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Weibo feminism: expression, activism, and social media in China
by Aviva Wei Xue & Kate Rose, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 213 pp., US$130.00 (hardback), US$44.49 (paperback)
Yijia Du
Published online: 05 Jun 2024
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The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness’
Ahmad Mohammadpour
Published online: 27 May 2024
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The Intimate Other: Screening North Korean Defectors in Multicultural South Korea
Jeeyoung Shin
Published online: 27 May 2024
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Multilingual education in South Asia: at the intersection of policy and practice
edited by Lina Adinolfi, Usree Bhattacharya, & Prem Phyak, Routledge, 2022, 190 pp., £130.00 (hardback)
Emiko Sunaga
Published online: 20 May 2024
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Queering Chinese kinship: queer public culture in globalizing China
by Lin Song, Hong Kong University Press, 2021, 172 pp., HK$495.00 (hardback)
Xin Lu & Tingting Liu
Published online: 16 May 2024
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Kartini, Online Media, and the Politics of the Jokowi Era: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Jane Ahlstrand & Vegneskumar Maniam
Published online: 16 May 2024
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The cornucopian stage: performing commerce in early modern China
by Ariel Fox, Harvard University Asia Center, 2023, 278 pp., 8 colour plates, 2 maps, US$64.95 (hardback)
Catherine Swatek
Published online: 22 Apr 2024
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The art song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950
edited by Alison McQueen Tokita & Joys H. Y. Cheung, Routledge, 2023, 326 pp., 32 b/w illustrations, A$227.20 (hardback), A$59.19 (eBook)
Anne Rodier
Published online: 21 Apr 2024
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Johann Schreck Terrentius, SJ: his European network and the origins of the Jesuit Library in Peking,
by Noël Golvers, Brepols, 2020, 648 pp., €95.00 (hardback)
Daniel Canaris
Published online: 21 Apr 2024
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A young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: the diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856
by Benjamin Penny, Australian National University Press, 2023, 222 pp., US$19.21 (paperback)
Michelle Jia Ye
Published online: 21 Apr 2024
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Rethinking education in the context of post-pandemic South Asia: challenges and possibilities
by Uma Pradhan, Karen Valentin, & Mohini Gupta, Routledge, 2023, 242 pp., £117.00 (hardback), £35.09 (eBook)
Ainun Fikria
Published online: 15 Apr 2024
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Ethnocentrism of Victimhood: Tracing the Discourses of Khmer Ethnicity in Precolonial and Colonial Cambodia
Theara Thun & Duong Keo
Published online: 03 Apr 2024
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Snake sisters and ghost daughters: feminist adaptations of traditional tales in Chinese fantasy
by Cathy Yue Wang, Wayne State University Press, 2023, 248 pp., US$34.99 (paperback)
Vivien Nara
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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One China, many Taiwans: the geopolitics of cross-Strait tourism
by Ian Rowan, Cornell University Press, 2023, xviii, 177 pp., US$27.95 (paperback)
DJ W. Hatfield
Published online: 01 Apr 2024
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Between Collective Will and Individual Standards: Levels of Discourse within the Japanese Military’s Kōgun Ideal, 1937–1945
Yi Sui & Chao Guo
Published online: 27 Mar 2024
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No Royal Road: Urban Transportation, Capitalist Development, and Monarchy in Thailand
Puangchon Unchanam
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Muslim Migration to East Pakistan, 1947–1964: Rehabilitation, Politics, and Language
Nisharuddin Khan
Published online: 17 Mar 2024
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Swimming with the Whales: Inflection Points in Mongolia’s ‘Third Neighbour’ Foreign Policy
Jaehyuk Jang & Kisun Kim
Published online: 17 Mar 2024
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The Rubber Stock Boom in Shanghai and the Kadoorie Enterprises, 1910–1949
Stephanie Po-yin Chung
Published online: 07 Mar 2024
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State and family in China: filial piety and its modern reform
by Yue Du, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 253 pp., US$29.99 (paperback)
Chao Xie
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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Federalism in Myanmar
by Pau Sian Lian, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023, 157 pp., US$95.00 (hardback)
Michael G. Breen
Published online: 22 Feb 2024
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The art of fate calculation: Practicing divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
by Stéphanie Homola, Berghahn, 2023, 374 pp., US$145.00 (hardback), US$39.95 (eBook)
Ole Bruun
Published online: 19 Feb 2024
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Legitimation Game: The Anti-Japanese Textbook Issue in Sino–Japanese Relations, 1914–1937
Hai Guo
Published online: 14 Feb 2024
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The Global Imperative: Chinese Cross-Border E-Commerce and its Political-Economic Implications in a Deglobalising World
Linliang Qian
Published online: 08 Feb 2024
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The dean of Shandong: confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university
by Daniel A. Bell, Princeton University Press, 2023, 208 pp., US$27.95 (hardback)
Yu Tao
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Buying the Tokyo Dream! Working Women’s Metropolitan Romance in Japanese Television Drama
Mina Qiao
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Emerging from the horizon of history: modern Chinese women’s literature, 1917–1949
by Yue Meng & Jinhua Dai, trans. Qi Sun, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, x, 345 pp., US$92.95 (hardback), US$103.41 (eBook)
Yiwen Li
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Middleman Minority Nation: A New Conceptualisation of the State in Singapore
Jacob Hjortsberg
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Rising China and new Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia
edited by Leo Suryadinata & Benjamin Loh, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022, xii, 355 pp., S$912.35 (print book), S$754.88 (eBook-DRM)
Tonny Dian Effendi
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Xi Jinping’s anticorruption campaign: the politics of revenge
by Steven P. Feldman, Routledge, 2023, 196 pp., US$128.00 (hardback), US$42.36 (eBook)
Leslie Holmes
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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The Politics of STEMM Collaboration between Australia and China: National Security, Geopolitics, and Academic Freedom
Diarmuid Cooney-O’Donoghue
Published online: 04 Feb 2024
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‘The Rat Sh*t Chilli’: Historical Memories and Chinese Power in Upland Far-North Laos
Paul-David Lutz
Published online: 31 Jan 2024
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Cross-Border Religiosity and the Revival of Theravada Buddhism in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
Zhen Ma
Published online: 29 Jan 2024
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Objectification, Bodily Revenge, and National Identity: Refashioning ‘Comfort Women’ in Chinese Cinema
Pingfan Zhang
Published online: 11 Dec 2023
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Migration, Vulnerability, and Protection: Changing Labour Law Regime in Contemporary India
Kunal Munjal & Ishaan Bamba
Published online: 10 Dec 2023
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Humour in Asian cultures: tradition and context, edited by Jessica Milner Davis, Routledge, 2022, 336 pp., £145.00 (hardback), £35.09 (eBook)
Yung-Hang Bruce Lai
Published online: 04 Dec 2023
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Xi Jinping’s China: the personal and the political, by Stig Stenslie & Marte Kjær Galtung, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023, 179 pp., US$95.00 (hardback)
Junchen Zhang
Published online: 30 Nov 2023
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Gendering and Sexualising Opium Consumption in Manchukuo, 1932–1945
Ming Gao
Published online: 27 Nov 2023
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Ten Years as Boundary Object: The Search for Identity and Belonging as ‘Hongkongers’
John Lowe, Darlene Machell de Leon Espena & George Wong
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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A tiger rules the mountain: Cambodia’s pursuit of democracy
by Gordon Conochie, 384 pp., Monash University Publishing, 384 pp., 2023, US$36.99 (paperback)
Soksamphoas Im
Published online: 08 Nov 2023
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Baptizing Burma: religious change in the last Buddhist kingdom, by Alexandra Kaloyanides, Columbia University Press, 2023, 312 pp., US$35.00 (paperback)
Hitomi Fujimura
Published online: 08 Nov 2023
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Resistance to Climate Change in China’s English-Language News Media
Yating Yu, Mark Nartey & Jieyu Chen
Published online: 30 Oct 2023
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Japanese Business Leadership: Business for Peace in Practice
Mari Katayanagi & Frens Kroeger
Published online: 30 Oct 2023
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The Process of Marketisation and Economic Realities in the DPRK
Phillip H. Park
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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Caravan Modernity: The Strategic Revitalisation of China’s Dynastic Transportation System during the Second Sino–Japanese War
Gary Sigley & Zhuolin An
Published online: 01 Oct 2023
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Systemic silencing: activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia
by Katharine E. McGregor, University of Wisconsin Press, 2023, 340 pp., US$79.95 (hardback)
Vannessa Hearman
Published online: 18 Sep 2023
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Business Leaders and Nationalism in Japan’s Oil Diplomacy in the Middle East
Sinan Levent
Published online: 18 Sep 2023
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Sensing China: modern transformations of sensory culture
edited by Shengqing Wu & Xuelei Huang, Routledge, 2023, x, 297 pp., US$136.00 (hardback), AU$65.69 (eBook)
Ya Zuo
Published online: 18 Sep 2023
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Taking China to the world: the cultural production of modernity
by Theodore Huters, Cambria Press, 2022, ix, 231 pp., US$114.99 (hardback)
Craig A. Smith
Published online: 10 Sep 2023
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Deities and divas: queer ritual specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and beyond
edited by Peter A. Jackson & Benjamin Baumann, NIAS Press, 2022, 313 pp., US$29.00 (paperback)
Poonnatree Jiaviriyaboonya
Published online: 10 Sep 2023
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