Book Reviews

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SAVING BUDDHISM: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma | By Alicia Turner

Nicola Tannenbaum

“NATION-STATE” AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN INDIA: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities | By Tanweer Fazal

Rajesh Dev

DISASTERS AND SOCIAL CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses | Edited by Mark R. Mullins, Koichi Nakano

Pablo Figueroa

UNKNOTTING THE HEART: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China | By Jie Yang

Hsuan-Ying Huang

THE GLOBAL COAL MARKET: Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies | Edited by Mark C. Thurber and Richard K. Morse

Ian Cronshaw

BEING POLITICAL: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands | By Jack Corbett

Steffen Dalsgaard

THE LOST TERRITORIES: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation | By Shane Strate

Søren Ivarsson

DIVIDED WE GOVERN: Coalition Politics in Modern India | By Sanjay Ruparelia

James Manor

JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN POLITICS: Polar Opposites or Something in Common? | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi

Alexander Bukh

THE CHINA BOOM: Why China Will Not Rule the World | By Ho-fung Hung

Robert J. Hanlon