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WALMART IN CHINA | Edited by Anita Chan

John A. Donaldson

NARRATING RACE: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change | Edited by Robbie B.H. Goh

Christopher Lee

MANAGING MODERNITY IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC | Edited by Mary Patterson & Martha Macintyre

Kate Barclay

ACEH: History, Politics and Culture | Edited by Arndt Graf, Susanne Schröter and Edwin Wieringa

David Kloos

UNDERSTANDING INDIA’S NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY: A Great Transformation? | Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, and Stuart Corbridge

Jeffrey Witsoe

JAPAN AS A ‘NORMAL COUNTRY’?: A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World. Japan and Global Society | Edited by Yoshihide Soeya, Masayuki Tadokoro, and David A. Welch

Paul Midford

CHINA’S EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS: Beyond Economic Transformation | Edited by Cheng Li

Sophia Woodman

HISTORY TEXTBOOKS AND THE WARS IN ASIA: Divided Memories | Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel C. Sneider

Ivo Plsek

ISLANDERS: The Pacific in the Age of Empire | By Nicholas Thomas

Judith A. Bennett

REVELRY, RIVALRY, AND LONGING FOR THE GODDESSES OF BENGAL: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals | By Rachel Fell McDermott

Chris J. Fuller