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…
Sketching & Socialist Realist Painting in the Early People’s Republic of China
A review of Drawing from Life: Mass Sketching and the Formation of Socialist Realist Guohua in the Early People’s Republic…
Writing Geography in Early Medieval China
A review of Patterns of the Earth: Writing Geography in Early Medieval China, by David Jonathan Felt. In hardly any…
The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965
A Review of To The Soil: The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965, by Zhang Yu. Zhang…
Feasting & Sacrifice in the Chinese Bronze Age
A review of Politics of Food, Feasting and Sacrifice in the Chinese Bronze Age, by Katrinka Reinhart. An old Chinese…
Displaying Votive Paintings in Edo Japan
A review of Ema: Display Practices of Edo Period Votive Paintings, by Hilary Katherine Snow. This dissertation by Hilary K.…
WWI & Russia’s Religious Intelligentsia
A review of Providential Empire: Russia’s Religious Intelligentsia and the First World War, by Christopher A. Stroop. In this impressive…
Nakagami Kenji & the Literature of the Echoing Chamber
A Review of The Literature of the Echoing Chamber: Nakagami Kenji and the Theory of the Utsuho, by Hisaaki Wake.…
The Social Life of Water in Mumbai
A Review of Infrapolitics: The Social Life of Water in Mumbai, by Nikhil Anand. Nikhil Anand’s dissertation is a nuanced,…
Bishu Shanzhuang & the Kangxi Landscape
A review of Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Bishu Shanzhuang and the Mediation of Qing Imperial Identity, by Stephen Hart Whiteman.…