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—Singapore, 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