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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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