As Syed Hussein Alatas reminds us, in Asia today a good number of Social Science studies is in mental captivity, and this captive mind represents the victimisation of the Asian epistemology from Orientalism and Eurocentrism. The postcolonial condition of contemporary Asia, its postcoloniality, therefore, inescapably involves various articulations of power and knowledge. In terms of visuality and identity, architecture, urbanism and ethnicity are arguably the most direct representations of this concern. This special issue addresses contemporary Asia’s postcoloniality with a focus on its Sinophone articulations. In Asia today, the spread of Chinese ethnicities is obvious and has underscored the dynamics of the Sinophonic power/knowledge representations. The geopolitical agency of the Asian built environment has suggested a status of heteroglossia; the Chineseness represented in architecture and urbanism hence registers the postcolonial condition of moderating and mediating diverse native cultures and globalist hegemonic cultures. This issue seeks papers that explore such spatiotemporal condition in Asia today.