Book Reviews

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THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform | By Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

Yanjie Huang

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

Yin Cao

THE SENTINEL STATE: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China | By Minxin Pei

Olivia Cheung

CHINA’S ASYMMETRIC STATECRAFT: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy | By Yuxing Huang

Benjamin Robin Barton

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

Q. Edward Wang

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

Adam Cathcart

DEGLOBALIZATION: Short Histories | By Edward Ashbee

Marina Yue Zhang

SHADOWLANDS | Directed by Dostain Baloch, produced by Nida Kirmani; edited by Husain Qaizar

Humeira Iqtidar

UNEVEN CONNECTIONS: A Partial History of the Mobile Phone in Papua New Guinea | By Robert J. Foster

 Dan Jorgensen

THE OCEAN ON FIRE: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists | By Anaïs Maurer

 Holly M. Barker