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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 691–696.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Pablo S. Bose Banaras Reconstructed: Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City . By Madhuri Desai . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017 . x, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780295741994 (paper). Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh: A Fading Legacy of Shikarpoor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 925–929.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Michael P. Cronin A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) . By Gala Maria Follaco . Leiden : Brill , 2017 . xi, 251 pp. ISBN: 9789004345379 (cloth). Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self . By Rachael Hutchinson...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 February 1998
...David Johnson The Sanctuaries in a North-China City. A Complete Survey of the Cultic Buildings in the City of Hsüan-hua (Chahar) . By Willem A. Grootaers Li Shih-Yü and Wang Fu-shih Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques, vol. 26. Bruxelles : Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises , 1995...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 278–280.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Abigail McGowan Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India . By Howard Spodek . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2011 . xiii, 330 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Ahmedabad: From Royal City to Megacity . By Achyut Yagnik and Suchitra Sheth . New Delhi : Penguin Books , 2011...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 234–235.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Toby Lincoln From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat . By Andrew B. Kipnis . Oakland : University of California Press , 2016 . xxii, 263 pp. ISBN: 9780520289710 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 27 (1): 158–159.
Published: 01 November 1967
...Marcus F. Franda Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 The City Government of Calcutta: A Study of Inertia . By Ali Ashraf . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1967 . Published for the Institute of Public Administration, New York, xi, 126 pp. Map, Table...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 888–889.
Published: 01 November 2019
... two chapters, Dawley deviates substantially in methodology and tone. Both chapters are structured temporally (1945–55), not thematically, employing a more narrative form rather than the social-science display of evidence. Dawley embeds the port city into the rapidly changing events of the early...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 907–909.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jeremy E. Taylor Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City . By Isabella Jackson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781108419680 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Isabella Jackson has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 948–951.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Ann Sherif Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945 . By Aaron William Moore . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . x, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781108428255 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Lei Ping In conclusion, readers interested in cognitive mapping of the Chinese city-as-spectacle will be rewarded by reading this contemporary volume, which offers a timely intervention in the critique of the present radical urbanization in Greater China. Dwelling on Cao Fei's futuristic art...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 560–563.
Published: 01 May 2016
...David Biggs Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina . By Eric Jennings . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 374 pp. ISBN: 9780520272699 (paper). Indians in Singapore, 1819–1945: Diaspora in the Colonial City . By Rashesh Rai . New...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1967) 26 (4): 716.
Published: 01 August 1967
...David Kornhauser 716 The Japanese City: A Sociological Analysis. BY YAZAKI TAKEO. Rutland, Vermont: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1964. 105 pp. Photographs, Illustrations, Bibliographical References. $4.50. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb. BY M. ATHAR ALL New...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (4): 503–506.
Published: 01 August 1959
...Thomas C. Smith City Life in Japan. A Study of a Tokyo Ward . By R. P. Dore . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1958 . 472 . Illustrations, Tables, Appendices, Notes, Index. $6.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS 503 prevent his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (2): 403–404.
Published: 01 February 1972
...Audery Donnithorne The City in Communist China . Edited by John Wilson Lewis . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1971 . 370 pp. Notes, Index. $12.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 403 The City in Communist China. EDITED...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1178–1180.
Published: 01 November 2012
...William Elison Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2010 . xi , 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Through the twentieth century, Bombay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1186–1189.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Mark Sidel Vietnam: Rethinking the State . By Martin Gainsborough . London : Zed Books , 2010 . xiv , 224 pp. $34.95 (paper). Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City . By Erik Harms . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2011 . xiv , 294 pp. $75.00 (cloth...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 502–506.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Claire C. Robison 2 See, for instance, Jürgen Schaflechner , Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 ) . 1 Both cities have undergone legal name changes over the past twenty years, from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 483–485.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Ikuho Amano The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction . By William O. Gardner . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2020 . viii, 223 pp. ISBN: 9781517906245 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Adam Liebman Beijing Garbage: A City Besieged by Waste . By Stefan Landsberger . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2019 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9789463720304 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Beijing Garbage provides a “snapshot...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray . By Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2019 . xiv, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781501737640 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...