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Volume 62 - Issue 1 - February 2003

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Book Reviews—Japan

Japan and Its Others: Globalization, Difference, and the Critique of Modernity. By John Clammer. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001. ix, 272 pp. $26.00.

Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan. Edited by J. S. Eades, Tom Gill, and Harumi Befu. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2000. viii, 295 pp. $26.00.

The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy. By Eric A. Feldman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv, 219 pp. $126.30 (cloth); $47.20 (paper).

Struggle and Purpose in Postwar Japanese Unionism. By Michael H. Gibbs. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2000. xii, 322 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Douglas R. Howland. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. 312 pp. $56.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society: The Experiences of Older Women. By Misa Izuhara. Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000. ix, 187 pp. $64.95 (cloth).

The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan. By David T. Johnson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii, 327 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Shugendō: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion. By Miyake Hitoshi. Edited by H. Byron Earhart. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 2001. xv, 306 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Inside GHQ: The Allied Occupation of Japan and Its Legacy. By Eiji Takemae. Translated and adapted by Robert Ricketts and Sebastian Swann. New York: Continuum, 2002. 751 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800. By Brett L. Walker. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. xii, 332 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance. By Ming Wan. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. 225 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Tears of Longing: Nostalgia and the Nation in Japanese Popular Song. By Christine R. Yano. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 206. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. xii, 255 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Soaring Phoenixes and Prancing Dragons: A Historical Survey of Korean Classical Literature. By James Hoyt. Somerset, N.J. and Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing, 2000. xvi, 568 pp. ₩ 45,000/$46.00 (cloth).

Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–1945. By Hildi Kang. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xviii, 166 pp. $25.00 (cloth).

In Pursuit of Status: The Making of South Korea's “New” Urban Middle Class. By Denise Potrzeba Lett. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. ix, 256 pages. $42.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War. Edited by David R. McCann and Barry S. Strauss. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. xxviii, 385 pp. $77.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

The Book of Korean Shijo. Translated and edited by Kevin O'Rourke. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. xiv, 219 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition. By Stuart Blackburn. Folklore Fellows' Communications, no. 278. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001. 338 pp.

Trade, Ideology, and Urbanization: South India 300 B.C. to A.D. 1300. By R. Champakalakshmi. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiv, 485 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rāg Performance. By Martin Clayton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx, 230 pp., CD. $74.00 (cloth).

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