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MALAYSIA’S STATE FORMATION: Small Steps and Large Outcomes of a Contested Leviathan | By Abdillah Noh

Ferhat Durmaz

BOYS LOVE MEDIA IN THAILAND: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture | By Thomas Baudinette

Emi Donald

CHINESE WORKERS OF THE WORLD: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan-Indochina Railway | By Selda Altan

Yin Cao

THE PEOPLE’S WEST LAKE: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976 | By Qiliang He

Fei Yan

BIRTH OF THE GEOPOLITICAL AGE: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China | By Shellen Xiao Wu

Q. Edward Wang

ISLAM, EDUCATION AND RADICALISM IN INDONESIA: Instructing Piety | Edited By Tim Lindsey, Jamhari Makruf, and Helen Pausacker

Azmil Tayeb

SEX, SEXUALITY, AND THE CONSTITUTION: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan | By Shigenori Matsui

Javier Pang

SODA SCIENCE: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola | By Susan Greenhalgh

Marion Nestle

1923 KANTO MASSACRE | Directed and produced by Tae-yeong Kim, Gyu-seog Choi, and Jinhee Josephine Lee / SEPTEMBER 1923 | Directed by Tatsuya Mori

Joel Matthews

PAST PROGRESS: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea | By Ed Pulford

Adam Cathcart