Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

The latest issue of Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia–Volume 57, Issue 2, Year 2021—is now available in the journal's website. Themed "Margins and Mobilities in Asia," the issue contains three full-length articles, one special article, two essays, four book reviews, two poems, and two pieces of short fiction.
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INTRODUCTION

Margins and Mobilities in Asia
Janus Isaac NOLASCO

ARTICLES

Ang Amo at Maamo: Pangangamuhan among the Ayta Mag-indi of Pampanga
Kara Patria DAVID
Difficult but Necessary: Migration Narratives, Aspirations, and Remittance Behavior of OFWs in Hong Kong and Taiwan and their Families
Soledad DALISAY and Michael Lim TAN
Exploration and Commitment to Ethnic Identity among Malaysian University Students
Su-Hie TING and Marcus Gee-Whai KHO

SPECIAL ARTICLE

The Intramuros Project: Performing Heritage, Performed Ethnography, and Documentary Performance
Sir Anril TIATCO, Bryan VIRAY, and Olivia Kristine NIETO

ESSAYS

The Global Reach of East Asian Art, Past and Present: A Review Essay
Jason MORGAN
A General’s Lament: Quiet Fury and Deep Regret in Emilio Aguinaldo’s Postwar Poetics about the Filipino Nation, Heroes and Memory-Making
MCM SANTAMARIA

REVIEWS

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience: Disease, State and Society, 1867–2018 by Loh Kah-Seng and Li Yang Hsu
Reviewed by Michael Lim TAN
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire by Tim Harper
Reviewed by Luis Zuriel DOMINGO
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
Reviewed by Tenny KRISTIANA
Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor by Wataru Kusaka

Reviewed by Aries ARUGAY

TRAVEL NARRATIVES

Adventure, Data Gathering and Building Networks in Indonesia
Abdulwahid PANGANTING
Chasing Waves: Reflections on Southeast Asian Fisherfolk
Axle Christien TUGANO

POETRY

Madness in Independence
Margaret CHAVEZ
Of Borders
Noel Christian MORATILLA

SHORT FICTION


Trinidad: The Three Who Knock
Antonio SISON
The Eve
Michelle Marie SANTOS