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Volume 81 - Issue 2 - May 2022

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China By Bin Xu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 300 pp. ISBN: 9781108844253 (cloth).

Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic By Hentyle Yapp. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781478011552 (paper).

Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China By Chenshu Zhou. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 282 pp. ISBN: 9780520343399 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of Buddhism By Michihiro Ama. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 342 pp. ISBN: 9781438481418 (cloth).

Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan By Jan Bardsley. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 300 pp. ISBN: 9780520296442 (cloth).

Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo By Nick Kapur. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. 325 pp. ISBN: 9780674984424 (cloth).

A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry in Modern Japan By Timothy M. Yang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. 332 pp. ISBN: 9781501756245 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York By Sienna R. Craig. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780295747682 (cloth).

The Snow Leopard and the Goat: Politics of Conservation in the Western Himalayas By Shafqat Hussain. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780295746579 (paper).

Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India By Lilly Irani. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 277 pp. ISBN: 9780691189444 (paper).

Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space By Padma Kaimal. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780295747774 (cloth).

A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent By Sudhir Chella Rajan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 365 pp. ISBN: 9780674241275 (cloth).

Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India By Megan Eaton Robb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 246 pp. ISBN: 9780190089375 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya By Arunima Datta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 254 pp. ISBN: 9781108837385 (cloth).

Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 By Christina Elizabeth Firpo. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. 259 pp. ISBN: 9781501752650 (cloth).

Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor: Metaphysics in Narrative By David Hicks. Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2020. 190 pp. ISBN: 9788776942755 (cloth).

The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia By Arash Khazani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 244 pp. ISBN: 978050289697 (paper).

Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide By Boreth Ly. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. 190 pp. ISBN: 9780824856069 (cloth).

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