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Volume 79 - Issue 2 - May 2020

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art. By Roxann Prazniak. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 287 pp. ISBN: 9780824876579 (cloth).

Mongolia Remade: Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics. By David Sneath. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 226 pp. ISBN: 9789462989566 (cloth).

Chinese History: A New Manual. 5th ed. By Endymion Wilkinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. 1302 pp. ISBN: 9780998888309 (paper).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea. By William Wayne Farris. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 242 pp. ISBN: 9780824876609 (cloth).

The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan. By Koichi Haga. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 129 pp. ISBN: 9781498569033 (cloth).

Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961. By Cheehyung Harrison Kim. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231185301 (paper).

The Korean Buddhist Empire: A Transnational History, 1910–1945. By Hwansoo Ilmee Kim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. 358 pp. ISBN: 9780674987197 (cloth).

Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese. By Helene K. Lee. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 192 pp. ISBN: 9780813586144 (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).

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

Book Reviews—South Asia

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

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 Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World. By Erika Rappaport. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. 549 pp. ISBN: 9780691167114 (cloth).

Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas. By Alpa Shah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780226590165 (cloth).

Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. By Sonja Thomas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9780295743844 (paper).

The Emergence of Modern Hinduism: Religion on the Margins of Colonialism. Richard S. Weiss. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 203 pp. ISBN: 9780520307056 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Islam and Colonialism: Becoming Modern in Indonesia and Malaya. By Muhamad Ali. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 335 pp. ISBN: 978147440920 (cloth).

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

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