Book Reviews—China
The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context: A Textual Archaeology of the Yi Jing. By Scott Davis. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2012. xxii, 281 pp. $114.99 (cloth).
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Lin Shu, Inc.: Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture. By Michael Gibbs Hill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiii, 294 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism. By Michael David Kaulana Ing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi, 285 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).
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Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon. By Shiamin Kwa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. xii, 273 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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China's America: The Chinese View the United States, 1900–2000. By Jing Li. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. xiii, 302 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
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Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China. By Lynette H. Ong. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. xviii, 212 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China. Edited by Nick Pearce and Jason Steuber. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. 302 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xvii, 392 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).
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China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development? By Marcus Power, Giles Mohan, and May Tan-Mullins. London: Palgrave, 2012. xix, 329 pp. $95.00 (cloth).
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Die Plünderung des Yuanmingyuan: Imperiale Beutenahme im britisch-französischen Chinafeldzug von 1860 [The plunder of the Yuanmingyuan; Imperial looting in the British-French China campaign of 1860]. By Ines Eben von Racknitz. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 328 pp. €48.00 (paper).
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Legal Orientalism: China, the United States and Modern Law. By Teemu Ruskola. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 338 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas: Drama and the Qing Imperial Court. By Ye Xiaoqing. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2012. xv, 330 pp., 4 illus. $55.00 (cloth).
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Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li. By Brook Ziporyn. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. ix, 323 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Handbook of Tibetan Iconometry: A Guide to the Arts of the 17th Century. Edited by Christoph Cüppers, Leonard van der Kuijp, and Ulrich Pagel, with a Chinese introduction by Dobis Tsering Gyal. Leiden: Brill, 2012. x, 386 pp. $138.00 (cloth).
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The Taming of Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism. By Jacob P. Dalton. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011. x, 311 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).
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A History of Land Use in Mongolia: The Thirteenth Century to the Present. By Elizabeth Endicott. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xi, 228 pp. $80.75 (cloth).
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Visions of Unity: The Golden Paṇḍita Shakya Chokden's New Interpretation of Yogācāra and Madhyamaka. By Yaroslav Komarovski. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. xii, 451 pp. $90.00 (cloth).
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The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Explorations of West China and Tibet. By Erik Mueggler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiv, 361 pp. $31.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Japan
Russo-Japanese Relations, 1905–1917: From Enemies to Allies. By Peter Berton. New York: Routledge, 2012. xviii, 20 pp. $155.00 (cloth); $48.95 (paper). - Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War. By Naoko Shimazu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv, 335 pp. $111.00 (cloth); $47.00 (paper).
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Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from the Chronicles of Japan to the Tale of the Heike. By David T. Bialock. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv, 465 pp. $70.00 (cloth).
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- 27 February 2014, pp. 247-249
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