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Volume 77 - Issue 2 - May 2018

Book Reviews—China

Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture. By Wendy Larson. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2017. xv, 420 pp. ISBN: 9781604979756 (cloth).

Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China. By Anna Lora-Wainwright. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017. xxxv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780262036320 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture. By Richard J. Smith. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. xii, 612 pp. ISBN: 9781442221932 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality. By Wang Hui. Edited by Saul Thomas. London: Verso, 2016. 368 pp. ISBN: 9781781689066 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China. By Bin Xu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781503602106 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule. By Jonathan Schlesinger. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii, 271 pp. ISBN: 9780804799966 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea. By Charles R. Kim. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xi, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780824855949 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India. By Amrita Basu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxviii, 335 pp. ISBN: 9781107089631 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Colonial State: Theory and Practice. By Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. Delhi: Primus Books, 2016. 228 pp. ISBN: 9789384092016 (cloth).

The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs. By Robert W. Bradnock. London: Routledge, 2016. xx, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780415545129 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Sensitive Space: Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border. By Jason Cons. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780295995526 (cloth, also available as e-book).

The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print. By Charu Gupta. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 352 pp. ISBN: 9780295995649 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia. Edited by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2015. 328 pp. ISBN: 9780822359838 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780–1880. By Rama Sundari Mantena. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiii, 261 pp. 9781349343782 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

An Introduction to Indian Philosophy. By Roy W. Perrett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 261 pp. ISBN: 9780521853569 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

When Mirrors Are Windows: A View of A. K. Ramanujan's Poetics. By Guillermo Rodríguez. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016. 570 pp. ISBN: 9780199463602 (cloth, also available as e-book).

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Volume 77 - Issue 2 - May 2018

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia