Yesterday we welcomed colleagues at IAHA Taipei to a small reception after Anthony Reid's special lecture "Indonesia and Aceh: Democratising the Post-Imperial State". We had munchies and fruit punch, and a few words from recent authors in attendance, including Tony, Tim Barnard, editor of Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries, and Nola Cooke, co-editor of Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880, a much-anticipated collection which we will publish in Asia and Australia in January. Also with us was Jerome Su of B.K. Norton, our newly-appointed representative for Taiwan, China and Korea.