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Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema. By Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2015. vii, 291 pp. ISBN: 9780813569987 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 23 January 2017, pp. 1146-1148
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Disorienting Dharma: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahābhārata. By Emily T. Hudson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. viii, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780199860760 (cloth).
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- 03 June 2016, pp. 542-543
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The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan. By Gina Cogan . Harvard East Asian Monographs 366. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xvi, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780674491977 (cloth).
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- 12 October 2016, pp. 841-842
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The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. By Andrei Lankov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv, 283 pp. ISBN 9780199964291 (cloth).
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- 01 March 2016, pp. 255-257
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Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937–1945. By Brandon Palmer. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. vii, 242 pp. ISBN 9780295992570 (cloth).
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- 01 March 2016, pp. 257-258
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The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea. By Henry H. Em . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xi, 265 pp. ISBN: 9780822353577 (cloth, also available in paper).
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- 23 January 2017, pp. 1148-1149
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The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan. By Katsuya Hirano . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. viii, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780226060569 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book).
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- 12 October 2016, pp. 842-844
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India: Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity. By Hephzibah Israel. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. xv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780230105621 (cloth).
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- 03 June 2016, pp. 543-545
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The “Greatest Problem”: Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan. By Trent E. Maxey . Harvard East Asian Monographs 365. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii, 330 pp. ISBN: 9780674491991 (cloth).
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- 12 October 2016, pp. 844-845
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The Invention of Private Life: Literature and Ideas. By Sudipta Kaviraj. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780231174381 (cloth).
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- 03 June 2016, pp. 545-546
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Berlin Koreans and Pictured Koreans. By Frank Hoffmann . Vol. 1 of Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950, edited by Andreas Schirmer. Vienna: Praesens, 2015. xi, 241 pp. ISBN: 9783706908733 (paper, also available as e-book).
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- 23 January 2017, pp. 1150-1151
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In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876–1888. By Wayne Patterson. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2012. xiii, 193 pp. ISBN 9781557291004 (paper).
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- 25 January 2016, pp. 259-260
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Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire. By Seema Alavi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 504 pp. ISBN 9780674735330 (cloth).
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- 01 March 2016, pp. 260-262
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God Pictures in Korean Contexts: The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings. By Laurel Kendall , Jongsung Yang , and Yul Soo Yoon . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. ix, 160 pp.. ISBN: 9780824847647 (cloth, also available in paper).
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- 23 January 2017, pp. 1151-1152
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The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India. By Afsar Mohammad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 199 pp. ISBN: 9780199997589 (cloth).
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- 03 June 2016, pp. 546-547
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Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake. By Gregory Smits . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. x, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824838171 (cloth).
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- 12 October 2016, pp. 846-847
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Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts. By Sudeshna Guha . New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015. xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9789351501640 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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- 21 November 2016, pp. 1153-1154
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Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992. By Charles K. Armstrong . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. vii, 307 pp. ISBN: 9780801450822 (cloth; also available in paper). - Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950. By Suzy Kim . Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xi, 328 pp. ISBN: 9780801452130 (cloth).
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- 12 October 2016, pp. 847-851
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Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War. By Judith Pettigrew. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xii, 188 pp. ISBN: 9780812244922 (cloth).
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- 03 June 2016, pp. 547-549
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A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. By John Stratton Hawley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. xiv, 438 pp. ISBN 9780674187467 (cloth).
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- 01 March 2016, pp. 263-264
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