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Volume 77 - Issue 1 - February 2018

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands. By David A. Bello . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 350 pp. ISBN: 9781107068841 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. Edited by Christopher P. Hanscom and Dennis Washburn . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. vi, 365 pp. ISBN: 9780824852801 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State, 1894–1945. By Kyung Moon Hwang . Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xvii, 395 pp. ISBN: 9780520288324 (paper).

Korea's Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatise of Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong) and Hamhŏ Tŭkt'ong (Kihwa). Translated by A. Charles Muller . Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015. vii, 181 pp. ISBN: 9780824853808 (cloth).

Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp. By Jin Y. Park . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. ix, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824858780 (cloth).

Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century. By Soyoung Suh . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. xv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780674976962 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India. By Sarah Besky . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xxii, 233 pp. ISBN: 9780520277397 (paper, also available in cloth).

In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India. By Jocelyn Lim Chua . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xiii, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780520281165 (paper, also available as e-book).

BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India. By Simanti Dasgupta . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. 232 pp. ISBN: 9781439912584 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh-India Border. By Delwar Hussain . London: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781849042321 (cloth).

Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World. By Ritu Gairola Khanduri . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 305 pp. ISBN: 9781107618572 (cloth).

Metabolic Living: Food, Fat and the Absorption of Illness in India. By Harris Solomon . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xii, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780822360872 (cloth, also available in paper).

Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India. By Narendra Subramanian . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. xvii, 377 pp. ISBN: 9780804788786 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Vice in the Barracks: Medicine, the Military, and the Making of Colonial India, 1760–1868. By Erica Wald . London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 195 pp. ISBN: 9781137270986 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Why Regional Parties? Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System. By Adam Ziegfeld . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix, 255 pp. ISBN: 9781107118683 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Charismatic Monks of Lanna Buddhism. Edited by Paul Cohen . Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2017. xiii, 266 pp. ISBN: 9788776941956 (paper, also available in cloth).

Unequal Thailand: Aspects of Income, Wealth and Power. Edited by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker . Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2016. xv, 186 pp. ISBN: 9789814722001 (paper).

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Volume 77 - Issue 1 - February 2018

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia