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Volume 79 - Issue 1 - February 2020

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Minjian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals. By Sebastian Veg. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. ix, 352 pp. ISBN: 9780231191401 (cloth).

Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness. By Lily Wong. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xiv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780231183383 (cloth).

Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China. By Yun Xia. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. ix, 267 pp. ISBN: 9780295742861 (paper).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace. By Oleg Benesch and Ran Zwigenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xv, 360 pp. ISBN: 9781108481946 (cloth).

Dr. David Murray: Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873–1879. By Benjamin Duke. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2019. vi, 385 pp. ISBN: 9780813594972 (cloth).

Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History. By Harry Harootunian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. viii, 372 pp. ISBN: 9780231190206 (cloth).

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History. By Monica Kim. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. xii, 435 pp. ISBN: 9780691166223 (cloth).

A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea. By Eugene Y. Park. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. xiv, 270 pp. ISBN: 9781503602083 (cloth).

Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan. By Daniel M. Smith. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. xviii, 359 pp. ISBN: 9781503605053 (cloth).

Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945. By Kerim Yasar. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xv, 277 pp. ISBN: 9780231187138 (paper).

A Place to Live: A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements. Translated by Inshil Choe Yoon. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019. xiv, 229 pp. ISBN: 9780824877606 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India. By Milinda Banerjee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xviii, 435 pp. ISBN: 9781107166561 (cloth).

Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947. By Durba Ghosh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv, 275 pp. ISBN: 9781316637388 (paper).

Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmaśāstra. Edited by Patrick Olivelle and Donald R. Davis Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xviii, 551 pp. ISBN: 9780198702603 (cloth).

The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India. By Iqbal Singh Sevea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xix, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781316633700 (paper).

Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India. By Nico Slate. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 372 pp. ISBN: 9780674983441 (cloth).

Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre. By Kim A. Wagner. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2019. xxvi, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780300200355 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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Volume 79 - Issue 1 - February 2020

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia