Archive of Asia

Can we rethink biopolitics–the questions of life and death–in the long shadow of COVID and climate change?

This fall marks the 70^th anniversary of a brutal and largely unknown massacre of the early cold war on the Korean island of Cheju/Jeju. In this article, Brendan Wright recounts the history of the massacre, placing it in the context of Cold War politics and the history of the Korean peninsula.

The results of the Pakistani election offer some cause for hope, but no leader will be able to fundamentally reshape the country as long as the economy is choked by structural limitations and the military is able to exploit the War on Terror.

Like US violence in Asia, the symbolic infantilization of Asians has a long history.