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PAX SINICA: Geopolitics and Economics of China’s Ascendance | By Y.Y. Kueh

Wang Gungwu

STATE VIOLENCE IN EAST ASIA | Edited by N. Ganesan and Sung Chull Kim

Mark Caprio

TAX HAVENS AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS | By Anthony van Fossen

Jean Zorn

THE HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES: Korea and Beyond | Edited by Park Seung Woo, Victor T. King

Jim Placzek

AN INDIAN POLITICAL LIFE: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1957 to 1967 | By Paul R. Brass

James Manor

EDUCATION REFORM AND SOCIAL CLASS IN JAPAN: The Emerging Incentive Divide | By Takehiko Kariya; translation edited by Michael Burtscher

Barbara G. Holthus

CHINA’S SECURITY STATE: Philosophy, Evolution, and Politics | By Xuezhi Guo

Zheng Yongnian

HEALTH TRANSITIONS AND THE DOUBLE DISEASE BURDEN IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases | Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

Holly Wardlow

BEING MĀORI IN THE CITY: Indigenous Everyday Life in Auckland | By Natacha Gagné

Fiona McCormack

SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY: Essential Readings, 2nd ed. | Edited by D.R. SarDesai

Mary Somers Heidhues