...W. J. Boot The East Asian War, 1592–1598: International Relations, Violence, and Memory . Edited by James B. Lewis . Asian States and Empires 9. London : Routledge , 2015 . 418 pp. ISBN: 9781138786639 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...

....” These three elements—memorial, text, and calligraphy—harmoniously yet dynamically coexist in a beautiful art piece, and a powerful symbol of public protest against the brutal imperial persecution, just like the three female friends. As such, the stele serves as a central image in Burying Autumn , reflecting...

...Lindsay C. French Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia . By Caswell Michelle . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2014 . xii, 231 pp. $29.95 (paper); $24.95 (ebook). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...Oleg Benesch Meiji Restoration Losers provides a window on the ways in which marginalized figures became objects of struggle for regional memory activists attempting to influence national discourses with their own view of history. Wert traces Oguri's legacy through a wide range of discoursal...

...Ignacio Villagran Public Memory in Early China . By K. E. Brashier . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2014 . xii, 511 pp. ISBN 9780674492035 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 In the past two decades or so, there has been...

...Saurav Dasthakur Abstract This essay attempts an exploration of the historical and historiographical implications of the interplay of individual, local, “national,” and global forms of memory in the music of Rabindranath Tagore. Produced at a time of crises in the Indian postcolonial subjectivity...

... performance practices in the private sphere as a means of sharing personal memory, narratives, and moral knowledge. This book examines the colonial and postcolonial history of devadasis —creative and often contentious figures who have worked as temple dancers, courtesans, entertainers, and key...

... in Verspreide Geschriften , IV, part 1, pp. 111–248. 9 Chailley-Bert J. , Java et ses habitants ( Paris , 1900 ), p. 196 . NOTES Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje In Memory of the Centennial of His Birth ROBERT VAN NIEL THIS year academic circles in the Netherlands are celebrating...

...Gregg A. Brazinsky The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War . By Daniel Y. Kim . New York : New York University Press , 2020 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9781479805365 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Traditionally, the vast...

...Evan N. Dawley The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan . By Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . xvi, 311 pp. ISBN: 9781108478120 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021...

...Benno Weiner Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution . By Tsering Woeser . Lincoln, Neb. : Potomac Books , 2020 . xxxviii, 408 pp. ISBN: 9781612349695 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 As a poet, essayist, blogger...

...R. Barry Lewis Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300–1600 . By Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xxvi, 395 pp. ISBN: 9780198092216 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright ©...

... by reconstructing her spiritual genealogy. In a tale worthy of legend, the appearance of two skulls and an old woman on the family hearth revives memories of her great-grandmother and grandfather who died unmourned during Stalinist times. Thus begins her journey of atonement. Her story exemplifies the poorly...

...James W. Laine Guha is sensitive to the ways that the collective memories of Indians, marshaled to protect the pride, status, and interest of particular groups, is contested by those who would claim the role of disinterested, fact-based history. He draws on Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept...

...; and more recently, Ts'ung-wu Yao , Tungpei shih lun-tśung ( Taipei , 1962 ), I , 54 – 61 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 The Neo-Traditional Period (ca. 800-1900) in Chinese History A Note in Memory of the Late Professor Lei Hai-tsung* MOST...

...Victoria Reyes Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory . By Long T. Bui . New York : New York University Press , 2018 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9781479817061 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 The ghosts of the Vietnam War and its...

...Heidi Tinsman Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation and Memory . By Ana Paulina Lee . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2018 . xi, 229 pp. ISBN: 9781503606012 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 When considering Asians in Latin...

... and are made manifest in them. In Kolkata, Shikarpoor, and Banaras we see the ways in which history, power, and privilege have shaped urban space in South Asia and beyond. Perhaps even more importantly, books like these allow us to interrogate our collective memories and mythologies of such places...

...Tawni Tidwell Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform . By Theresia Hofer . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . xv, 286 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 In Medicine and Memory in Tibet , Theresia Hofer...

...Ji-Yeon O. Jo Nevertheless, Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea makes an important contribution to the fields of Korean studies and Cold War studies at large by investigating a topic that has been much publicized but lacked critical examination. With the resumption of reunions...