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Volume 69 - Issue 2 - May 2010

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Book Reviews—China

Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China. By Ari Daniel Levine. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xvi, 273 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty. By Mark Edward Lewis. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. 356 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou. By Li Feng. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv, 400 pp. $117.00 (cloth).

Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. By Tina Lu. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. viii, 306 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Shanghai and the Edges of Empires. By Meng Yue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxx, 295 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Criminal Justice in China: A History. By Klaus Mühlhahn. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. vii, 365 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Popular Protest in China. Edited by Kevin J. O'Brien. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008. x, 277 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China. By Laikwan Pang. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. viii, 280 pp. $57.00 (cloth).

The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity. By Carlos Rojas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 330 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China. By Sigrid Schmalzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xix, 346 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).

Dry Spells: State Rainmaking and Local Governance in Late Imperial China. By Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. xii, 314 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Joining the Global Public: Word, Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870–1910. Edited by Rudolf G. Wagner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xi, 249 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West. By Zhang Longxi. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. x, 256 pp. $43.95 (cloth). - Unexpected Affinities: Reading across Cultures. By Zhang Longxi. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xvi, 138 pp. $31.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. By Christopher I. Beckwith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. xxv, 472 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Edited by Monica Esposito. Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2008. xxiv, 856 pp. 2 vols. €100.00 (paper).

The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India. By Toni Huber. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv, 501 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Culture of the Book in Tibet. By Kurtis R. Schaeffer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xiii, 244 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan's Past. Edited by John Breen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xv, 202 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper).

“A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots”? A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953–1973. By Jayson Makoto Chun. New York: Routledge, 2009. xi. 356 pp. $120.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).

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