The August 2025 issue of Global Review of Humanities, Arts, and Society (GRHAS) presents seven original and theoretical articles that engage with pressing cultural, institutional, and epistemic transformations across East Asia. Contributors based in China and Malaysia offer grounded yet globally informed perspectives on topics ranging from international governance to philosophical historiography, and from educational reform to literary resistance.

Featured works investigate the role of the OECD in shaping South Korea’s education policies, statistical modeling of China’s rice trade dynamics, and the publishing trajectories of Chinese philosophy texts in postwar Japan. Other articles address critical gaps in the theory of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, propose age-sensitive frameworks for school-based crime prevention education, and examine shifting marriage values among Chinese youth under the influence of individualism. A final contribution explores subjection and gendered agency through a close reading of Lena Grove in Faulkner’s Light in August.

Together, these works embody GRHAS’s commitment to publishing scholarship that is theoretically robust, socially relevant, and transregionally engaged.