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VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4
AUGUST – OCTOBER 2021
CHINA
3 Robert Templer In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler;
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
JOURNAL
4 Rian Thum
The desecration of Uyghur mazars
POEM
5 Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan ‘A letter to the prison’
POETRY
6 Dipika Mukherjee ‘Monsoon, Delhi’, ‘Sleep’, ‘Aphorisms from the Malay Archipelago’,
‘Keeping the faith’
HISTORY
HONG KONG
INTERVIEW
7 Yuan Zhu The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy
Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn & Hans van de Ven (editors)
8 Jessie Lau For the Love of Hong Kong: A Memoir From My City Under Siege
by Hana Meihan Davis
9 Koey Lee
Nathan Law
NOTEBOOK
12 Thomas Kean
Myanmar on edge
MYANMAR
13 Phil Thornton
The Tatmadaw
THE STRAITS 15 Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh Separation POLITICS 16 Michael Reilly Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy
by Jasper Becker
FIRST PERSON 17 Jim Weitz
Shutdown in Wuhan
ENERGY
VIETNAM
18 Tom Baxter
The end of coal
21 Hong Kong Nguyen Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam
by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
MALAYSIA
22 Marco Farrarese Ghost Lives of the Pendatang: Informality and Cosmopolitan
Contaminations in Urban Malaysia by Parthiban Muniandy
STREETFOOD Yishu Zhou
Home sweet hawker
SHORT STORY 23 Shih-Li Kow
Under the circumstance
FICTION
SOUTH ASIA
25 Patrick Allington
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
26 Sudipto Sanyal Our Freedoms: Essays and Stories by India’s Best Writers by
Nilanjana S. Roy (ed); Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir by Malik Sajad
TRANSLATION 27 Peter Zinoman Other Moons: Vietnamese Short Stories of the American War and
Its Aftermath by Quan Manh Ha and Joseph Babcock (translators and editors)
LITERATURE
POETRY
28 James Yu
29 Michael Freeman
In your face
A Gap in the Clouds by James Hadley and Nell Regan (translators)
ANTHOLOGY
30 Tse Wei Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet by Ann Ang, Daryl
Lim Wei and Tse Hao Guang (editors)
NEIGHBOURHOOD 31 Anjan Sundaram
PROFILE
FOOD
32 Louis Raymond
34 Mark Robinson
Street 390, Phnom Penh
Bao Vuong
Tokyo diners
PHOTOGRAPHY 35 Farah Abdessamad Welcome to Cambodia: From War Zone to Tourist Destination
by Paul K. Cummings
TRAVEL
36 Emily Ding Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre
by Tim Hannigan
POEM Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed ‘Sometimes’ CULTURE 37 Marc de Faoite Good Morning Towel BOOKSELLER 38 Sean Chadwell Café of Knowledge, Luang Prabang
PUBLISHER & EDITOR Minh Bui Jones
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS ko ko thett (poetry), Preeta Samarasan (fiction), Pauline Fan (translation), Abby Seiff (newsletter)
DESIGN Jess Barr WEBSITE Nicholas Lhoyd-Owen SUB-EDITOR Allen Myers PROOFREADER Izzy Souster
COVER Elsie Herberstein ARTISTS Damien Chavanat, Gianluca Costantini, Erica Eng, Paul Orchard
Mekong Review is published four times a year; next issue November 2021
