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The China Film Archive 中国电影资料馆

  • A.C. Baecker and Mei Li Inouye
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A review of the China Film Archive (中国电影资料馆) The China Film Archive (CFA) is sub-division of the China Film Group…
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The Politics of Russian Archaeology in Ottoman Lands

  • Kalliopi Amygdalou
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A review of Byzantine Heritage, Archaeology, and Politics between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: Russian Archaeological Institute in Constantinople (1894-1914),…
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Women’s Migration and Home in Chinese and Sinophone Culture

  • Jennifer Lambe
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A review of Life on the Move: Women’s Migration and Re/making home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film,…
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Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai

  • Xinying Hu
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A review of Transforming Life in China: Gendered Experiences of Restaurant Workers in Shanghai, by Yang Shen. Although many existing…
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Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor

  • Stephanie Sook-Lynn Ng
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A review of Western Music By Its Others: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor, by Anjeline…
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Gay Poetics in Post-WWII U. S.

  • Chase Dimock
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A review of Homosexuality Is A Poem: How Gay Poets Remodeled The Lyric, Community And The Ideology Of Sex To…
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A Tibetan Ritual Master’s Objects of Power

  • Christopher Bell
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A review of Substance and Sense: Objects of Power in the Life, Writings, and Legacy of the Tibetan Ritual Master…
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The Work of Domestic Service in Contemporary Morocco

  • Mériam Cheikh
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A review of Hired to be daughters: Domestic service among ordinary Moroccans, by Mary Elizabeth Montgomery. “Domesticity in Morocco has…
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Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Japanese Forests

  • Ioannis Gaitanidis
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A review of Forests of the Gods: Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Contemporary Japan, by Aike P. Rots Aike…
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Morality, Economic Inequality, and Policy Responses

  • Salvatore Morelli Salvatore Morelli
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A review of What We Deserve:The Moral Origins of Economic Inequality and Our Policy Responses to It, by Jacob S.…
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