Book Reviews—China
Christianity in Rural China: Conflict and Accommodation in Jiangxi Province, 1860–1900. By Richard Sweeten Alan. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 91. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001. xii, 281 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China. By H. Wedeman Andrew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 292 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 787-788
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The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction. By Yang Xiaobin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. ix, 286 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 789-790
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Buddhist Philosophy: Losang Gönchok's Short Commentary to Jamyang Shayba's Root Text on Tenets. By Cozort Daniel, Preston Craig. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2003. xiv, 330 pp. $18.95 (paper).
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The Jewel Translucent Sūtra: Altan Khan and the Mongols in the Sixteenth Century. By Elverskog Johan. Brill's Inner Asian Library, no. 8. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xii, 388 pp. $100.00.
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British Death March under Asiatic Impulse: Epic of Anglo-Indian Tragedy in Afghanistan. By Nandan Yash. “Kaviraj.” Mumbai: Bhavan's Book University, 2003. 245 pp. Rs 280 (paper).
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The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan: Adaptation to Closed Frontiers and War. By M. Nazif Shahrani. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002.xxviii, 302 pp. $22.50 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Japan
The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism. By K. Bourdaghs Michael. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x, 273 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 796-798
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Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House. By L. Huffman James. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xvi, 309 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 798-799
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Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan. By Keene Donald. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x, 208 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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Waiting for the Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of People-Wildlife Relations. By Knight John. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x, 296 pp. $80.00 (cloth).
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Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature. By M. Rosenfeld David. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2002. xi, 180 pp. $70.00. (cloth).
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Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain. By Schattschneider Ellen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. xiv, 268 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Korea
Ozu's Anti-Cinema. By Kiju Yoshida. Translated by Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano. Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 49.Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003. xx, 178 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).
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The Melodrama of Mobility: Women, Talk, and Class in Contemporary South Korea. By Abelmann Nancy. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. xviii, 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).
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Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies. By D. Cha Victor, C. Kang David. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. x, 265 pp. pp. $24.50 (cloth).
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North Korea in the World Economy. Edited by E. Kwan Choi, E. Han Kim and Merrill Yesook. RoutledgeCurzon Advances in Korean Studies, no. 4. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xviii, 246 pp. $90.00 (cloth).
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They Are Not Machines: Korean Women Workers and Their Fight for Democratic Trade Unionism in the 1970s. Edited by Soonok Chun. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003. xiv, 214 pp. £40.00/$69.95 (cloth).
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Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Centuries. Edited by Kim-Renaud Young-Key. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. xiv, 250 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—South Asia
Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nūrbakhshīya between Medieval and Modern Islam. By Bashir Shahzad. Studies in Comparative Religion. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. xxxvi, 328 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 817-819
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