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Volume 65 - Issue 1 - February 2006

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Book Reviews—China

Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics. Edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. vii, 413 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture. Edited by Christopher Lupke. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xii, 377 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge. By Michael Marmé. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xii, 369 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Rituals of Recruitment in Tang China: Reading an Annual Programme in the Collected Statements by Wang Dingbao (870–940). By Oliver J. Moore. Sinica Leidensia, no. 65. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. vi, 407 pp. $116.00 (cloth).

Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia. By Michel Strickmann. Edited by Bernard Faure. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xxx, 218 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. By Janet M. Theiss. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xv, 281 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China. By Ban Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xii, 311 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Chinese Steles: Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form. Edited by C. Wong Dorothy. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xviii, 226 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410. By Peter Jackson. Harlow and New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. xxxiv, 414 pp. $26.00 (paper).

A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. By John R. Perry. Handbuch der Orientalistik, no. 11. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xvi, 521 pp. $133.00 (cloth).

Monk Dancers of Tibet. By Matthieu Ricard. Translated by Hastings Charles.Boston: Shambhala, 2003. 125 pp. $29.95 (cloth). - Tibetan Sacred Dance: A Journey into the Religious and Folk Traditions. By Ellen Pearlman. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 2002. v, 192 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Constructing Suiyuan: The Politics of Northwestern Territory and Development in Early Twentieth-Century China. By Justin Tighe. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. xvi, 297 pp. $99.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Japan's Financial Crisis: Institutional Rigidity and Reluctant Change. By Jennifer A. Amyx. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xix, 408 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. By Michael R. Auslin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. viii, 263 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Murōji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple. By Sherry D. Fowler. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xiv, 293 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action. By Satsuki Kawano. Honolulu: University of Hawai/i Press, 2005. viii, 152 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).

Japanese Horror Cinema. Edited by Jay McRoy. Honolulu: University of Hawai/i Press, 2005. xviii, 220 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).

The Chrysanthemum and the Song: Music, Memory, and Identity in the South American Japanese Diaspora. By Dale A. Olsen. New World Diasporas. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xxviii, 342 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori. By Mark Ravina. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. xvi, 265 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan. By Susumu Shimazono. Japanese Society. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2004. x, 348 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

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