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Eurasian influences
Reviewer: David Bade
Reviewed publication:
Rossabi, M. (ed.) 2013. Eurasian Influences on Yuan China, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series, ISBN 9789814459723
http://tinyurl.com/EA-influences
 
Rana rule
Reviewer: Bala Raju Nikku
Reviewed publication:
Amatya, S. 2004. Rana Rule in Nepal, Delhi: Nirala, ISBN 8185693676
http://tinyurl.com/ranarule
 
Entertainment and political tool
Reviewer: Ekaterina Zavidovskaya
Reviewed publication:
Ye Xiaoqing. 2012. Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas: Drama and the Qing Imperial Court, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, ISBN: 9789629964573
http://tinyurl.com/qingcourt
 
Filthy rich
Reviewer: Andy Fuller
Reviewed publication:
Hamid, M. 2014. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel, Penguin – Riverhead Trade, ISBN 9781594632334
http://tinyurl.com/richfilthy
 
Between west and east
Reviewer: Gagan Preet Singh
Reviewed publication:
Berggruen, N & N. Gardels. 2013. Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: a middle way between West and East, Cambridge: Polity, ISBN 9780745659732
http://tinyurl.com/betweenw-e
 
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Reviewer: Zornitza Grekova-Stefanova
Reviewed publication:
Fredholm, M. (ed.) 2013. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Eurasian Politics: New Directions, Perspectives, and Challenges, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, ISBN 9788776941079
http://tinyurl.com/shang-org
 
From porcelain to vase
Reviewer: Hang Lin
Reviewed publication:
Pierson, S. 2013. From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN 9789888139835
http://tinyurl.com/porcelain-ming
 
Birth and death
Reviewer: Hongyan Xiang
Reviewed publication:
King, M.T. 2014. Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China,
Stanford: Stanford University press, ISBN 9780804785983
http://tinyurl.com/betweenb-d
 
Diary in the true sense of the word
Reviewer: Niels Mulder
Reviewed publication:
Manickam, M.L. 2013. Just Enough. A Journey into Thailand's Troubled South, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, ISBN 9786162150548
http://tinyurl.com/truesense
 
Current Indonesian political scene
Reviewer: Niels Mulder
Reviewed publication:
Mietzner, M. 2013. Money, Power, and Ideology: Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia, Singapore: NUS Press and Copenhagen: NIAS Press, ISBN 9788776941345
http://tinyurl.com/currentscene
 
Higher Education
Reviewer: Bala Raju Nikku
Reviewed publication:
Tham Siew Yean (ed.) 2013. Internationalizing Higher Education in Malaysia: Understanding, Practices and Challenges, Singapore: Publisher: Institute of South East Asian Studies, ISBN 9789814380966
http://tinyurl.com/balanikku
 
Postrevolutionary China
Reviewer: Christopher Robichaud
Reviewed publication:
Dirlik, A. 2011. Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity, Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, ISBN 9789629964740
http://tinyurl.com/culturehistory
 
Festivals
Reviewer: Caleb Simmons
Reviewed publication:
Hüsken, U. & A. Michaels (eds.) 2013. South Asian Festivals on the Move, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN 9783447069090
http://tinyurl.com/SAfestivals
 
Feminist History
Reviewer: Sushumna Kannan
Reviewed publication:
Roy, K. (ed.)  2011. Insights and Interventions: Essays in Honour of Uma Chakravarti, New Delhi: Primus Books, ISBN 9789380607221
http://tinyurl.com/feministhistory
 
Cooperation and conflict
Reviewer: Patrick van den Berghe
Reviewed publication:
Claver, A. 2014. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java: Colonial relationships in Trade and Finance, 1800-1942, Brill: Leiden/Boston, ISBN 9789004256576
http://tinyurl.com/cooperationandconflict
 
 
Also published in The Newsletter #70 (www.iias.nl/publications)
 
Translating twelfth century China
Reviewer: Hang Lin
Reviewed publication:
Fan Chengda (translated by James M. Hargett) 2010. Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea: The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China, Seattle: University of Washington Press, lxvi + 349 pp., ISBN: 9780295990798 (pb)
 
Reading the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Reviewer: Emilian Kavalski
Reviewed publication:
Fredholm, M. (ed.) 2013. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Eurasian Geopolitics: New Directions, Perspectives, and Challenges, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 324 pp., ISBN: 9788776941079 (pb)
 
Hindu kingdoms, to the Mughals
Reviewer: Rachel Parikh
Reviewed Publication:
Sharma, S. 2011. Literature, Culture and History in Mughal North India 1550-1800, Delhi: Primus Books, 241 pp., ISBN: 9788190891813
 
Living in the urban periphery of Hà Nội
Reviewer: Hans Schenk
Reviewed publication:
Labbé, D. 2014. Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010, Vancouver: UBC Press, ISBN: 9780774826679
 
Modernity experienced at an everyday level
Reviewer: Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits
Reviewed publication:
Wickramasinghe, N.  2014. Metallic Modern. Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka, Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, ISBN: 9781782382423
 
A photographic journey into modern Indian kingship
Reviewer: Souvik Naha
Reviewed publication:
Kumar, P. 2012. Posing for Posterity: Royal Indian Portraits, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 256 pp., ISBN 9781780762494 (hb).