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Volume 78 - Issue 4 - November 2019

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City. By Isabella Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781108419680 (cloth).

Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire. By Matthew W. King. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xiv, 281 pp. ISBN: 9780231191067 (cloth).

Railroads and the Transformation of China. By Elisabeth Köll. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. x, 396 pp. ISBN: 9780674368170 (cloth).

Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China. By Li Hsiao-t'i. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. x, 365 pp. ISBN: 9780674987166 (cloth).

The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China. By Kate Merkel-Hess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xiii, 241 pp. ISBN: 9780226383279 (cloth).

Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos. By Sarah Schneewind. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xviii, 360 pp. ISBN: 9780674987142 (cloth).

Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History. Edited by Sebastian Veg. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. vi, 244 pp. ISBN: 9789888390762 (cloth).

Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature. By Ao Wang. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2018. ix, 359 pp. ISBN: 9781604979411 (cloth).

Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism. By Ka-ming Wu. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xv, 186 pp. ISBN: 9780252081408 (paper).

Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories. Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2018. 354 pp. ISBN: 9780472053728 (paper).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's “Savage Border,” 1874–1945. By Paul D. Barclay. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 9780520296213 (paper).

Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan. By Yulia Frumer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. vii, 270 pp. ISBN: 9780226516448 (cloth).

King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea. By Christopher Lovins. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxiv, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781438473635 (cloth).

Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan. By Jennifer M. Miller. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. vii, 358 pp. ISBN: 9780674976344 (cloth).

Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945. By Aaron William Moore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. x, 259 pp. ISBN: 9781108428255 (cloth).

Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life. By Annmaria M. Shimabuku. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. xix, 219 pp. ISBN: 9780823282654 (paper).

Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan. By Eiko Maruko Siniawer. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xxii, 398 pp. ISBN: 9781501725845 (cloth).

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