Burmese Buddhist Political Thought
A review of Politics in the Moral Universe: Burmese Buddhist Political Thought, by Matthew J. Walton Our cultural upbringing, our…
Empire and Japanese Literature
A review of Fragmenting History: Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of Empire, by Nobuko Ishitake-Okumiya Yamasaki. As broadly…
Cultural Propaganda in Taiwan, 1950s-60s
A Review of Performing an Absent China: Cultural Propaganda in Anti-Communist Taiwan in the 1950’s and 1960’s, by Ching-Yi Huang.…
Text and Performance in 17th-Century French Theater
A review of Playwrights on the Threshold Between Stage and Study: Paratexts and Polemical Texts in Seventeenth-Century French Theater, by…
Music and Media in the Dutch East Indies, 1903-1942
A review of Music and Media in the Dutch East Indies: Gramophone Records and Radio in the Late Colonial Era,…
Globalization and Consumer Markets in East Asia
A Review of Making East Asian Consumers: Market Formation and Evolution of Demand in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China,…
Korean in Northeast China: Ambiguous Identity as Survival Tactic
A review of From Chaoxian ren to Chaoxian zu: Korean Identity under Japanese Empire and Chinese Nation-State, by Chong Eun…
Challenging the Politics of Representation in the Study of Tibet
A review of Tibet Beyond Black and White: Racial Formations and Transnational Collusions, by C. Michelle Kleisath. The release of…
Persian Texts as a Field of Study: Qazvini’s “Four Discourses”
A review of Medieval Persian Texts and Modern Contexts: Mohammad Qazvini and the Modern Reception of Chahār Maqāle (The Four…
The Making of History in Mongol Iran
A review of Rashīd al-Dīn and the Making of History in Mongol Iran, by Stefan T. Kamola. To dedicate a…