Educating the Masses in China
A review of The Politics of Education: Popular Education, Quotidian Experience, and Contention over the Masses in China, 1927–1937, by Miao Feng. During the “Nanjing…
Category Archives: East, South & Southeast Asia
The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
A review of The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia). In July 2013, I embarked on a PhD research on…
Paintings of Zhong Kuai and Demons in 11th to 14th Century China
A Review of Imagining the Supernatural Grotesque: Paintings of Zhong Kui and Demons in the Late Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasties, by Chun-yi…
Negotiating Tradition, Authority, and Sovereignty in Pakistan
A review of The ‘Ulamā’ and the State: Negotiating Tradition, Authority and Sovereignty in Contemporary Pakistan, by Mashal Saif The role of religion in Pakistani…
Young Women’s Migration in Modern China
A review of Young Women’s Migration in Modern China: From Rural Villages to Factories in Urban Cities, by Juan Zhong. The present dissertation by Juan…
Human Sexual Dimorphism and Health in Prehistoric Thailand
A review of Human Sexual Dimorphism and Health During the Intensification of Agriculture in Prehistoric Thailand, by Angela L. Clark. This dissertation by Angela Clark…
Social Knowledge & Cultural Memory in Japanese Waka Poetry
A review of Learning with Waka Poetry: Transmission and Production of Social Knowledge and Cultural Memory in Premodern Japan, by Ariel G. Stilerman. Waka, the…
Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi
A review of Art in Between Empires: Visual Culture & Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857, by Yuthika Sharma. In Art Between Empires, Yuthika…
Commodifying Religion in the People’s Republic of China
A review of Commodifying Mount Putuo: State Nationalism, Religious Tourism, and Buddhist Revival, by Courtney Bruntz. In this dissertation, Courtney Bruntz analyzes the contemporary tourism…
Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art
A review of Dīpaṅkara Buddha and the Patan Samyak Mahādāna in Nepal: Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art, by Kerry Lucinda Brown. This dissertation…