20 years of New Mandala

Editors reflect on the site's role and thank those who had a hand in bringing it to this special milestone

The backlash against NU’s religious diplomacy

The organisation’s ties with neocons and illiberals abroad angers the grassroots

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Emerging Scholars

Buying, boycotting, and the politics of modernity

Nationalism and consumer culture in colonial Southeast Asia

THE PHILIPPINES

PHILIPPINES ARCHIVES

Buyer beware: fakes, forgeries and fraudsters in Myanmar

A thriving market in counterfeit art and gems

OTHER COUNTRIES

OUR ARCHIVE

A reckoning for Thailand’s liberals

How the People’s Party failed its own cause

Attapeu’s new city pillar: worship, develop, unite!

Enshrining spiritual, political and economic powers in Southern Laos

REVIEWS & NEWS

Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum

“The field of Southeast Asian studies has come to resemble the region as he saw and celebrated it, warts and all”

Review: “On the Shadow Tracks”

“This is a book with a whole lot of heart for Myanmar and her people.”

Review: “Thai Diplomacy”

Edited interviews with Tej Bunnag provide "unvarnished insights" and "nuanced history" for students of Thai foreign policy.

ARTSEA

The land moves west

Artists at the Makassar Biennale grapple with the social and environmental consequences of land reclamation.

Carl Josef Kleingrothe: capturing the colonial life of Deli, Sumatra

A look at the life of the photographer whose work captivated European audiences' looking for images of the 'exotic' Indies.

Memories of Burma’s art scene in the 1970s

Andrew Selth recalls an era of flourishing artistic expression amid heavy-handed censorship.