image: Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia Volume 16, Number 1 (2026) brings together scholarship, criticism, interviews, and cultural documentation across Asian and Philippine humanities. Its two research articles examine Chinese agrarian visual culture through the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving and Hui Muslim marginalization in Huo Da’s Muslim Funeral, while its reviews cover Philippine and Pacific literature, Fernando Zialcita’s essays, visual culture, music, concerts, and contemporary exhibitions. The issue also features conversations on Southeast Asian writing, diaspora, translation, theatre, publishing, and the Philippines’ participation at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, offering a broad view of how history, identity, religion, language, and the arts circulate across Asia and the wider world.
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Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia (formerly Asian Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities) is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by the School of Humanities of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. It welcomes papers on the different arts (literary, performing, visual, or media), philosophy, and theology in Asia or in the Philippines. Multidisciplinary in scope, it seeks to shed light on issues related to culture and identity and to record major developments in the arts and humanities.
Current Issue: Volume 16, Number 1 (2026)
Articles
Agriculture, Politics, and Knowledge: The Dissemination and Evolution of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty
Kaiyi Zhu and Ting Chen
The Other Within Stigmatization and Marginalization of Hui Muslims in the Novel Musilin de Zangli (Muslim Funeral)
Flávio Fraga da Silva
Reviews
In the Philippines/En Filipinas: Prose and Poetry/Prosa y Poesía
Jorge Gonzalez Del Pozo
Beyond Hostile Islands: The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing
Jay Jomar Quintos
Insular Yet Global: Selected Essays of Fernando Zialcita
Maria F. Mangahas
Infinite Lives, Infinite Deaths
Jonathan Chua
Sojourner, Settler, Seer
Francessca S. Abalos
Visual Culture in the Philippines
Josef Adriel O. De Guzman
Allegro
Arwin Q. Tan
In Full Bloom: A Spring Serenade A Concert by Novo Concertante Manila
Niccolo Angelo R. Vitug
Tempus Est Philippine Madrigal Singers
Arwin Q. Tan
Roots of Tide Exhibition
Ning Zhou
我記得你微揚的長髮 I remember you with wind in your hair: Betty Jiu Solo Exhibition
Nicole M. Nepumoceno
Features
Panitikman: The S.E.A. Between the Lines
Douglas James L. Candano, Vidhya Sathyamoorthy, Thammika Songkaeo, Alvin B. Yapan, and Christian Jil R. Benitez
On Writing, Diaspora, and Translation: Interview with Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
Charlie Samuya Veric
Circumstances and Yearning: An Interview with Paul Dumol on His Journey Through Theatre
Joachim Emilio Antonio
Interview with Karina A. Bolasco
Jonathan Chua
For the Record
The Philippines at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair
Jonathan Chua