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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

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INTERVIEW: COVID-19 will set back the cause of women’s rights in Indonesia

  • Atnike Nova Sigiro,

Work on gender quality, such as the Draft Law on the Elimination of Sexual Violence, is made more difficult by coronavirus.

Singapore’s massive COVID-19 oversight

  • Dr Sow Keat Tok,

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic Singapore’s response was exemplary. But not anymore.

Shifting communication practices in Japanese courtrooms

  • Dr Ikuko Nakane,

Courtroom communication is evolving towards greater emphasis on verbal evidence, which has consequences for the delivery of justice.

Young men and masculinities in Japanese media: (Un-)conscious Hegemony, Ronald Saladin

  • Michaela Luschmann,

A revealing exploration of representations and (re)productions of masculinity in Japanese men’s magazines.

Slow Train to Democracy: Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979, Anne E. McLaren

  • Jocelyn Chey, AM,

A first-hand account of China’s transition from the late years of the Cultural Revolution to the economic reforms of the 1980s.

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