...George E. Dutton Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands . By Bradley Camp Davis . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2017 . xiii, 266 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Bradley Camp Davis's Imperial Bandits...

...Leo K. Shin The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China . By Michael Szonyi . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2017 . xv, 303 pp. ISBN: 9780691174518 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019...

... Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo . By Ian Jared Miller . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2013 . 352 pp. $65.00 (cloth). ...

...Philip Thai Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan . By Pär Kristoffer Cassel . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 . xi, 260 pp. $41.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Perhaps...

...Ng Wee-Siang Margaret Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China, 960–1279 . By Cheung Hiu Yu . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2021 . 232 pp. ISBN: 9789888528585 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Jooyeon Rhee Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945 . By Su Yun Kim . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . xi, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781501751882 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Studies of Koreans...

...Sarah Kovner Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War: The Collapse of an Empire . By Peter Wetzler . London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2020 . xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 9781350120815 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 More than seventy-five...

...Beata Grant Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China . By Yuhang Li . New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . 299 pp. ISBN: 9780231190121 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 It is a fact increasingly...

...Bota Ussen Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism . By Tatiana Linkhoeva . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2020 . x, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781501748080 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 In Revolution Goes East...

... of diverse conditions and populations, Japanese colonial rule varied in each location. Still, zooming out to a comparative pan-imperial perspective usefully brings into focus new histories that decenter the metropole by challenging prevailing paradigms about Japanese imperialism and the lived experiences...

... predisposed to conquer. 2 Biedermann argues for the need to capture a “richly textured” past by writing a revisionist history of the early modern period that counters tendencies to overemphasize the imperial ambitions of the Portuguese. This is done by embracing the principles of connected history...

... Cao Yin 曹寅 . 1985 . Lianting shumu 楝亭書目[Book catalogue of (Cao) Lianting]. Shenyang : Liao Shen shushe . Vedal Nathan . 2019 . “ From Tradition to Community: The Rise of Contemporary Knowledge in Late Imperial China. ” The Journal of Asian Studies : 1 – 25 . doi: 10.1017...

...Aniruddha Bose An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 . By Benjamin Kingsbury . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xvi, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780190876098 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal...

...George Woodcock Chronicles of the Raj: A Study of Literary Reaction to the Imperial Idea towards the End of the Raj . By Shamsul Islam . Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield , 1979 . xii , 130 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $21.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

... victims as heroes sacrificing for the nation mark departures from late-imperial responses to disaster, but foreshadow features of the devastating Mao-era Great Leap Famine of 1958–62. The Yellow River flood of 1938 provides an instructive mid-way point between late-Qing and Maoist responses...

...Warwick Anderson Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia . Edited by Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2013 . xi, 307 pp. $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014...

...David L. Rolston Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas: Drama and the Qing Imperial Court . By Ye Xiaoqing . Hong Kong : The Chinese University Press , 2012 . xv, 330 pp., 4 illus. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 This new book on drama...

...Christopher Atwood Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924: Buddhism, Socialism, and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building . By Ivan Sablin . London : Routledge , 2016 . xii, 220 pp. ISBN 9781138952201 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright...

...J. F. Richards Abstract In recent years, historians associated with the school of Indo-Muslim history at Aligarh Muslim University have developed a persuasive, now widely accepted, view of imperial decline. Satish Chandra and M. Athar Ali have argued that a primary cause of the collapse...

...James H. Cole The Fall of Imperial China . By Frederic Wakeman Jr. , New York : The Free Press , 1975 . 276 pp. $10.95 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 342 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES both at the leadership level and within the rankand-file. Its spiritual...