The Buddha’s Many Biographies, 17th-18th c.
A review of Adapting the Buddha’s Biographies: A Cultural History of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine in Tibet, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, by Nancy Grace Lin. Scholars…
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A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in China
A review of A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China, by Nicole D. Willock. How have religion, modernity, and nationality been shaped by Tibetans in…
Uyghur Muslims & the Making of Qing Central Asia
A review of Saintly Brokers: Uyghur Muslims, Trade, and the Making of Qing Central Asia, 1696-1814, by KWANGMIN KIM. Kwangmin Kim’s dissertation is a significant contribution…
Qing Borderland Policies on the Sino-Russian Frontier
A review of Marginal Constituencies: Qing Borderland Policies and Vernacular Histories of Five Tribes on the Sino-Russian Frontier, by LORETTA KIM. Recent scholarship on late imperial…