New Paths in the Post-Cold War World. Edited by Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom. Bristol, UK: E-International Relations, 2024
THE USES AND ABUSES OF NEUTRALITY
A Compromised, Pragmatic, And Selective Strategy Tool
