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Yoshihiro Ishikawa. The Formation of the Chinese Communist Party. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xiv + 503 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-15808-4; ISBN 978-0-231-50416-4.
Reviewed by David Buck (University of Wisconsin=Milwaukee) Published on H-Asia (January, 2014) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Birth of Chinese Communism
Neeti Nair. Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011. 343 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05779-1.
Reviewed by Rohit Wanchoo (Delhi University) Published on H-Asia (November, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Panjab and Partition
Fan Chengda. Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea: The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China. Translated by James M. Hargett. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. lxvi + 349 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-99078-1; $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-99079-8.
Santhi Kavuri-Bauer. Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India’s Mughal Architecture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. x + 216 pp. $84.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8223-4899-3; $23.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4922-8.
Reviewed by Susan Johnson-Roehr (University of Virginia) Published on H-Asia (November, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Daniel Leese. Mao Cult: Rhetoric and Ritual in China's Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvii + 304 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-19367-2; $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-15222-8.
Reviewed by David Buck (University of Wisconsin=Milwaukee) Published on H-Asia (November, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Masooda Bano. The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. xii + 250 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5044-0.
Reviewed by Usha Sanyal (Queens University of Charlotte) Published on H-Asia (November, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Rational Choice and Madrasa Education
Derryl N. Maclean, Sikeena Karmali Ahmed, eds. Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 190 pp. $96.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7486-4456-8.
Reviewed by Usha Sanyal (Queens University of Charlotte) Published on H-Asia (November, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Cosmopolitanism in Islam
Padma Audrey Kaimal. Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2012. xxvii + 281 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-924304-67-5.
Reviewed by Jinah Kim (Harvard University) Published on H-Asia (October, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Collapsing the Binary
Tansen Sen, Victor H. Mair. Traditional China in Asian and World History. Key Issues in Asian Studies Series. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2012. Illustrations. 113 pp. $10.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-924304-65-1.
Reviewed by Anthony DeBlasi (University at Albany) Published on H-Asia (May, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
China in World History
Howard Spodek. Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 352 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35587-4.
Reviewed by Preeti Chopra (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Published on H-Asia (March, 2013) Commissioned by Sumit Guha
Elites, Labor, and Violence in the "Shock City" of Ahmedabad
Daniel Barish. Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xiii + 257 pp.
Stan BH. Minh Tan-Tangbau.
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 320 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4968-3633-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-3634-2. 
Pratyay Nath. Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2019. xli + 325 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-949555-9.
Reviewed by Divya Cherian (Princeton University) Published on H-Asia (October, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Formosa as a Safe Haven? Taiwan's asylum situation and what people think of it
Speaker: Kristina Kironska (Palacky University Olomouc)
SWCAS 52nd Annual Conference:
Voices and Visions: New Perspectives in Asian Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
52nd Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
November 3 – 4, 2023
University of Houston
The 52nd Annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies will be held November 3 – 4, 2023 on the campus of the University of Houston in the heart of Houston, TX.
The Race and Yoga editorial board is currently seeking articles, personal narratives, interviews, book reviews, and creative works for the seventh issue of the journal, a combined issue for 2022 and 2023. Race and Yoga is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and international academic journal committed to critical examinations of the history, politics, and practice of yoga.
Possible topics may include yoga in relationship to:
● Practices during the COVID-19 context, including but not limited to:
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