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Volume 78 - August 2019

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Terrestrial Lessons: The Conquest of the World as Globe. By Sumathi Ramaswamy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xx, 429 pp. ISBN: 9780226476575 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945. By Benjamin Uchiyama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii, 280 pp. ISBN: 9781107186743 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

International Marriages and Marital Citizenship: Southeast Asian Women on the Move. Edited by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot and Gwénola Ricordeau. London: Routledge, 2017. xix, 203 pp.

Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia. By David Kloos. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. xvii, 212 pp. ISBN: 9780691176642 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880–1945. By Thuy Linh Nguyen. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2016. viii, 244 pp. ISBN: 9781580465687 (cloth).

The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism. By Janet Alison Hoskins. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. xv, 282 pp.

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan. By Max M. Ward. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2019. xviii, 294 pp. ISBN: 9781478001652 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan. By Jürgen Schaflechner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii, 343 pp. ISBN: 9780190850524 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer's Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia. By James R. Rush. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. xix, 286 pp. ISBN: 9780299308407 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan. By Shahid Amin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xix, 321 pp. ISBN: 9780226372570 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. By Pamela D. McElwee. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. xxvi, 283 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India. By Llerena Guiu Searle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. x, 313 pp. ISBN: 9780226385068 (paper).

Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Gāruḍa Tantras. By Michael Slouber. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xi, 375 pp. ISBN: 9780190461812 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok. By Claudio Sopranzetti. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xiv, 314 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas. By Karine Gagné. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xxv, 232 pp. ISBN: 9780295744001 (paper).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China. By Stephen Noakes. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. 208 pp. ISBN: 9781526119476 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War. By Yasmin Khan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvi, 416 pp. ISBN: 9780199753499 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Lawyering an Uncertain Cause: Immigration Advocacy and Chinese Youth in the U.S. By Michele Statz. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. xv, 235 pp.

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative