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Volume 78 - Issue 3 - August 2019

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. By Maren A. Ehlers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xiv, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780674983878 (cloth).

Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan. Edited by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xxxvii, 532 pp. ISBN: 9780824872939 (cloth).

The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-modern Korea. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by John Jorgensen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. vii, 451 pp. ISBN: 9780824875381 (cloth).

Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea. By Sungyun Lim. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xi, 173 pp. ISBN: 9780520302525 (paper).

Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions. By Roald Maliangkay. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xii, 247 pp. ISBN: 9780824866655 (cloth).

At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity. By Paul B. Richardson. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xvi, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780824872625 (cloth).

Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Robert Tuck. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxxv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231187343 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

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).

Amritsar 1984: A City Remembers. By Radhika Chopra. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018. xxiv, 107 pp. ISBN: 9781498571050 (cloth).

The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu. By Isabelle Clark-Decès. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. x, 204 pp. ISBN: 9780804788069 (cloth).

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).

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir. Edited by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. vi, 302 pp. ISBN: 9780812249781 (cloth).

The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad. By Antonio Giustozzi. London: Hurst, 2018. xx, 292 pp. ISBN: 9781849049641 (cloth).

An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876. By Benjamin Kingsbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780190876098 (cloth).

Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India. By Andrew Ollett. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xi, 308 pp. ISBN: 9780520296220 (paper).

The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia. By Srinath Raghavan. Haryana, India: Penguin Random House, 2018. xxiii, 453 pp. ISBN: 9780670086108 (cloth).

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