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‘An excellent pathway through the medium ‘Without doubt Hӧllmann has produced of Dalit fiction and literature to get a sense a book that … every reader will be delighted of the realities Dalits still face in , to have chosen as a first entry into the world among other places, today’ of the Chinese script’ – Peter Admirand – Arthur Th. Witteveen

Laura R. Brueck. 2017. Thomas O. Hӧllmann, trans. by Maximiliane Donicht. 2017. Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Chinese Script: History, Characters, Calligraphy Dalit Literature New York: Press New : Primus Books ISBN 9780231181723 ISBN 9789384092726 https://newbooks.asia/review/chinese-script https://newbooks.asia/review/dalit-literature

‘A comprehensive insight into aspects ‘A sensible and indispensable scholarly of travelling and collecting in the 1930s discovery of literary, photographic, and in the Pacific and Indonesia’ artistic imaginations of the golden era of – Itie van Hout early 20th-century Shanghai modernity’ – Lei Ping Fiona Kerlogue and Dagmar Pospíšilová. 2018 Collecting Experience in the 1930s – Indonesian and William Schaefer. 2017. Pacific Collections of Růžena Charlotta Urbanová in the Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space National Museum in Shanghai, 1925-1937 Prague: National Museum Prague Durham, NC: Duke University Press ISBN 9788070365779 ISBN 9780822369196 https://newbooks.asia/review/ruzena-urbanova https://newbooks.asia/review/shadow-modernism

‘Ground-breaking and novel study of Iranian ‘A new addition to the thriving field of the and Indian kingship that expertly examines the Chinese food regulatory framework’ social processes through which sacred kingship – Louis Augustin-Jean

is constructed from the rule of Timur through Guanqi Zhou. 2017. the Safavids and into the early Mughal period’ The Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China: Governance – Caleb Simmons and Segmentation London: Palgrave Macmillan Asfar Moin. 2017. ISBN 9783319504414 The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam https://newbooks.asia/review/food-safety-china Delhi: Primus Books ISBN 9789384092719 https://newbooks.asia/review/millennial-sovereign

‘A fascinating portrait of the daily functioning ‘A timely book on how Malaysia, Indonesia, of low-end globalization during the early and Thailand achieved a transition out of decades of this century … in Guangzhou’ agriculture without an increase in inequality’ – Hans Schenk – Soundarya Iyer

Gordon Mathews with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang. 2017. Andy Sumner. 2018. The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South Development and Distribution: Structural Change China’s Global Marketplace in South East Asia Chicago and London: Chicago University Press Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN 9780226506104 ISBN 9780198792369 https://newbooks.asia/review/low-end-globalization https://newbooks.asia/review/developer_dilemma

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‘An important lens for us to better understand ‘This impressively detailed account is volunteerism, nationalism, civil society, not only a fascinating read but one that state-society relations, and moral-political could be of use to migration and identity dilemmas in contemporary China’ scholars, beyond anthropology’ – Qiaoyun Zhang – Charlie Rumsby

Bin Xu. 2017. Philipp Schröder. 2017. The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake Bishkek Boys: Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change and Civic Engagement in China in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital Stanford: Stanford University Press Oxford: Berghan Books ISBN 9781503603363 ISBN 9781785337260 https://newbooks.asia/review/chinese-civil-engagement https://newbooks.asia/review/bishkek-boys

‘Complex and comprehensive; but needs ‘Lent and Xu have given the English-speaking a collective, concise, and consolidating world an invaluable resource on the history conclusion’ of graphic narratives in China’ – Anthony Rausch – Richard Miller

Melissa Couch (ed.) 2017. John A. Lent and Xu Ying. 2017. The Business of Transition: Law Reform, Development Comics Art in China and Economics in Myanmar Jackson: University Press of Mississippi Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781496811745 ISBN 9781108416832 https://newbooks.asia/review/comics-art-china https://newbooks.asia/review/business-transition-myanmar

‘A Wasted Opportunity’ ‘If any thread unifies this book, it is the – Anubhav Pradhan myth of the incompatibility of Islam and

Nandini Sen. 2018. “Chineseness” and how Chinese Indonesian Urban Marginalisation in South Asia: Waste Pickers converts to Islam have acted to counteract in Calcutta that myth since 1998’ Abingdon and New York: Routledge ISBN 9780815357667 – Mary Somers Heidhues https://newbooks.asia/review/wasted-opportunity Hew Wai Weng. 2018. Chinese Ways of Being Muslim: Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity in Indonesia Copenhagen: NIAS Press ISBN 9788776942106 https://newbooks.asia/review/chinese-muslim

‘Given the paucity of research and writing on ‘Transcultural Justice, while not always contemporary Laos, Changing Lives in Laos: successful, is distinct in viewing the Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist Trial as a meeting ground for different State is a welcome addition to the literature’ national legal cultures’ – Ronald Bruce St John – Vinay Lal

Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena (eds). 2018. Kerstin von Lingen (ed.) 2018. Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: in a Post-Socialist State The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48 Singapore: NUS Press Leiden: Brill ISBN 9789814722261 ISBN 9789004359970 https://newbooks.asia/review/changing-laos https://newbooks.asia/review/transcultural-justice

‘A comprehensive resource for understanding ‘An uneven collection of articles but the history of Calcutta’s hospital system’ nonetheless important for their broad – Chelsea McGill coverage of an under-studied topic’ – David Schak Srilata Chatterjee. 2017. Western Medicine and Colonial Society: Hospitals of Calcutta, J. Bruce Jacobs and Peter Kang (eds). 2018. c.1757-1860 Changing Taiwanese Identities Delhi: Primus Books Abingdon and New York: Routledge ISBN 9789384092986 ISBN 9781138636781 https://newbooks.asia/review/calcutta-hospitals https://newbooks.asia/review/taiwanese-identities