Sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and Civil Society in China
A Review of Inside the Circle: Sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and Civil Society in Post-Socialist Northwest China, by Casey J. Miller. Although gays and lesbians in the…
Category Archives: East, South & Southeast Asia
Intersections of Latin American and South Asian Literature in the Twentieth Century
A review of Cartographies of Engagement: The Parallels and Intersections of Latin American and South Asian Literature in the Twentieth Century, by Roanne Leah Kantor. …
A Cultural History of Wartime Japan
A review of Carnival War: A Cultural History of Wartime Japan, 1937-1945, by Benjamin Tsubokura Uchiyama. Benjamin Uchiyama’s dissertation revisits the culture of wartime Japan…
Religious Piety in Aceh, Indonesia
A Review of Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia, by David Kloos. Becoming Better Muslims offers deep insight into the…
Development in Rural Cambodia
A review of Tides of Empire: Merit, Morality, and Development in Rural Cambodia, by Courtney Work. The ebb and flow of empire has washed over…
Tracing Visions
Tracing Visions In June 1936, on an overcast day in Hebei, North China, a small group of American Presbyterian missionaries gathered for a photograph. They…
Finding a Place Called Home in Contemporary Hong Kong Activist Theatre
A review of Performing the City: Finding a Place Called Home in Contemporary Hong Kong Activist Theatre, by Linda Lau Linda Lau’s thesis, Performing the…
Domination, Resistance, and Violence in Ahmedabad
A review of Domination et résistance de la minorité musulmane après le pogrom de 2002 à Ahmedabad (Inde): Les paradoxes de la ghettoïsation à Juhapura…
Poetry and Modernity in Meiji Japan
A review of The First Modern Japanese Poetry, by Rachel Epstein. Rachel Epstein’s dissertation takes as its primary focus the 1882 poetry collection Shintaishishō 新体詩抄…
Networks and Nomadism in Present-Day Inner Mongolia: The Evenki of China
A review of Échanges marchands, réseaux relationnels et nomadisme contemporain chez les Evenk de Chine (Mongolie-Intérieure) (Trade exchanges, relation networks and contemporary nomadism among the…