Andrew J. Nathan

Yang believes that net activism is part of a "long revolution" that is making Chinese society more open, egalitarian, and participatory.

Mühlhahn describes prisoners' struggles to preserve pockets of individual freedom and identity under harsh, often fatal conditions.

This moving autobiography helps explain why many Uighurs resent Chinese rule.

Most revealing here is Zhao's measured, substantive account of his work as China's premier from 1980 to 1987, when he was responsible for implementing Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms.

Admirers of Taylor's long, engaging biography of the last authoritarian president of Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo, will welcome this thoughtful account of the life of Chiang's father, who governed China from 1927 until 1949 and then ruled Taiwan until his death in 1975.

Although Washington's Taiwan policy has been outwardly clear and consistent since 1972 -- defined by the so-called communiqué framework and the Taiwan Relations Act -- Tucker shows that the actual negotiation record from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush was rife with confusion and mistrust.

How East Asians View Democracy, a collaboration of leading American and East Asian scholars of democracy and public opinion, is a pioneering effort that relies on standardized survey methods to measure East Asians' support for democracy.

The longtime Asia hand Overholt discusses what he thinks is right (especially in China) and wrong (especially in India and Japan) with Asian cultures, politics, elites, and economic and security policies.

Based on a year's fieldwork, interrogation records, and anonymous leaflets, among other sources, this book argues that Thailand's overcentralized state failed to give meaningful participation to ethnically Malay Muslim citizens.

Dissenting from the conventional view that extremism is caused by religious belief, poverty, or repression, Ollapally presents a series of concise yet probing historical analyses of how security concerns, both domestic and international, led South Asian states to foster extremist movements in their own backyards.

Fravel's is an elegant argument that works well to explain Chinese behavior during territorial disputes with all of its 14 land neighbors and six sea neighbors. and holds promise for application elsewhere.

Johnston identifies the working parts of the process by which norms in the international system change the behavior of states; he uses several instances of the involvement by traditionally realpolitik-oriented China in security institutions in which it gave up some military advantage as hard cases to test his theory.