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...James Hevia Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State . By Alfred W. McCoy . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2009 . 695 pp. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015...

...Junaid Rana Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America . By Seema Sohi . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi, 271 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Recently there has...

... intrusive but now virtually nonexistent in Greece, was instantiated by absent voices and official surveillance at the Thai studies conference at which this article was originally presented. A defensive posture, such censorship exposes an underlying sense of political weakness and cultural embarrassment...

... of Western media to the efficient deployment of both information and communication technologies and Confucian collectivism, two components that seem contradictory yet not incompatible under the rubric of techno-Orientalism. Analyzing the intensification of surveillance and the rapid datafication of society...

... into and surveillance of religious communities. At the same time, tensions between state initiatives and religious communities have come to the forefront of public attention. So far, scholarly attention has mostly focused on the repression of religious communities, especially Christians. The goal of this article...

... of expression and travel, including those not interned in camps but who nevertheless are all subjected to intense surveillance. A note on the two epigraph quotes from the Uyghur quisling Shohrat Zakir (the top ethnic Uyghur official in the region at the time), right at the beginning of Gulbahar's book (11...

... . “ Data-Intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China .” Review of Economic Studies , rdac056 (August 13). https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac056 . Bischoff , Paul . 2021 . “ Surveillance Camera Statistics: Which City Has the Most CCTV Cameras? ” Comparitech , May 17...

..., and the passage of a law outlawing pornography. Davies's chapter, “Surveilling Sexuality,” focuses on emerging forms of sexual surveillance. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Susie Scott, she identifies discourses of shame as one of the powerful regulating regimes that direct appropriate sexual...

... visibility of polygyny, and the passage of a law outlawing pornography. Davies's chapter, “Surveilling Sexuality,” focuses on emerging forms of sexual surveillance. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Susie Scott, she identifies discourses of shame as one of the powerful regulating regimes...

.... Chapter 4 of the book, “Democratizing Surveillance,” is especially good at describing how paranoia and distrust produce a range of citizen surveillance practices that mirror those of the state. The book reaches its conspiratorial climax in chapter 8, “Agents and Brothers,” when the author reveals...

...) the fundamental connection between media studies and the natural world. Furuhata's primary concern is to trace a transpacific genealogy of what she calls “climatic media,” a term that refers to everything from works of art to architecture, all the way to tear gas and closed-circuit surveillance systems. All...

... that connected the Dutch colony with the rest of the world. In part two, Alexanderson turns to the many ways that anticolonial movements and the surveillance networks that sought to stop them were linked to the maritime world through the mobilities of individuals, propaganda, and even weapons. These chapters...

... of seventy-six POWs who opted for the “third choice” of settling in a “neutral country” (chapter 6); and her examination of American POWs who both recounted their experiences to the US Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) upon their release and were subjected to its surveillance long after the conclusion...

... inspection” (p. 27). Status laws dating back to the Toyotomi administration and elaborated by Tokugawa practice were certainly more critical to “social engineering” than the religious surveillance begun almost a century later. As Hur makes clear, moreover, the funerary business abetted by inspection became...

... frontiers of unfreedom in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Drawing on his fieldwork and a wide range of secondary sources, Byler links the Xinjiang crisis to developments reaching far beyond China: the rise of surveillance capitalism, extractive colonial and neocolonial regimes, transnational...

..., record keeping, and technologies of surveillance, arrest, and deportation became symbols of national sovereignty within the international world order. He argues that the United States and its Asian exclusion laws were particularly important in articulating and crafting policies and practices of migration...

... and counseling started with China becoming an empire around 200 B. C. In various stages they were developed into a full bureaucratic organ by Sung times (around 1100 A. D The Ming system seems to show the censorial institutions in their full maturity. Both the surveillance and the remonstrance duties have been...

... in which social experiments can be conducted at will (9). This prediction has become a reality today as invasive facial recognition technology and digital surveillance have succeeded in subjugating Xinjiang and are expanding to the rest of China. The following article, “Isn't It Time to Rethink China's...

... Firpo's latest monograph provides a thoroughly researched account of the black-market sex industry in colonial Tonkin. As of 1921, the French government legalized and regulated prostitution to protect the empire's military troops from venereal diseases. As Firpo argues, the government's surveillance...

... of the larger international jihadi movement, at least until recently. More concerning, they argue, has been the Chinese government's response, which is generally characterized as draconian and punitive. Such responses include a hyper technical approach to Uyghur surveillance, incarceration, and reeducation...