Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero. By Barend J. ter Haar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi, 285 pp.
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The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. By Jing Xu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii, 231 pp.
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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China. By Guobin Yang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xv, 262 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 442-444
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia
Of Silk and Synecdoche: Economic Histories of Yokohama across Historical Scales - Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. xx, 255 pp. - The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. By Simon Partner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxii, 291 pp.
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Monstrous Pasts, Robotic Futures: A Review Essay - Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan. By Miri Nakamura. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xvi, 178 pp. - Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation. By Jennifer Robertson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xv, 260 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 449-454
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The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan's Global Engagement, 1933–1964. By Jessamyn R. Abel. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. ix, 331 pp.
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Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. By Rebecca Corbett. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. x, 189 pp.
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Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration. By Ji-Yeon O. Jo. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2017. xiv, 248 pp.
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Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists. By Kim Chul. Translated by Yoon Hye-Joon. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018. xix, 129 pp.
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From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea. By Mark A. Nathan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xii, 193 pp.
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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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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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The Economics of Religion in India. By Sriya Iyer. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. 295 pp.
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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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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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Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule. By J. Barton Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xi, 267 pp.
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Jihad and Dawah: Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah. By Samina Yasmeen. London: Hurst & Company, 2017. xvii, 315 pp.
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia: Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity, and Representations. Edited by Linda Rae Bennett and Sharyn Graham Davies. New York: Routledge, 2015. xviii, 328 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 479-481
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Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jātaka in Thailand. By Katherine A. Bowie. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xvi, 357 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 481-482
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Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. By Bradley Camp Davis. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xiii, 266 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 483-484
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