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It’s Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas one and all!

Just going to drop our highlights of 2023 here in case you want to squeeze some more reading in before the feasting (and family squabbles, but hopefully not) begin:

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“Kepulauan Riau and Singapura are only separated if you conceive them through the edges of their land masses, of ‘land’ as nation-state territories. But land and sea hold much deeper stories when intertwined.”

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We’re taking a look back at the pieces we’ve published in 2023! Remember the ENDOFYEAR2023 promo code for a 20% discount.

First up, this piece from Bayu Dwityo Wicaksono and Faiz Nashrillah on the Kanjuruhan stadium disaster in Indonesia: mekongreview.com/the-aremanias-…

Free to read on our website this week: an interview with veteran journalist Mike Chinoy on his long career and reporting in/on China. mekongreview.com/assignment-chi…

Here is this week’s Mekong Review Weekly newsletter! In it, a Quickfire Quintet interview with Indonesian comics artist Toni Masdiono, and we’re giving institutional subscriptions a little boost. preview.mailerlite.io/preview/231880…

Take advantage of our end-of-year subscription drive! From now until the end of the year, use the promo code ENDOFYEAR2023 to get 20% a year’s subscription to our magazine at mekongreview.com/subscribe/

We're partnering with non/fictionLab to commission a series of collaboratively-written literary works or criticism. Works will be commissioned in pairs, published as a single work. We'd like one writer to be based in Australia and one in SE Asia.

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The excellent Nov-Jan Issue of Mekong Review is full of great writing - and my review of Florence Mok fascinating Cover Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, C. 1966-97 - mekongreview.com/category/issue…

Free to read on our website this week: Emma Pei Yin on amplifying diverse authors and voices through a bookseller’s choices.

Remember our 20% off promo code, ENDOFYEAR2023, when you subscribe!

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Starting to think of Christmas gifts? Why not give a subscription to Mekong Review to the Asia-Hand in your life? And snag a cheeky festive discount. Support serious independent writing on Asia & a gift that lasts a whole year. Winner! mekongreview.com/subscribe/

Our latest Mekong Review Weekly newsletter reflects on the focus of Splice #splicebeta's #SpliceBeta , and features a Quickfire Quintet with Shamaine Othman who is participating in SWF 🤖 #DIDNOTSEETHISCOMING: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/231880…

After reading an article abt the Pakistani #shortstory writer in the most recent issue of Mekong Review, I seek out Saadat Hasan Manto in the library. #BombayStories Gritty but so full of life with all its aches and pleasures (tr. by Matt Reeck & Aftab Ahmad) GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative

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My latest, for Mekong Review, about Kong Temporary Archive: mekongreview.com/real-lives/

a short fiction about the big dreams of young Indonesian people to become professional football players. Thank you Mekong Review for giving a home for my new piece

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The new edition of Mekong Review is out - available online or in hard copy here. The issue includes my review of Florence Mok Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97 - mekongreview.com/category/issue…

“Past and future,” beautiful heartfelt essay by Rhoda Kwan on the exhibit China’s Hidden Century & the book of essays by the same name & about diaspora & exile from the 1840s on, in a new issue of Mekong Review full of pieces of interest mekongreview.com/past-and-futur…