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Volume 69 - Issue 1 - February 2010

Book Reviews—China

The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China. By Charlene Makley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xvii, 374 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Talented Women of the Zhang Family. By Susan Mann. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xvi, 322 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650. By D. E. Mungello. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xvi, 169 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

The Writing of Weddings in Middle Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through the Fourteenth Centuries. By Christian de Pee. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xiv, 365 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Providing Public Goods in Transitional China. By Tony Saich. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xvi, 236 pp. $90.00 (cloth).

Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I-Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China. By Richard J. Smith. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2008. xix, 393 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line. By Michael Szonyi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 310 pp. $81.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. By Jay Taylor. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. xii, 722 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics According to the Anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination. By Brian Baumann. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xvii, 890 pp. $279.00 (cloth).

The Kitan Language and Script. By Daniel Kane. Handbuch Der Orientalistick. Leiden: Brill, 2009. xiv, 305 pp. $190.00 (cloth).

Buddhism between Tibet and China. Edited by Matthew T. Kapstein. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2009. xxi, 453 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia. By Erik Esselstrom. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. xii, 233 pp. $59.00 (cloth).

Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. By Elyssa Faison. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 226 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance. By Tomie Hahn. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. 224 pp. DVD. $26.95 (paper); $70.00 (cloth).

Mishima on Stage: The Black Lizard and Other Plays. Edited with an introduction by Lawrence Kominz. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2007. xii, 328 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).

Christ in Japanese Culture: Theological Themes in Shūsaku Endō's Literary Works. By Emi Mase-Hasegawa. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xxvi, 250 pp. $117.00 (cloth).

Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. By Daisuke Miyao. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. xvi, 379 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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Volume 69 - Issue 1 - February 2010

Book Reviews—China

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