I am delighted to pass along the announcement of the publication of the September 2024 issue of Current History, the century-old international affairs journal. This is the journal's annual China and East Asia issue.
Contents:
The Quest for ‘Common Prosperity’ in China
Xian Huang (Rutgers University)
In recent years, the party-state has built a basic social welfare system. But an economic slowdown and an aging population are making it more difficult to reduce inequality.
A New Kind of Tinderbox on the Korean Peninsula
Nan Kim (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
As North and South Korea forge rival military alliances in the wake of failed summits, long-held visions of reunification are being cast aside.
Ferociously Cute: Indonesian Politics after Jokowi
Doreen Lee (Northeastern University)
A perennial candidate notorious for alleged dictatorship-era rights abuses softened his image and struck a dynastic alliance with the popular incumbent in pursuit of the presidency.
Japan’s Complicated Presence in Southeast Asia
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua (University of the Philippines–Diliman)
Food, manga, and other cultural products, along with traditional diplomacy, serve as forms of soft power that have burnished the regional image of a former enemy.
The Politics of Indigenous Exclusion in Australia and New Zealand
Dominic O’Sullivan (Charles Sturt University)
Political backlashes and electoral setbacks have stymied efforts to realize equality for Indigenous citizens through institutional and constitutional reforms.
PERSPECTIVE
In the Name of the King: Law and Democracy in Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Five years after the end of the latest spell of military rule, a law shielding the king from criticism stifles activism and the transition to full democracy.
BOOKS
Philippine Traces of US Imperial Violence
Lisandro E. Claudio (University of California, Berkeley)
A 1906 massacre on Mindanao ranks among the worst American colonial atrocities. Yet local views of US power today are more favorable than might be expected.
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Current History publishes nine times per year. Each month’s issue focuses on a single region or topic—including annual issues on Africa, China and East Asia, Russia and Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia, Europe, and Global Trends, plus special issues on topics
such as Human–Nonhuman Relations, Learning from the Pandemic, and Climate Transformations.
Essays relating to China and East Asia available online in Current History’s archives include:
Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies by Yige Dong
The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics by Levi McLaughlin
Desinicizing Taiwan: The Making of a Democratic National Identity by Ming-sho Ho
The Politics of Parasite in South Korea by Myungji Yang
Party-State Capitalism in China by Margaret Pearson, Meg Rithmire, and Kellee S. Tsai
Indonesia’s Economic Futures: Who Will Pay? By Doreen Lee
Did China’s Public Health Reforms Leave It Prepared for COVID-19? by Katherine Mason
The Lose-Lose Trade War by Xiangfeng Yang
Japan’s Model of Immigration Without Immigrants by Erin Aeran Chung
The Power and Limits of Populism in the Philippines by Nicole Curato
A New President Aims to Change South Korea’s Course by David C. Kang
Migrant Workers’ Fight for Rights in China by Anita Chan
The Misconceived One-Child Policy Lives On by Mei Fong
China’s Embryonic Public Sphere by Sebastian Veg
Is Vietnam on the Verge of Change? by Jonathan London
China’s Bold Economic Statecraft by Gregory T. Chin
The Paradox of Chinese Civil Society by Elizabeth J. Perry
History’s Unfinished Business in East Asia by Rana Mitter
The Evolving Tactics of China’s Green Movement by Judith Shapiro
China’s Post-Socialist Inequality by Martin King Whyte
Japan’s Post-Catastrophe Politics by Steven Vogel
The China-US Relationship Goes Global by Kenneth Lieberthal
America’s Place in the Asian Century by Kishore Mahbubani
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