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Volume 77 - Issue 4 - November 2018

Book Reviews—China

Opening to China: A Memoir of Normalization, 1981–1982. By Charlotte Furth. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2017. xii, 142 pp. ISBN: 9781604979848 (paper).

The Resilient Self: Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans. By Chien-Juh Gu. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2018. vii, 195 pp. ISBN: 9780813586052 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology. Translated by Wilt L. Idema. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xii, 316 pp. ISBN: 9780295999869 (cloth, also available as e-book).

The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination. By Haiyan Lee. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. xii, 362 pp. ISBN: 9780804785914 (cloth, also available as e-book).

The Chinese Typewriter: A History. By Thomas S. Mullaney. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2017. xiv, 481 pp. ISBN: 9780262036368 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925–1937. By William Schaefer. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xi, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780822369196 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China. By Hans van de Ven. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. xvi, 352 pp. ISBN: 9780674983502 (cloth).

Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China 1939–1949. By Di Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. xiv, 260 pp. ISBN: 9781503605305 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China. By Leslie K. Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2016. 208 pp. ISBN: 9780804799010 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China. By Xiaowei Zheng. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018. xi, 358 pp. ISBN: 9781503601086 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China. By Shuang Chen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xvii, 342 pp. ISBN: 9780804799034 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

K-pop: The International Rise of the Korean Music Industry. Edited by JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay. Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series 40. London, Routledge, 2014. xii, 181 pp. ISBN: 9781138775961 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

A Most Enterprising Country: North Korea in the Global Economy. By Justin V. Hastings. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2016. xviii, 216 pp. ISBN: 9781501704901 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Korean Art: From the 19th Century to the Present. By Charlotte Horlyck. London: Reaktion Books, 2017. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781780237367 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Challenges of Modernization and Governance in South Korea: The Sinking of the Sewol and Its Causes. Edited by Jae-Jung Suh and Mikyoung Kim. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xvii, 227 pp. ISBN: 9789811040221 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work in the Indian Subcontinent. By Vidya Dehejia and Peter Rockwell. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2016. 274 pp. ISBN: 9789351941149 (cloth).

Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India's Deccan Plateau, 1300–1600. By Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. xxvi, 395 pp. ISBN: 9780198092216 (cloth, also available in paper).

The Pearl of Khorasan: A History of Herat. By C. P. W. Gammell. London: Hurst & Company, 2016. xxiv, 464 pp. ISBN: 9781849046541 (cloth).

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Volume 77 - Issue 4 - November 2018

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia