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    • Liberate Hong Kong: Nationalist Secession and the Localist Movement
      Academic Articles, Contemporary History, Southeast Asia
      Liberate Hong Kong: Nationalist Secession and the Localist Movement

      Guest Author

      May 14, 2025

      Abstract I investigate Hong Kong’s localist movement, particularly its evolution from a cultural issue to…

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    • Victim-Centered Justice As Justice: A Path Forward for Korean “Comfort Women”
      East Asia, Gender
      Victim-Centered Justice As Justice: A Path Forward for Korean “Comfort Women”

      Guest Author

      May 9, 2025

      The unresolved harm suffered by Korean “comfort women,” who were forced into sexual slavery by…

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    • Steering Through Troubled Waters: Filipino Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
      Academic Articles, Policy, Southeast Asia
      Steering Through Troubled Waters: Filipino Foreign Policy in the South China Sea

      Grace Choi

      April 30, 2025

      Since 2023, the South China Sea, a 3.5 million km² body of water south of…

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    • Book Review: Christina Kelley Gilmartin’s Engendering the Chinese Revolution RadicalWomen, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s
      Book Reviews, East Asia, Society
      Book Review: Christina Kelley Gilmartin’s Engendering the Chinese Revolution RadicalWomen, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s

      Guest Author

      April 28, 2025

      In early twentieth-century China, the May Fourth intellectuals aimed to save the country, and they…

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    • Development as Dispossession: Ethnic Exclusion and State Power in Laos
      Academic Articles, Southeast Asia
      Development as Dispossession: Ethnic Exclusion and State Power in Laos

      Tisya Raina

      April 24, 2025

      Abstract This paper examines how state-led development policies in Laos perpetuate ethnic exclusion and structural…

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    • “The Adventures of Form” – Event Report
      Event Reports, Southeast Asia
      “The Adventures of Form” – Event Report

      Leo Yao Chen

      April 24, 2025

      On March 26th at The Boardroom of the Observatory, Professor Anna Tsing gave a talk…

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    Editorial Board
    • Editorial Board: Asia’s Fragile Democracies

      David Daigneault

      February 1, 2025
      Editorial Board: Asia’s Fragile Democracies
    • Editorial Board: US Election Reverberates Across Asia

      Admin

      December 14, 2024
      Editorial Board: US Election Reverberates Across Asia
    East Asia
    • Victim-Centered Justice As Justice: A Path Forward for Korean “Comfort Women”
      Victim-Centered Justice As Justice: A Path Forward for Korean “Comfort Women”
      May 9, 2025
    • Book Review: Christina Kelley Gilmartin’s Engendering the Chinese Revolution RadicalWomen, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s
      Book Review: Christina Kelley Gilmartin’s Engendering the Chinese Revolution RadicalWomen, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s
      April 28, 2025
    • Ways of Faith: Aurality and Voicing Christianity in China’s Ethnic Borderland
      Ways of Faith: Aurality and Voicing Christianity in China’s Ethnic Borderland
      April 20, 2025
    • Clash of Titans: Rethinking the Sino-American Rivalry 
      Clash of Titans: Rethinking the Sino-American Rivalry 
      April 20, 2025
    • The Revival of Spirituality in Post-COVID China
      The Revival of Spirituality in Post-COVID China
      April 9, 2025
    South Asia
    • Progress, Preservation, and Transition to a Civilizing Mission: British Colonial Rule in South Asia from the late 18th-century to the mid-19th-Century
      Progress, Preservation, and Transition to a Civilizing Mission: British Colonial Rule in South Asia from the late 18th-century to the mid-19th-Century
      April 22, 2025
    • India’s Gamble with Digitalization
      India’s Gamble with Digitalization
      April 10, 2025
    • More Education but Less Jobs? Female Labor Force Participation and the Contradictions of the Indian Economy
      More Education but Less Jobs? Female Labor Force Participation and the Contradictions of the Indian Economy
      April 10, 2025
    • Climate Change Policies: The Need of the Hour
      Climate Change Policies: The Need of the Hour
      April 10, 2025
    • Sustainable Tourism: An Oxymoron? Bhutan, Ecotourism, and its Internal Contradictions
      Sustainable Tourism: An Oxymoron? Bhutan, Ecotourism, and its Internal Contradictions
      April 8, 2025
    Southeast Asia
    • Liberate Hong Kong: Nationalist Secession and the Localist Movement
      Liberate Hong Kong: Nationalist Secession and the Localist Movement
      May 14, 2025
    • Steering Through Troubled Waters: Filipino Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
      Steering Through Troubled Waters: Filipino Foreign Policy in the South China Sea
      April 30, 2025
    • Development as Dispossession: Ethnic Exclusion and State Power in Laos
      Development as Dispossession: Ethnic Exclusion and State Power in Laos
      April 24, 2025
    • “The Adventures of Form” – Event Report
      “The Adventures of Form” – Event Report
      April 24, 2025
    • Book Talk: Joshua Barker’s “State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City”
      Book Talk: Joshua Barker’s “State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City”
      April 20, 2025

    Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies

    Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies is an academic journal with a regional focus on East, Southeast, and South Asia founded at the Asian Institute of University of Toronto. The goal of the journal is to stimulate and generate vibrant academic discussions on the current political, historical, societal, and/or economic developments in the Asia region. 

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