Andrea Acri, Kashshaf Ghani, Murari Jha, and Sraman Mukherjee (eds.), Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites. Singapore: ISEAS - Yusuf Ishak Institute, 2019, 438 pages, index, illustrations. Soft cover: ISBN: 978-981-4818-85-8

This book has a lineage. Its laudable aim is to further the “rapprochement” between South and Southeast Asia, “whose deeply connected histories have been forgotten for a long time,” by seeking new bases for coherent reintegration. First the 1941 collapse of the unifying British naval dominance from Aden to Hong Kong, then nationalism, notably on display in the rift between Sukarno and Nehru at the 1955 Bandung Conference, and finally the US model of Area Studies basing funding on separate Sou...