Biopower, Governmentality & Life Insurance in Modern Japan
A review of Tabling Death: Life Insurance in Modern Japan, 1881-1945, by Ryan Moran. From the 1820s onward, Western societies, roughly in tandem, bore witness…
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Madness in Republican China
A review of Spits, Chains, and Hospital Beds: A History of Madness in Republican Beijing, 1912-1938, by Emily Lauren Baum. This widely researched dissertation explores…
U.S. Adoptions from Asia
A Review of Race and the Violence of Love: Family and Nation in U.S. Adoptions from Asia, by Kit Myers Recent scholarship documents how adoption…
Organ Transplant in Film & Fiction
A review of Organ Ensembles: Medicalization, Modernity, and Horror in the 19th and 20th Century Narratives of the Body and its Parts, by Yeesheen Yang….
Culture of Mental Health in Oaxaca
A review of The Culture of Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca, by Whitney L. Duncan. The globalization of a biomedical approach to mental health,…
Oil, Ore & State-building in Xinjiang 1893-1964
A review of Staking Claims to China’s Borderland: Oil, Ores, and State-building in Xinjiang Province, 1893-1964, by Judd Creighton Kinzley. Staking Claims to China’s Borderland…
Modern China’s Encounter with the World
A review of Internalizing the West: Qing Envoys and Ministers in Europe, 1866-1893, by Jenny Zhengzheng Huangfu. In the mid-1980s, just as China was headed…
Japanese Colonial Tourism in Manchuria, Korea & Taiwan
A review of The Boundaries of the Interesting: Itineraries, Guidebooks, and Travel in Imperial Japan, by Kate L. McDonald. In a beautifully written dissertation, Kate…
Superpowers & Visual Art in the Late Cold War
A review of Worlds on View: Visual Art Exhibitions and State Identity in the Late Cold War, by Nicole Holland. In her dissertation, Nicole Holland…
Chinese POWs in the Korean War
A review of To Return Home or “Return to Taiwan”: Conflicts and Survival in the “Voluntary Repatriation” of Chinese POWs in the Korean War, by…