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Volume 68 - Issue 1 - February 2009

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Book Reviews—China

At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai. Edited by Nara Dillon and Jean C. Oi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 310 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

The Talent of Shu: Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual World of Early Medieval Sichuan. By J. Michael Farmer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xviii, 246 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century. By Linda Grove. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xiv, 303 pp. $69.00 (cloth).

Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction. By Daniel Hsieh. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2008. 331 pp. $39.00 (cloth).

Traditions, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Choson Korea, 1850–1910. By Kirk W. Larsen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard East Asia Center, 2008. xi, 328 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China. By Weijing Lu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xviii, 347 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Opening China: Karl F. A. Gützlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827–1852. By Jessie Gregory Lutz. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. xix, 364 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. By Steven R. Platt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 286 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China. By Martin J. Powers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. xvi, 434 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime Refugees in Shanghai. By Marcia R. Ristaino. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 206 pp. $27.95 (cloth).

Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific. By Shu-mei Shih. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xiii, 243 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Changing Lanes in China: Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments, and Auto Sector Development. By Eric Thun. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii, 326 pp. $78.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).

Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China. By Wang Feng. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xvi, 264 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Written at Imperial Command: Panegyric Poetry in Early Medieval China. By Fusheng Wu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. ix, 289 pp. $80.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Subjects and Masters: Uyghurs in the Mongol Empire. By Michael C. Brose. Bellingham: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 2007. xv, 1 pp.

When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet. By Hildegard Diemberger. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xx, 394 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia. By Adeeb Khalid. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xii, 241 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

The Headless State: Aristocratic Orders, Kinship Society, and Misrepesentations of Nomadic Inner Asia. By David Sneath. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xi, 273 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Ōbaku Zen Master Tetsugen Dōkō. By Helen J. Baroni. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. vii, 259 pp. $77.50 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938. By Thomas W. Burkman. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. xv, 289 pp. $58.00 (cloth).

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