Following Fishman’s (1998/1999) seminal work “The new linguistic order”, this paper determines language ideology and order, and examines how they interact dialectically and how the conflicts and accommodations between local language ideologies and global language order may have molded colonization and postcolonial nation-state building in Asia. With colonial and postcolonial cases from Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia, this inquiry elucidates how the dialectical relationship between language ideology and language order is pivotal to language policy and language management, but does not seem to get full attention in theory and practice. Attention to this dialectic relationship also expands Fishman’s legacy of work on linguistic order by acknowledging developing globalization phenomena since the publication of his article seventeen years ago.