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Volume 79 - May 2020

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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan. By Levi McLaughlin. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 236 pp. ISBN: 9780824875428 (cloth).

Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan. By Takashi Miura. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 236 pp. ISBN: 9780824880378 (cloth).

Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. By Kerim Yasar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xv, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780231187138 (paper).

Inside North Korea's Theocracy: The Rise and Sudden Fall of Jang Song-thaek. By Ra Jong-yil. Translated by Jinna Park. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 216 pp. ISBN: 9781438473734 (paper).

A Place to Live: A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements. Translated by Inshil Choe Yoon. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019. xiv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780824877606 (cloth).

Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Jolyon Baraka Thomas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 336 pp. ISBN: 9780226618821 (cloth).

Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan. By Diane Wei Lewis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 282 pp. ISBN: 9780674241169 (cloth).

American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan. By Elisheva A. Perelman. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 pp. ISBN: 9789888528141 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel. By Daniel Poch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 290 pp. ISBN: 9780231193702 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan. By Franz Prichard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 268 pp. ISBN: 9780231191319 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India. By Milinda Banerjee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xviii, 435 pp. ISBN: 9781107166561 (cloth).

Capitalism, Inequality and Labour in India. By Jan Breman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 286 pp. ISBN: 9781108482417 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet. By Marc Steinberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 297 pp. ISBN: 9781517906955 (cloth).

The Shaman's Wages: Tradition in Ritual on Cheju Island. By Kyoim Yun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xi, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780295745978 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. By Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 215 pp. ISBN: 9780520301665 (paper).

A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. By Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 250 pp. ISBN: 9780674660113 (cloth).

Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947. By Durba Ghosh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv, 275 pp. ISBN: 9781316637388 (paper).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk. By Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. 190 pp. ISBN: 9780824872137 (cloth).

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