Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity. By Franck Billé . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780824839826 (cloth, also available in paper).
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Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West. Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle . New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. vi, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780231169981 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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Book Reviews—Japan
Layered Sovereignties and Contested Seas: Recent Histories of Maritime Japan - Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. By Joshua Fogel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780520283305 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899. By Catherine L. Phipps . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674417168 (cloth). * - Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. By Peter D. Shapinsky . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xiii, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781929280803 (cloth, also available in paper). - Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan. By Noell Wilson . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xiii, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780674504349 (cloth). *
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Environmental Histories of Japan - Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present. Edited by Bruce L. Batten and Philip C. Brown . Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015. 291 pp. ISBN: 9780870718014 (paper). - Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950. By Robert Stolz . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780822356905 (cloth, also available in paper). - A Concise History of Japan. By Brett L. Walker . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781107004184 (cloth, also available in paper).
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Book Reviews—Korea
Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema. By Youngmin Choe . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. 264 pp. ISBN: 9780822361114 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media. Edited by Sangjoon Lee and Abé Markus Nornes . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 276 pp. ISBN: 9780472072521 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 04 May 2017, pp. 535-539
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The History and Archaeology of the Koguryŏ Kingdom. Edited by Mark E. Byington . Early Korea Project Occasional Series. Cambridge, Mass.: Korea Institute, Harvard University, 2016. 520 pp. 188 figures. 17 tables. 37 maps. ISBN: 9780988692855 (cloth).
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Regime Transition and the Judicial Politics of Enmity: Democratic Inclusion and Exclusion in South Korean Constitutional Justice. By Justine Guichard . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xviii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9781137575074 (cloth).
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- 03 May 2017, pp. 540-542
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Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature. By Josephine Nock-Hee Park . New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii, 310 pp. ISBN: 9780190257668 (cloth, also available in paper).
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Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea. By Youngju Ryu . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9780824839871 (cloth).
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A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Sem Vermeersch . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xx, 367 pp. ISBN: 9780824856441 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—South Asia
Debating Islam and Secularism in Pakistan: A Review - Secularizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan. By Humeira Iqtidar . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xiv, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780226384689 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan. By Naveeda Khan . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xii, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780822352174 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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Inhabiting “Childhood”: Children, Labor, and Schooling in Postcolonial India. By Sarada Balagopalan . 237 pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. ISBN: 9780230296428 (cloth).
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A Short History of the Mughal Empire. By Michael Fisher . London: I.B. Tauris, 2015. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781848858725 (cloth, also available in paper).
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Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948–75. By Peter Sutoris . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvi, 225 pp. ISBN: 9780190608323 (paper).
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The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000. By Cynthia Talbot . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. x, 316 pp. ISBN: 9781107118560 (cloth).
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Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court. By Audrey Truschke . New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 384 pp. ISBN: 9780231173629 (cloth).
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The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India. By Jon E. Wilson . New York: Public Affairs, 2016. 504 pp. ISBN: 9781610392938 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Exploring the Funeral Traditions of Southeast Asia - Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja: From Aluk Todolo to “New” Religions. By Michaela Budiman . Prague: Karolinum Press, 2013. 170 pp. ISBN: 9788024622286 (paper). - Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China. Edited by Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 312 pp. ISBN: 9781107667877 (paper).
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Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia. By Azza Basarudin . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 330 pp. ISBN: 9780295995311 (cloth, also available in paper).
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Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal. By Dierdre de la Cruz . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 302 pp. ISBN: 9780226314884 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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