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)
Usha Sanyal. Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020. 409 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-012080-1.
Reviewed by Gail Minault (University of Texas at Austin) Published on H-Asia (September, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Christina Elizabeth Firpo. Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. xiii + 259 pp. $27.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5017-5266-7; $42.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5265-0.
Reviewed by Johanna Ransmeier (The University of Chicago) Published on H-Asia (August, 2022) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Michael Falser. Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage. Volume 1, Angkor in France: From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions. Volume 2, Angkor in Cambodia: From Jungle Find to Global Icon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. Illustrations, maps. xix + 1150 pp. $198.99 (pdf), ISBN 978-3-11-033584-2; $198.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-033572-9.
Reviewed by Paul A. Lavy (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Published on H-Asia (August, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg, John E. Cort, Leslie C. Orr, eds.
Cooperation, Contribution and Contestation: The Jain Community, Colonialism and Jainological Scholarship, 1800-1950.
Studies in Asian Art and Culture Series. Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2020. Illustrations. 615 pp.
EUR 69.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-86893-316-1.
Geoffrey C. Gunn. Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 300 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-83325-7.
Reviewed by Sophie Quinn-Judge (Temple University) Published on H-Asia (May, 2022) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57486
Scott C. Levi. The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia. Central Eurasia in Context Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Illustrations, maps. xiv + 208 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-4597-0.
Reviewed by Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Asia (April, 2022) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Ian Matthew Miller. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 296 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74734-7.
Reviewed by Kathlene Baldanza (Pennsylvania State University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2022) Commissioned by Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Poulomi Saha. An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal. Gender and Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Illustrations. 344 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19208-8.
Reviewed by Samita Sen (Cambridge University) Published on H-Asia (April, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Nicholas S. Brasovan.
Buddhisms in Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. 210 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-7585-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4384-7584-4.
Andrew Flachs. Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India. Global Change/Global Health Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Illustrations. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-3963-5; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-4025-9.
Reviewed by Ronald J. Herring (Cornell University) Published on H-Asia (January, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Megan Eaton Robb. Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 264 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-008937-5.
Reviewed by Asiya Alam (Louisiana State University) Published on H-Asia (December, 2021) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Wasana Wongsurawat. The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation. Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. 216 pp.
