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THE FAILURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan | By Akihiro Ogawa

Victoria Lyon Bestor

A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO MAO | Edited by Timothy Cheek

Xueping Zhong

QUESTIONING COLLAPSE: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire | Edited by Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee

James L. Flexner

HAWAI’I AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE U.S. AND JAPAN BEFORE THE PACIFIC WAR | Edited by Jon Thanes Davidann

Glenn Petersen

SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS: Village Industry in Indonesia | By S. Ann Dunham; Edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper; with a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng and an afterword by Robert W. Hefner

Ward Keeler

MINORITY GOVERNMENTS IN INDIA: The Puzzle of Elusive Majorities | By Csaba Nikolenyi

Sanjay Ruparelia

TERASAKI HIDENARI, PEARL HARBOR, AND OCCUPIED JAPAN: A Bridge to Reality | By Roger B. Jeans

Bill Sewell

SHANGHAI’S DANCING WORLD: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954 | By Andrew David Field

Roman Cybriwsky

A BIRD THAT FLIES WITH TWO WINGS: The Kastom and State Justice Systems in Vanuatu | By Miranda Forsyth

Benedicta Rousseau

INVENTING VIETNAM: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968 | By James M. Carter

Robert Tomes