Asian Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2024)

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Introduction

Introduction
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION (VOLUME 55 ISSUE 1)
Bill Hayton
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 07 May 2024
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DEEPENING INFORMAL-CONSULTATIVE GOVERNANCE IN CHINA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH ASEAN MEMBERS DURING COVID-19
Dominik Mierzejewski
Pages: 3-33
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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CHINA’S MARGINAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE 2023 IRAN-SAUDI ARABIA RECONCILIATION
Niloufar Baghernia
Pages: 34-51
Published online: 21 Mar 2024
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DEALING WITH THE TALIBAN: NEW DELHI’S PREDICAMENTS
Shubhrajeet Konwer & Mallika Pegu
Pages: 52-71
Published online: 03 May 2024
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JORDAN: CULTURAL HERITAGE SUCCESS STORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST?
Liam Devlin
Pages: 72-87
Published online: 15 Mar 2024
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BOOK REVIEWS: General

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Life at Full Tilt, The Selected writings of Dervla Murphy
Ethel Crowley (ed). Foreword by Colin Thubron. Eland, London, 2023. pp. 330. £25. ISBN 978 1 78060 211 0
Trevor Mostyn
Pages: 88-90
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Central Asia and Southeast Asia: Exploring the Dynamics of Greater Engagement
Paradorn Rangsimaporn. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2022. pp. 174. Ackmts. Notes. Index. Hb. $44.99. ISBN 9783031101113
Nishkala Suntharalingam
Pages: 90-91
Published online: 12 Mar 2024
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Bandwagoning in International Relations: China, Russia, and Their Neighbors
Dylan Motin. Vernon Press, Delaware, U.S., January 2024. pp. 171. Hb. €53.00. ISBN 9781648898334
Anthony Toh Han Yang
Pages: 92-94
Published online: 15 Mar 2024
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The UAE After the Arab Spring, Strategy For Survival
Khalifa Al-Suwaidi. I.B. Tauris. London, 2023. pp. 209. Hb/E-Book. £76.50. ISBN 9780755648030
Matthew Hedges
Pages: 95-97
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Britain’s Man on the Spot in Iraq and Afghanistan: Government and Diplomacy by Sir Henry
Ann Wilks. IB Tauris, London, 2024. xvi + 187pp., Hb. £85. ISBN 978 0 7556 5132 0
Christopher M. Wyatt
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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BOOK REVIEWS: Central Asia

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Glimpsing the Great Gobi: British Agents and Other Travellers in Mongolia from 1715 to 1935
Sue Byrne. Yubunsha, Tokyo, 2022. pp. 255. Pb. ISBN 9784910433301
Thorda Abbott-Watt
Pages: 100-101
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: The Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
Larisa Brown. Bloomsbury, London, 2023. pp. 276. Notes. Index. Hb. £25/$30. ISBN 9781399411028
Sophie Ibbotson
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from Afghanistan and Its People
Justin Marozzi (ed). Head of Zeus, London, 2023. pp. 695. Hb. £30/$48. ISBN 9781803285351
Sophie Ibbotson
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Decolonization of Kazakhstan
Ainash Mustoyapova. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2023. pp. 317. Glossary. Index. Hb. £111.89. ISBN 978 981 99 5206 9.
Alexander Osipov
Pages: 106-109
Published online: 08 Apr 2024
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BOOK REVIEWS: South Asia

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Kerala: Another Possible World
T.M. Thomas Isaac. LeftWord Books, New Delhi, India, 2022. pp. 161. INR 250.00. ISBN: 978-93-92018-32-9
Waseem Ahmad Bhat & Shazia Majid
Pages: 110-112
Published online: 04 Mar 2024
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Northeast India: A Political History
Samrat Choudhury. Hurst, London, 2023. pp. 432, Hb. £30.00. ISBN 9781787389526
James Crowden
Pages: 112-114
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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The Narrow Smile: A Journey Back to the North–West Frontier
Peter Mayne. Republished by Eland Books. London, 2023 (first published by John Murray 1955). £14.99. ISBN 978-1-78060-2097
James Crowden
Pages: 114-116
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance
Michael Baltutis. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2023. pp. 284. Notes. Works Cited. Index. Hb. $99.00. ISBN 9781438493336
Vineet Gairola
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions
Carola E. Lorea & Rohit Singh. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2023. pp. 380. Afterword. List of Contributors. Index. Hb. $99.00. ISBN 9781438494838
Vineet Gairola
Pages: 118-121
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Pakistan's Foreign Policy: Contemporary Developments and Dynamics
Ghulam Ali. Routledge, Taylor and Francis, London, 2022. pp. 222 +vi. Hb. £104.00. ISBN: 9781032169057
Muhammad Asad Latif
Pages: 121-123
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan
Elisabeth Leake. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022. pp. 368. £25.00. ISBN 978 0 19884 601 7
Muhammad Asad Latif
Pages: 123-125
Published online: 01 Feb 2024
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Fighting Retreat: Churchill and India
Walter Reid. Hurst, London, 2024. pp. 344. Hb. £25. ISBN 9781805260509
Alan Lester
Pages: 125-127
Published online: 18 Mar 2024
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Hindutva and Violence: V.D. Savarkar and the Politics of History
Vinayak Chaturvedi. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2023. pp. xiii + 463. Pb. £27.70, available as an e-book. ISBN: 978-1438488769
Paul Tonks
Pages: 128-130
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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BOOK REVIEWS: South East Asia

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Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand
Arjun Subrahmanyan. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, USA, December 1, 2021. pp. x + 296. Figures, Notes. Pb. $36.95. ISBN 9781438486512
Paul Chambers
Pages: 131-133
Published online: 03 Apr 2024
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The Dragon’s Underbelly: Dynamics and Dilemmas in Vietnam’s Economy and Politics
Nhu Truong & Tuong Vu. ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, 2023. pp. 367. Pb. £26.10. ISBN 9789815011401
Michael Schmitz
Pages: 133-135
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism
Tom Sykes. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2021. pp. 205. Pb. £29.99. ISBN: 978-0-7556-4039-3. (Hb. £95, ISBN: 978-1-7883-1831-0)
Bianka Tibayan Venkataramani
Pages: 136-138
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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Japan's Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty
Paul Kreitman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, July 2023. pp. 300. Hb. £85.00. ISBN 9781108489706
Bill Hayton
Pages: 139-141
Published online: 10 Jan 2024
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The World Administered by Irishmen: The Life and Times of Robert Hart and Contemporary Irish in East Asia
Robin Masefield. Special Collections & Archives, Queen’s University, Belfast, 2023. pp. xii, 268. Maps, Illus. bibliog. Index. Pb. £20. (Proceeds from sales go to charity). ISBN 9780995588622
James Hoare
Pages: 141-143
Published online: 27 Feb 2024
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Imperial Japan’s Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific: Surviving Paradise; Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
Kenneth Quinones. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2021. pp. xviii, 667. Illus. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. Hb. £80.99. ISBN 1-9781527570962; Sherzod Muminov. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2022. pp. xiv, 370. Illus. Map. Bibliography. Index. Hb. $46; £40.95; €41.95. ISBN 9780674986435
James Hoare
Pages: 143-146
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Liberate Hong Kong: Stories from the Freedom Struggle; Umbrella: A Political Tale from Hong Kong
Brian Kern. Bui Jones, London, 2023. pp. 255. Pb. GB£12.99. ISBN: 9781739424329; Brian Kern (under pseudonym Kong Tsung-gan). Pema Press, United States, 2017. Pb. US$19.99. ISBN: 9780997238532
Matthew Hurst
Pages: 147-149
Published online: 22 Mar 2024
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Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition
Yi-Lin Chiang. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2022. pp. 288. Hb. £22.00. ISBN 9780691210483
Martin Lockett
Pages: 150-152
Published online: 13 Mar 2024
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Shépa. The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné
Compiled and Translated by Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering & Mark Turin. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK, 2023. pp 778. Maps. b/w Photographs. Ref. Notes. Bibliog. Pb. £28.95. ISBN 978-1-80064-800-5. Digital (PDF) free 978-1-80064-802-9
Wendy Palace
Pages: 152-153
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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Diversity and Inclusion in Japan: Issues in Business and Higher Education
Lailani Alcantara & Yoshiki Shinohara (eds). Routledge, Milton Park, 2023. pp. 242. Tables. Figs. Refs. Index. Hb. £96.00. ISBN 9781032289892
Bayu Prasetio, Ikaputera Waspada & Hari Mulyadi
Pages: 154-155
Published online: 01 Mar 2024
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Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?
Olivia Cheung. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2023. pp. 190. Table of contents, acknowledgements, preface, tables, bibliography, index. Hb. £107.00. ISBN 9789463720298
Christopher Ruane
Pages: 155-157
Published online: 26 Feb 2024
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