Date | 2024-09-02 |
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type | News |
We are pleased to announce the publication of Asian Perspective, volume 48, number 3 (Summer 2024), 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/53079).
This Special Session continues the discussion on China’s Rise in Asia: China-Host Country Interactions and Transformations—a follow-up to last year’s special session. The papers in this issue explore the complexity of Chinese power, as well as the domestic implications for the countries Korea, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Thailand, and Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. More specifically, these papers explore the nature of China’s “sharp power” influence in South Korea and the ROK response; China’s role in Sri Lanka and how Sri Lankan leaders have utilized the relations to shape their electoral platforms; how Bhutan has exerted agency to prioritize its own interests over China’s agenda; how Thai officials perceive China’s ascent as an opportunity to deepen trade, investment, and economic assistance, although the geoeconomic maneuvering has been complicated by the agency of domestic NGOs, who are concerned with the socioeconomic impacts of Chinese-financed projects; and the propagation of China’s “Digital Silk Road” in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, whose civil society organizations have acted as key components in understanding the impact of socio-political developments in these Southeast Asian countries.
In the journal’s Book Symposium section, invited scholars critique Dan Slater and Joseph Wong’s From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia (2022)—a masterful work of comparative history that examines the ‘uneven experience of democratization’ in Asia.
All back issues of the journal (from 1977 to 2024), including past special issues, are also available at Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/733).
ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
VOL. 48, NO. 3, SUMMER 2024
Special Session on China’s Rise in Asia: China-Host Country Interactions and Transformations
Guest Editors – Alvin Camba, Guanie Lim, and Victoria Chonn Ching
Special Session Introduction—Strategies and Adaptations to China’s Rise Across Asia
Victoria Chonn Ching, Guanie Lim, and Alvin Camba
The Relational Dynamics of China’s Sharp Power and Korea’s Chordal Triad of Agency
Youngjune Chung
Chinese Financing and Domestic Politics in Sri Lanka—Parallel Evolution across Mid-20th vs 21st Century Episodes of Bilateral Interactions
Umesh Moramudali and Thilina Panduwawala
Crafting Bhutan-China Ties: Small State Agency in Emergent Diplomatic Relations
Passang Dorji and Nicholas Thomas
The Clashes Within: How Do Thai Government Agencies and NGOs View China’s Rise?
Narut Charoensri
Southeast Asian Civil Society Organizations and Digital Rights in the Age of China’s Digital Silk Road
Thomas P. Narins
BOOK SYMPOSIUM
Book Symposium on Dan Slater and Joseph Wong. 2022. From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ja Ian Chong
Kevin J. O’Brien
Myungji Yang
Dan Slater and Joseph Wong