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Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840. By Maria Adele Carrai. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 298 pp. ISBN: 9781108474191 (cloth).
Jenny Huangfu Day
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16 December 2020, pp. 980-982
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How to Be Visible in Student Politics: Performativity and the Digital Public Space in Bangladesh
Julian Kuttig, Bert Suykens
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24 January 2020, pp. 707-738
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In Bangladeshi student politics, political performances in public spaces play an essential role in establishing patronage relationships and determining local authority structures. As Thomas Blom Hansen has famously argued, “visibility means everything” in such a context. With the emergence of social networking sites like Facebook, new digital public spaces have appeared. Focusing on ruling-party student activists at Rajshahi University, this article examines how student politicians in Bangladesh utilize Facebook to become visible in their everyday politicking. It shows how longstanding performative repertoires in the nondigital public space have gained a new salience through performances in the digital public space. It is those digital spaces that allow the performer to rearticulate even mundane everyday events as political performances. As these new digital public spaces impact the politics of visibility, it is crucial to integrate them in our efforts to understand local politics in South Asia and beyond.

Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China. By Michael Dillon. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 254 pp. ISBN: 9781780239118 (cloth).
Yinong Zhang
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24 February 2020, pp. 161-163
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Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949. By M. Taylor Fravel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 376 pp. ISBN: 9780691152134 (cloth).
Xiaobing Li
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16 June 2020, pp. 461-462
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Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids. By Jeff Eden. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ix, 272 pp. ISBN: 9789004384262 (cloth).
Michael Krautkraemer
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24 February 2020, pp. 163-164
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The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City. By Juan Du. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN: 9780674975286 (cloth).
Taomo Zhou
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16 December 2020, pp. 982-984
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Poetic Transformations: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects in the Mekong Plains. By Claudine Ang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674237230 (cloth).
Kathlene Baldanza
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05 October 2020, pp. 739-740
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Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development. By Douglas B. Fuller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 279 pp. ISBN: 9780198843221 (paper).
Meijun Qian
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16 June 2020, pp. 462-464
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International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders. By James Farrer. London: Routledge, 2019. xii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780815382638 (cloth).
Yiyun Ding
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24 February 2020, pp. 165-166
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Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland. Edited by Stéphane Gros. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 554 pp. ISBN: 9789463728713 (hardback).
Tenzin Jinba
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16 December 2020, pp. 984-986
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Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth).
Lillian M. Li
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16 June 2020, pp. 464-466
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The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. By Emily Baum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780226580616 (cloth).
Zhiying Ma
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05 October 2020, pp. 740-743
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Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China. By Levi S. Gibbs. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018. 271 pp. ISBN: 9780824869908 (cloth).
John H. Widman
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16 June 2020, pp. 467-468
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The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power. By Xuezhi Guo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiii, 423 pp. ISBN: 9781108480499 (cloth).
Shiping Zheng
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24 February 2020, pp. 166-168
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Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937. By Maggie Clinton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xi, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780822363774 (paper).
Michael Tsin
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05 October 2020, pp. 743-744
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Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895–1968. By John J. Harney. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 212 pp. ISBN: 9780803286825 (cloth).
Susan Brownell
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16 December 2020, pp. 986-987
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Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China. By Jenny Huangfu Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 275 pp. ISBN: 9781108471329 (cloth).
Yucheng Qin
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05 October 2020, pp. 744-746
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The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia. By Lars Højer. New York: Berghahn, 2019. xii, 202 pp. 9781785332463 (cloth).
Joe Ellis
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24 February 2020, pp. 168-169
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Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China. By Denise Y. Ho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 322 pp. ISBN: 9781108406147 (paper).
Brian DeMare
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16 December 2020, pp. 988-989
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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4, In the Eye of the Storm, 1957–1959. By Melvyn Goldstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 616 pp. ISBN: 9780520278554 (cloth).
David G. Atwill
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16 June 2020, pp. 468-470
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Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840. By Maria Adele Carrai. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 298 pp. ISBN: 9781108474191 (cloth).

Research Article

How to Be Visible in Student Politics: Performativity and the Digital Public Space in Bangladesh

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China. By Michael Dillon. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 254 pp. ISBN: 9781780239118 (cloth).

Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949. By M. Taylor Fravel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 376 pp. ISBN: 9780691152134 (cloth).

Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids. By Jeff Eden. Leiden: Brill, 2019. ix, 272 pp. ISBN: 9789004384262 (cloth).

The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City. By Juan Du. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN: 9780674975286 (cloth).

Poetic Transformations: Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects in the Mekong Plains. By Claudine Ang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674237230 (cloth).

Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development. By Douglas B. Fuller. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 279 pp. ISBN: 9780198843221 (paper).

International Migrants in China's Global City: The New Shanghailanders. By James Farrer. London: Routledge, 2019. xii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9780815382638 (cloth).

Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland. Edited by Stéphane Gros. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 554 pp. ISBN: 9789463728713 (hardback).

Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780674241138 (cloth).

The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China. By Emily Baum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780226580616 (cloth).

Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China. By Levi S. Gibbs. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018. 271 pp. ISBN: 9780824869908 (cloth).

The Politics of the Core Leader in China: Culture, Institution, Legitimacy, and Power. By Xuezhi Guo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiii, 423 pp. ISBN: 9781108480499 (cloth).

Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937. By Maggie Clinton. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xi, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780822363774 (paper).

Empire of Infields: Baseball in Taiwan and Cultural Identity, 1895–1968. By John J. Harney. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. 212 pp. ISBN: 9780803286825 (cloth).

Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China. By Jenny Huangfu Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 275 pp. ISBN: 9781108471329 (cloth).

The Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia. By Lars Højer. New York: Berghahn, 2019. xii, 202 pp. 9781785332463 (cloth).

Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao's China. By Denise Y. Ho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 322 pp. ISBN: 9781108406147 (paper).

A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4, In the Eye of the Storm, 1957–1959. By Melvyn Goldstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 616 pp. ISBN: 9780520278554 (cloth).

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