Volume 94 – No. 4

Articles

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  Finding a Chulu (Way Out): Rural-origin Chinese Students Studying Abroad in South Korea

  Shanshan Lan

Perspectives

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  “China’s Chernobyl”: COVID-19 Narratives of Collapse and Global Domination

  Barry Sautman

Review Essays

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  Life of a Nation’s Text: The Travels and Travails of the Indian Constitution

  Ronojoy Sen

Critical Dialogues

Film Reviews

• DENISE HO: Becoming the Song | Directed by Sue Williams

  Jeroen de Kloet

• MANIPULATING GLOBALIZATION: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China | By Ling Chen

  Vasilis Trigkas

• CHINA AS A GLOBAL CLEAN ENERGY CHAMPION: Lifting the Veil | By Phillip Andrew-Speed and Sufang Zhang

  Xiao Wang and Xiufeng Zhao

• DRIVING TOWARD MODERNITY: Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China | By Jun Zhang

  Hai Ren

• FROM EMPIRE TO NATION STATE: Ethnic Politics in China | By Yan Sun

  Colin Mackerras

• UNENDING CAPITALISM: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution | By Karl Gerth

  Jason M. Kelly

• VIRULENT ZONES: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter | By Lyle Fearnley

  Elanah Uretsky

• MADE IN CHINA: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy | By Jasper Becker

  Norbert Francis

• TAKE BACK OUR FUTURE: An Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement | Edited by Ching Kwan Lee and Ming Sing

  Wei Lit Yew

• THE COST OF BELONGING: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown | By Sharon J. Yoon

  Sandra Fahy

• BEYOND THE STEPPE FRONTIER: A History of the Sino-Russian Border | By Sören Urbansky // MIRRORLANDS: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between | By Ed Pulford

  Victor Zatsepine

• CHINA AND THE CHOLERA PANDEMIC: Restructuring Society under Mao | By Xiaoping Fang

  Jiwei Qian

• MAO’S THIRD FRONT: The Militarization of Cold War China | By Covell F. Meyskens

  Youngjune Chung 

• DENISE HO: Becoming the Song | Directed by Sue Williams

  Jeroen de Kloet

• INTIMATE JAPAN: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict | Edited by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook

  Sea ling Cheng

• AGE OF SHŌJO: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction | By Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

  Kathryn Hemmann

• BECOMING KIM JONG UN: A Former CIA Officer’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator | By Jung H. Pak

  Alon Levkowitz

• KIM JONG UN AND THE BOMB: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea | By Ankit Panda

  Adam Cathcart

• INDIAN FEDERALISM | By Louise Tillin

  Pritam Singh

• MALEVOLENT REPUBLIC: A Short History of the New India | By K.S. Komireddi // PARTITIONS OF THE HEART: Unmaking the Idea of India | By Harsh Mander.

  Ganeshdatta Poddar

• SHAREHOLDER CITIES: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India | By Sai Balakrishnan

  Sumeet Mhaskar

• REVOLUTIONARY DESIRES: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India | By Ania Loomba

  Ali Raza

• REVOLUTIONARY PASTS: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India | By Ali Raza

  Ania Loomba

• THE COOLIE’S GREAT WAR: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921 | By Radhika Singha

  Tarak Barkawi

• THE ROOTS OF RESILIENCE: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia | By Meredith L. Weiss

  Kai Ostwald

• UNITED FRONT: Projecting Solidarity through Deliberation in Vietnam’s Single-Party Legislature | By Paul Schuler

  Tuong Vu

• DISTURBED FORESTS, FRAGMENTED MEMORIES: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands | By Jonathan Padwe; Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

  Jeffrey Sayer

• OPPOSING DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand | By Aim Sinpeng

  Pavin Chachavalpongpun

• BECOMING ONE: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar | By Chika Watanabe

  Woojin Jung

• MIGRATION IN THE TIME OF REVOLUTION: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War | By Taomo Zhou

  Isabelle Côté

• ACTIVISTS IN TRANSITION: Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia | Edited by Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford

  Alexander R. Arifianto

• POISONING THE PACIFIC: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange | By Jon Mitchell with a foreword by John W. Dower

  Glenn Petersen

• LANGUAGE RIGHTS AND THE LAW IN THE UNITED STATES AND ITS TERRITORIES | By Eduardo D. Faingold

  Ola G. Berta

• IN MEMORY OF TIMES TO COME: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea | By Melissa Demian

  John Barker

• SEA PEOPLE: The Puzzle of Polynesia | By Christina Thompson

  Maureece J. Levin