Cultural Meaning and Power of Starbucks in South Korea
A review of Building an Empire One Cup at a Time: Cultural Meaning and Power of Starbucks Korea, by Jee-eun…
Queer Marronage and Caribbean Writing
A review of Queer Marronage and Caribbean Writing, by Ronald Bancroft Cummings. Traditionally, marronage is the slave’s flight from the…
Decolonising Anglo-Indians
A review of Decolonising Anglo-Indians: Strategies for a Mixed Race Community in Late Colonial India during the First Half of…
The Trabzon-Bayezid Road and Modernization in the Late Ottoman Empire
A review of A road in rebellion, a history on the move: The social history of the Trabzon-Bayezid road and…
Japanese Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan
A review of Marshaling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Colonial Taiwan, by Winifred Kai-wen Chang. Winifred Chang’s dissertation is…
Burmese Buddhist Political Thought
A review of Politics in the Moral Universe: Burmese Buddhist Political Thought, by Matthew J. Walton Our cultural upbringing, our…
Female Subjectivity and Diasporic Experience: Zhao Shuxia’s Life and Fiction
A review of Frauen und Diaspora: Zur Konstitution weiblicher Subjektivität in der Diaspora am Beispiel der sino-helvetischen Autorin Zhao Shuxia,…
India-Pakistan Relations, 1947-1957
A review of The Finality of Partition: Bilateral Relations between India and Pakistan, 1947- 1957, by Pallavi Raghavan. Pallavi Raghavan’s…
State Making in Patagonia, Argentinia, and Chile
A review of Borderland Sovereignties: Postcolonial Colonialism and State Making in Patagonia, Argentina and Chile, 1840s-1922 by Alberto Harambour-Ross Patagonia…
Constructing the “Author” in Meiji Japan
A review of Editing Identity: Literary Anthologies and the Construction of the Author in Meiji Japan, by Molly Des Jardin.…