Book Reviews—Japan
Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan. By Hiroshi Aoyagi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. xi, 290 pp. $42.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 623-624
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Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation. By Stephen G. Covell. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 330 pp. $50.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 624-626
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Discourses of Seduction—History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature. By Hosea Hirata. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x, 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 626-629
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Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism. By Mark McNally. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. viii, 287 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 629-630
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Metaphorical Circuit: Negotiations Between Literature and Science in 20th Century Japan. By Joseph A. Murphy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2004. 238 pp. $27.00 (paper).
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Hiratsuka Raichō and Early Japanese Feminism. By Hiroko Tomida. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2004. xii, 482 pp. $180.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 632-633
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Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tensbin and His Circle. By Victoria Weston. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2004. xvii, 321 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—Korea
Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present. Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. xxxi, 159 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $22.95 (papaer).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 635-636
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Book Reviews—South Asia
Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. By Sanjib Baruah. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi, 265 pp. Rs 495 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 636-638
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Acts of Authority Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India. By Nandi Bhatia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 206 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 638-640
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State, Community and Neighbourhood in Princely North India, c. 1900–1950. By Ian Copland. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii, 259 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 640-641
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Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. By Pika Ghosh. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 255 pp., 91 black & white illustrations and drawings. $49.95 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 641-643
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Community and Public Culture: The Marwaris in Calcutta, c. 1897–1997. By Anne Hardgrove. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xxvi, 323 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 643-645
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Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society. By Mark Liechty. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. xviii, 292 pp. $21.95 (paper), $60.00 (cloth).
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Guardians of Tamilnadu: Folk Deities, Folk Religion, Hindu Themes. By Eveline Masilamani-Meyer. Halle, Germany: Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle, 2004. 279 pp. E 15.80.
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Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India. By Christopher Pinney. London: Reaktion, 2004. 239 pp. $29.00 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority among the Makassar. By Thomas Gibson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xi, 263 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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Looking for Money: Capitalism and Modernity in an Orang Asli Village. By Alberto G. Gomes. Subang Jaya, Malaysia: Center for Orang Asli Concerns; and Melbourne, Australia: Trans Pacific Press, 2004. xix, 236 pp. Photographs, maps, and illustrations. $19.95 (paper).
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Researching Indonesia: A Guide To Political Analysis. By Gerald L. Houseman. Studies in Asian History and Development, vol. 6Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 186 pp. $109.95 (cloth).
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Atlas of Thailand: Spatial Structures and Development. Edited by Doryane Kermel-Torres. Paris: IRD Editions. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2004. 209 pp. $45.00 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 656-658
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