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OF BEGGARS AND BUDDHAS: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand | By Katherine A. Bowie

Susan M. Darlington

SIEGE OF THE SPIRITS: Community and Polity in Bangkok | By Michael Herzfeld

Charles Keyes

HAMKA’S GREAT STORY: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia | By James R. Rush

Abidin Kusno

TROPICAL RENDITIONS: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America | By Christine Bacareza Balance

Victor Bascara

MAN OR MONSTER: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer | By Alexander Laban Hinton

D. Gordon Longmuir

THAI POLITICS: Between Democracy and Its Discontents | By Daniel H. Unger and Chandra Mahakanjana

Kevin Hewison

BUDDHISM, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN MYANMAR | By Matthew J. Walton

Bruce Matthews

FROM WORLD CITY TO THE WORLD IN ONE CITY: Liverpool Through Malay Lives | By Tim Bunnell

Anthony D. King

THE IMPACT OF STATE RESTRUCTURING ON INDONESIA’S REGIONAL ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE | By Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang

Robert L. Curry Jr.

THE UPROOTED: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 | By Christina Elizabeth Firpo

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