International Journal of Asian Studies

Vol. 14, No.2 (July 2017)

Inventing a National Writer: The Soviet Celebration of the 1948 Alisher Navoi Jubilee and the Writing of Uzbek History

BORAM SHIN

Timber Trade Organizations in Shanghai: Institutions, Enforcement, and Dispute Resolution, 1880-1930

MENG ZHANG

State of the Field

Histories of Modern Migration in East Asia: Studies of the First Half of the Twentieth Century

NORIAKI HOSHINO AND QIAN ZHU

Review Article

Dialogical Transcendence and Hope

TAKAHIRO NAKAJIMA

Book reviews

Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie and Tessa Morris-Suzuki, eds., The Social Sciences in the Asian Century

REVIEWED BY CYNTHIA CHOU

Gillian Brock and Michael Blake, Debating Brain Drain. May Governments Restrict Emigration?

REVIEWED By GABRIELE VOGT

Alan Chong and Faizal Bin Yahya, eds., State, Society and Information Technology in Asia: Alterity between Online and Offline Politics

REVIEWED By CZARINA SALOMA

Vicente L. Rafael, The Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Languages amid Wars of Translation

REVIEWED By YOSHIKO NAGANO

Nagasaka Itaru and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, eds., Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families: Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes

REVIEWED By FIONA-KATHARINA SEIGER

Sadan Jha, Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag

REVIEWED By SABYASACHI BHATTACHARVA

Shigeto Sonoda and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, eds., Chaina risuku to ika ni mukiau ka: Nikkantai no kigyō no chōsen

REVIEWED By WEI-HSIU HUANG

Ping Foong, The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court

REVIEWED By YUNRU CHEN

Nariaki Nakazato, Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan: Pal's Dissenting Judgment at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal

REVIEWED By TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI

Christopher Hatchell, Naked Seeing: The Great Perfection, the Wheel of Time, and Visionary Buddhism in Renaissance Tibet

REVIEWED By BERTHE JANSEN