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IMPERIAL GATEWAY: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 | By Seiji Shirane

Anne E. Booth

IN ASIAN WATERS: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama | By Eric Tagliacozzo

Herdi Sahrasad

CHINA’S MUSLIMS & JAPAN’S EMPIRE: Centering Islam in World War II. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks | By Kelly A. Hammond

Yufeng Mao

LEGITIMACY POLITICS: Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance | By Lisa Dellmuth and Jonas Tallberg

Jia Jingjing and Guo Juanwugao

OPHIR: Decolonise. Revolutionise | A film by Alexandre Berman and Olivier Pollet

Anna-Karina Hermkens

SPIES AND SPARROWS: ASIO and the Cold War | By Phillip Deery

Brian Walsh

WORKERS AND DEMOCRACY: The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949–1957 | By John Ingleson

Amalinda Savirani

TURNING LAND INTO CAPITAL: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region | Edited by Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael Dwyer

Andrew Alan Johnson

MEKONG DREAMING: Life and Death along a Changing River | By Andrew Alan Johnson

Kanokwan Manorom

THE ROAD TO DIEN BIEN PHU: A History of the First War for Vietnam | By Christopher Goscha

Jorge Bayona