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…
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…
Culture and Power in the Chinese Communist Revolution
A review of Reordering China: Culture and Power in the Chinese Communist Revolution, by Xiaohong Xu. Bu Dahua, one of…
Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire
A review of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism: Locke, Burke, Wakefield and the British Empire, by Onur Ulas…
Mobility and Senses of Belonging among the Fatani People
A review of Be-longing: Fatanis in Makkah and Jawi, by Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad. Muhammad Arafat bin Mohamad offers an…
Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tosun, Doi Bansui, and Yosano Akiko
A review of Beyond Shasei, Beyond Nature: Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tōson, Doi Bansui, and Yosano…
Ordinary People and Everyday Lives in Kulob, Tajikistan
A review of Temporality and Subjectivity in Kulob, Southern Tajikistan: An Ethnography of Ordinary People and Their Everyday Lives, by…
Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
A review of Teleology of the Self: Narrative Strategies in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki, by Tiffany Hong Tiffany Hong’s…
Cambodian Cham Identities in a Global Age
A review of From the Khmer Rouge to Hambali: Cham Identities in a Global Age, by Kok-Thay Eng. The Cambodian…
State-Building and Smuggling in Republican China
A review of Smuggling, State-Building, and Political Economy in Coastal China, 1927-1949, by Philip Thai. The history of smuggling in…