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India Briefing, 1992; Korea Briefing, 1992; China Briefing, 1992

Edited by Leonard A. Gordon and Philip K. Oldenburg
Edited by Donald N. Clark
Edited by William A. Joseph
Reviewed by By Donald Zagoria
Spring 1993
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Edited by Leonard A. Gordon and Philip K. Oldenburg
Westview Press (with the Asia Society)
1992
259 pp.
$36.85
Edited by Donald N. Clark
Westview Press (with the Asia Society)
1992
198 pp.
$39.85
Edited by William A. Joseph
Westview Press (with the Asia Society)
1993
198 pp.
$36.85

The Asia Society has once again produced its readable, authoritative annual surveys of developments in India, Korea and China. Each of these volumes has essays by prominent scholars illuminating the major political, economic, strategic and cultural trends.

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