Reviews of recent and significant publications on Central Asia.
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John Irgengioro
Kirill Nourzhanov and Sebastien Peyrouse. (eds). Soft Power in Central Asia: The Politics of Influence and Seduction. Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. Observers...
Yan Matusevich
Despite attracting millions of labor migrants since the early 2000s, Russia continues to be stubbornly referred to as an emerging immigrant destination in the...
Aksana Ismailbekova
Olga Brednikova and Sergei Abashin, (eds)‚ Жить в двух мирах: Переосмысляя транснационализм и транслокальность (Living in Two Worlds: Rethinking...
Zhibek Aisarina
Oybek Madiyev, Uzbekistan's International Relations, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). Since the death of Islam Karimov in 2016, Uzbekistan has opened up...
Gaziza Shakhanova
Daniel S. Markey, China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia . (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Daniel Markey has written a...
Bill Drexel
Sean Roberts, The War on the Uyghurs , (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020). Sean Roberts’ The War on the Uyghurs provides a timely and thorough...
Laura Adams
Edward Schatz, Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia, (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021). America’s...
Juliet Lu
Jonathan Hillman , The Emperor's New Road , New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. The short story by Hans Christian Andersen entitled, “The Emperor’s New...
Isabelle DeSisto
Kelly Hammond, China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II , Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. At its peak in...
Evanna Hu
Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, and Maria Jaschok (eds). Ethnographies of Islam in China. (Honolulu , HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2020) With China’s treatment...
Subhadeep Bhattacharya
Phunchok Stobdan, India and Central Asia: the Strategic Dimension, (New Dehli: KW Publishers, 2020). In 2017 Mehbooba Mufti, Chief Minister of the erstwhile...
Rahimjon Abdugafurov
James Pickett, Polymaths of Islam : Power and Ne tworks of Knowledge in Central Asia, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). James Pickett’s Polymaths...
James Pickett
Producing a work like Scott Levi’s The Bukharan Crisis ought to be a mandatory service for every senior historian upon completion of their second monograph: a...
Хуршид Дўстмуҳаммад
Суюкли адибимиз Абдулла Қодирий ҳамда унинг қаламига мансуб “Ўткан кунлар” романи билан боғлиқ фавқулодда ноёб ҳолатлар бир қанча. Биз бу фавқулодда-феноменал...
