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Volume 80 - Issue 1 - February 2021

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature. By Will Bridges. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 306 pp. ISBN: 978047207442 (cloth).

Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. By James C. Dobbins. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xiv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824879990 (paper).

Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform. By Steven J. Ericson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. x, 198 pp. ISBN: 9781501746918 (cloth).

Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan. By Justin Jesty. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. x, 326 pp. ISBN: 9781501715044 (cloth).

Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy. By Hyung-A Kim. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xviii, 212 pp. ISBN: 9780295747200 (cloth).

After the Korean War: An Intimate History. By Heonik Kwon. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. vi, 231 pp. ISBN: 9781108768313 (e-book).

King Chongjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea. By Christopher Lovins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxiv, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781438473635 (cloth).

Top-Down Democracy in South Korea. By Erik Mobrand. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 201 pp. ISBN: 9780295745473 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture. By Ulka Anjaria. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN: 9781439916650 (cloth).

The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India. By Supriya Gandhi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674987296 (cloth).

An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh. By Angma Dey Jhala. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. lxxii, 254. ISBN: 9780199493081 (cloth).

Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos. Edited by Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxiv, 428pp. ISBN: 9780190061708 (cloth).

Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession. By Christi A. Merrill. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xiv, 380 pp. ISBN: 9780823229550 (cloth).

A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V. K. Krishna Menon. By Jairam Ramesh. New Delhi: Penguin Random House India, 2019. 744 pp. ISBN: 9780670092321 (cloth).

Crossing the Border to India: Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal. By Jeevan R. Sharma. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. x, 176 pp. ISBN: 9781439914267 (cloth).

Policing “Bengali Terrorism” in India and the World: Imperial Intelligence and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1905–1939. By Michael Silvestri. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. xiii, 362 pp. ISBN: 9783030180416 (cloth).

Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism. By Banu Subramaniam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN: 9780295745589 (cloth).

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