December 2005    Each month (except for a summertime hiatus in June and July) a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Lucian W. Pye gives his picks for the best books about the Asia and the Pacific.

	A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism Suisheng Zhao Stanford University Press, 2004 Read March/April 2005 review
	Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide Alexander Laban Hinton University of California Press, 2004 Read March/April 2005 review
	China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia Peter C. Perdue Harvard University Press, 2005 Read May/June 2005 review
	Finding George Orwell in Burma Emma Larkin Penguin Press, 2005 Read May/June 2005 review
	Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture Eiko Ikegami Cambridge University Press, 2005 Read November/December 2005 review

The Year in Books Index

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