Book Reviews—Inner Asia
The CIA's Secret War in Tibet. By Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. x, 301 pp. $34.95 (cloth).
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Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho, with the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-chen Dharmaśrī. Commentary and translations By Gyurme Dorje. London: John Eskenazi in association with Sam Fogg, 2001; distributed in the United States by Shambhala Publications. 431 pp. $495.00 (cloth).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 185-186
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The Afghanistan Wars. By William Maley. Basingstoke, Hants and New York: Palgrave, 2002. ix, 340 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). - The March of Folly in Afghanistan, 1978–2001. By Jagat S. Mehta. New Delhi: Manohar, 2002. 224 pp. $29.50 (cloth).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 186-188
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Book Reviews—Japan
Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The IT Revolution in Japanese Education. Edited By Jane M. Bachnik. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003. ix, 354 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 188-190
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The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. By Eric Cazdyn. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. xii, 316 pp. $21.95 (paper).
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The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931–1945. By Peter B. High. Wisconsin Studies in Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xxx, 586 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 192-193
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The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan. By Allen Hockley. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. 313 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature. By Kamei Hideo. Translation edited by Michael Bourdaghs. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 40. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002. lxxii, 300 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art. Edited by Fran Lloyd. London: Reaktion Books, 2003. 224 pp. $25.00 (paper).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 196-198
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The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei's Writings on the Pacific War. By David C. Stahl. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. vii, 374 pp. $49.00 (cloth).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 198-199
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868). By Marcia Yonemoto. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xv, 234 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—Korea
The Scriptures of Won Buddhism: A Translation of the Wônbulgyo kyojôn, with Introduction. By Bongkil Chung. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. xviii, 413 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 201-202
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Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited By Nathan Hesselink. Korea Research Monograph, no. 27. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Center for Korean Studies, 2002. 262 pp. $20.00 (paper).
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Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism. By Sheila Miyoshi Jager. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. xv, 193 pp. $65.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
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Der Mond gespiegelt in tausend Flüssen: Das Leben des Buddha Gautama in Verse gesetzt im Jahre 1447 von König Sejong. By Werner Sasse and An Jung-Hee. Seoul: Sohaksa, 2002. vii, 487 pp. W30,000/∈26 (cloth).
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Kojong sidae ŭi chaejomyong. By Yi T'Ae-Jin. Seoul: T'aehaksa, 2000. 452 W pp. 15,000.
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Book Reviews—South Asia
On the Banks of the Gangā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River. By Kelly D. Alley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xiii, 296 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
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Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience. By Granville Austin. New Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvii, 771 pp. Rs 1250.
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Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India. By Pompa Banerjee. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. xviii, 278 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 214-216
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India-Pakistan in War and Peace. By J. N. Dixit. London: Routledge, 2002. 501 pp. $27.50 (cloth).
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- 26 February 2007, pp. 216-218
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