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Volume 73 - Issue 1 - February 2014

Book Reviews—Japan

The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Maki Fukuoka. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. xi, 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan. By Emanuel Pastreich. Seoul: Seoul University Press, 2011. 366 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. By Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xxi, 311 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan. By Marc Steinberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. vii, 336 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Keith Vincent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2012. ix, 233 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

No Alternative? Experiments in South Korean Education. Edited by Nancy Abelmann, Jung-Ah Choi, and So Jin Park. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2012. vii, 164 pp. $24.95 (paper).

The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future. By Victor Cha. New York: Ecco, 2012. xii, 530 pp. $29.99 (cloth); $16.99 (paper). - North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics. By Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. xii, 219 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Korean Lacquer Art: Aesthetic Perfection. By Patricia Frick, Soon-Chim Jung, Jihyun Hwang, Kōji Kobayashi, Margarete Prüch, and Kyuhee Wahlen. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2013. 208 pp. €39.90 (paper).

Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912. By Hwansoo Ilmee Kim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. xxvi, 415 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

A History of Korea: From “Land of the Morning Calm” to States in Conflict. By Jinwung Kim. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xx, 684 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Being Political Popular: South Korean Art at the Intersection of Popular Culture and Democracy, 1980–2010. Edited by Sohl Lee. Seoul: Hyunsil Publishing, 2012. 208 pp. $30.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. By Naisargi N. Dave. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. vii, 280 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and Its Provocation of the Modern. By Kalpana Ram. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. xiii, 317 pp. $57.00 (cloth).

Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India. By Bhavani Raman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xii, 278 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India. By Anupama Rao. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xxi, 392 pp. $31.95 (paper).

Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India. By Howard Spodek. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. xiii, 330 pp. $49.95 (cloth). - Ahmedabad: From Royal City to Megacity. By Achyut Yagnik and Suchitra Sheth. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2011. xix, 348 pp. Rs. 450.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Lao Studies. By Karen L. Adams and Thomas John Hudak. Tempe, Ariz.: Southeast Asia Council, Center for Asian Research, 2010. xxi, 429 pp. $24.00 (paper).

Picturing Islam: Arts and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld. By Kenneth M. George. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xviii, 164 pp. $98.95 (cloth); $35.95 (paper).

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