Asian Studies Review, Volume 43, Issue 2 (2019)

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Special focus on Singapore: politics and economy

Notes on Contributors

Contributors
Pages: iv-vi
Published online: 20 May 2019
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Announcements

Announcement
Article about breastfeeding in Indonesia wins Wang Gungwu Prize for 2018
Page: 183
Published online: 20 May 2019
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Articles

Article
Perceptions of Meritocracy in Singapore: Inconsistencies, Contestations and Biases
Terri-Anne Teo
Pages: 184-205
Published online: 11 Apr 2019
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Open or Bordered? Singapore, Industrialisation and Malaysian Workers
Stephen Dobbs & Kah Seng Loh
Pages: 206-223
Published online: 22 Apr 2019
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Confucianism and Capitalist Development: From Max Weber and Orientalism to Lee Kuan Yew and New Confucianism
Sophie Pezzutto
Pages: 224-238
Published online: 07 Apr 2019
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Electoral Secularism in Singapore: Political Responses to Homosexuality
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
Pages: 239-255
Published online: 07 Apr 2019
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So Similar, So Different, So Chinese: Analytical Comparisons of the Confucius Institute with its Western Counterparts
Xin Liu
Pages: 256-275
Published online: 29 Apr 2019
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Open Access
Article
The Ethics of Social Care in Indonesia: Women’s Perspectives on Care in Politics, Development and Policy*
Tanya Jakimow, Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi & Asima Yanty Siahaan
Pages: 276-294
Published online: 28 Apr 2019
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights and Clothing Workers in Bangladesh and Malaysia
Vicki Crinis
Pages: 295-312
Published online: 07 Apr 2019
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The Entrepreneurial Developmental State: What is the Perceived Impact of South Korea’s Creative Economy Action Plan on Entrepreneurial Activity?
Ramon Pacheco Pardo & Robyn Klingler-Vidra
Pages: 313-331
Published online: 05 May 2019
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Reform of State-owned Enterprises in China: The Chinese Communist Party Strikes Back
Hong Yu
Pages: 332-351
Published online: 05 May 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
The price of aid: the economic Cold War in India, by David C. Engerman
Susan Engel
Pages: 352-353
Published online: 29 Oct 2018
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Comrades against imperialism: Nehru, India and interwar internationalism, by Michele L. Louro
Alexander E. Davis
Pages: 353-354
Published online: 29 Oct 2018
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The new Pakistani middle class, by Ammara Maqsood
Trent Brown
Pages: 354-356
Published online: 29 Oct 2018
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Politics of desecularization: law and the minority question in Pakistan, by Sadia Saeed
Imran Ahmed
Pages: 356-357
Published online: 29 Oct 2018
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Book Review
Everyday sustainability: gender justice and fair trade tea in Darjeeling, by Debarati Sen
Mark Vicol
Pages: 357-358
Published online: 07 Apr 2019
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Book Review
Visual media in Indonesia: video vanguard, by Edwin Jurriëns
Kristen Sharp
Pages: 359-360
Published online: 29 Oct 2018
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Book Review
Monastery, monument, museum: sites and artifacts of Thai cultural memory, by Maurizio Peleggi
Selina Ho
Pages: 360-361
Published online: 01 Nov 2018
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Book Review
Contents tourism in Japan: pilgrimages to “sacred sites” of popular culture, by Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada & Kyungjae Jang
Rebecca Suter
Pages: 362-363
Published online: 31 Oct 2018
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Book Review
Eurasian encounters: museums, missions, modernities, edited by Carolien Stolte & Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Colin Mackerras
Pages: 363-364
Published online: 29 Oct 2018
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Book Review
Transforming Monkey: adaptation and representation of a Chinese epic, by Hongmei Sun
Asako P. Saito
Pages: 364-366
Published online: 23 Sep 2018
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Miyazawa Kenji and his illustrators: images of nature and Buddhism in Japanese children’s literature, by Helen Kilpatrick
Tamaki Mihic
Pages: 366-367
Published online: 31 Mar 2019
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Book Review
Asian video cultures: in the penumbra of the global, edited by Joshua Neves & Bhaskar Sarkar
Edwin Jurriëns
Pages: 367-369
Published online: 22 Feb 2019
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