Politics, Culture, and Space in the Construction of Identity in Chile
A review of Imaginarios y Representaciones Nacionales en el Frente Popular Chileno: Política, Cultura y Espacio en la Construcción Identitaria, by Barbara Kirsi Silva Avaria…
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Pentecostalism in Post-Mao China
A Review of Cultural Intermediaries and Globalization: Transforming Pentecostalism in Post-Mao China by Ke-Hsien Huang The revitalization of religion in China since the 1980s, in…
Siberian Patriots and the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920
Review of Siberian Patriots: Participatory Autocracy and the Cohesion of the Russian Imperial State, 1858-1920, by David Rainbow David Rainbow’s PhD thesis looks at the…
Maharashtra State Archives in Mumbai
A review of the Maharashtra State Archives in Mumbai (Maharashtra), India. The Maharashtra State Archives is a major resource for academics interested in the study…
Historical Archives in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
A review of the Second Historical Archives of China (第二历史档案馆) (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China) The Second Historical Archives of China (第二历史档案馆, sometimes abbreviated SHAC, and also…
Urban Communities in Thailand, 5th to 9th Cent.
A review of Ideology, Identity and the Construction of Urban Communities: The Archaeology of Kamphaeng Saen, Central Thailand (c. Fifth to Ninth Century CE) by…
Adjustment and Change among Bisexual Women
A review of Adjustment and Change among Bisexual Women: A Longitudinal Analysis, by Jane Caflisch. While the complexity of Jane Caflisch’s impressive longitudinal mixed methods…
Women and Food in Multiethnic and Global Women’s Literature
A review of At the Kitchen Table: Women and Food in Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Multiethnic and Global Women’s Literature, by Allyson Denise Marino. This dissertation…
Astronomy, the Calendar, and the Sagecraft Science in Early Imperial China
A review of Knowing Heaven: Astronomy, the Calendar, and the Sagecraft Science in Early Imperial China, by Daniel Patrick Morgan. Daniel Patrick Morgan’s dissertation pursues…
China’s Conservative Revolution
A review of China’s Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949, by Brian Kai Hin Tsui. “Revolution” and “modernization” are two of the central loci…