Book Reviews

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THE KHMER LANDS OF VIETNAM: Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty | By Philip Taylor

Matt Galway

TRANSFORMING INDIA: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy | By Sumantra Bose

John Harriss

ENERGY SECURITY IN JAPAN: Challenges After Fukushima | By Vlado Vivoda

Brian Woodall

CHINA FROM EMPIRE TO NATION-STATE | By Wang Hui; translated by Michael Gibbs Hill

David Ownby

MAKERS OF MODERN ASIA | Edited by Ramachandra Guha

Robin Jeffrey

A FAMILY OF NO PROMINENCE: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea |By Eugene Y. Park

Anders Karlsson

BEYOND AINU STUDIES: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives | Edited by Mark J. Hudson, Ann-Elise Lewallen, and Mark K. Watson

Mayumi Okada, Rina Shiroishi, Yasushige Takahashi

MABIKI: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950 | By Fabian Drixler

Robert Eskildsen

IN TRANSIT: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere | By Faye Yuan Kleeman

Franklin Rausch

MOBILE HORIZONS: Dynamics Across the Taiwan Strait | Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh

C.X. George Wei