Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Editor-in-Chief

Joseph Ching Velasco, De La Salle University, Philippines

Academic Editors

Mark Stephan Felix, Mahidol University, Thailand

Bing Baltazar Brillo, University of the Philippines, Los Baños

Yan Liu, Jining Medical University, China

Jeremy de Chavez, University of Macau, Macau SAR

Managing Editor

Georgeline B. Jaca, Osaka University, Japan

International Advisory Board

Patricio N. Abinales, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA

Leonora Angeles, University of British Columbia, Canada

Edward Aspinall, The Australian National University

William Case, City University of Hong Kong, China

Nopraenue Sajjarax Dhirathiti, Mahidol University, Thailand

Edmund Terence Gomez, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Joaquin Gonzalez III, Golden Gate University, USA

Huong Ha, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Allen Hicken, University of Michigan, USA

Brendan Howe, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Paul Hutchcroft, The Australian National University

Yuko Kasuya, Keio University, Japan

Philip Kelly, York University, Canada

Koichi Nakano, Sophia University, Japan

Robert Salazar, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Christian Schafferer, Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan

Bilveer Singh, National University of Singapore

Julio Teehankee, De La Salle University, Philippines

Mark Thompson, City University of Hong Kong, China

Dirk Tomsa, La Trobe University, Australia

Andreas Ufen, German Institute of Global Affairs, Germany

Meredith Weiss, State University of New York at Albany, USA

Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Texas A&M International University, USA