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Volume 75 - Issue 1 - February 2016

Book Reviews—China

Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China. By Michael Hathaway. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xi, 258 pp. ISBN 9780520276208 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book).

Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century China. By Sukhee Lee. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii, 347 pp. ISBN 9780674417144 (cloth).

Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. By Lisa Raphals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvii, 470 pp. ISBN 9781107287624 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Tax Reform in Rural China: Revenue, Resistance, and Authoritarian Rule. By Hiroki Takeuchi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xix, 234 pp. ISBN 9781107056848 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900–1937. By Shengqing Wu. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. xviii, 437 pp. ISBN 9780674726673 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c. 1900–1949. By Ondřej Klimeš. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xiv, 280 pp. ISBN 9789004288096 (cloth).

Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. Edited by Emily T. Yeh and Chris Coggins. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. xv, 332 pp. ISBN 9780295993577 (cloth; also available in paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Precarious Japan. By Anne Allison. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. 248 pp. ISBN 9780822355489 (cloth).

Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits. By Bruce Baird. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 283 pp. ISBN 9781137012623 (cloth).

Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950. By Fabian Franz Drixler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xvii, 417 pp. ISBN 9780520272439 (cloth).

Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan. By Louise Young. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xiii, 307 pp. ISBN 9780520275201 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook. Edited by Hyaeweol Choi. London: Routledge, 2013. xix, 272 pp. ISBN 9780415517096 (cloth).

A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597–1600: The Writings of Kang Hang. Edited and translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush and Kenneth R. Robinson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xxi, 235 pp. ISBN 9780231163705 (cloth).

The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. By Andrei Lankov. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xv, 283 pp. ISBN 9780199964291 (cloth).

Fighting for the Enemy: Koreans in Japan's War, 1937–1945. By Brandon Palmer. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. vii, 242 pp. ISBN 9780295992570 (cloth).

In the Service of His Korean Majesty: William Nelson Lovatt, the Pusan Customs, and Sino-Korean Relations, 1876–1888. By Wayne Patterson. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2012. xiii, 193 pp. ISBN 9781557291004 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire. By Seema Alavi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 504 pp. ISBN 9780674735330 (cloth).

A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement. By John Stratton Hawley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. xiv, 438 pp. ISBN 9780674187467 (cloth).

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Volume 75 - Issue 1 - February 2016

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia