North, Central & West Asia
A review of The Transformation of Chinese Muslim Identities in Northern Thailand, by Suchart Setthamalinee. Suchart Setthamalinee charts a fresh, crit...
A review of the State Archive of Contemporary History of Saratov Oblast (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii Saratovskoi oblasti, GANISO), Sarato...
A review of Gazing at the Tibetan Plateau: Sovereignty and Chinese State Expansion in the Early Twentieth Century, by Scott Relyea. In September 2011 ...
A review of Pleasure, Power, and the Pursuit of Communism: Soviet Youth and State-Sponsored Popular Culture during the Early Cold War, 1945-1968, by G...
Starting in a few weeks, “Russian Studies Dissertation Reviews” will feature friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended, unpubl...
As one of our new series in 2012-13, “Inner Asian Studies Dissertation Reviews” will feature friendly, non-critical overviews of recently ...
As part of our expanded third season, “Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Dissertation Reviews” will bring you friendly, non-critical overviews...
A review of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, by Rian Richard Thum. The history of a history, our teachers and mentors have told us,...
A review of Adapting the Buddha’s Biographies: A Cultural History of the Wish-Fulfilling Vine in Tibet, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, by Nancy ...
A review of A Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China, by Nicole D. Willock. How have religion, modernity, and nationality been shaped by Tibetans i...
A review of Saintly Brokers: Uyghur Muslims, Trade, and the Making of Qing Central Asia, 1696-1814, by KWANGMIN KIM. Kwangmin Kim’s dissertatio...
A review of Marginal Constituencies: Qing Borderland Policies and Vernacular Histories of Five Tribes on the Sino-Russian Frontier, by LORETTA KIM. Re...