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...Robert W. Hefner Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia . By Zachary Abuza . Asia Security Studies. New York : Routledge , 2007 . x , 162 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia . By John T. Sidel . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University...

... Hindus burned to death, most observers have argued that the response was not commensurate with the attack, and, of course, it targeted not the criminals who may have set the fire, but a community of Muslims 100 miles away. Riot Politics: Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Indian State . By Ward...

...Robert W. Hefner Roots of Violence in Indonesia: Contemporary Violence in Historical Perspective . Edited by Freek Colombijn and J. Thomas Lindblad . Leiden : KITLV Press ; Singapore: ISEAS, 2002 . vi, 348 pp. $27.50 (paper). Violence and Vengeance: Discontent and Conflict...

...Douglas E. Streusand Science, Development and Violence: The Revolt against Modernity . By Claude Alvares . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . ix, 186 pp. $16.95. Class, State and Development in India . Edited by Berch Berberoglu . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1992...

...Steve Beers The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia, 1965–68 . Edited by Douglas Kammen and Katherine McGregor . Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University of Hawai‘i Press , 2012 . xii, 305 pp. $30.00 (paper). Truth Will Out: Indonesian...

... have been relatively far between. Fortunately, there is little overlap between these three exciting new studies. Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China . By Eva Shan Chou . Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies , 2012 . viii, 333 pp. $25.00 (paper). Lu Xun's...

...Mohammed Turki A. Alsudairi Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road . By Philip B. K. Potter and Chen Wang . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2023 . xvi, 284 pp. ISBN: 1009114905 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Over...

... . Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar . By Elliott Prasse-Freeman . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2023 . 366 pp. ISBN: 9781503636712 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Rice yields have dropped in many parts of Myanmar since the 2021...

...David Ownby Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture . Edited by Jonathan N. Lipman and Stevan Harrell . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 1990 . x , 249 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991...

...Patricio N. Abinales Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Madonnas and Martyrs: Militarism and Violence in the Philippines . By Anne-Marie Hilsdon . St. Leonards, NSW : Allen and Unwin , 1995 . xiv, 224 pp. $24.95 (paper). Distributed by Paul and Company...

...N. Gerald Barrier The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Foundation of a Sikh “Diaspora.” . By Brian Keith Axel . Durham : Duke University Press , 2001 . 297 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...

...Kenneth J. Hammond Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China . By David Robinson . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2001 . ix , 283 . $40.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 1038...

...Geetanjali Srikantan Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law . By Elizabeth Kolsky . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 . xi, 266 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Kolsky's work...

...Greg Acciaioli Showing Signs of Violence. The Cultural Politics of a Twentieth-Century Headhunting Ritual . By Kenneth M. George . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xvi, 339 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997...

...Paul B. Watt A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyō's Path to Violence . By Ian Reader . Copenhagen : NIAS Books , 1996 . 116 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 802 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES dehistoricized notion of culture as ethnic consciousness...

... Ethnicity . Ithaca : Cornell University Press . Bastian Sunil . 1990 . “Political Economy of Ethnic Violence in Sri Lanka: The July 1983 Riots.” In Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots, and Survivors in South Asia , ed. Veena Das . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Basu Amrita...

...Bhakti Shringarpure Voolencel/Non-Violence: Some Hindu Perpectives . Edited by Denis Vidal , Gilles Tarabout , and Eric Meyer . New Delhi : Manohar , 2003 . 328 pp. Rs 650/$38.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I...

...Ravina Aggarwal Khaki and the Ethnic Violence in Indai: Army, Police, and Paramilitary Forces during Communal Riots . By Omar Khalidi . New Delhi : Three Essays Collective , 2003 . xiii , 126 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...

...Pascal Bourdeaux The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945–1956 . By Shawn F. McHale . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 350 pp. ISBN: 9781108936392 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Why, in May 1954, did...

...Janet Gyatso Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet . By Carl S. Yamamoto . Leiden : Brill , 2012 . xvi, 389 pp. ISBN 9789004230101 (cloth). The Illuminated Life of the Great Yolmowa . By Benjamin Bogin . Chicago : Serindia...