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State-Building and Smuggling in Republican China

  • Weiting Guo
  • 8 minute read
A review of Smuggling, State-Building, and Political Economy in Coastal China, 1927-1949, by Philip Thai. The history of smuggling in…
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Sketching & Socialist Realist Painting in the Early People’s Republic of China

  • Sonja Kelley
  • 8 minute read
A review of Drawing from Life: Mass Sketching and the Formation of Socialist Realist Guohua in the Early People’s Republic…
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Writing Geography in Early Medieval China

  • J.H. Huesemann
  • 9 minute read
A review of Patterns of the Earth: Writing Geography in Early Medieval China, by David Jonathan Felt. In hardly any…
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The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965

  • Mark McConaghy
  • 5 minute read
A Review of To The Soil: The Rural and the Modern in Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965, by Zhang Yu. Zhang…
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Feasting & Sacrifice in the Chinese Bronze Age

  • Zhen Qin
  • 5 minute read
A review of Politics of Food, Feasting and Sacrifice in the Chinese Bronze Age, by Katrinka Reinhart. An old Chinese…
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Displaying Votive Paintings in Edo Japan

  • Jeannie Kenmotsu
  • 7 minute read
A review of Ema: Display Practices of Edo Period Votive Paintings, by Hilary Katherine Snow. This dissertation by Hilary K.…
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WWI & Russia’s Religious Intelligentsia

  • Sergei Zhuk
  • 7 minute read
A review of Providential Empire: Russia’s Religious Intelligentsia and the First World War, by Christopher A. Stroop. In this impressive…
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Nakagami Kenji & the Literature of the Echoing Chamber

  • Yukiko Shigeto
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  • 7 minute read
A Review of The Literature of the Echoing Chamber: Nakagami Kenji and the Theory of the Utsuho, by Hisaaki Wake.…
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The Social Life of Water in Mumbai

  • Tarini Bedi
  • 7 minute read
A Review of Infrapolitics: The Social Life of Water in Mumbai, by Nikhil Anand. Nikhil Anand’s dissertation is a nuanced,…
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Bishu Shanzhuang & the Kangxi Landscape

  • Kristina Kleutghen
  • 9 minute read
A review of Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Bishu Shanzhuang and the Mediation of Qing Imperial Identity, by Stephen Hart Whiteman.…
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