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Volume 81, Issue 1
February 1, 2022
Journal of Asian Studies Cover Image for Volume 81, Issue 1
ISSN 0021-9118
EISSN 1752-0401
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Editorial Foreword
Joseph S. Alter
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Articles

Technophany and Its Publics: Artisans, Technicians, and the Rise of Vishwakarma Worship in India
Kenneth M. George; Kirin Narayan
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The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script in the Global Information Age
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu
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Constructing the Legitimacy of Governance in Hong Kong: “Prosperity and Stability” Meets “Democracy and Freedom”
John D. Wong
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Between Centralizing Orthodoxy and Local Self-Governance: Taiwanese Sinophone Socialism in Hong Kong, 1947–49
Mark McConaghy
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In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea
I Jonathan Kief
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Forum: South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement

A Recycling of the Past or the Pathway to the New? Framing the South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement
Albert L. Park
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Protesting Precarity: South Korean Workers and the Labor of Refusal
Jennifer Jihye Chun
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Out of Place in Time: Queer Discontents and Sigisangjo
Ju Hui Judy Han
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The Politics of Time: The Sewŏl Ferry Disaster and the Disaster of Democracy
Hyun Ok Park
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Contesting Market Democracy: Possibilities and Contradictions of the Candlelight Protests
Michelle Williams
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

China's Governance and Leadership - Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China and China's Leaders: From Mao to Now
Yan C. Bennett
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Worse than Death: Reflections on the Uyghur Genocide
Dilnur Reyhan
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Queer Media in China
Jiangtao Harry Gu
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June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
Denise Y. Ho
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Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China
Frédéric Keck
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Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China, 960–1279
Ng Wee-Siang Margaret
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The History of Famine Relief in China
Pierre Fuller
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Structures of the Earth: Metageographies of Early Medieval China
Masha Kobzeva
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The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic
Madeleine Yue Dong
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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting
Roberta Wue
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The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public
Hongjian Wang
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Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s
Lei Ping
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The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China
Pamela Crossley
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The Global White Snake
Ping Zhu
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Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier
Ronald C. Po
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Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia
Orhon Myadar
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The Making of a New Rural Order in South China, Volume II, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700
Yulian Wu
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Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography
Peter Tsung Kei Wong
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Conflict in a Buddhist Society: Tibet under the Dalai Lamas
Brenton Sullivan
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The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe
Sam H. Bass
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Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911
Peter Braden
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Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644–1735
Ashleigh Ikemoto
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Governing the Dead: Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
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In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600
Eloise Wright
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Isolating the Enemy: Diplomatic Strategy in China and the United States, 1953–1956
Qiang Zhai
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Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China
Hanchao Lu
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Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China
Dhondup Tashi Rekjong
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Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Media Culture
Yi Gu
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Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
Matthew Lowenstein
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Evolving Bilateralisms: US Security Partnerships in Northeast Asia - The Evolution of the South Korea–United States Alliance and Japan in the American Century and Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence after the Cold War and Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power
Mesrob Vartavarian
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Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre
Jeremy A. Sather
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Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday
Wiebke Denecke
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The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea
Jeongsoo Shin
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Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea
Min Koo Choi
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Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea
Jee-Yeon Song
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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster
Jan Bardsley
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Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea
Mesrob Vartavarian
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Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945
Jooyeon Rhee
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Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
Kari Shepherdson-Scott
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The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age
Nate Shockey
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A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata
Aike P. Rots
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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place
Wonseok Lee
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Soju: A Global History
Tristan Revells
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Kim Jong-un's Strategy for Survival: A Method to Madness
Hazel Smith
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On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis
Ungsan Kim
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Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World
Robert Winstanley-Chesters
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Book Reviews—South Asia

China and the Vicissitudes of the US-India Relationship - When Nehru Looked East: Origins of India-US Suspicion and India-China Rivalry and Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations during the Cold War
Šumit Ganguly
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The Politics of Welfare and Governance in India - Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies and Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India and Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India and How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
Himanshu Jha
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The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Sara Hakeem Grewal
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War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930–1960
Chandrika Kaul
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Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
Eric Steinschneider
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Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia
Asiya Alam
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Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka
John D. Rogers
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Politics and Meaning of Universal Health Care in Thailand - Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism and Democratizing Health Care: Welfare State Building in Korea and Thailand and Eliciting Care: Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Erik Martinez Kuhonta
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Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia
Genie Yoo
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Island Encounters: Timor-Leste from the Outside In
David Hicks
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Power, Protection and Magic in Thailand: The Cosmos of a Southern Policeman
James Ockey
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Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos
Guido Sprenger
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Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
John Roosa
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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative

Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter
Mary Augusta Brazelton
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Erratum

In the Southern Half of Our Republic: Cross-Border Writing and Performance in 1960s North Korea – ERRATUM
I Jonathan Kief
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