Volume 74; Issue 2

The Journal of Asian Studies

Volume 74; Issue 2

1

Life in Ruins: Materiality, the City, and the Production of Critique in the Art of Naiza Khan

Zitzewitz, Karin

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English, and Tagalog Slang in the Philippines

Rafael, Vicente L.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Prisoner Number 600,001: Rethinking Japan, China, and the Korean War 1950–1953

Morris-Suzuki, Tessa

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Frugal Modernity: Livelihood and Consumption in Republican China

Zanasi, Margherita

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Frontier Crimes Regulation and Frontier Governmentality

Hopkins, Benjamin D.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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How to Tackle a Nue (aka Anime)

Yoshioka, Shiro

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Stage and Page in Early-Modern Japan

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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8

Japanese Party Politics at a Crossroads?

Nyblade, Benjamin

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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9

The Challenges of Writing Vietnamese History

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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10

Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston. By Shiona Airlie. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xix, 294 pp. $38.00 (cloth).

Bailey, Paul J.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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11

The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community. By Wm. Theodore de Bary. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 432 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

Walker, Matthew D.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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12

Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan. By Pär Kristoffer Cassel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi, 260 pp. $41.95 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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13

Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong. By Angelina Chin. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. xx, 278 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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14

Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures between 600 BCE and 2012. By Niv Horesh. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014, xii, 364 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Kaske, Elisabeth

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama. Edited by C. T. Hsia, Wai-Yee Li, and George Kao. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xiii, 409 pp. $120.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper, ebook).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956. By Jan Kiely. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. ix, 403 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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17

India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth, Religion, and Thought. Edited by John Kieschinick and Meir Shahar. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 305 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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18

Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo. By David J. Lorenzo. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. viii, 257 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper, ebook).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China. By Julia Lovell. New York: Overlook Press, 2014. xxiv, 456 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Mosca, Matthew W.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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20

Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu. By Beverley Foulks McGuire. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. x, 228 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Brose, Benjamin

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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21

Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China. By Antje Richter. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. x, 235 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street. By Luke Robinson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. viii, 198 pp. $95.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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23

Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts. By Edward L. Shaughnessy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxii, 335 pp. $36.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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24

China's State-Owned Enterprises: Nature, Performance and Reform. By Hong Sheng and Nong Zhao. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013. xxxiii, 372 pp. $89.00 (cloth); $89.99 (iTunes).

Holz, Carsten A.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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25

Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture. By Hui Faye Xiao. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. xi, 247 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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26

Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler. By Gendun Chopel. Translated by Thupten Jinpa and Donald S. Lopez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. vi, 473 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Maher, Derek F.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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27

A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957. By Melvyn C. Goldstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xli, 547 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Weiner, Benno Ryan

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema. By Steven Chung. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 262 pp. $67.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: From Ancient to Contemporary Times. Edited by Charlotte Horlyck and Michael J. Pettid. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. 288 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryŏ. Edited by Youn-Mi Kim. Cambridge, Mass.: Korea Institute, Harvard University, 2013. 322 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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31

Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migration. By Sunil S. Amrith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Reese, Scott S.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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32

Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies. Edited by Alice Collett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xii, 274 pp. $74.00 (cloth).

Chakravarti, Uma

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Schopenhauer's Encounter with Indian Thought: Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels. By Stephen Cross. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. xvi, 287 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Banerjee, Milinda

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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34

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present. By Sumit Guha. Leiden: Brill, 2013. 236 pp. $127.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border. By Delwar Hussain. London: Hurst and Company, 2013. xviii, 187 pp. ₤20.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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36

Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice. Edited by Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012. 496 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Dobe, Timothy S.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant. By Nirmala Salgado. London: Oxford University Press. 336 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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38

A Civilized Woman: M.L. Boonlua Debyasuvarn and the Thai Twentieth Century. By Susan Fulop Kepner. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2013. xxi, 417 pp. $30.00 (paper).Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity. Edited by Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xvi, 302 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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39

Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City. By Erik Harms. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. xiv, 294 pp. $75.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).

Herzfeld, Michael

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The River of Life: Changing Ecosystems of the Mekong Region. By Yos Santasombat. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2011. 240 pp., 146 illus. $28.50 (paper).

Green, W. Nathan

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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China in Africa, Viewed from Brazil

Abdenur, Adriana Erthal

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Editorial Foreword 74.2 (May 2015)

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2015

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JAS volume 74 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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JAS volume 74 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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“Civil Religion” and Confucianism: Japan's Past, China's Present, and the Current Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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46

A Political Life in Ming China: A Grand Secretary and His Times. By John W. Dardess. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. xii, 207 pp. $75.00 (cloth, ebook).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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47

White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire. By Wang Wensheng. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 352 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Crossley, Pamela Kyle

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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48

From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption. By SooJin Pate. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 210 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India. By Shefali Chandra. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. 275 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Political Economy of State-Owned Enterprises in China and India. Edited by Yi-Chong Xu. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiii, 277 pp. $95.00 (cloth).

Holz, Carsten A.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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51

Colonizing the Sacred: Allahabad and the Company State, 1797–1857

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Modern Spirit of Asia: The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India. By Peter van der Veer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. 282 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Girardot, Norman

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Life of the Longhouse: An Archaeology of Ethnicity. By Peter Metcalf. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xii, 358 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $59.99 (paper).

Steckman, Laura

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka's Tsunami Disaster. By Michele Ruth Gamburd. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 234 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India. By Neeti Nair. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. ix, 356 pp. $58.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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A Troubled Vernacular: Legibility and Presence in Indonesian Activist Art

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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Go Nation: Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China. By Marc L. Moskowitz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxii, 184 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper, ebook).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border. By Suk-young Kim. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 224 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

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The Journal of Asian Studies

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2015

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english

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