Book Reviews

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RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND CONTENTIOUS STATES: Mining and the Politics of Scale in the Pacific Islands | By Matthew G. Allen

Stephen A. Zorn

MONGOLIA REMADE: Post-socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics | By David Sneath

Morris Rossabi  

UNEVEN MOMENTS: Reflections on Japan’s Modern History | By Harry Harootunian

Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

JAPANESE CULTURE THROUGH VIDEOGAMES | By Rachael Hutchinson

Kathryn Hemmann

UNRULY WATERS: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas have Shaped Asia’s History | By Sunil Amrith

David Gilmartin

CONTESTING CYBERSPACE IN CHINA: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience | By Rongbin Han

Hualing Fu

HAMKA AND ISLAM: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World | By Khairudin Aljunied

James Edmonds

POLARIZED CITIES: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China | Edited by Dorothy J. Solinger

Isabelle Côté and Yongfeng Tang

CHINESE INDONESIANS IN POST-SUHARTO INDONESIA: Democratisation and Ethnic Minorities | By Wu-Ling Chong

Alexander R. Arifianto

ILLIBERAL CHINA: The Ideological Challenge of the People’s Republic of China | By Daniel F. Vukovich

Teresa Wright