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Volume 79 - Issue 3 - August 2020

Book Reviews—South Asia

Making New Nepal: From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics. By Amanda Thérèse Snellinger. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 249 pp. ISBN: 9780295743080 (paper).

Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army. By Chander S. Sundaram. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781498579513 (cloth).

From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab. By Pippa Virdee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 254 pp. ISBN: 9781108428118 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture. By Kathleen M. Adams. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2019. 132 pp. ISBN: 9780924304897 (paper).

Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia. By Stefan Eklöf Amirell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 266 pp. ISBN: 9781108484213 (cloth).

Sovereignty and the Sea: How Indonesia Became an Archipelagic State. By John G. Butcher and R. E. Elson. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017). 527 pp. ISBN: 9789814722216 (cloth).

Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party–Ruled Nation. By Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 246 pp. ISBN: 9781501736384 (cloth).

The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam. By Duy Lap Nguyen. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781526143969 (cloth).

Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, & Constraint. By Benjamin Tausig. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780190847524 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire. By Kris Alexanderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ix, 300 pp. ISBN: 9781108472029 (cloth).

The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio, and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India. ByAnanya Chakravarti. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi, 355 pp. ISBN: 9780199485086 (cloth).

Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia. By Leo T. S. Ching. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. ix, 163 pp. ISBN: 9781478002895 (paper).

Ginseng and Borderland: Territorial Boundaries and Political Relations between Qing China and Chosŏn Korea, 1636–1912. By Seonmin Kim. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xiii, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780520295995 (paper).

Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936. By Ricky W. Law. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 358 pp. ISBN: 9781108474634 (cloth).

China and Japan: Facing History. By Ezra F. Vogel. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. x, 523 pp. ISBN: 9780674916579 (cloth).

Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire. By Susie Woo. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781479880539 (paper).

Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850–1930. By Victor Zatsepine. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2017. xvii, 212 pp. ISBN: 9780774834094 (cloth).

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Volume 79 - Issue 3 - August 2020

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

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