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
For three decades, contemporary public discourse on the Philippines has been marked by reference to a period called the “post-Marcos era.” Weeks after a high-stakes national election, that widely-accepted historical marker is...
Published on May Day, to celebrate workers of the world THE PRELUDE Entering history, entering movement. This paper is a political project. It sketches a larger plan for writing about...
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...
For three decades, contemporary public discourse on the Philippines has been marked by reference to a period called the “post-Marcos era.” Weeks...
Published on May Day, to celebrate workers of the world THE PRELUDE Entering history, entering movement. This paper is a...
This piece was written anonymously by a group in China. It was translated by the Chuang collective and is linked...
This essay looks back upon China’s LGBTQ culture around the 2008 Summer Olympics to reflect upon its contemporary gender and...
On the 11th of February 1945, the Yalta Agreement was signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. This Agreement divided Europe...
Almost two years into the global pandemic of Covid-19, the contention surrounding wet markets as one of the pandemic’s outbreak origin...
Editor’s note: On the eve of the Presidential elections in the Philippines, we asked a few scholars to write about...
Resist America, Aid Korea! 抗美援朝! Goals the grey suits of Hollywood might have inadvertently championed in 2019, when the South...
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which closed on the 8th of August 2021 after the many delays and disruptions caused by the...
Translated by Shiqi Lin Translator’s notes: This essay was originally published in Chinese for the “Trading Thoughts” column of thepaper.cn...
The death last month of renowned Chinese rice geneticist Yuan Longping offered an opportunity for US media to say something...
On October 19th, 1951, 23-old Korean woman Lee Yong Soon landed in Seattle. [1] This Mrs. Blue Morgan, as she...
Presenting the crisis in Myanmar (formerly Burma) following the military coup of February 1, 2021, as unique feeds the media’s...
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...
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