Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies

East Asia

How the Second Most Populous Country Cannot Afford Childrearing: Behind China’s Fertility Crisis

In 2023, China’s population shrank by 2.08 million.[1] The reason was unambiguous: its total fertility rate is approaching 1 child per woman,[2] whereas 2.1 children per woman are needed to maintain a stable population.[3] For [...]
Op-eds

Populist to pengabdi: What will Subianto’s Foreign Policy look like?

On February 14, 2024, Prabowo Subianto was elected the 8th President of Indonesia following his role as Defence Minister in 2019. He is assuming the leadership of the largest economy in Southeast Asia at a [...]
East Asia

Leaving “Examination Hell”: Re-Thinking East Asia’s Exam-Oriented Model of Opportunity

Introduction The examinational hall has long been an arena for the struggle over who has access to the opportunity to gain knowledges and develop skills that enable financial success and social respect in East Asia.1 [...]
East Asia

Myths and misperceptions: Reviewing the news reports and analyses on Taiwan’s 2024 elections

The candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the 2024 Presidential election of the Republic of China (Taiwan) after fierce competition with its old rival, the Kuomintang (KMT), and the newly rising Taiwan People’s [...]
East Asia

Book Talk: The Sentinel State: Surveillance & the Survival of Dictatorship of China

On March 5th from 12- 130 pm EST, Professor Minxin Pei, a Chinese politics scholar at Claremont McKenna College, delivered a presentation on his new book The Sentinel State: Surveillance & the Survival of Dictatorship [...]

How the Second Most Populous Country Cannot Afford Childrearing: Behind China’s Fertility Crisis

Populist to pengabdi: What will Subianto’s Foreign Policy look like?

Leaving “Examination Hell”: Re-Thinking East Asia’s Exam-Oriented Model of Opportunity

Myths and misperceptions: Reviewing the news reports and analyses on Taiwan’s 2024 elections

Book Talk: The Sentinel State: Surveillance & the Survival of Dictatorship of China

East Asia

How the Second Most Populous Country Cannot Afford Childrearing: Behind China’s Fertility Crisis

South Asia

Blasphemy Politics in Pakistan: The Role of Violence in State-Making

Southeast Asia

Populist to pengabdi: What will Subianto’s Foreign Policy look like?

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How the Second Most Populous Country Cannot Afford Childrearing: Behind China’s Fertility Crisis

Populist to pengabdi: What will Subianto’s Foreign Policy look like?

Leaving “Examination Hell”: Re-Thinking East Asia’s Exam-Oriented Model of Opportunity

Myths and misperceptions: Reviewing the news reports and analyses on Taiwan’s 2024 elections

Book Talk: The Sentinel State: Surveillance & the Survival of Dictatorship of China

The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia

The Future of Democracy in Asia: Taiwan’s 2024 Elections and Their Implications Across Asia

Managing the Optics of Educational Equality: An Analysis of China’s Ban on Private Tutoring

Blasphemy Politics in Pakistan: The Role of Violence in State-Making

Local ka ba o AFAM: The Impact of Dubbing the 1994 March in Manila as “Stonewall Manila.”