Book Reviews

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GHOSTS OF THE NEW CITY: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai | By Andrew Alan Johnson

Eric C. Thompson

1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh | By Srinath Raghavan

Nayanika Mookherjee

JAPAN: The Paradox of Harmony | By Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer

Hye Won Um

BREAKING WITH THE PAST: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China | By Hans van de Ven

Stephanie Villalta Puig

OUT OF THE SHADOWS: The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education | Edited by Janice Aurini, Scott Davies, Julian Dierkes

John N. Hawkins

THE SHARK WARRIOR OF ALEWAI: A Phenomenology of Melanesian Identity | By Deborah Van Heekeren

Roger Ivar Lohmann

ARCHIVING THE UNSPEAKABLE: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia | By Michelle Caswell

Karen Strassler

THE RIGHT SPOUSE: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu | By Isabelle Clark-Decès

Haripriya Narasimhan

THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION OF JAPANESE CAPITALISM | Edited by Sébastien Lechevalier; translated by J.A.A. Stockwin

Derek Hall

A CONTINUOUS REVOLUTION: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture | By Barbara Mittler

Stephen R. MacKinnon