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Volume 79 - Issue 4 - November 2020

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms. By Xiaofei Tian. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. 454 pp. ISBN: 9780674977037 (paper).

Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. By Christian P. Sorace. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2017. 248 pp. ISBN: 9781501707537 (paper).

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China. By Fei-Hsien Wang. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019. 368 pp. ISBN: 9780691171821 (cloth).

City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions. By Chuck Wooldridge. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. 242 pp. ISBN: 9780295741741 (paper).

Uyghur Conceptions of Family and Society. By Xiaowei Zang. London: Routledge, 2017. 177 pp. ISBN: 9780367356156 (cloth).

Intellectual Property Rights in China. By Zhenqing Zhang. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 312. pp. ISBN: 9780812251067 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan. By Charlotte Eubanks. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 344 pp. ISBN: 9780824878283 (cloth).

Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Human Rights Abuses on the Record. By Sandra Fahy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 392 pp. ISBN: 9780231176347 (cloth).

The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un. By Anna Fifield. New York: PublicAffairs, 2019. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781541742482 (cloth).

Japanese Culture through Videogames. By Rachael Hutchinson. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. 294 pp. ISBN: 9780367111380 (cloth).

Inside North Korea's Theocracy: The Rise and Sudden Fall of Jang Song-thaek. By Ra Jong-yil. Translated by Jinna Park. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. 216 pp. ISBN: 9781438473734 (paper).

Powers of the Real: Cinema, Gender, and Emotion in Interwar Japan. By Diane Wei Lewis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 282 pp. ISBN: 9780674241169 (cloth).

Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel. By Daniel Poch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 290 pp. ISBN: 9780231193702 (cloth).

The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet. By Marc Steinberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 297 pp. ISBN: 9781517906955 (cloth).

Food Safety after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk. By Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. 190 pp. ISBN: 9780824872137 (cloth).

Historia cultural de los hispanohablantes en Japón. By Araceli Tinajero. New York: Escribana Books, 2019. 306 pp. ISBN: 9781940075778 (paper).

Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras. By Nobuko Toyosawa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. 305 pp. ISBN: 9780674241121 (cloth).

Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan. By Takeshi Watanabe. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. 303 pp. ISBN: 9780674244405 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism: The Transmission of Sri Lankan Buddhism in Toronto. By D. Mitra Barua. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2019. 280 pp. ISBN: 9780773556577 (paper).

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