Volume 91 – No. 2

Perspectives

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  India and China: On a Collision Course? (Perspective 1 of 2)

  Sumit Ganguly

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  Modi’s China Policy and the Road to Confrontation (Perspective 2 of 2)

  Kanti Bajpai

Articles

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  Fighting Illiberalism with Illiberalism: Islamist Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation in Indonesia

  Marcus Mietzner

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  Social Capital Configuration Variation and the Contemporary Transformation of Rural Vietnam

  Hy Van Luong

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  State Processes, Ideas, and Institutional Change: The Case of the Right to Information Act in India

  Himanshu Jha

Review Essays

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• DRAWING THE TIGER | Directed and produced by Amy Benson, Scott Squire, and Ramyata Limbu

  Jennifer Rothchild

• INSURGENCIES AND REVOLUTIONS: Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice | Edited by Haripriya Rangan, Mee Kam Ng, Libby Porter, and Jacquelyn Chase

  Kah-Wee Lee

• AIRPORT URBANISM: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia | By Max Hirsh

  Weiqiang Lin

• GENDER IN MODERN EAST ASIA: An Integrated History | By Barbara Molony, Janet Theiss and Hyaeweol Choi

  Seungsook Moon

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

  Alan Tomlinson

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

  Gloria Spittel

• CHALLENGES IN THE PROCESS OF CHINA’S URBANIZATION | Edited by Karen Eggleston, Jean C. Oi, and Yiming Wang

  Christine Wen

• MODERNIZING CHINA: Investing in Soft Infrastructure | Edited by W. Raphael Lam, Markus Rodlauer and Alfred Schipke

  Kerry Brown

• OUTSOURCED CHILDREN: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China | By Leslie K. Wang

  Caroline Reeves

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

  Dorothy J. Solinger

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

  Michel Hockx

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

  Yi Kang

• THE MAGIC OF CONCEPTS: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China | By Rebecca E. Karl

  Wenkai He

• THE INTELLECTUAL IN MODERN CHINESE HISTORY | By Timothy Cheek

  Zhidong Hao

• THE RETURN OF IDEOLOGY: The Search for Regime Identities in Postcommunist Russia and China | By Cheng Chen

  Yongnian Zheng

• BITTER AND SWEET: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China | By Ellen Oxfeld

  E.N. Anderson

• MANCHU PRINCESS, JAPANESE SPY: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army | By Phyllis Birnbaum

  Bill Sewell

• REVOLUTIONARY NATIVISM: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925–1937 | By Maggie Clinton

  Anna Belogurova

• RUNAWAY WIVES, URBAN CRIMES, AND SURVIVAL TACTICS IN WARTIME BEIJING, 1937–1949 | By Zhao Ma

  Diana Lary

• RURAL CHINA ON THE EVE OF REVOLUTION: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949–1950 | By G. William Skinner; edited by Stevan Harrell and William Lavely

  Jacob Eyferth

• YOUNG CHINA: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900–1959 | By Mingwei Song

  Yihong Pan

• WARTIME MACAU: Under the Japanese Shadow | Edited by Geoffrey C. Gunn

  C.X. George Wei

• LAW AND POLITICS OF THE TAIWAN SUNFLOWER AND HONG KONG UMBRELLA MOVEMENTS | Edited by Brian Christopher Jones

  Cal Clark

• POLITICAL SURVIVAL AND YASUKUNI IN JAPAN’S RELATIONS WITH CHINA | By Mong Cheung

  Lu Yan

• RETHINKING JAPAN: The Politics of Contested Nationalism | By Arthur Stockwin and Kweku Ampiah

  Michael Strausz

• THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2011 EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI: Living among the Rubble | By Shoichiro Takezawa; Translated by Polly Barton

  Daniel Kremers

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

  Beata Świtek

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

  Akiko Yasuike

• JAPANESE FEMINIST DEBATES: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor | By Ayako Kano

  Deborah Shamoon

• MEDIA THEORY IN JAPAN | Edited by Marc Steinberg and Alexander Zahlten

  Franz Prichard

• CURSE ON THIS COUNTRY: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan | By Danny Orbach

  Paul Kreitman

• EMPEROR HIROHITO AND THE PACIFIC WAR | By Noriko Kawamura

  Takeshi Suzuki

• JAPANOMANIA IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES 1875–1918 | Edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, and Hanne Selkokari

  Hyung-Gu Lynn

• BASE ENCOUNTERS: The US Armed Forces in South Korea | By Elisabeth Schober

  Grace M. Cho

• PARK CHUNG HEE AND MODERN KOREA: The Roots of Militarism 1866–1945 | By Carter J. Eckert

  Tae-Gyun Park

• A MOST ENTERPRISING COUNTRY: North Korea in the Global Economy | By Justin V. Hastings

  YoungChul Chung

• DEMOCRATIZATION FROM ABOVE: The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World | By Anjali Thomas Bohlken

  Niraja Gopal Jayal

• WHEN CRIME PAYS: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics | By Milan Vaishnav

  Ronojoy Sen

• HYDRAULIC CITY: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai | By Nikhil Anand

  Atreyee Majumder

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

  Aaron Miller

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

  Reeta C. Tremblay

• RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY NEPAL | Edited by David N. Gellner, Sondra L. Hausner, and Chiara Letizia

  Megan Adamson Sijapati

• DOWNWARDLY GLOBAL: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora | By Lalaie Ameeriar

  Pnina Werbner

• THE ASEAN MIRACLE: A Catalyst for Peace | By Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng

  Richard Stubbs

• THE BRITISH AND THE VIETNAM WAR: Their Way with LBJ | By Nicholas Tarling

  Edwin E. Moise

• THE NEW WAY: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam | By Tâm T.T. Ngô

  Mai Na M. Lee

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

  Nadirsyah Hosen

• ARTEFACTS OF ENCOUNTER: Cook’s Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories | Edited by Nicholas Thomas, Julie Adams, Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku, and Amiria Salmond; Photography by Gwil Owen

  Roderick Ewins

• BECOMING LANDOWNERS: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste | By Victoria C. Stead

  Alex Golub

• FOOD AND POWER IN HAWAI‘I: Visions of Food Democracy | Edited by Aya Hirata Kimura and Krisnawati Suryanata

  Jessica Hardin