[Archives Review, China] Toby Lincoln (University of Leicester) review of the Jiangsu Provincial Archives (Nanjing, Jiangsu, China) and Wuxi Municipal Archives (Wuxi, Jiangsu, China)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2243 [China, Korea] Eunyoung Choi, “Gender, Justice and the Geopolitics of Undocumented North Korean Migration” (Syracuse University, 2010), reviewed by Sarah Eunkyung Chee (University of California, Santa Cruz)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2366 [Japan] Drake Langford, “The Violent Virtue: First Narratives of the Ishii Brothers’ Late Genroku Katakiuchi” (Yale University, 2009), reviewed by David Gundry (University of California, Davis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2715 [Southeast Asia] Brooke Schedneck, “Constructing Religious Modernities: Hybridity, Reinterpretation and Adaptation in Thailand’s International Meditation Centers” (Arizona State University, 2012), reviewed by Joanna Cook (University of London)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1532 [Tibetan Himalayan] Mary Alyson Prude, “Death, Gender and Extraordinary Knowing: The Delog (‘das log) Tradition in Nepal and Eastern Tibet (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011), reviewed by Annabella Pitkin (Barnard College, Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2435 [South Asia] Oshan Fernando, “The Effects of Evangelical Christianity on State Formation in Sri Lanka” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011), reviewed by Kaori Hatsumi (Kalamazoo College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2618 [Science Studies] Signe Nipper Nielsen, “From the ‘Workshop of Wonders’: Observing Generation in Danish Medicine, 1650-1800” (University of Cambridge, 2010), reviewed by Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2575 [Bioethics] Mirko Garasic, “Freedom, Consent and Autonomy in Bioethics: Justifications for Enforced Medical Treatment and its Refusal” (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli [LUISS], 2011), reviewed by John Appleby (University of Cambridge)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2819 [Science Studies] Nathan Crowe, “A ‘Fantastical’ Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-1970” (University of Minnesota, 2011), reviewed by Berris Charnley (Griffith University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2979 [Russia] Kyung Deok Roh, “Stalin’s Think Tank: The Varga Institute and the Making of the Stalinist Idea of World Economy and Politics, 1927-1953” (University of Chicago, 2010), reviewed by Ethan Pollock (Brown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2982 [Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Christopher Markiewicz (University of Chicago), review of the Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul, Turkey
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3356 [Performance] Margarethe Adams, “Music and Entertainment in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ideology and Legacy” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011), reviewed by Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2483 [Iran] Navid Fozi, “An Alternative Religious Space in Shi’a Iran: Sociocultural Imaginaries of Zoroastrians in Contemporary Tehran” (Boston University, 2011), reviewed by Hosna Sheikholeslami (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2950 [Chinese Lit] Kuan-Yun Huang, “Warring States ‘Echoes’ of the Pasts” (University of Chicago, 2010), reviewed by Michael Hunter (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2285 [China] Lane Jeremy Harris, “The Post Office and State Formation in Modern China, 1896-1949” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012), reviewed by Pär Cassel (University of Michigan)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2201 [Archives Review] Tom Hulme (University of Leicester), review of Social Science Resources at the British Library, London, United Kingdom
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3487 [Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Audrey Truschke (University of Cambridge), review of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, United Kingdom
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3365 [Talking Shop, Science Studies] Joline Zepcevski (Minneapolis College of Art and Design), “Computer Science and Unconventional Archives”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2418 [Med Anthro] Noelle Sullivan, “Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity: Health Sector Reform, Development Aid, and Biomedical Practice in a Tanzanian Hospital” (University of Florida, 2011), reviewed by Meghan Halley (Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2986 [Korea, Performance] Young Eun Chae, “Screening the Past: Historiography of Contemporary South Korean Cinema, 1998-2008” (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011), reviewed by Joseph Palis (North Carolina State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2971 [Asian Art, China] Stephen Whiteman, “Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Bishu Shanzhuang and the Mediation of Qing Imperial Identity” (Stanford University, 2011), reviewed by Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University in St. Louis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2598 [Archives Review, China] Steven Pieragastini (Brandeis University), review of the Shanghai Municipal Archives, Bund Location, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2471 [Japan] Kelly Hansen, “A Heteroglossic Theory of Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo and Early Meiji Writings” (University of Hawai’i, 2009), reviewed by William Hedberg (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2719 [China, Science Studies] Shellen Wu, “Underground Empires: German Imperialism and the Introduction of Geology in China, 1860-1919” (Princeton University, 2010), reviewed by Ying Jia Tan (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3612 [China, Korea] Joshua Van Lieu, “Divergent Visions of Serving the Great: The Emergence of Chosŏn-Qing Tributary Relations as a Politics of Representation” (University of Washington, 2010), reviewed by George Kallander (Syracuse University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2383 [China, South Asia, Tibetan Himalayan] Arthur McKeown, “The Life & Times of Sariputra (c. 1335-1426)” (Harvard University, 2010), reviewed by Rae Erin Dachille-Hey (University of California, Berkeley)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2362 [Archives Review, Southeast Asia] P.J. Thum (National University of Singapore), review of the National Library of Singapore, Singapore
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3238 [Talking Shop, Bioethics] Alberto Giubilini (Charles Sturt University, Monash University) and Francesca Minerva (University of Melbourne), “Bioethics & the New Media”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3278 [Latin America] Oscar De La Torre Cueva, “Freedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-1950” (University of Pittsburgh, 2011), reviewed by Alex Borucki (University of California, Irvine)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3402 [Japan, Med Anthro] Kathryn Goldfarb, “Fragile Kinships: Family Ideologies and Child Welfare in Japan” (University of Chicago, 2012), reviewed by Allison Alexy (University of Virginia)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3330 [Archives Review, China] Peter Thilly (Northwestern University), review of the Fujian Provincial Archives 福建省档案馆, Fuzhou, China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2840 [Chinese Lit] Valerie Levan, “Forbidden Enlightenment: Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu (1896-1945)” (University of Chicago, 2010), reviewed by Liang Luo (University of Kentucky)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2441 [China] Tsung-Yi Pan, “Constructing Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Memory: National Salvation, Revolutionary Tradition, and Political Modernity in Twentieth-Century China” (University of Minnesota, 2011), reviewed by Alexander Cook (University of California, Berkeley)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1972 [South Asia] Gajendran Ayyathurai, “Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India” (Columbia University, 2011), reviewed by Dwaipayan Sen (Amherst College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3540 [Iran, Islamic Studies] Maryam Moazzen, “Shi’ite Higher Learning and the Role of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī in Late Safavid Iran” (University of Toronto, 2011), reviewed by Robert Moore (John Brown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3759 [Science Studies, Visual Studies] Geoffrey Belknap, “‘From a Photograph’: Photography and the Periodical Print Press 1870-90” (University of Cambridge, 2011), reviewed by Casper Andersen (University of Aarhus)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3585 [Science Studies] Berris Charnley, “Agricultural Science, Plant Breeding and the Emergence of a Mendelian System in Britain, 1880-1930” (University of Leeds, 2011), reviewed by Nathan Crowe (Arizona State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3288 [Iran] James Gustafson, “Opium, Carpets, and Constitutionalists: A Social History of Elite Households of Kirman, 1859-1914” (University of Washington, 2010), reviewed by H. Lyman Stebbins (La Salle University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3677 [Inner Central Asia, Russia] Maya Peterson, “Technologies of Rule: Water, Power, and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867-1941” (Harvard University, 2011), reviewed by Ian Wylie Campbell (University of California, Davis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3649 [Archives Review, China] Macabe Keliher (Harvard University), review of the First Historical Archives of China 中國第一歷史檔案館 and the National Project for the Compilation of Qing History Library 國家清史纂修工程圖書館, Beijing, China.
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2836 [Archives Review, China] Steve Upton, review of Upton Sino-Foreign Archive (USFA), Concord, New Hampshire, USA.
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3567 [Archives Review, Japan] Judit Erika Magyar (Waseda University), review of Modern Japanese Political History Materials, National Diet Library, Tokyo and Special Collections Room, Waseda University Library, Tokyo.
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3062 [Korea] EuyRyung Jun, “Virtuous Citizens and Sentimental Society: Ethics and Politics in Neoliberal South Korea” (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011), reviewed by Seungsook Moon (Vassar College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2396
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2243 [China, Korea] Eunyoung Choi, “Gender, Justice and the Geopolitics of Undocumented North Korean Migration” (Syracuse University, 2010), reviewed by Sarah Eunkyung Chee (University of California, Santa Cruz)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2366 [Japan] Drake Langford, “The Violent Virtue: First Narratives of the Ishii Brothers’ Late Genroku Katakiuchi” (Yale University, 2009), reviewed by David Gundry (University of California, Davis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2715 [Southeast Asia] Brooke Schedneck, “Constructing Religious Modernities: Hybridity, Reinterpretation and Adaptation in Thailand’s International Meditation Centers” (Arizona State University, 2012), reviewed by Joanna Cook (University of London)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1532 [Tibetan Himalayan] Mary Alyson Prude, “Death, Gender and Extraordinary Knowing: The Delog (‘das log) Tradition in Nepal and Eastern Tibet (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011), reviewed by Annabella Pitkin (Barnard College, Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2435 [South Asia] Oshan Fernando, “The Effects of Evangelical Christianity on State Formation in Sri Lanka” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011), reviewed by Kaori Hatsumi (Kalamazoo College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2618 [Science Studies] Signe Nipper Nielsen, “From the ‘Workshop of Wonders’: Observing Generation in Danish Medicine, 1650-1800” (University of Cambridge, 2010), reviewed by Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2575 [Bioethics] Mirko Garasic, “Freedom, Consent and Autonomy in Bioethics: Justifications for Enforced Medical Treatment and its Refusal” (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli [LUISS], 2011), reviewed by John Appleby (University of Cambridge)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2819 [Science Studies] Nathan Crowe, “A ‘Fantastical’ Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-1970” (University of Minnesota, 2011), reviewed by Berris Charnley (Griffith University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2979 [Russia] Kyung Deok Roh, “Stalin’s Think Tank: The Varga Institute and the Making of the Stalinist Idea of World Economy and Politics, 1927-1953” (University of Chicago, 2010), reviewed by Ethan Pollock (Brown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2982 [Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Christopher Markiewicz (University of Chicago), review of the Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul, Turkey
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3356 [Performance] Margarethe Adams, “Music and Entertainment in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Ideology and Legacy” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011), reviewed by Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2483 [Iran] Navid Fozi, “An Alternative Religious Space in Shi’a Iran: Sociocultural Imaginaries of Zoroastrians in Contemporary Tehran” (Boston University, 2011), reviewed by Hosna Sheikholeslami (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2950 [Chinese Lit] Kuan-Yun Huang, “Warring States ‘Echoes’ of the Pasts” (University of Chicago, 2010), reviewed by Michael Hunter (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2285 [China] Lane Jeremy Harris, “The Post Office and State Formation in Modern China, 1896-1949” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012), reviewed by Pär Cassel (University of Michigan)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2201 [Archives Review] Tom Hulme (University of Leicester), review of Social Science Resources at the British Library, London, United Kingdom
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3487 [Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Audrey Truschke (University of Cambridge), review of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, United Kingdom
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3365 [Talking Shop, Science Studies] Joline Zepcevski (Minneapolis College of Art and Design), “Computer Science and Unconventional Archives”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2418 [Med Anthro] Noelle Sullivan, “Negotiating Abundance and Scarcity: Health Sector Reform, Development Aid, and Biomedical Practice in a Tanzanian Hospital” (University of Florida, 2011), reviewed by Meghan Halley (Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2986 [Korea, Performance] Young Eun Chae, “Screening the Past: Historiography of Contemporary South Korean Cinema, 1998-2008” (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011), reviewed by Joseph Palis (North Carolina State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2971 [Asian Art, China] Stephen Whiteman, “Creating the Kangxi Landscape: Bishu Shanzhuang and the Mediation of Qing Imperial Identity” (Stanford University, 2011), reviewed by Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University in St. Louis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2598 [Archives Review, China] Steven Pieragastini (Brandeis University), review of the Shanghai Municipal Archives, Bund Location, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2471 [Japan] Kelly Hansen, “A Heteroglossic Theory of Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo and Early Meiji Writings” (University of Hawai’i, 2009), reviewed by William Hedberg (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2719 [China, Science Studies] Shellen Wu, “Underground Empires: German Imperialism and the Introduction of Geology in China, 1860-1919” (Princeton University, 2010), reviewed by Ying Jia Tan (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3612 [China, Korea] Joshua Van Lieu, “Divergent Visions of Serving the Great: The Emergence of Chosŏn-Qing Tributary Relations as a Politics of Representation” (University of Washington, 2010), reviewed by George Kallander (Syracuse University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2383 [China, South Asia, Tibetan Himalayan] Arthur McKeown, “The Life & Times of Sariputra (c. 1335-1426)” (Harvard University, 2010), reviewed by Rae Erin Dachille-Hey (University of California, Berkeley)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2362 [Archives Review, Southeast Asia] P.J. Thum (National University of Singapore), review of the National Library of Singapore, Singapore
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3238 [Talking Shop, Bioethics] Alberto Giubilini (Charles Sturt University, Monash University) and Francesca Minerva (University of Melbourne), “Bioethics & the New Media”
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3278 [Latin America] Oscar De La Torre Cueva, “Freedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-1950” (University of Pittsburgh, 2011), reviewed by Alex Borucki (University of California, Irvine)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3402 [Japan, Med Anthro] Kathryn Goldfarb, “Fragile Kinships: Family Ideologies and Child Welfare in Japan” (University of Chicago, 2012), reviewed by Allison Alexy (University of Virginia)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3330 [Archives Review, China] Peter Thilly (Northwestern University), review of the Fujian Provincial Archives 福建省档案馆, Fuzhou, China
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2840 [Chinese Lit] Valerie Levan, “Forbidden Enlightenment: Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu (1896-1945)” (University of Chicago, 2010), reviewed by Liang Luo (University of Kentucky)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2441 [China] Tsung-Yi Pan, “Constructing Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Memory: National Salvation, Revolutionary Tradition, and Political Modernity in Twentieth-Century China” (University of Minnesota, 2011), reviewed by Alexander Cook (University of California, Berkeley)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1972 [South Asia] Gajendran Ayyathurai, “Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India” (Columbia University, 2011), reviewed by Dwaipayan Sen (Amherst College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3540 [Iran, Islamic Studies] Maryam Moazzen, “Shi’ite Higher Learning and the Role of the Madrasa-yi Sulṭānī in Late Safavid Iran” (University of Toronto, 2011), reviewed by Robert Moore (John Brown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3759 [Science Studies, Visual Studies] Geoffrey Belknap, “‘From a Photograph’: Photography and the Periodical Print Press 1870-90” (University of Cambridge, 2011), reviewed by Casper Andersen (University of Aarhus)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3585 [Science Studies] Berris Charnley, “Agricultural Science, Plant Breeding and the Emergence of a Mendelian System in Britain, 1880-1930” (University of Leeds, 2011), reviewed by Nathan Crowe (Arizona State University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3288 [Iran] James Gustafson, “Opium, Carpets, and Constitutionalists: A Social History of Elite Households of Kirman, 1859-1914” (University of Washington, 2010), reviewed by H. Lyman Stebbins (La Salle University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3677 [Inner Central Asia, Russia] Maya Peterson, “Technologies of Rule: Water, Power, and the Modernization of Central Asia, 1867-1941” (Harvard University, 2011), reviewed by Ian Wylie Campbell (University of California, Davis)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3649 [Archives Review, China] Macabe Keliher (Harvard University), review of the First Historical Archives of China 中國第一歷史檔案館 and the National Project for the Compilation of Qing History Library 國家清史纂修工程圖書館, Beijing, China.
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2836 [Archives Review, China] Steve Upton, review of Upton Sino-Foreign Archive (USFA), Concord, New Hampshire, USA.
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3567 [Archives Review, Japan] Judit Erika Magyar (Waseda University), review of Modern Japanese Political History Materials, National Diet Library, Tokyo and Special Collections Room, Waseda University Library, Tokyo.
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/3062 [Korea] EuyRyung Jun, “Virtuous Citizens and Sentimental Society: Ethics and Politics in Neoliberal South Korea” (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011), reviewed by Seungsook Moon (Vassar College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2396
Image: The painting of Thingyan festival (Burmese New Year Water Festival) by Pagan era artists. Wikimedia Commons.
