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Martin Seeger is Associate Professor of Thai Studies at the University of Leeds. From 1997 to 2000 he was ordained as a monk in northern

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Merle Ricklefs is a senior and highly respected scholar of Indonesian history. Over the course of his career, he held positions at held positions at

Denis Nosnitsin is a specialist in the literature and languages of Ethiopia and the codicology of Ethiopic (Ge’ez) manuscripts. A graduate of the Oriental faculty

Norman Smith is a professor of History at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s

Geoffrey Gunn is an emeritus professor at Nagasaki University. He is a widely written scholar in Asian history, most notably on the independence struggles in

Catherine Smith is an anthropologist who works across medical anthropology, political anthropology and global health research in order to understand the politics of health in

Dr Gregory Raymond is a research fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University where he researches Southeast Asian security.

Dr Hongwei Bao is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from