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Shortlisted: 2003 'The Australian' Awards For Excellence in Educational Publishing. Category: Tertiary Education (wholly Australian) - Book Series (entered with China/SE Asia & Japan).

About the Author

Grant Evans is a sociologist and historian of Southeast Asia, currently teaching at the University of Hong Kong. He has written widely on Southeast Asia. Milton Osborne has had an association with the Asian region for over 40 years as an academic, public servant and Independent writer. He is the author of eight books on Asian topics, including. Southeast Asia: An introductory history, first published in 1979 and now in its eighth edition, and, most recently, The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, published in 2000.