Review articles Decolonization and the evolution of local knowledge production Kuan-Hsing Chen Asia as Method: Overcoming the Present Conditions of Knowledge Production, Engseng Ho Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies Chua Beng Huat Inter-Asia Referencing Southeast Asia: Absence, Resonance, and Provocation Dadang Ilham Kurniawan Mujiono National University of Singapore This review subjects three of the most sophisticated and influential in closing scrutiny: Kuan-Hsing Chen Asia as Method: Overcoming the Present Conditions of Knowledge Production, Engseng Ho Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies, and Chua Beng Huat Inter-Asia Referencing Southeast Asia: Absence, Resonance, and Provocation. Taken together, although they might differ in a theoretical or conceptual approach, they offer new perspective in comprehending and examining Asia by challenging the Western intellectual dominant of Asia's scholarship. Chen, in his book, frequently stressed the critical point on how we have to re-arrange cultural studies as one of the subjective perspectives after the end of World War II. The existing cultural studies that we use primarily in analyzing case studies, as highlighted by Chen as the Western production that does not necessarily match easily in the context of Asia. The notion of Western societies and their knowledge production as the central discussion within the Asia subject should not be taken for granted. Sadly, this situation has put "Western as the center" and "other western as periphery." A comparable argumentation has also been highlighted by Syed Hussein Alatas-since the rest of