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Volume 67 - Issue 2 - May 2008

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Book Reviews—China

The Sea of Learning: Mobility and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Guangzhou. By Steven B. Miles. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xviii, 450 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture. By Lisa Rofel. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 264 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. Edited by Vivienne Shue and Christine Wong. New York: Routledge, 2007. xii, 195 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Courts and Criminal Justice in Contemporary China. By Susan Trevaskes. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xi, 227.$70.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Regulating Land and Pollution in China: Lawmaking, Compliance and Enforcement; Theory and Cases. By Benjamin van Rooij. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2006. xiv, 451 pp. $79.50 (paper).

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948. By Yan Haiping. New York: Routledge, 2006. xx, 299 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

The Chan Interpretations of Wang Wei's Poetry: A Critical Review, by Yang Jingqing. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2007. xvi, 280 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature. By Judith T. Zeitlin. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. 296 pp. $57.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967–69: A Function of Language, Power and Violence. ByKerry Brown. Folkstone, Kent, U.K.: Global Oriental, 2006. 162 pp.£50.00 (cloth).

Landscapes Reflected in Old Mongolian Maps. Edited byFutaki Hiroshi and Kamimura Akira. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2005. viii, 216 pp., with CD-ROM.

A History of Modern Tibet. Vol. 2, The Calm Before the Storm, 1951–1955. By Melvyn C. Goldstein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xxx, 674 pp. o$60.00 (cloth).

Kālacakra and the Tibetan Calendar. By Edward Henning. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xv, 391 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928–1949. By Hsiao-ting Lin. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.2006. xv, 285 pp. $32.95 (paper).

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Vol. 5, A Grammar of Lepcha. By Heleen Plaisier. Leiden: Brill, 2007. 272 pp. $139.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing. Edited by Rebecca L. Copeland. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. x, 281 pp.$60.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan. By Miyako Inoue. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 2006. xvii, 340 pp.$60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Building a Modern Japan: Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Meiji Era and Beyond. Edited by Morris Low. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiv, 242 pp.$75.00 (cloth).

Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 2005. xxiv, 370 pp.$49.95 (cloth).

Deconstructing Nationality. Edited by Naoki Sakai, Brett de Bary, and Iyotani Toshiyo. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005. xv, 256 pp.$62.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. By Miriam Silverberg. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xviii, 369 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

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