Asia Review Vol. 14 | No. 1 | 2024

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Theory and Case Study on China’s Response to US Pressures during the US-China Strategic Technology Competition: Overbalancing and Economic Security in Neoclassical Realism | Jaeyoung Lee
From a Japanese Asset Freeze to a De Facto Japanese Embargo: The US-UK-Netherlands Cooperation Process | Jaeik An
Reconsideration of the 1961 PRC-DPRK and USSR-DPRK Friendship Treaties: The Institutionalization of Two-Sided Alliance | Meihua Liang
Gender Noncomforming Practices and Identities in Japanese History and the Emergence of New Transgender Identities in the 21st Century | Sumi Cho
A Mixed-Race Asian Spy in The Sympathizer | Hyosun Lee
Pilgrimage Routes to Mecca in the 10th-15th Centuries and Timurid Revival Efforts | Juyeon Lee
Kurdish Principal Family and Mountainous Qal’e: Re-frame of the Ardalan Family’s Premodern History | Namsub Choi
The Durability of Populism and Authoritarian Practices in Duterte’s Philippines | Fernan Talamayan 

Book Review

On Thinking Asia Today: After Reading Introduction to Mega-Asia Studies: History, Perspective, and Method (edited by Beomshik Shin and Sung Hee Ru, Zininzin, 2022) | Haenam Park  

The Wisdom of ASEAN, Making Its Way Through the Tension of US-China Conflict: After Reading  The Wisdom of ASEAN in Co-existing with China (Sunjin Lee, Parkyoungsa, 2023) | Bun Soon Park 

The Various Stories of Islam Explained in a Restrained Balance: After reading Mostly Harmless: The Great Adventure of the Islam Civilization with a Thousand Faces (Yuihyun Hwang, CIR, 2023) | Hyunghoon Kim