Chinese Communist Propaganda Abroad, 1949-1976
A review of Reaching the Distant Comrade: Chinese Communist Propaganda Abroad (1949-1976), by Çağdaş Üngör This dissertation provides a comprehensive…
Making of Geology in Late-Georgian England
A review of Practical and Economic Interests in the Making of Geology in late Georgian England, by Leucha Veneer. Practical…
Colonialism, Gender & Okinawa in Modern Japan
A review of Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan, by Valerie Holshouser Barske. Divided into six…
Another Tale of the Heike
A review of Another Tale of the Heike: An Examination of the Engyōbon Heike monogatari, by Amy Christine Franks. Amy…
Spiritual-Religious Groups in the PRC after 1978
A review of Emergence and Development of Spiritual-Religious Groups in the People’s Republic of China after 1978, by Kristin Kupfer.…
Moscow Olympics & Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, 1952-80
A review of Red Sport, Red Tape: The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, 1952-1980, by…
Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo & Early Meiji
A review of A Heteroglossic Theory of Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo and Early Meiji Writings, by Kelly J. Hansen. Historians…
The Ishii Brothers’ Vendetta in Genroku Japan
A review of The Violent Virtue: First Narratives of the Ishii Brothers’ Late Genroku Katakiuchi, by Drake Langford. Drake Langford’s…
Japanese Visions of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”
A review of Saving Metropolis: Body and City in the Metropolis Tales, by Lawrence Bird. Film and architecture share much…
Muslims & Modernity in Imperial Russia
A review of Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Inroads of Modernity, by Mustafa Tuna. Before 1917, Muslim intellectuals in Russia’s Volga-Ural region…