This inaugural issue of paideia is structured around questions of experience, memory, and the historian’s burden to evaluate evidence and take social responsibility as elicited by Miki Dezaki’s 2018 documentary film Shusenjo. This inaugural
This inaugural issue of paideia is structured around questions of experience, memory, and the historian’s burden to evaluate evidence and take social responsibility as elicited by Miki Dezaki’s 2018 documentary film Shusenjo. This inaugural
The coup staged by the Burmese military on February 1, 2021 is plunging the country into an all-out war waged by the armed forces against virtually the whole of the...
Mark Driscoll’s The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection offers a fresh new look at treaty port imperialism in 19th century East Asia. Moving away...
Emiko Stock’s contemporary “city symphony” video, “commute” superimposes footage from Bangkok and Hong Kong to foreground the materiality and affect
Historian Tristan E. Revells “rebuilds” a biofuel factory from Republican era China through a digital renovation in this virtual museum.
Emiko Stock’s contemporary “city symphony” video, “commute” superimposes footage from Bangkok and Hong Kong to foreground the materiality and affect...
Historian Tristan E. Revells “rebuilds” a biofuel factory from Republican era China through a digital renovation in this virtual museum....
Yongyu Chen provides a new lens on the well-known Thai ghost Nak in his video essay, “Mae Nak: The Close-Up...
Jennifer Dubrow investigates the role of poetry in contemporary protest in India at a turning point in the country’s political...
The following series is a visual experiment in the comparative movement of fluids across different spatial visualizations. From celestial currents...
The coup staged by the Burmese military on February 1, 2021 is plunging the country into an all-out war waged...
Mark Driscoll’s The Whites are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection offers a fresh new look at...
We are outraged at the racist violence against Asians and Asian Americans, especially elders and women, which has resurfaced since...
In mid-January of this year, MIT professor Chen Gang, a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist, was arrested by the...
It is Time to Return to the Future of The Red Years for Our Time. The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics...
Powerful statements have been issued in the last week regarding the inaccuracies and academic misconduct in the publication of “Contracting...
On July 4th, 2020, in the midst of the twin crises of a nationwide uprising against racial injustice and a...
Donald Trump’s political career has invited all kinds of analogies, some useful, most not. Among the most facile have been...
76 Days, a feature-length documentary film focusing on the initial coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city Wuhan, has been making...
Kim Nam-ju (1945-1994), born in Haenam, South Cholla Province, was a leading leftist poet associated with South Korea’s minjung or...
Dear friends at Monthly Review, As scholars and activists committed to charting a course for an anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist left...
From a piercing collection of poems, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon explores gender, race, and...
In the West, as popular trust in liberal institutions is eroded, an increasingly unapologetic left is confronting an ascendant right. ...
August 6 and 9, 2020 mark seventy-five years since the US dropped atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite how...
“Politics is a protracted war. Do not be in a hurry. Try to see things far in advance and know...
Author: Kun Huang Translators: Roy Chan, Shui-yin Sharon Yam Notes on English edition: This essay was originally published in Chinese...