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Volume 79 - Issue 1 - February 2020

The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 79 - Issue 1 -

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia's Cold War: An Interpretative History. By Ang Cheng Guan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xii, 306 pp. ISBN: 9780824872571 (cloth).
Clemens Six
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24 February 2020, pp. 228-229
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Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam. By Claire E. Edington. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN: 9781501733932 (cloth).
Hans Pols
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24 February 2020, pp. 229-231
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Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox. Edited by Desley Goldston. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2019. xxiv, 478 pp. ISBN: 9788776942540 (paper).
Joyce C. White
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24 February 2020, pp. 231-233
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Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon. By Erik Harms. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. x, 287 pp. ISBN: 9780520292512 (paper).
Daromir Rudnyckyj
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24 February 2020, pp. 233-235
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Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia. By Wen-Quing Ngoei. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. x, 254 pp. ISBN: 9781501716409 (cloth).
Douglas Porch
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24 February 2020, pp. 235-237
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Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies. By Hans Pols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xx, 285 pp. ISBN: 9781108424578 (cloth).
Vivek Neelakantan
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24 February 2020, pp. 237-238
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Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese. By Jayde Lin Roberts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. xvii, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780295996677 (cloth).
Bradley Camp Davis
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24 February 2020, pp. 239-241
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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

From Idealism to the Ground: The Japanese Empire's Occupation of Southeast Asia - The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45: A Social and Economic History. By Paul H. Kratoska. 2nd ed.Singapore: National University Press of Singapore, 2018. xxvii, 407 pp. ISBN: 9789971696382 (paper). - Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History. By Ethan Mark. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xii, 386 pp. ISBN: 9781350022201 (cloth). - The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War. By Jeremy A. Yellen. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781501735547 (cloth).
Kirsten L. Ziomek
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24 February 2020, pp. 241-248
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Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement. By Simon Avenell. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. xi, 318 pp. ISBN: 9780824867133 (cloth).
Eric J. Cunningham
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24 February 2020, pp. 248-250
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(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).
Nira Wickramasinghe
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24 February 2020, pp. 250-252
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From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. By Michele Ford. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019. xii, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781501735141 (cloth).
Kaxton Siu
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24 February 2020, pp. 252-253
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Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora. By Suma Ikeuchi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. xvii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781503607965 (cloth).
Taku Suzuki
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24 February 2020, pp. 253-255
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Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora. By Andrew Junker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x, 220 pp. ISBN: 9781108482998 (cloth).
Mengyang Zhao
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24 February 2020, pp. 255-257
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Maoism: A Global History. By Julia Lovell. London: Bodley Head, 2019. 606 pp. ISBN: 9781847922502 (paper).
Yan Bo
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24 February 2020, pp. 257-259
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Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines. By Reo Matsuzaki. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781501734830 (cloth).
Fang Yu Hu
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24 February 2020, pp. 259-261
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Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954–1958. By Pang Yang Huei. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. xviii, 317 pp. ISBN: 9789888208302 (cloth).
Zach Fredman
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24 February 2020, pp. 261-263
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Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control. By Steffen Rimner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. x, 373 pp. ISBN: 9780674976306 (cloth).
Diana S. Kim
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24 February 2020, pp. 263-264
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Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45. By Bill Sewell. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019. xv, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780774836524 (cloth).
Michael Alan Thornton
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24 February 2020, pp. 265-266
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Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China. By Benjamin Zawacki. London: Zed Books, 2017. xiv, 370 pp. ISBN: 9781783608690 (paper).
Pavin Chachavalpongpun
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24 February 2020, pp. 266-268
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Production, Circulation, and Accumulation: The Historiographies of Capitalism in China and South Asia – ERRATUM
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia's Cold War: An Interpretative History. By Ang Cheng Guan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xii, 306 pp. ISBN: 9780824872571 (cloth).

Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam. By Claire E. Edington. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN: 9781501733932 (cloth).

Engaging Asia: Essays on Laos and Beyond in Honour of Martin Stuart-Fox. Edited by Desley Goldston. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2019. xxiv, 478 pp. ISBN: 9788776942540 (paper).

Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon. By Erik Harms. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. x, 287 pp. ISBN: 9780520292512 (paper).

Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia. By Wen-Quing Ngoei. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. x, 254 pp. ISBN: 9781501716409 (cloth).

Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies. By Hans Pols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xx, 285 pp. ISBN: 9781108424578 (cloth).

Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese. By Jayde Lin Roberts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. xvii, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780295996677 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement. By Simon Avenell. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. xi, 318 pp. ISBN: 9780824867133 (cloth).

(Dis)connected Empires: Imperial Portugal, Sri Lankan Diplomacy, and the Making of a Habsburg Conquest in Asia. By Zoltán Biedermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780198823391 (cloth).

From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. By Michele Ford. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019. xii, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781501735141 (cloth).

Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora. By Suma Ikeuchi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. xvii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781503607965 (cloth).

Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora. By Andrew Junker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x, 220 pp. ISBN: 9781108482998 (cloth).

Maoism: A Global History. By Julia Lovell. London: Bodley Head, 2019. 606 pp. ISBN: 9781847922502 (paper).

Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines. By Reo Matsuzaki. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781501734830 (cloth).

Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crises, 1954–1958. By Pang Yang Huei. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. xviii, 317 pp. ISBN: 9789888208302 (cloth).

Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control. By Steffen Rimner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. x, 373 pp. ISBN: 9780674976306 (cloth).

Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45. By Bill Sewell. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019. xv, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780774836524 (cloth).

Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China. By Benjamin Zawacki. London: Zed Books, 2017. xiv, 370 pp. ISBN: 9781783608690 (paper).

Erratum

Production, Circulation, and Accumulation: The Historiographies of Capitalism in China and South Asia – ERRATUM

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