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We've removed the paywall from Asian Survey's annual year-in-review issue which looks back at the biggest stories concerning Asia in 2020, a year during which the COVID-19 pandemic and a trade dispute between the United States and China dominated the headlines. As the world continues to grapple with

By Anand A. Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia“Many years ago,” began a story in a Singapore-based newspaper in 1899, “it used to be customary to transport convicts from India to this Colony.” That article profiled a courthouse scene of fisticu

We are delighted to welcome Current History to UC Press's portfolio of journals. Current History's September 2020 issue—the first issue to be published by UC Press—has just released, and, in celebration, we are making this issue freely available to read online for a limited time.Current History