Volume 9 Number1 March 2008
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Cover Picture by Shahidul ALAM

Ballacot (3 December 2005)
Ballacot city used to be a popular destination, but has been converted to rubble. ¡¥This used to be a city but has now become a graveyard¡¦ said Amjad, the driver for CONCERN.

 

Visual Essay
The photography of ¡¥Resistance¡¦

Shahidul ALAM

 

 

 

  Editorial statement

In Memoriam
Luminosity in the Darkness: Remembering Edward Yang
Stan LAI (LAI Shengchuan)

Essays
Herlinatiens: between lesbianism, Islam and feminism
Soe Tjen MARCHING
Made in China: the cultural logic of OEMs and the manufacture of low-cost technology
Kelly HU
The politics of national atonement and narrations of war
Hideko MITSUI
From transnationalism to nativism? The rise, decline and reinvention of a regional Hokkien entertainment industry
Jeremy E. TAYLOR
The national crisis and de/reconstructing nationalism in South Korea during the IMF intervention
Younghan CHO
When is a foreign-language film not a foreign-language film? When it has too much English in it: the case of a Singapore film and the Oscars
Felicia CHAN

Peasantry
Peasant cultures of the twenty-first century
Partha CHATTERJEE


Rethinking Movement
Procedural democracy, participatory democracy and regional networking: the multi-terrain struggle for democracy in Southeast Asia
Francis Kok Wah LOH


Transformation
Sitting on the dock of the bay: partial views of change¡XSingapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong
Peter W. PRESTON


Historicizing
China¡¦s view of Korea: a critique in the context of the East Asian discourse
Sung-Bin KOH