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Volume 75 - Issue 2 - May 2016

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Book Reviews—China

Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals. By Koichi Shinohara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780231166140 (cloth).

China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower. By Linda Yueh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xviii, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780199205783 (cloth).

Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance. By Lu Zhang. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781316500569 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Writing Travel in Central Asian History. Edited by Nile Green. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 220 pp. ISBN: 9780253011350 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972. By Eric C. Han. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. 266 pp. ISBN: 9780674491984 (cloth).

Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital. By Matthew Stavros. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xxv, 229 pp. ISBN: 978082483879 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970–1979. By Paul Y. Chang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. xvii, 291 pp. ISBN: 9780804791465 (cloth).

The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America. By Rebecca Y. Kim. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 256 pp. ISBN: 978019994212 (cloth).

South Korea's Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Study Abroad. Edited by Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, and Sumie Okazaki. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii, 340 pp. ISBN: 9780295994918 (paper).

Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World. By Hajimu Masuda. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. vi, 388 pp. ISBN: 9780674598478 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947–1972. By Kamran Asdar Ali. London: I.B. Tauris, 2015. xiv, 298 pp. ISBN: 9781784532000 (cloth).

The Emergence of British Power in India 1600–1784: A Grand Strategic Interpretation. By G. J. Bryant. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell Press, 2013. xx, 352 pp. ISBN: 9781843838548 (cloth).

The Triumph of the Snake Goddess. By Kaiser Haq. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. x, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780674365292 (cloth).

Disorienting Dharma: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahābhārata. By Emily T. Hudson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. viii, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780199860760 (cloth).

Religious Transactions in Colonial South India: Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity. By Hephzibah Israel. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. xv, 269 pp. ISBN: 9780230105621 (cloth).

The Invention of Private Life: Literature and Ideas. By Sudipta Kaviraj. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 370 pp. ISBN: 9780231174381 (cloth).

The Festival of Pirs: Popular Islam and Shared Devotion in South India. By Afsar Mohammad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 199 pp. ISBN: 9780199997589 (cloth).

Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War. By Judith Pettigrew. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xii, 188 pp. ISBN: 9780812244922 (cloth).

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