Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
Self and the City: Two Recent Studies of Nagai Kafū - A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959). By Gala Maria Follaco. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xi, 251 pp. ISBN: 9789004345379 (cloth). - Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self. By Rachael Hutchinson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. ix, 289 pp. ISBN: 9781438439068 (paper).
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Power and Religion in Tamil Catholicism - Possessed by the Virgin: Hinduism, Roman Catholicism, and Marian Possession in South India. By Kristin C. Bloomer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xv, 325 pp. - The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India. By David Mosse. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xx, 385 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 464-468
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Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal. By Mark Liechty. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv, 387 pp. ISBN: 9780226428949 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 224-226
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Scots, Said, and British India - Call of Empire: From the Highlands to Hindostan. By Alexander Charles Baillie. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. xii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780773551244 (cloth). - The Ruler's Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective. By Arvind Sharma. Noida: HarperCollins India, 2017. viii, 427 pp. ISBN: 9789352641024 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 696-699
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The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka: An Interdisciplinary Study. By Visakesa Chandrasekaram. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 227 pp. ISBN: 9789462981577 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 699-701
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Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility. By Stefan Fiol. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. xiii, 228 pp.
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Beyond the Confines of Motherhood and Home: Recent Studies of Japanese Feminisms - Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. Edited by Julia C. Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. viii, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824866693 (cloth). - Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor. By Ayako Kano. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. ix, 320 pp. ISBN: 9780824873813 (paper). - Our Unions, Our Selves: The Rise of Feminist Labor Unions in Japan. By Anne Zacharias-Walsh. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2016. xviii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9781501703058 (paper).
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Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies. By Meraj Ahmed Mubarki. New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2016. 216 pp. ISBN: 9789351508724 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 226-227
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Amritsar 1984: A City Remembers. By Radhika Chopra. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018. xxiv, 107 pp. ISBN: 9781498571050 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 701-703
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The Economics of Religion in India. By Sriya Iyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 295 pp.
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Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. By Jairam Ramesh. New Delhi: Simon & Schuster India, 2017. ix, 437 pp. ISBN: 9788193355244 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 227-229
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Society and Cultural Identity in Late Chosŏn Painting - Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets: The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art. By Sunglim Kim. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xi, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295743417 (paper). - A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850). By J. P. Park. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xi, 284 pp. ISBN: 9780295743257 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 936-939
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Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930–1990. By Sonal Khullar. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xiii, 352 pp.
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Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's “Savage Border,” 1874–1945. By Paul D. Barclay. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 9780520296213 (paper).
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Text and Tradition in South India. By Velcheru Narayana Rao. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2016. 494 pp. ISBN: 9788178244723 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 229-231
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The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu. By Isabelle Clark-Decès. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. x, 204 pp. ISBN: 9780804788069 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 703-704
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The Skull of Alum Bheg: The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857. By Kim A. Wagner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxix, 288 pp. ISBN: 978019087023 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 231-232
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Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India. By Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. xv, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780674980600 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 705-706
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The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650: Princes, Paddy Fields, and Bazaars. By Ravi Palat. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xii, 305 pp.
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Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan. By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. vii, 270 pp. ISBN: 9780226516448 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 942-944
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