Journal of Asian Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Asian Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism. By Banu Subramaniam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 312 pp. ISBN: 9780295745589 (cloth).13
The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis. By Sarah Pinto. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. xi, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780823286669 (paper).11
Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand. Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 2020. xii, 379 pp. ISBN: 9781732610200 (p5
Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization By Sanjukta Sunderason. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781503611948 (cloth).5
The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing. By Si Nae Park. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. x, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780231195423 (cloth).5
Christianity and Politics in Tribal India: Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism By G. Kanato Chophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 460 pp. ISBN: 9781438485812 (cloth).5
Disaggregating Colonialism: Recent Trends in Philippine Muslim Studies - Civilizational Imperatives: Americans, Moros, and the Colonial World. By Oliver Charbonneau. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University P4
The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier. By Benno Weiner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xx, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781501749391 (cloth).4
Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World. By Pamela Kyle Crossley. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. xxiii, 334 pp. ISBN: 9781442214439 (cloth).3
Political Economy: Capturing the Wholeness of Social Relations and Ecological Contexts3
Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala. By Navaneetha Mokkil. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295745572 (cloth).3
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol. By May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020. 2
The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE By Charles Hartman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xv, 377 pp. ISBN: 9781108834834 (cloth).2
Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and Beyond2
Dreadful Desires: The Use of Love in Neoliberal China2
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam. By Edyta Roszko. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2020. xxii, 260 pp. ISBN: 9788776942861 (cloth).2
Useful Bullshit: Constitutions in Chinese Politics and Society2
Submerged Hostilities2
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action2
The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of Buddhism By Michihiro Ama. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. 342 pp. ISBN: 9781438481418 (cloth).2
La chair des stèles: Enquête sur les donateurs et les Épigones du Bouddha et des divinités, au Vietnam, des origins à la fin du XVIIe siècle2
Babaylan Sing Back: Philippine Shamans and Voice, Gender, and Place2
Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos. Edited by Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxiv, 428pp. ISBN: 9780190061708 (cloth).1
Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Media Culture By Shengqing Wu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN: 9780231192217 (paper).1
Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order By David M. Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xvii, 327 pp. ISBN: 97810090989601
Lore and Verse: Poems on History in Early Medieval China1
East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and Its Trans-Regional Connections1
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Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–19121
Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization of the Indians By Chi P. Pham. London: Routledge, 2021. 160 pp. ISBN: 9780367188184 (cloth).1
Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place By Youjeong Oh. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xi, 238 pp. ISBN: 9781501730719 (paper).1
On Our Own Strength: The Self-Reliant Literary Group and Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Late Colonial Vietnam. By Martina Thucnhi Nguyen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2021. xiii, 262 pp. ISBN: 1
Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps By Sarah Kovner. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 328 pp. ISBN: 9780674737617 (cloth).1
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia By Anand A. Yang. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 277 pp. ISBN: 978052094561 (paper).1
Many Worlds under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE1
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội1
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Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-religious Diaspora1
Retrofitting Leninism: Participation without Democracy in China1
Global East Asia: Into the Twenty-First Century1
Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale1
The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years. By Lingchei Letty Chen. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781604979923 (cloth).1
Vidroh (Revolution) to Dhanda (Deal/Business): Mumbai of Many Faces, ca. 1896–2016 - Bombay Brokers Edited by Lisa Björkman. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 472 pp. ISBN: 97811
Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya By Teren Sevea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xxviii, 262 pp. ISBN: 9781108477185 (cloth).1
Mongolian Sound Worlds1
Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China1
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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery1
The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State: The Formation of the Qing Imperial Constitution1
Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. By Allison Alexy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780226699653 (cloth, also avai1
Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army. By Maria Rashid. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 267 pp. ISBN: 9781503611986 (paper).0
The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown. By Sharon J. Yoon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix, 188 pp. ISBN: 9780197517901 (paper).0
Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China0
Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s. By Serk-Bae Suh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxx, 222 pp. ISBN: 978190
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Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries0
Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis. By Jiwei Ci. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 432 pp. ISBN: 9780674238183 (cloth).0
Who Is the Asianist? The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies0
Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. By David Fedman. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xvii, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295747453 (cloth).0
To Be an Entrepreneur: Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh. By Julia Qermezi Huang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xix, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781501748271 (cloth).0
Ming and Qing Women: Books for Classroom Use0
Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting By Yi Gu. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. 317 pp. ISBN: 9780674244443 (paper).0
The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era0
British Planters and the Origins of Wildlife Conservation in Colonial Sri Lanka0
Japan, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism By Yoshikuni Igarashi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xviii, 366 pp. ISBN: 978023119553 (paper).0
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History By Ruth Mostern. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021. xiii, 326 pp. ISBN: 9780300238334 (cloth).0
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century. By Thant Myint-U. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. xiii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781324003298 (cloth).0
Global Sports Fandom in South Korea: American Major League Baseball and Its Fans in the Online Community0
The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China By Calvin Hui. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231192491 (paper).0
Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra-constitution0
Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar0
Ignorance is Bliss: The Chinese Art of Not Knowing By Mieke Matthyssen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 380 pp. ISBN: 9783030739010 (cloth).0
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An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery. By Diana Lange. Leiden: Brill, 2020. ix, 367 pp. ISBN: 9789004414938 (cloth).0
Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance. By Hassan Abbas. New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2018. 356 pp. ISBN: 9780190901578 (cloth).0
Good Housing for Good “Married Life”: Privacy, Transnational Anti-Communism, and Postwar Housing in South Korea0
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam By Rachel Harris. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 266 pp. ISBN: 9780253050205 (paper).0
Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913. By Ann Marie L. Davis. London: Lexington Books, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9781498542142 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).0
Asia-Pacific Small States: Political Economies of Resilience0
Delimiting the Nation: The Politics of Theatrical and Electoral Representation in Late Colonial India - Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestations, 1908–1951. By Abhay V. Datar.0
From Great State to Revolutionary State: China and the World - Great State: China and the World. By Timothy Brook. New York: Harper-Collins, 2020. 442 pp. ISBN: 9780062950987 (cloth). - China's Revolu0
How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–19760
Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India By Elaine M. Fisher. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xii, 285 pp. ISBN: 9780520293014 (paper).0
Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture0
Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater By Susan Blakely Klein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. xvi, 401 pp. ISBN: 9780674247840 (cloth).0
Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections Between Peru and South Korea. By Erica Vogel. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. xiii, 168 pp. ISBN: 9780520341173 (paper).0
State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance. By Julia C. Strauss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108701655 (paper).0
Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army. By Kate Imy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781503610743 (paper).0
Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–19580
Queer Korea. Edited by Todd A. Henry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. xi, 388 pp. ISBN: 9781478002901 (cloth).0
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Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups By Robert Hellyer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780231199100 (cloth).0
24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. viii, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781789202670 (cloth, also available as e-book).0
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place By Swargajyoti Gohain. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 246 pp. ISBN: 9789462989320 (cloth; also available as0
Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present By Adeeb Khalid. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 556 pp. ISBN: 9780691161396 (cloth).0
India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy. By Ravi Agrawal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. viii, 230 pp. ISBN: 9780190858650 (cloth). - A Village Goes0
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India By Lilly Irani. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 277 pp. ISBN: 9780691189444 (paper).0
Genre, Place, and the Persian Literary Imagination in the Punjab, ca. 1650–17500
Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. By James C. Dobbins. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xiv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780824879990 (paper).0
Soju: A Global History By Hyunhee Park. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9781108842013 (paper).0
Reimagining the Public Sphere: Commensurability and Communicative Rationality under Colonialism0
Kim Jong-un's Strategy for Survival: A Method to Madness By David W. Shin. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2021. xviii, 463 pp. ISBN: 9781793608208 (cloth).0
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. By Tim Harper. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xxx, 826 pp. ISBN: 9780674724617 (cloth).0
To Africa0
Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad By Manu Karuka. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 297 pp. ISBN: 9780520296640 (paper).0
Chinese Diasporas: A Social History of Global Migration. By Steven B. Miles. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xi, 266 pp. ISBN: 9781107179929 (paper).0
Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia By Marcus Mietzner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 77 pp. ISBN: 9781108468954 (paper; also available as e-book).0
Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China. By Wendy Swartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 318 pp. ISBN: 9780674983823 (cloth)0
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. By Andrew B. Liu. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 344 pp. ISBN: 9780300243734 (cloth).0
Writing Confucian History in an Indian Language0
The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond0
Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts. By Frédéric Keck. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781478006985 (paper).0
Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam0
King Chongjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea. By Christopher Lovins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxiv, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781438473635 (cloth).0
Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. By Xiaoxuan Wang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xii, 220 pp. ISBN: 9780190069384 (clot0
“The Catholic Church Has a Big Structure”0
Editorial Foreword0
Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein. By Veena Das. New York: Fordham University Press, 2020. pp. 410. ISBN: 9780823287697 (cloth, also available as paper).0
Victim, Scholar: Two Perspectives on Chinese Atrocities against the Uyghurs and the Kazakhs0
Inviting Happiness: Food Sharing in Post-Communist Mongolia. By Sandrine Ruhlmann. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xxvii, 288 pp. ISBN: 9789004409651 (cloth).0
Border Humanitarians: Gendered Order and Insecurity on the Thai-Burmese Frontier0
Wondrous Modernity: Refashioning Religion in Urban India - The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City: Kalighat and Kolkata. By Deonnie Moodie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xv, 217 pp. I0
Les migrations impériales au Vietnam: Travail et colonisations dans l'Asia-Pacifique français, XIXe–XXe siècles. Edited by Eric Guerassimoff, Andrew Hardy, Nguyen Phuong Ngoc, and Emmanuel Poisson. Pa0
The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China's Mass Detention of Uyghurs0
Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games. By Christopher B. Patterson. New York: New York University Press, 2020. x, 349 pp. ISBN: 9781479802043 (cloth).0
Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease0
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. By Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi, 311 pp. ISBN: 9781108478120 (cloth).0
Sarnath: A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began. By Frederick M. Asher. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2020. xi, 192 pp. ISBN: 9781606066164 (paper).0
Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography By Yuri Pines. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. x, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780231196628 (paper).0
China and the Vicissitudes of the US-India Relationship - When Nehru Looked East: Origins of India-US Suspicion and India-China Rivalry By Francine R. Frankel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.0
Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema. By Christina Klein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780520296503 (paper).0
The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China0
The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia By Arash Khazani. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 244 pp. ISBN: 978050289697 (paper).0
History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies By Ma Vang. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781478011316 (paper).0
Sound of the Border: Music and Identity of Korean Minority in China0
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire By Sujit Sivasundaram. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. xxvii, 468 pp. ISBN: 9780226790411 (paper).0
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Being Dead Otherwise0
The “Population Problem” in Pacific Asia By Stuart Gietel-Basten. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 222 pp. ISBN: 9780199361076 (cloth).0
The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West. By Ricardo Padrón. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 346 pp. ISBN: 9780226455679 (cloth).0
Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction0
Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia By John T. Sidel. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. xii, 309 pp. ISBN: 9781501755613 (cloth).0
An Old Right in New Bottles: State without Nation in South Korean New Right Historiography0
Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea. By Jack Meng-Tat Chia. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxi, 275 pp. ISBN: 9780190090975 (cloth).0
Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia. By Orhon Myadar. New York: Routledge, 2021. xii, 119 pp. ISBN: 9780367361662 (cloth).0
Reframing Disability in Manga. By Yoshiko Okuyama. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xxi, 238 pp. ISBN: 9780824882365 (cloth, also available in paper).0
Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society By Joshua Esler. London: Lexington Books, 2020. xx, 314 pp. ISBN: 9781498584660
Vietnamese Organized Crime in the Czech Republic By Miroslav Nožina and Filip Kraus. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. x, 172 pp. ISBN: 9783030436131.0
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India0
In Remembrance of the Saints: The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty. By Muḥammad Ṣadiq Kashghari, translated by David Brophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xviii, 226 pp. ISBN:0
Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy. By Hyung-A Kim. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xviii, 212 pp. ISBN: 9780295747200 (cloth).0
Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India. By Benjamin Robert Siegel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN: 9781108441964 (paper). - Gandhi's Search for the Perf0
Sounds from the Other Side: Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music By Elliott H. Powell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 192 pp. ISBN: 9781517910044 (paper).0
Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization0
A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand By Patrick Jory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. x, 269 pp. ISBN: 9781108868006 (cloth).0
Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea By Sookja Cho. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. xi, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780472130634 (cloth).0
American Exodus: Second-Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949. By Charlotte Brooks. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xviii, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780520302686 (cloth).0
Nālandā Mahāvihāra: A Critical Analysis of the Archaeology of an Indian Buddhist Site. By Mary L. Stewart. Delhi: Manohar, 2018. 268 pp. ISBN: 9789350981146 (cloth).0
Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier By Melissa Macauley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. 362 pp. ISBN: 9780691213484 (cloth).0
Frontier Encounters and State Formation in Northeast Asia - Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation. By Nianshen Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 324 pp. ISBN0
New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art0
Rights Claiming in South Korea Edited by Celeste L. Arrington and Patricia Goedde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xviii, 342 pp. ISBN: 9781108841337 (cloth).0
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence. By Michael Jerryson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ix, 226 pp. ISBN: 9780190683566 (cloth).0
Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold Edited by Robert Barnett, Benno Weiner, and Françoise Robin. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 681 pp. ISBN: 9789004433199 (cloth).0
The Broken Spell: Indian Storytelling and the Romance Genre in Persian and Urdu. By Pasha M. Khan. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2019. xii, 312pp. ISBN: 9780814345993 (paper).0
Hàm Nghi: Empereur en exil, artiste à Alger. By Amandine Dabat. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019. 544 pp. ISBN: 9791023106510 (cloth).0
Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan's Adult Video Industry0
Manchukuo Revisited: Transnational Culture and Radical Politics - - Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production. Edited by Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith. Hong Kong: H0
Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste. By Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies, 2019. xviii, 240 pp. ISBN0
Zhou Enlai: The Enigma behind Chairman Mao. By Michael Dillon. London: I.B. Taurus, 2020. 320 pp. ISBN: 9781788319300 (paper).0
United Front: Projecting Solidarity through Deliberation in Vietnam's Single-Party Legislature By Paul Schuler. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781503614741 (paper).0
Governing the Urban in India and China: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Pollution. By Xuefei Ren. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 208 pp. ISBN: 9780691203393 (paper).0
Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games0
Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share0
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City. By Haydon Cherry. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xviii, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780300218251 (cloth).0
The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City0
Illness and Inequality: Interrogating Spaces of Care in South Asia - Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi By Dwaipayan Banerjee. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 224 pp. ISBN0
Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market. By Julia Chuang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780520305441 (cloth).0
Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies, and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean0
Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation. By Ian Baird. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. xvi, 370 pp. ISBN: 9780299326104 (cloth).0
Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture. By Ulka Anjaria. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN: 9781439916650 (cloth).0
Transnational Hallyu: The Globalization of Korean Digital and Popular Culture0
Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia By Diana S. Kim. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. vii, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780691172408(cloth).0
Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa. By Brenton Sullivan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780812252675 (cloth).0
China's Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China's Rise and the World's Future0
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China. By Peter B. Lavelle. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. ix, 288 pp. ISBN: 9780231194709 (cl0
Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life. By Richard C. Bush. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. 429 pp. ISBN: 9780815738336 (paper).0
Tracing the Bunny0
The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought. By Dennitza Gabrakova. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9789004365919 (paper, also available as e-bo0
Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck0
Hanguk Hip Hop: Global Rap in South Korea. By Myoung-Sun Song. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ix, 198 pp. ISBN: 9783030156961 (cloth).0
Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema. By Anindya Raychaudhuri. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. ix, 223 pp. ISBN: 9780190249748 (cloth).0
The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia0
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent By Sudhir Chella Rajan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 365 pp. ISBN: 9780674241275 (cloth).0
Revisualizing Slavery: Visual Sources on Slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago and Indian Ocean0
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Celluloid Classicism: Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanātyam. By Hari Krishnan. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2019. xii, 323 pp. ISBN: 9780819578877 (paper). - Movin0
William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports, 1860–19040
Circulating the Code: Print Media and Legal Knowledge in Qing China. By Ting Zhang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xi, 256 pp. ISBN: 9780295747156 (paper).0
The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War0
Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market By Meng Zhang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780295748870 (cloth).0
Constitutional Transition and the Travail of Judges: The Courts of South Korea. By Marie Seong-Hak Kim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi, 349 pp. ISBN: 9781108474894 (cloth).0
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