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East, South & Southeast Asia

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Fresh from the Archives

The Oriental Collection at Peshawar University

A review of the Oriental Collection at Peshawar University Working at Peshawar University libraries has been one of the most refreshing research exper...
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Fresh from the Archives

The Dr. Iqbal Mujaddidi Collection at Punjab University

A review of the Dr. Iqbal Mujaddidi Collection at Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan For scholars of Islam in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Iqbal M...
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China

Women’s Migration and Home in Chinese and Sinophone Culture

A review of Life on the Move: Women’s Migration and Re/making home in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Literature and Film, by Hsin-Chin Hsieh. Befo...
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China

Gender and Restaurant Work in Shanghai

A review of Transforming Life in China: Gendered Experiences of Restaurant Workers in Shanghai, by Yang Shen. Although many existing literature study ...
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Cultural Anthropology

Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor

A review of Western Music By Its Others: Overseas Filipino Musicians and the Geographies of Migrant Creative Labor, by Anjeline de Dios. Angeline de D...
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Japan

Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

A review of Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900, by Jakobina Arch. Jakobina Arch’s pathbreaking disser...
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Southeast Asia

Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples of Laos and Vietnam

A review of Forests, Spirits, and High Modernist Development: A Study of Cosmology and Change among the Katuic Peoples in the Uplands of Laos and...
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China

Chen Jitong and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World

A Review of Fin-de-Siècle Diplomat: Chen Jitong (1852-1907) and Cosmopolitan Possibilities in the Late Qing World, by Ke Ren. In 1923, Liang Qichao (梁...
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South Asia

The Ganga River & State Formation in Mughal India

A Review of The Political Economy of the Ganga River: Highway of State Formation in Mughal India, c. 1600-1800, by Murari Kumar Jha. Murari Jha’s diss...
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South Asia

A Market for Speech: Poetry in Late Mughal India

Review of A Market for Speech: Poetry Recitation in Late Mughal India, 1690-1810, by Nathan Tabor. Something strange happened to poetry around the tim...
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Japan

Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary in Japan

A review of Verbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and “Foreign Hero”, by James Mitchell Hommes In the early 185...
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Japan

Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Japanese Forests

A review of Forests of the Gods: Shinto, Nature, and Sacred Space in Contemporary Japan, by Aike P. Rots Aike Rots’ thesis expands our understanding.....
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