Buddhist Education, Student-Monks, and Citizenship in Modern China
A review of Praying for the Republic: Buddhist Education, Student-Monks, and Citizenship in Modern China (1911-1949), by Lei Kuan Rongdao…
Janissaries as Economic & Social Actors in 17th-C. Istanbul
A review of The Economic and Social Roles of Janissaries in a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman City: The Case of Istanbul, by…
Japanese Visions of Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”
A review of Saving Metropolis: Body and City in the Metropolis Tales, by Lawrence Bird. Film and architecture share much…
Korean Popular Music in Modern Times
A review of Embedded Voices In-Between Empires: The Cultural Formation of Korean Popular Music in Modern Times, by Yongwoo Lee.…
Canadian Regulatory Evaluation of “Alternative” Medicines
A review of An Empirical Study of Scientists’ Reasoning in the Canadian Regulatory Evaluation of Traditional, Homeopathic, Herbal, and other…
Argumentation in Later Islamic Intellectual History
A review of The Development of Dialectic and Argumentation Theory in Post-classical Islamic Intellectual History, by Mehmet Kadri Karabela. Mehmet…
Medical Control of Fertility in Peru
A review of A History of the Medical Control of Fertility in Peru, 1895-1976, by Raul Necochea Lopez. In his…
Genetic Discrimination in the U.S.
A review of Genetic Discrimination: A Genealogy of an American Problem, by Janet Elizabeth Childerhose. Many worlds are tethered together…