Introduction: Progress Under Threat: Academic Freedom in Asia / Dimitar G. Gueorguiev -- Academic Freedom in Asia from 1900 to 2021: A Quantitative Overview / Katrin Kinzelbach -- Contesting Academic Freedom in Japan / Jeff Kingston -- The State of Academic Freedom in Singapore's World-Beating Universities / Cherian George, Chong Ja Ian, and Shannon Ang -- Academic Freedom in China: An Empirical Inquiry through the Lens of the System of Student Informants (xuesheng xinxiyuan) / Jue Jiang -- In the Name of the Nation: Restrictions on Academic Freedom in Contemporary Indonesian Higher Education / Stefani Nugroho -- Afterword / Patricia Thornton.
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"New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia examines the increasingly dire state of academic freedom in Asia. Using cross-national data and in-depth case studies, the authors shed light on the multifaceted nature of academic censorship and provide reference points to those working in restrictive academic environments"-- Provided by publisher.
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