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Volume 80, Issue 4
November 1, 2021
Journal of Asian Studies Cover Image for Volume 80, Issue 4
ISSN 0021-9118
EISSN 1752-0401
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Editorial Foreword
Joseph S. Alter
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Presidential Address

Global Asias: Improvisations on a Theme (a.k.a. Chindon-ya Riffs)
Christine R. Yano
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Articles

Dying against Democracy: Suicide Protest and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott
Keren He
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An Old Right in New Bottles: State without Nation in South Korean New Right Historiography
Sungik Yang
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Corvée Capitalism: The Dutch East India Company, Colonial Expansion, and Labor Regimes in Early Modern Asia
Matthias van Rossum; Merve Tosun
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Echolocating the Social: Silence, Voice, and Affect in China's Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns, 1956–58
Dayton Lekner
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Governing Nonconformity: Gender Presentation, Public Space, and the City in New Order Indonesia
Benjamin Hegarty
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Defining Manhood: Monastic Masculinity and Effeminacy in Contemporary Thai Buddhism
Michael R. Chladek
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Forum: Global Asias

Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis
Tina Chen
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Bridging Work and Global Asias: Stars and Sandbars
Andrew Way Leong
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The Challenge of Studying the Pacific as a “Global Asia”: Problematizing Deep-Rooted Institutional Hindrances for Bridging Asian Studies and Asian American Studies
Eiichiro Azuma
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Afterword: Transnational Asian Studies—Toward More Inclusive Theory and Practice
Sonia Ryang
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Corrigendum

Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India. By Sonja Thomas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9780295743844 (paper). – CORRIGENDUM
Chad M. Bauman
View articletitled, <em>Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India</em>. By Sonja Thomas. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9780295743844 (paper). – CORRIGENDUM
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Errata

Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army. By CHANDAR S. SUNDARAM. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781498579513 (cloth). – ERRATUM
Pradeep Barua
View articletitled, <em>Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army</em>. By CHANDAR S. SUNDARAM. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN: 9781498579513 (cloth). – ERRATUM
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American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan. By ELISHEVA A. PERELMAN. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 pp. ISBN: 9789888528141 (cloth). – ERRATUM
Garrett L. Washington
View articletitled, <em>American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan</em>. By ELISHEVA A. PERELMAN. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. 252 pp. ISBN: 9789888528141 (cloth). – ERRATUM
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Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers. By JENNY CHAN, MARK SELDEN, and PUN NGAI. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. 300 pp. ISBN: 9781642591248 (paper). – ERRATUM
Ralph Litzinger
View articletitled, <em>Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China's Workers</em>. By JENNY CHAN, MARK SELDEN, and PUN NGAI. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. 300 pp. ISBN: 9781642591248 (paper). – ERRATUM
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Difficult Choices: Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life
Margaret K. Lewis
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Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937
Philip Thai
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Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century
Dan Smyer Yü
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Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China
Sebastian Veg
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Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China
Parks M. Coble
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Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility
Yu Zhang
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Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping
Qingfei Yin
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Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires
Paul R. Goldin
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era
Haiyan Lee
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Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China
Yunxin Li
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Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
Emily T. Yeh
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Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa
Max Oidtmann
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Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China
Kay Duffy
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Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang
Sean R. Roberts
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The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web
Jie Zhang
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Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama
Ariel Fox
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A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976
Robert Cliver
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Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965
Liang Luo
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought
Koichi Haga
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Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan
Michele M. Mason
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Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crisis of Democracy
Robin Le Blanc
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Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
Nick Kapur
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The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown
Stephen Cho Suh
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Book Reviews—South Asia

Contrasting and Yet Sharing: A History of Two Western Medicine Traditions in British India - Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy and Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909
Sree Padma
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Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance
Rabia Akhtar
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Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein
Harris Solomon
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The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender
Mehreen Jamal
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Belonging across the Bay of Bengal: Religious Rites, Colonial Migrations, National Rights
Subah Dayal
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Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
Lucinda Ramberg
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Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
Claire Pamment
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Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema
Aparna Kumar
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A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Harini Kumar
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Unani Medicine in the Making: Practices and Representations in 21st-Century India
Andrew Amstutz
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Circulating Soldiers: Asian Military Labor across the American Pacific - Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century and Soldering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific and Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization
Mesrob Vartavarian
View articletitled, Circulating Soldiers: Asian Military Labor across the American Pacific - <em>Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century</em> and <em>Soldering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific</em> and <em>Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization</em>
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Hàm Nghi: Empereur en exil, artiste à Alger
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox
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Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom
William Noseworthy
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Les migrations impériales au Vietnam: Travail et colonisations dans l'Asia-Pacifique français, XIXe–XXe siècles
Charles Keith
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In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates
Yen N. Vu
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Un moi sans masque. L'Autobiographie au Vietnam, 1887–1945
Duy Lap Nguyen
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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

China, Southeast Asia, and the Long Roads to Connectivity - Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia and The Belt Road and Beyond: State Mobilized Globalization in China, 1998–2018
Alice D. Ba
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Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions
Anna Belogurova
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Hammer and Anvil: Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World
Soojung Han
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Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies and Maps in 19th-Century Asia
Robert Batchelor
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The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
Robert Hellyer
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Remembering Asia's World War Two
Robert Kramm
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China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II
John Tseh-han Chen
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Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Rebecca E. Karl
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The Politics of Religion, Nationalism, and Identity in Asia
Yuka Hiruma Kishida
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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison
Jeremy Menchik
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Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange
Judith A. Bennett
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On the Frontiers of History: Rethinking East Asia Borders
Stella Xu
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Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
Keita C. Moore
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Asian Self-Representation at World's Fairs
Robert W. Rydell
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Governing the Urban in India and China: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Pollution
Liza Weinstein
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China and the World
See-Won Byun
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Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
Joy Sales
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Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China
Tuen Yi Chiu
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