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Volume 80 - November 2021

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang. By David Tobin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. x, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781108488402 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture. By Ulka Anjaria. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. 264 pp. ISBN: 9781439916650 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. By Allison Alexy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780226699653 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema. By Christina Klein. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780520296503 (paper).

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy. By Gabriella Lukács. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. xi, 248 pp. ISBN: 9781478006480 (paper).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. By Jing Wang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780674980921 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. viii, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781789202670 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India. By Supriya Gandhi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674987296 (cloth).

An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh. By Angma Dey Jhala. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. lxxii, 254. ISBN: 9780199493081 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. By Guojun Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780231191906 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913. By Ann Marie L. Davis. London: Lexington Books, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9781498542142 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art. By Susan Napier. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018. xviii, 303 pp. ISBN: 9780300226850 (cloth).

The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing. By Si Nae Park. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. x, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780231195423 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos. Edited by Prashant Kidambi, Manjiri Kamat, and Rachel Dwyer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xxiv, 428pp. ISBN: 9780190061708 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976. By Felix Wemheuer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 331 pp. ISBN: 9781107123700 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction. By William O. Gardner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. viii, 223 pp. ISBN: 9781517906245 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965. By Yu Zhang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 306 pp. ISBN: 9780472054335 (paper).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Queer Korea. Edited by Todd A. Henry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. xi, 388 pp. ISBN: 9781478002901 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession. By Christi A. Merrill. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. xiv, 380 pp. ISBN: 9780823229550 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire. By Peter Wetzler. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781350120815 (cloth).

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