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Volume 74 - Issue 4 - November 2015

Book Reviews—China

The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806–1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity. By Jerry D. Schmidt. Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxviii, 720 pp. $273.00 (cloth, ISBN 9789004249783); $273.00 (e-book, ISBN 9789004252295).

Keeping the Nation's House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China. By Helen M. Schneider. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. xii, 321 pp. $94.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780774819978); 34.95 (paper, ISBN 9780774819985).

Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China. By Daniela Stockmann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxii, 334 pp. $104.99 (cloth, ISBN 9781107018440); $31.99 (paper, ISBN 9781107469624); $26.00 (e-book, ISBN 9781139603577).

The Destruction of the Medieval Chinese Aristocracy. By Nicolas Tackett. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiv, 281 pp. $49.95 (cloth, ISBN 9780674492059).

The Landscape Painting of China: Musings of a Journeyman. By Harrie A. Vanderstappen. Edited by Robert E. Covey. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. $44.95 (cloth, ISBN 9780813037936).

The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists through the 1949 Crisis. By David Der-wei Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xviii, 508 pp. $60.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780231170468); $59.99 (e-book, ISBN 9780231538572).

China 1927: Memoir of a Debacle. By Zhu Qihua. Translated by Zhu Hong. Edited and introduced by Doug Merwin. Forward by John T. Ma. Portland, Maine: Merwin Asia, 2013. viii, 324 pp. $75.00 (cloth, ISBN 9781937385156); $35.00 (paper, ISBN 9781937385149).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. By Emily T. Yeh. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvi, 324 pp. $75.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780801451553); $26.95 (paper, ISBN 9780801478321).

Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity. Edited by Victor H. Mair and Jane Hickman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2014. xiv, 104 pp. $59.95 (cloth, ISBN 9781934536681); $59.95 (e-book, ISBN 9781934536698).

Book Reviews—Japan

The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan. By Adam Clulow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xiii, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780231164283); $54.99 (e-book, ISBN 9780231535731).

Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan. By H. Byron Earhart. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2011. xx, 238 pp. $39.95 (cloth, ISBN 9781611170009); $39.95 (e-book, ISBN 9781611171112).

Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History. By Miriam Kingsberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 304 pp. $60.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780520276734); $60.00 (e-book, ISBN 9780520957480).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom. By Blaine Harden. New York: Viking, 2015. 290 pp. $27.95 (cloth, ISBN 9780670016570); $14.99 (e-book, ISBN 9780698140486).

South Korea's Rise: Economic Development, Power, and Foreign Relations. By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 228 pp. $80.00 (cloth, ISBN 9781107012509); $29.99 (paper, ISBN 9781107690530); $64.00 (e-book, ISBN 9781139989619).

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea. By John Lie. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014, 248 pp. $65.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780520283114); $34.95 (paper, ISBN 9780520283121), $34.95 (e-book, ISBN 9780520958944).

A Family of No Prominence: The Descendants of Pak Tŏkhwa and the Birth of Modern Korea. By Eugene Y. Park. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. xx, 239 pp. $60.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780804788762); $60.00 (e-book, ISBN 9780804790864).

Unexpected Alliances: Independent Filmmakers, the State, and the Film Industry in Postauthoritarian South Korea. By Young-a Park. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. xx, 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth, ISBN 9780804783613); $39.95 (e-book, ISBN 9780804793476).

Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way: The Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo Movements and the Twilight of Korean Independence. By Carl F. Young. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xxiii, 268 pp. $49.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780824838881).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India. By Venkat Dhulipala. Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015. viii, 530 pp. $120.00 (cloth, ISBN 9781107052123); $96.00 (e-book, ISBN 9781316258408).

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Volume 74 - Issue 4 - November 2015

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia