..., through timely subjects, such as nance, as this essay envisions. Asia or any other developing regions do not have to be the alternative or next hegemony but can be launched as a window of newly emerging global materiality. positions...

... and readers. Many contributors and readers then had mixed feelings about the ways they themselves had acquired language competency or nanced their eldwork. Some also felt ambivalent about having received such excellent mentoring from area studies...

... the women as victims of patriarchy? Should we argue that sex workers’ empowerment politics is a construction of male domi- nance, used to hoodwink women into compliance and docility? Or can we acknowledge these perspectives and experiences...

... of Simoun and Padre Florentino’s rearticula- tion of mass and critical education as the key to a successful transforma- tion. Simoun entrusts Padre Florentino with a chest of jewelry, which could nance the procurement of arms for a future revolution...

... from the viewpoint of international nance. This move, while less ethno- graphic, remains anthropological; for as Marcel Mauss demonstrated so long ago, individualism is itself a social and historically contingent concept that begs for critical...

... was evident. On October 30, 1945, the US occupation forces published Ordi- nance No. 19. Section 1 was titled, “Declaration of National Emergency.” Significantly, the ordinance began with a reintroduction of the US forces to the Korean people, a move...

..., only women serving a European clientele were brought under the ordi- nance, in Singapore the ordinance was applied first to Chinese-only brothels and only latterly to others.3 At the heart of both ordinances lay two provisions...

..., nances, or physiognomy help one to navigate the uncertainty of capitalist approaches to business and property; family values and lifestyles provide a way of indexing the success of state agendas to achieve modernity, progress, and civilization...

... in light of the new Asian immigrant populations. Another concern of the essays in this volume is the creation and mainte- nance of solidarity across racial and national boundaries. Jun’s essay, for example, explores the rearticulation...

... with for- eignness, greed, and sex. The return is more obviously connoted through the use of color. What we can call an atmospherics of ambiance and mood is conveyed by the predomi- nance of soft blue hues in dawn, dusk, and nighttime scenes, and the use...

.... On the one hand, Thai nationalism since has rested on the domi- nance and putative representativeness of the central Thai within a more heterogeneous body politic — one that has either disavowed or attempted to eliminate those forms of difference...

... to remain free from the orthodoxy of free markets and free trade. Maoist China could not escape positions 28:4 November 2020 762 the commodity ows and means of payment that were external to China but internal to the border- crossing networks of international trade and the high- nance system of global...

... known in their places of origin, beyond their prove- nances their effects continue to animate life and resistance. Questions about land, life, and living become the interminable issues of Gaddar’s songs and, significantly, these issues...

... and ultimately map new articulations of state power and capitalist accumulation in the context of postsocialist regimes of gover- nance. III These essays, in their strikingly different ways, effectively bring the state back...

...: Financial Gover- nance, Liberalisation, and Crises in East Asia, ed. K. S. Jomo (London: Zed, 1998), 68. 34 See Robert Wade, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization, 2nd ed...

... and exile, dependency and freedom, for their measures of sovereignty and selfhood; and its economy of affects, including happiness and sorrow, for their somatic and psychic reso- nances, holding out as a possibility, or impossibility, a “good life...

... is sometimes forcefully expressed top down in state discourse, ignoring other regimes of morality that may be more pronouncedly bottom up.23 The top-­down state gover- nance of intimacy, such as the surveillance of international marriages...

....40 Why are the poor not part of the consultation pro- cess? When the Development Bank talks of good governance, the neoliberal efficiency assumptions this entails are put at issue. Why does good gover- nance not mean publicly accountable systems...

...- thetic. While the earsplitting music and loud colors accompanying Taiwan- ese funerals strike one ethnic Japanese writer as signifying a deficiency in genuine feelings, another Japanese writer recognizes their emotive reso- nance within...

... November 2020 880 istic structures. Many of these long descriptive passages nd uncanny reso- nances with the fantasy performances of Gardens by the Bay. Rachel s initial aerial view of the island and her contemplation of its geographical situatedness enables the novel to demarcate the setting of new Asia...