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Asian Review of Books, Volume 1, Number 2: October 2014

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Editor's Note:
Selections from July-Sept. 2014: Reviews, essays, excerpts -- In addition to reviewing books about or of relevance to Asia, the "Asian Review of Books" also features essays by leading Asian writers and thinkers and excerpts from recently-published books, providing an unparalleled forum for discussion of key contemporary issues by Asians for Asia and a vehicle of intellectual depth and breadth where leading thinkers can write on the books, arts and ideas of the day. In addition to reviews of recent Asian fiction, poetry, history, current affairs and biography, including numerous Asia-published books rarely covered elsewhere, this edition features essays on "Modern Asian echoes of 1914" by Russian academic Artyom Lukin and "Hong Kong � la fran�aise" by Olivier Leb� (winner of the 2013 Prix du premier roman).

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