Book Reviews

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SHAKEN AUTHORITY: China’s Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake | By Christian P. Sorace

Yi Kang

OF GARDENS AND GRAVES: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics | By Suvir Kaul; Photographs by Javed Dar

Reeta C. Tremblay

KNOWLEDGE ACTS IN MODERN CHINA: Ideas, Institutions, and Identities | Edited by Robert Culp, Eddy U, and Wen-hsin Yeh

Michel Hockx

FEMININITY, SELF-HARM AND EATING DISORDERS IN JAPAN: Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture | By Gitte Marianne Hansen

Akiko Yasuike

TELEMODERNITIES: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia | By Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun

Gloria Spittel

PAN-ASIAN SPORTS AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN ASIA, 1913–1974 | By Stefan Huebner

Alan Tomlinson

THE POLITICS OF SHARI’A LAW: Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia | By Michael Buehler

Nadirsyah Hosen

NATION AT PLAY: A History of Sport in India | By Ronojoy Sen

Aaron Miller

CARE COMMUNICATION: Making a Home in a Japanese Eldercare Facility | By Peter Backhaus

Beata Świtek

RADICAL INEQUALITIES: China’s Revolutionary Welfare State in Comparative Perspective | By Nara Dillon

Dorothy J. Solinger