Eve and her daughters in England’s long eighteenth century (Essay Review) by Stevens, Laura M.

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Data-driven models of governance across borders : datafication from the local to the global by Arora, Payal, Stevens, Hallam

“…The studies presented in these essays are situated in diverse models of policy-making, governance, and/or activism across borders. …”
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Hutton, Eric L., ed., Dao companion to the philosophy of Xunzi by Sung, Winnie

“…The seventeen essays in Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Xunzi introduce readers to Xunzi 荀子 and the Xunzi text, overview the debates in existing scholarship, and provide original analysis of various aspects of Xunzi’s thought as well as its interaction with other philosophical traditions. …”
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New approaches to religion and the enlightenment edited by Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry (Review) by Singh, Brijraj

“…If there was a belief toward the end of the twentieth century that the growing modernization of society in the eighteenth century resulted in a fading of religious influence on people’s lives,1 it is being increasingly asserted now that even this secularization was not free of religious influence.2 As the blurb on the back cover of New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment states, while people still believe that the Enlightenment led to a growing secularization of society, the fact is that religion not only continued to occupy a central position in all aspects of eighteenth-century life but also “shaped the Enlightenment project itself in significant and meaningful ways.” The fourteen essays by as many writers in this book continue the exploration of the interweaving of religious and Enlightenment concepts. …”
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‘The art of being home’ : home and travel in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s poetry by Boey, Kim Cheng

“…It is a sequel to “Walking between Land and Water,” an essay published in Asiatic, in which I combine a personal encounter with the poet with an examination of the tropes of walking and liminality in her work. …”
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“Celticism, ballad transmission, and the schizoid voice : Ossianic fragments in Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett” by Barlow, Richard

“…This essay surveys responses to Macpherson’s Ossian in Irish literature, alongside analysis of the development of literary Celticism. …”
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Curating the Christian arts of Asia: global art histories at the Asian civilisations museum by Meegama, Sujatha Arundathi

“…This essay examines the transformation of the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) into a global art histories museum. …”
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The lure of diaspora : diaspora discourse, accented style, and sinophone Malaysian culture by Hee, Wai Siam

“…This essay uses Ng Kim Chew and Ah Niu’s works to demonstrate the lure that diaspora signifies for Malaysian Chinese communities. …”
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The eunuch archive : colonial records of non-normative gender and sexuality in India by Hinchy, Jessica

“…This essay explores the quotidian, mundane colonial archive of sexuality. …”
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Accented style : on Namewee’s Sinophone Malaysian film and rap songs by Hee, Wai-Siam

“…Focusing on Namewee’s rap songs and his film, this essay uses Sinophone theory and accented cinema theory to explore how sound and image are used to perform Sinophone identity through journeys of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. …”
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Re-visioning Vietnamese women and marriage migration : Oh Soon-Hwa’s “Quiet dream” by Yong, Ade Wernmei

“…This chapter examines the the photography of Oh Soon-Hwa, specifically her photo-essay "Quiet Dream". I read her photography as an attempt to re-vision the way Vietnamese women are presented in the business of marriage migration.…”
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The termination risks of simulation science by Greene, Preston

“…This essay evaluates the termination risk by using extrapolations from current computing practices and simulation technology. …”
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Learner interactions in face-to-face collaborative writing with the support of online resources by Hsieh, Yi-Chin

“…Fifty-six students constructed an essay in pairs firstly without the support of online resources, and subsequently constructed another essay with the support of online resources. …”
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“We are all exiles” : exile and place in the poetry of Ee Tiang Hong, Wong Phui Nam and Shirley Geok-lin Lim by Cheng, Boey Kim

“…Exile is a dominant theme and trope in the poetry of the pioneer generation of Anglophone Malaysian poets Ee Tiang Hong, Wong Phui Nam and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. This essay traces the roots of exile in these three poets, exploring how the sense of displacement from cultural and political Malay hegemony has shaped their exilic poetics. …”
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Are there distinctively moral reasons? by Forcehimes, Andrew T., Semrau, Luke

“…Call this view Reasons Pluralism. This essay looks at four approaches to vindicating the apparent distinction between moral and non-moral reasons. …”
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The Confucian Ren and care debate: reassessment, development, and future directions by Li, Chenyang

“…It would be useful to revisit the issue and to reassess related debates. In this essay, I first contextualize this discourse by tracing the emergence of care as a philosophical concept in the West and explicate the Confucian concept of ren in terms of care as it is formulated in classic texts. …”
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Queer latent images, post-loyalism, and the Cold War : the case of an early sinophone star, Bai Yun by Hee, Wai Siam

“…The essay uses a post-loyalist perspective to examine Malaya-born Bai Yun’s diaspora experience, which spanned Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and S.E. …”
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The mysteries of Mumbai : terrorism and banality in sacred games by Scott, Bede

“…Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, this essay explores the affective and aesthetic consequences of violence and criminality in Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games. …”
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Open data, closed government : unpacking data.gov.sg by Stevens, Hallam

“…In 2011, Singapore created data.gov.sg as an open, online repository for government data. This essay examines this Web portal, the data it contains, and some of the applications that have been built using it and aims to understand the role that data.gov.sg plays within the context of Singapore’s continued political and economic development. …”
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Asymmetrism and the magnitudes of welfare benefits by Forcehimes, Andrew T.

“…On this proposal – Asymmetrism – when past-directed desires are satisfied, the time interval during which you benefit is the time of the desire; and, when future-directed desires are satisfied, the time interval during which you benefit is the time of the object. In this essay, I argue that Asymmetrism forces us to give implausible answers to a different question: To what extent does a given satisfied desire benefit you?…”
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