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XIAO-BIN JI: Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang (A.D. 1019–1086). xv, 253 pp. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2005. $35.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 166-167
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BENJAMIN A. ELMAN: On Their Own Terms: Science in China 1550–1900. xxxviii, 567 pp. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. £39.95.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 168-169
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JAMES A. MILLWARD, RUTH W. DUNNELL, MARK C. ELLIOTT and PHILIPPE FORÊT (eds): New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. xix, 249 pp. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. £70.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 169-171
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XU GUOQI: China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization. (The Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare.) xiv, 316 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £50.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 171-172
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JANET M. THEISS: Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. xv, 281 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005. £32.50.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 173-175
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JUNE YIP: Envisioning Taiwan: Fiction, Cinema and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary. ix, 356 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. £17.95.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 175-176
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THOMAS DAVID DUBOIS: The Sacred Village: Social Change and Religious Life in Rural North China. xii, 275 pp. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. $55.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 176-178
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KAREN J. LEONG: The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism. x, 236 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 178-179
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HARUO SHIRANE: Classical Japanese: A Grammar. xxvi, 525 pp. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2005. $49.50, £32.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 179-181
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STEPHEN DODD: Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004. £25.95.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 181-184
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ŌOKA SHŌHEI A Wife in Musashino. (Translated with a Postscript by Dennis Washburn.) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 51.) viii, 161 pp. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 2004. $28.95.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 184-186
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JANE PORTAL: Art Under Control in North Korea. 190 pp. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. £22.50.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 186-188
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SHEILA MIYOSHI JAGER: Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism. xv, 193 pp. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. $69.50.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 188-189
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DAVID PRENDERGAST: From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age, Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea. (Global Oriental Monograph Series (Korea) Vol. 1.) xiv, 185 pp. Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2005.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 189-190
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ALAN M. STEVENS and A. ED. SCHMIDGALL-TELLINGS: A Comprehensive Indonesian–English Dictionary. xviii, 1103 pp. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press in association with the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, 2004. $65.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 191-192
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THIEN DO: Vietnamese Supernaturalism: Views from the Southern Region. xii, 300 pp. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. £70.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 192-193
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KAREL STEENBRINK: Catholics in Indonesia: A Documented History: Volume 1—A Modest Recovery 1808–1903. 528 pp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2003.
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Africa
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ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE: For the City yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities. x, 297 pp. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2004. £16.95.
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- 20 April 2006, pp. 195-196
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KAMARI MAXINE CLARKE: Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. xxiv, 345 pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. £17.50.
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GWYN CAMPBELL (ed): Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures.) x, 225 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. £75.
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