Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

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Author:  Violeta Encarnacion
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Year of Publication: 1973

Author: Armando Malay, Jr. 
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Year of Publication: 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS • PREFACE and CHAPTER 1: Origins and Definitions

This book reconstitutes "the elusive and sometimes baffling circumstances of the evolution of the so-called Third Force...across a geographical and cultural distance." 

Editor: Milagros Espinas
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Year of Publication: 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS • INTRODUCTION • SAMPLE: Nguyen Khac Vien: The Itinerary of a Marxist Intellectual

This book is a collection of the papers presented during the first conference on Indochina on 1-2 September 1993.

Author: Elizabeth T. Urgel
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Year of Publication: 1994
TABLE OF CONTENTS • INTRODUCTION
This book aims to "paint in broad outlines the main features of ACCI, to indicate its principal achievements, shortcomings and problems, and to identify the opportunities that lie before it." 

Editors: Milagros Espinas, Armando Malay, Jr. and Aileen S.P. Baviera
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Year of Publication: 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS • SUMMARY REPORT

"...the development of Southeast Asian Studies in East Asia is uneven, with some...institutions devoting more resources... certain fields of study are more emphasized..., and areas of research focus defined in varying degrees....