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Volume 78 - Issue 1 - February 2019

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea. By Juhn Y. Ahn. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xv, 243 pp. ISBN: 9780295743394 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture. By Seth Jacobowitz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780674088412 (cloth).

Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide. By Nan Kim. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. xxvii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780739184714 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History. By Mark Ravina. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 312 pp. ISBN: 9780195327717 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea. By Dafna Zur. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii, 286 pp. ISBN: 9781503601680 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World. By Robert Desjarlais. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780226355733 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. By Rajeev Kinra. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xix, 371 pp. ISBN: 9780520286467 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia. By Richard K. Wolf. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. xxiv, 375 pp. ISBN: 9780252038587 (cloth, also available in paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Censorship in Vietnam: Brave New World. By Thomas A. Bass. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. ix, 228 pp. ISBN: 9781625342959 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations. Edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies. London: Routledge, 2015. xviii, 328 pp. ISBN: 9780415731287 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State. By Iza R. Hussin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. viii, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780226323343 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present. By Ben Kiernan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvi, 621 pp. ISBN: 9780195160765 (cloth, also available as e-book).

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