Book Reviews

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THE PEOPLE’S WEST LAKE: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China, 1949–1976 | By Qiliang He

Fei Yan

BIRTH OF THE GEOPOLITICAL AGE: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China | By Shellen Xiao Wu

Q. Edward Wang

ISLAM, EDUCATION AND RADICALISM IN INDONESIA: Instructing Piety | Edited By Tim Lindsey, Jamhari Makruf, and Helen Pausacker

Azmil Tayeb

SEX, SEXUALITY, AND THE CONSTITUTION: Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan | By Shigenori Matsui

Javier Pang

SODA SCIENCE: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola | By Susan Greenhalgh

Marion Nestle

1923 KANTO MASSACRE | Directed by Kim Taeyoung and Jinhee Josephine Lee / SEPTEMBER 1923 | Directed by Tatsuya Mori

Joel Matthews

PAST PROGRESS: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea | By Ed Pulford

Adam Cathcart

CHINA’S RELATIONS WITH AFRICA: A New Era of Strategic Engagement | By David H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman

Deborah Bräutigam

INTIMATE STRANGERS: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020 | By Tritia Toyota

Nobuko Adachi

INSECT HISTORIES OF EAST ASIA | Edited by David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose

Robert Winstanley-Chesters