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December 12, 2012

New additions to the New Asia Books Review
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From: Zweegers, S.I. <s.i.zweegers@iias.nl>

'New Asia Books' is an initiative by The International Institute for Asian
Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the Netherlands (www.iias.nl). Visit
www.NewAsiaBooks.org to browse academic English language books published on
Asia in the previous 12 months.

Review copies of publications marked as "available for review" can be
requested using the online form (go to "write a review" on the site).
Reviews are posted online at NewAsiaBooks.org upon submission to the IIAS
editor.

Selected reviews are also printed in the IIAS' quarterly publication The
Newsletter (www.iias.nl/publications). Please refer to our online
guidelines for contributions: www.iias.nl/contribute

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New reviews recently posted on NewAsiaBooks.org
(and published in The Newsletter):

Terminology and the translational ambiguities of public health
Reviewer: Vivek Neelakantan
Reviewed publication: Leung, Angela K.C. & Charlotte Furth (eds.) 2010.
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long
Twentieth Century. Durham: Duke University Press. 337 pp. ISBN
9780822348269 (paperback).
http://tinyurl.com/d4enctu
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/bl7tmap

Ahmedabad: a cautionary tale
Reviewer: Ward Berenschot
Reviewed publication: Spodek, H. 2011. Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth
Century India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 320 pages. ISBN:
9780253355874 (hardback)
http://tinyurl.com/bhkhvsy
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/b4aebnk

The routine of atrocities
Reviewer: Alex de Jong
Reviewed publication: Barnett, Louise. 2004. Atrocity and American Military
Justice in Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge, 278 pages, ISBN 0415556406
(hardcover)
http://tinyurl.com/crxnjqz
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/cmj5ag9

Engaging the nation across borders
Reviewer: Chiara Formichi
Reviewed publication: Caroline S.Hau & Kasian Tejapira (eds.) 2011.
Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of
Modern Southeast Asia. Singapore: NUS Press, in association with Kyoto
University Press. Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies 3. 320 pages ISBN:
9789971695477
http://tinyurl.com/c7akbgh
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/c28jdgn

A reconciliation of historiographies
Reviewer: William Noseworthy
Reviewed publication: Wilcox, Wynn. 2011. Allegories of the Vietnamese
Past: Unification and the Production of a Modern Historical Identity. New
Haven: Yale University Press. Monograph 61/Yale Southeast Asia Series.
ISBN: 9780938692966
http://tinyurl.com/cyal5nl
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/dxrjt7u

Oral and written traditions
Reviewer: George Kam Wah Mak
Reviewed publication: Børdahl, Vibeke & Margaret B. Wan (eds.) 2010. The
Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature.
Copenhagen: NIAS Press. xvii+269 pp. ISBN: 9788776940553 (Paperback)
http://tinyurl.com/cakxdhl
Also published in The Newsletter #62 (IIAS): http://tinyurl.com/c3gftms

The China Wave
Reviewer: Gunjan Singh
Reviewed publication: Zhang Weiwei. 2012. The China Wave: Rise of a
Civilizational State. New Jersey: World Century Publishing. 230 pp. ISBN:
9781938134029 (paperback)
http://tinyurl.com/d8k7s2f

Hollywood, East Asia and the enigmatic signifier
Reviewer: Gwenola Ricordeau
Reviewed publication: King, Homay. 2010. Lost in Translation: Orientalism,
Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier. Durham: Duke University Press. 205 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4743-9 (paperback)
http://tinyurl.com/cpmn2er

Sonja Zweegers
Editor, The Newsletter
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) www.iias.nl


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