Ian S. Markham, Christy Lohr Sapp, eds. A World Religions Reader. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2020. 408 pp. $44.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-119-35709-4.
Reviewed by Claire Maes (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (January, 2021) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
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Michael J. Walsh. Stating the Sacred: Religion, China, and the Formation of the Nation-State. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19357-3.
Reviewed by Peter Zarrow (University of Connecticut) Published on H-Asia (December, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
D. Christian Lammerts.
Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250-1850.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2018. 304 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8248-7260-1. 
Reviewed by Jacques Leider (École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)) Published on H-Asia (December, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Anand Vivek Taneja.
Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi.
South Asia in Motion Series. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. 336 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0393-6; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0179-6.
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia.
Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. xviii + 317 pp.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0908-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-1061-3.
Jana K. Lipman. In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates. Critical Refugee Studies Series. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Illustrations. 319 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-34366-5.
Reviewed by Phi-Vân Nguyen (Université de Saint-Boniface) Published on H-Asia (November, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
John Man.
Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China.
New York: Pegasus Books, 2020. 336 pp.
$27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-64313-327-0.
Reviewed by Anatoly Khazanov (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Published on H-Asia (October, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Wayne Patterson.
In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876-1888.
Korea Research Monographs Series. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2012. xii + 193 pp.
$20.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55729-100-4.
Karolina Hutková.
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850.
Rochester: Boydell Press, 2019. xii + 257 pp.
$120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-394-2.
Reviewed by Monish Borah (University of California- Irvine) Published on H-Asia (September, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Supriya Gandhi.
The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India.
Cambridge: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020. 352 pp.
$29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98729-6.
Reviewed by Ghulam Nadri (Georgia State University) Published on H-Asia (September, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Bradley Camp Davis.
Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. 288 pp.
$30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74205-2.
Reviewed by Joshua Herr (UCLA) Published on H-Asia (September, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Kathleen Low.
Asian Fruits and Berries: Growing Them, Eating Them, Appreciating Their Lore.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2019. 234 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-7595-4.
Reviewed by Gene Anderson (University of California - Riverside) Published on H-Asia (August, 2020) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, ed.
Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia: Pioneer of British Colonial Rule.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 424 pp.
$60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-091440-0.
Reviewed by Amar Farooqui (University of Delhi) Published on H-Asia (August, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
San San May, Jana Igunma.
Buddhism Illuminated: Manuscript Art from South-East Asia.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. Illustrations. 256 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74378-3.
Reviewed by Jinah Kim (Harvard University) Published on H-Asia (August, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard. Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 347 pp. $31.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-62724-2.
Reviewed by Mahesh Shankar (Skidmore College) Published on H-Asia (July, 2020) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
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