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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

AGENT ORANGE: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty | By Edwin A. Martini

Charles R. Bailey

CELEBRITY GODS: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan | By Benjamin Dorman

Bill Mihalopoulos

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NATION: Ethnic Classification in Modern China | By Thomas S. Mullaney; with a foreword by Benedict Anderson

Sara A. Newland

ASIAN RELIGIONS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA | Edited by Larry De Vries, Don Baker, and Dan Overmyer

Kelly H. Chong

ANCESTRY OF EXPERIENCE: A Journey Into Hawaiian Ways of Knowing | By Leilani Holmes

Rachana Agarwal

BEYOND THE SACRED FOREST: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia | Edited by Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, and Amity A. Doolittle

Wolfram Dressler