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THE RISE OF CHINA AND THE CHINESE OVERSEAS: A Study of Beijing’s Changing Policy in Southeast Asia and Beyond | By Leo Suryadinata

Amy Freedman

FINDING WOMEN IN THE STATE: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1964 | By Wang Zheng

Wendy Larson

TRACES OF THE SAGE: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius | By James A. Flath

Thomas Wilson

EMPIRE AND THE MEANING OF RELIGION IN NORTHEAST ASIA: Manchuria 1900–1945 | By Thomas David DuBois

Victor Zatsepine

THE SUBLIME PERVERSION OF CAPITAL: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan | By Gavin Walker

Derek Hall

WOMEN AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN | By Emma Dalton

Jackie F. Steele

OSAKA MODERN: The City in the Japanese Imaginary | By Michael P. Cronin

Tristan R. Grunow

THE VALUE OF COMPARISON | By Peter van der Veer; foreword by Thomas Gibson

Joseph S. Alter

ARCHITECTS OF BUDDHIST LEISURE: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks | By Justin Thomas McDaniel

Erik Hammerstrom

SECURITY RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: From Convergence to Cooperation? | Edited by Emil J. Kirchner, Thomas Christiansen, Han Dorussen

Andrew Scobell