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Revisiting the Cold War Asia-Pacific - A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. By Christine Hong. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 9781503612914 (paper). - Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia. By Wen-Qing Ngoei. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. x, 257 pp. ISBN: 9781501716409 (cloth). - Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War. By Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi, 270 pp. ISBN: 9781501741845 (cloth). - Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War. By Samuel F. Wells Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xiv, 586 pp. ISBN: 9780231192743 (cloth).

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A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. By Christine Hong. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 9781503612914 (paper).

Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia. By Wen-Qing Ngoei. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. x, 257 pp. ISBN: 9781501716409 (cloth).

Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War. By Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi, 270 pp. ISBN: 9781501741845 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2021

Xiaobing Li*
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University of Central Oklahoma
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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021

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