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Volume 72 - Issue 3 - August 2013

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Book Reviews—China

Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China. By Shih-shan Susan Huang. Harvard East Asian Monographs 342. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. xxv, 526 pp., 368 ill. (80 color, 46 halftone, 242 line art). $69.95 (cloth).

Feichang yu zhengchang: Shanghai ‘Wenge’ shiqi de shehui bianqian [The extraordinary and the ordinary: Social change in Shanghai during the ‘Cultural Revolution’]. By Jin Dalu. Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2011. Vol. 1: 406 pp. Vol. 2: 459 pp. RMB 88.00 (paper).

The Soul of Beijing Opera: Theatrical Creativity and Continuity in the Changing World. By Li Ruru. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xvi, 335 pp. $28.00 (paper).

The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition. By Li Zehou, translated by Maija Bell Samei. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010. xix, 257 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History. By Susan L. Mann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xx, 235 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $28.99 (paper).

Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China. By Victor Nee and Sonja Opper. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. xv, 431 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China. By Dagmar Schäfer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. vii, 344 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade. By Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxxiii, 545 pp. $80.00 (cloth).

Ming Princes and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite. By Richard G. Wang. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxx, 301 pp. $74.00 (cloth).

Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China. By Andrew Wedeman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012. xiii, 257 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924. By Peter Zarrow. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. xiv, 395 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India. By Barbara Gerke. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xviii, 362 pp. $144.00 (cloth).

The Spread of Buddhism among Western Mongolian Tribes between the Thirteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Baatr U. Kitinov. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2010. 324 pp. $139.95 (cloth).

China's ‘Tibetan’ Frontiers: Sharing the Contested Ground. By Beth Meriam. Leiden: Global Oriental (Brill), 2012. xxii, 330 pp. $121.00 (cloth).

The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal. By Charles Ramble. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. iv, 394 pp. $89.00 (cloth).

China's Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands. By Xiuyu Wang. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xv, 291 pp. $84.00 (cloth); $42.99 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Zeami: Performance Notes. By Tom Hare. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 508 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan. By Hoyt Long. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. viii, 298 pp.

Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. By David Barnett Lurie. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. xxiii, 497 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Books and Boats: Sino-Japanese Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Ōba Osamu. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Portland, Me.: MerwinAsia, 2012. xi, 324 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

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