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I am currently working on two projects. One is a book manuscript on the history and politics of the “Chinese Question” in the Philippines. This project critically examines the ways in which “Chineseness” is historically constructed and negotiated in the Philippines over the last hundred years as documented in literature, film, popular culture, academic debate, public policy, and everyday practices. Special emphasis will be given to the mutations and reinventions “Chineseness” is undergoing within the context of deepening East Asian economic and political integration and regionalization over the past two-and-a-half decades. The second project is an “archeology” of Asianisms that seeks to map and analyze the networks and ideologies of anticolonial, communist, and capitalist interaction and cooperation from the eras of anticolonial revolutionary solidarities and anti-imperialist struggle to the forms of Asian identification currently emerging out of East Asian regional integration. This archeology is meant to show the complex, multi-stranded nature of Asianism while developing a regional framework of analysis that goes beyond single-nation or bilateral studies.