Book Reviews—China
Ruan Yuan, 1764–1849: The Life and Work of a Major Scholar-Official in Nineteenth-Century China before the Opium War. By Betty Peh-T'i Wei. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xx, 392 pp. $69.50 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1217-1218
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One Country, Two Societies: Rural–Urban Inequality in Contemporary China. Edited by Martin King Whyte. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. xi, 445 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1219-1221
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Chinese Fashion: from Mao to Now. By Juanjuan Wu. Oxford: Berg, 2009. xvi, 216 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1221-1222
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The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy. By Xiaojian Zhao. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2010. xiii, 201 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1223-1224
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet: Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing. By Yingcong Dai. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. xi, 352 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1224-1226
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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Edited by Lauran R. Hartley and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xxxviii, 382 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1226-1228
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In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel, a Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Donald S. Lopez Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 192 pp. $26.00 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1228-1230
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Tibet's Last Stand? The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response. By Warren W. Smith Jr. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. viii, 299 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1230-1232
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Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774–1904. By Gordon T. Stewart. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 280 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $34.99 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Japan
Japan's Motorcycle Wars: An Industry History. By Jeffrey W. Alexander. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008. xii, 276 pp. $94.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1234-1236
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Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan. By Barbara Ambros. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xvi, 330 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1236-1239
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Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. By Edward J. Drea. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. ix, 332 pp. $34.95 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1239-1241
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Cultural Migrants from Japan: Youth, Media, and Migration in New York and Tokyo. By Yuiko Fujita. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009. x, 205 pp. $70.00 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1242-1244
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The Scars of War: Tokyo during World War II. By Richard H. Minear. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xi, 207 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
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The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature. By Leith Morton. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. ix, 257 pp. $56.00 (cloth). - Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō. By Christopher Bolton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. xiii, 332 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1247-1249
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Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan. By George R. Packard. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xviii, 351 pp. $32.50 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1249-1251
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Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism. Edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. $54.00 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1251-1253
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Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan. By Mariko Asano Tamanoi. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. 211 pp. $51.00 (cloth).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1254-1255
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When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan. By Lori Watt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. x, 238 pp. $39.95 (hardcover).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1256-1258
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Book Reviews—Korea
Korean Spirituality. By Don Baker. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. 169 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).
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- 10 November 2010, pp. 1258-1260
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