Explore Jen Mutia Eusebio’s powerful reflection on the intricate connections between life, death, and culture in the Philippines. Through richly poetic storytelling and personal anecdotes, she delves into Filipino mourning rituals, ancestral rites, and the profound symbolism of breath.

In this lyrical essay, Evelyn Fok reflects on jacaranda season in Mexico City—its fleeting beauty, colonial histories, and quiet defiance amid urban transformation. A meditation on memory, migration, and the small, blooming moments that anchor us to place.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s tribute to Lynn Pan, acclaimed author and chronicler of Shanghai, reflecting on her intellectual curiosity, literary legacy, and enduring influence on global Chinese diaspora studies.

In Templexity, philosopher Nick Land examines the convergence of past and future in Shanghai, using the film Looper as a reference point. Land’s concept of "templexity" describes how different eras coexist within the city’s architecture and culture.

Before Bernardine moved to Paris in the late spring of 1925, she had socialized regularly with the founders of The New Yorker. In Paris, she had big plans to use her love of the visual and performing arts to bring people together. In 1929, she left everything behind, setting out for Shanghai, where she would begin to write her own story.

Focusing on model Sung Hi Lee, writer Kaila Yu explore how the portrayal of Asian women in pop culture and media of the 1990s and 2000s contributed to the objectification of Asian women and the deep roots of Asian fetish, the repercussions of which still linger today.

Burmese poet ko ko thett remembers James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Professor Scott was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies, subaltern politics, anarchism, and high modernism. He also helped to revive the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship.