We are pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective, volume 49, number 3 (Summer 2025), published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the Institute for Far Eastern Studies of Kyungnam University and made available online at Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55481).

Vol. 49, No. 3 SUMMER 2025

Special Issue on Southeast Asia–Middle East Relations – Part 1

Introduction: The Influence of New Bilateralism on Southeast Asia-Middle East Relations and the Path to Deeper Transregionalism
Gürol Baba and Lai Yew Meng

Arab-Turko-Persianate and Malay World Relations:
Past, Present, and Future
Khairudin Aljunied

The Novelty of Complementarity between Transregionalism and New Bilateralism:
Southeast Asia-Middle East Affairs
Gürol Baba and Lai Yew Meng

Russia and China

The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Russian and
Chinese Foreign Policy in Central Asia
Jeanne L. Wilson

A Study on China-Myanmar Complex Interdependence Based on Night-time Light
Xiongguan Zhu, Lili Tan, and Wanshu Li

Politics in Taiwan and South Korea
Retrospection and Vote Choice:
Evidence from Cross-Sectional Studies in South Korea
Sanghoon Park, Hyun-Hee Heo, Deok Hyun Jang, Won Mo Jang, and Jaeyoung Hur

Socialism in Heart, Capitalism in Mind:
Class Cleavage in Taiwan’s Party Politics
John Fuh-sheng Hsieh

BOOK SYMPOSIUM

Book Symposium on TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden. 2023. A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 410 pp.
Peter C. Perdue
Christopher Atwood
TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag, and Mark Selden

The current issue of the journal can be found at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55481