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Volume 68 - Issue 4 - November 2009

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Book Reviews—China

Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes. By M. Taylor Fravel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. xvi, 375 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China. Edited by Tze-ki Hon and Robert J. Culp. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xv, 322 pp. $155.00 (cloth).

Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era. By Pierre F. Landry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii, 295 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China. By Wendy Larson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. xx, 336 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. By Amy McNair. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. x, 230 pp. $56.00 (cloth).

Rethinking Recarving: Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the “Wu Family Shrines” and Han China. Edited by Naomi Noble Richard. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Art Museum, 2008. 384 pp. $60.00 (paper).

How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China. By Morten Schlütter. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. x, 289 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe. By Nicolas Standaert. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. viii, 328 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao's Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village. By Ralph A. ThaxtonJr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii, 383 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper).

Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and His Fictional World. By Yiyan Wang. London: Routledge, 2006. x, 318 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China. By Irene S. Wu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009. xx, 187 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination. By Dibyesh Anand. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xix, 1 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Tibetan Transitions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Fertility, Family Planning, and Demographic Change. By Geoff Childs. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 321 pp. $148.00 (cloth).

Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition. By Åshild Kolås. New York: Routledge, 2008. xv, 129 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

The Horse-Head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia. By Peter K. Marsh. London: Routledge, 2009. 188 pp. $100.00 (cloth).

Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century. By Irina Y. Morozova. London: Routledge, 2009. x, 172 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan. By Kim Brandt. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 1 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

The History of Modern Japanese Education: Constructing the National School System, 1872–1890. By Benjamin C. Duke. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xiv, 416 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Ohira Masayoshi: “Sengo Hoshu” to ha nani ka [Ohira Masayoshi: The Thoughts and Behavior of the “Postwar Conservatives”]. By Fukunaga Fumio. Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2008. iii, 300 pp. ¥830.

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