The Horse in Pre-Imperial China
A review of The Horse in Pre-Imperial China, by Xiang Wan This dissertation provides a rich account of the role of the domestic horse in…
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The Maternal Body in 18th and 19th Century America
A review of Bodies at Odds: The Maternal Body as Lived Experience and Cultural Expression in America, 1750-1850, by Nora Doyle. Historians of women and…
Anti-Communism and Adoption in Cold War South Korea
A Review of A New American Comes “Home”: Korean War Adoptees and Cold War Sentiments of Race and Nation, by Susie Woo. Tracing the histories…
China After the Sino-Soviet Split
A review of: China After the Sino-Soviet Split: Maoist Politics, Global Narratives, and the Imagination of the World, by Zachary Scarlett. In this dissertation, which…
Identity and Culture in Late Imperial Chinese Novels
A review of Encountering the Other: Identity, Culture, and the Novel in Late Imperial China, by Huili Zheng. In the second half of the eighteenth…
Social Organization in Neolithic Taiwan
A review of Reconstructing Prehistoric Social Organization: A Case Study from the Wanshan Site, Neolithic Taiwan, by Chih-hua Chiang. Chih-hua Chiang’s dissertation offers an inspiring…
Crime & Print Culture in 18c London
A review of Print Culture and Responses to Crime in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London, by Richard Ward. Richard Ward’s thesis explores the landscape of mid-eighteenth-century crime in…
Displaying Votive Paintings in Edo Japan
A review of Ema: Display Practices of Edo Period Votive Paintings, by Hilary Katherine Snow. This dissertation by Hilary K. Snow examines the diversity of…
Korean Buddhism in the Twentieth Century
A review of Buddhist Propagation and Modernization: The Significance of P’ogyo in Twentieth-Century Korean Buddhism, by Mark Andrew Nathan. When I was asked to review…
Korean Adoption & Orphans
A review of Genealogies of Korean Adoption: American Empire, Militarization, and Yellow Desire, by SooJin Pate. SooJin Pate’s dissertation is groundbreaking not only for the…