Refugee Resettlement in Pakistani Punjab, 1947-62
A review of A Betrayed Promise? The Politics of the Everyday State and the Resettling of Refugees in Pakistani Punjab, 1947—62, by Elisabetta Iob. This…
Category Archives: East, South & Southeast Asia
DHAsia 2017 Call for Proposals
DHAsia, a pioneering Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central…
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Review of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) My research interests lie at the intersection of book studies and the…
Burmese Buddhist Political Thought
A review of Politics in the Moral Universe: Burmese Buddhist Political Thought, by Matthew J. Walton Our cultural upbringing, our mores and customs, our manners…
Red Tourism in China
A review of Production, Transmission, and Consumption of Red Tourism in China: A Model of the Circuit of Red Heritage and Tourism, by Shengnan Zhao….
Modern Fatherhood, Nationhood, and Globalization in Japan
A review of Gender, Family, and New Styles of Fatherhood: Modernization and Globalization in Japan, by Atsuko Oyama. Atsuko Oyama’s dissertation provides multidisciplinary insight into…
Mini India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands
A review of Mini India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands, by Philipp Zehmisch. In this doctoral dissertation, Philipp Zehmisch takes…
Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan
A review of Performing Culture: Representations of Commoner Performance in Early Medieval Japan, by Ashton Lazarus. The clatter of binzasara rattles and shrills of flutes;…
Why Humanists Should Fall in Love with “Big Data,” and How?
Why Humanists Should Fall in Love with “Big Data,” and How? Maps show historical continuity. Here is a map of high speed railways in China…
A review of the Busan Metropolitan Simin Municipal Library
A review of the Busan Metropolitan Simin Municipal Library (부산광역시시립시민도서관) (Busan, South Korea) Despite Busan’s status as South Korea’s second largest city, it is often…