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Inner and Central Asian Studies

China

Transforming Inner Mongolia’s Frontier

A review of Transforming the Frontier: Land, Commerce, and Chinese Colonization in Inner Mongolia, 1700-1911, by Yi Wang.  Recent studies of the Qing ...
Diaspora/Migration

Pastoralism, Local Knowledge, and Biodiversity in Post-Soviet Republics

Pastoralism and the Limits of Local Knowledge: Mapping Biodiversity Preservation in Post-Soviet Republics During this past August of 2014, many became...
Inner/Central Asia

Islam and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan

A review of The Fruit of Devotion: Islam and Modernity in Kyrgyzstan, by Julie McBrien. In the growing scholarly and popular literature on Central Asi...
Inner/Central Asia

Inner/Central Asia Editor Moving On

Dissertation Reviews bids farewell to Loretta Kim, Assistant Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University, who has served as Field Editor for ...
China

New Nomads of the Socialist Economy

A review of Des bergers sans troupeau: Les nouveaux nomades de l’économie socialiste de marché en Amdo-Qinghai (RPC) (Shepherds Without a Herd: The Ne...
China

Inner Mongolia Regional Archives, Hohhot

A review of the Inner Mongolia Regional Archives (Hohhot, China). 内蒙古自治区呼和浩特市南二环路60号 内蒙古自治区档案局 
tel: +86-47-1481-1482; website In the cavernous, marbl...
Inner/Central Asia

Addiction & Drug Use in Soviet Tajikistan

A review of The Administration of Addiction: The Politics of Medicine and Opiate Use in Soviet Tajikistan, 1924-1958, by Alisher Latypov. Alisher Laty...
Inner/Central Asia

Soviet Rule & Famine in Kazakhstan

A review of Die Nomaden und der Hunger: Sesshaftmachung und Herrschaftsdurchsetzung in Kasachstan, 1920-1945 (The Nomads and the Famine: Sedentarizati...
Inner/Central Asia

Ethnicity & Deportation in Soviet Kazakhstan

A review of Nations in Exile: “The Punished Peoples” in Soviet Kazakhstan, 1941-1961, by Michael H. Westren. In 1941, as the Soviets waged war with......
Inner/Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan, Russia & US in Central Asia

A review of The Base of Contention: Kyrgyzstan, Russia and the U.S. in Central Asia (2001-2010), by Alisher Khamidov. Alisher Khamidov’s The Base of C...
China

National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo

A review of the National Institute for Defense Studies, Ministry of Defense (Tokyo, Japan). The National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) in Tokyo...
Inner/Central Asia

Soviet Orientalism & Politics in Central Asia

A review of Settling the Past: Soviet Oriental Projects in Leningrad and Alma-Ata, by Alfrid Bustanov. Researchers in the Caucasian and Central Asian ...
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