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General Russell Trood and Deborah McNamara, editors. The Australia‐Asian Survey 1994. Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1994. xi, 340 pp. Abbreviations, tables, preface, index. A$79.95, hardcover. Northeast Asia Linda K. Benson. The Ili Rebellion: The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang 1944–1949. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1990. xvii, 265 pp. Preface, abbreviations, glossary, maps, bibliography, index. US$60.00, hardcover. Ole Bruun. Business and Bureaucracy in a Chinese City: An Ethnography of Private Business Households in Contemporary China. China Research Monograph No. 43, Center for Chinese Studies. Berkeley: University of California Institute of East Asian Studies, 1993. xii, 273 pp. Acknowledgments, contents, maps, index. US$20.00, paper. Colin MacKerras, editor. Eastern Asia: An Introductory History. Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1992. 639 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, index. A$39.95, paper. Robin Porter. Industrial Reformers in Republican China. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. xviii, 276 pp. Preface, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. US$55.00, paper. Jonathan Unger, editor. Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China. Australian National University Contemporary China Papers. Armonk and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. ix, 292 pp. Acknowledgments, contributors, introduction, index. US$19.95, paper. Alan M. Wachman. Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization. Armonk, NY, and London, England: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. xvi, 294 pp. Preface, map, appendices, selected bibliography, index. US$55.00, hardcover; US$19.95, paperback. Zhu Xiaoyang and Chen Peihua (Anita Chan). Xiangzheng yu Anliu (Symbols and Undercurrents). Taipei: Dao He Publishers, 1994. 347 pp. Foreword, notes, bibliography. NT$330, paper. South Asia Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya. The Making of Early Medieval India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. xii, 270 pp. Preface, acknowledgments, end‐maps, maps, tables, bibliography, index. Rs.350.00, hardcover. Ronald Inden. Imagining India. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. 298 pp. Bibliography, index. US$39.95, paper. Geoffrey Samuel, Hamish Gregor and Elisabeth Stutchbury, editors. Tantra and Popular Religion in Tibet. New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan, 1994. xiii, 205 pp. Contents, introduction, notes on contributors. Rs.300, hardcover. Southeast Asia Desmond Ball. Signals Intelligence in the Post‐Cold War Era. Developments in the Asia‐Pacific Region. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993. xiv, 144 pp. Introduction, tables, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography. US$25.00, paper; US$49.00, hardcover. Peter Boomgard, editor. The Changing Economy of Indonesia. Volume 13: Nico Dros, Wages 1820–1940, and Volume 14: Frans van Baardewijk, The Cultivation System, Java 1834–1880. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute, 1992 and 1993. npg. David Bourchier and John Legge, editors. Democracy in Indonesia: 1950s and 1990s. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 31. Clayton: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1994. xviii, 324 pp. Contributors, glossary, preface, index. A$24.95, paper. Bruce C. Campbell and Bu V.E. Wilson. The Politics of Exclusion: Indonesian Fishing in the Australian Fishing Zone. Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies Monograph No. 5. Perth: Curtin University of Technology, 1993. iv, 221 pp. Preface, abbreviations, maps, illustrations, graphs, appendices, bibliography, index. npg, paper. Geoffrey C. Gunn. A Critical View of Western Journalism and Scholarship on East Timor. Manila and Sydney: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers, 1994. 272 pp. Contents, preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, index. A$25.00, paper. Marie Alexandrine Martin. Cambodia: A Shattered Society. Translated by Mark W. McLeod. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xxi, 398 pp. Preface, maps, appendixes, notes, index. US$40.00, hardcover. Alastair Morrison. Fair Land Sarawak: Some Recollections of an Expatriate Official. Studies on Southeast Asia No. 13. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1993. xiv, 182 pp. Illustrations, map, bibliography. US$16.00, paper. Rudolf Mrazek. Sjahrir: Politics and Exile in Indonesia. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994. x, 526 pp. Preface, illustrations, bibliography, index. US$20.00, paper. Mayoury and Pheuiphanh Ngaosyvathn. Kith and Kin Politics: The Relationship Between Laos and Thailand. Manila: Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers, 1994. 137 pp. US$10.00, paper. Mayoury Ngaosyvathn. Lao Women: Yesterday and Today. Vientiane: State Publishing Enterprise, 1993. Bilingual edition. x, 123 pp in Lao; x, 220 pp in English. US$10.00, paper. Adam Schwarz. A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s. St. Leonards, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994. 370 pp. Bibliography, index. A$24.95, paper. J.L. Taylor. Forest Monks and the Nation State: An Anthropological and Historical Study in Northeastern Thailand. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1993. xii, 377 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. US$41.50, hardcover. Vu Tu Lap and Christian Taillard. An Atlas of Vietnam. Collection Dynam‐iques du Territoire Series No. 13. Paris: RECLUS—La Documentation Française, 1994. 422 pp, 308 maps. FF320 (∼A$80.00), paper.