Just Published: Current History Annual China and East Asia Issue (September 2023)

 

Current History has just announced publication (September 202) of its annual China and East Asia Issue.  There are several quite interesting articles among them.  Though most are pay walled, one is available for free download (Yige Dong, "Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies"--access here:View Article; Open the PDF).

The table of contents follows below.

 

Current History, the century-old international affairs journal, presents its September 2023 issue: the annual China and East Asia issue. https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/issue/122/845. Follow us on Facebookand X, formerly Twitter: @CurrentHistory1.

Our September issue includes the following:

Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies
Yige Dong (State University of New York at Buffalo)
The Chinese government is suppressing feminist activists while taking credit for their achievements, seeking to reclaim its monopoly over women’s lives.

The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics
Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)
Public outrage sparked by the murder of the former prime minister has zeroed in on the deep ties between politicians and religious groups in one of the world’s least religious nations.

Malaysia’s Anwar, Anwar’s Malaysia
Meredith L. Weiss (University at Albany, State University of New York)
Both insider and outsider, the charismatic Anwar Ibrahim has had a long and dramatic career that has mirrored the nation’s changing political order. Now he is finally prime minister.

The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency
Lisandro E. Claudio (University of California, Berkeley)
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., a dictator’s son, is unexpectedly restoring a sense of normalcy in the Philippines after the violent excesses of his predecessor’s war on drugs.

Land Concessions and Postwar Conflict in Laos
Ian G. Baird (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Land concessions granted to foreign companies are a present-day legacy of the country’s long armed conflict, inflicting the violence of dispossession on rural villagers.

PERSPECTIVE
Is ‘Economic Security’ Making the Asia-Pacific Safer?
Kristin Vekasi (University of Maine)
The increasing use of trade and investment restrictions to advance foreign policy goals may end up making the region less secure, despite the label.