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THE AUTHORITY OF INFLUENCE: Women and Power in Burmese History | By Jessica Harriden

Trude Jacobsen

BEYOND SHANGRI-LA: America and Tibet’s Move into the Twenty-First Century | By John Kenneth Knaus

Tsering Shakya

REPOSITIONING THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT: Social Foundations and Political Challenges | Edited by Stephen Wing-kai Chiu and Siu-lun Wong

Eilo Wing-yat Yu

TRANSPACIFIC FEMININITIES: The Making of the Modern Filipina | By Denise Cruz

Geraldine Pratt

CUISINE, COLONIALISM AND COLD WAR: Food in Twentieth-Century Korea | By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka

Robert Oppenheim

PORTRAITS OF 2IST CENTURY CHINESE UNIVERSITIES: In the Move to Mass Higher Education | By Ruth Hayhoe et al

Kathryn Mohrman

SITUATING FILIPINO CIVILISATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Reflections and Observations | By Niels Mulder

Patricio N. Abinales

THE IMPOSSIBLE STATE: North Korea, Past and Future | By Victor Cha

Rudiger Frank

HEAVEN CRACKS, EARTH SHAKES: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao’s China | By James Palmer

Wooyeal Paik

THE NON-INDEPENDENT TERRITORIES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC: Continuity or Change? | Edited by Peter Clegg and David Killingray

Laurel A. Monnig