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Volume 68 - Issue 3 - August 2009

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Book Reviews—Japan

When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism. By Gregory Golley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. ix, 394 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture. By Sari Kawana. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. x, 271 pp. $67.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan. By Elizabeth Oyler. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. xi, 218 pp. $51.00 (cloth).

Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. By Kenneth B. Pyle. New York: Public Affairs, 2007, x, 433 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. By Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. ix, 277 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion. Edited by Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen. New York: Routledge, 2006. xvii, 397 pp. $180.00 (cloth).

Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937. By Mark Silver. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xiii, 217 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

The Meiji Constitution: The Japanese Experience of the West and the Shaping of the Modern State. By Takii Kazuhiro. Translated by David Noble. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2007. xix, 180 pp. ¥1,905.

Book Reviews—Korea

Modern Korean Society: Its Development and Prospect. Edited by Hyuk-Rae Kim and Bok Song. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2006. viii, 1 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyŏngnae Rebellion of 1812. By Sun Joo Kim. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xiii, 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India. By Peggy Froerer. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007. xx, 1 pp. $89.95 (cloth).

The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan. By Sikandar Hayat. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxi, 386 pp. $22.00 (cloth).

The Architecture of the Indian Sultanates. Edited by Abha Narain Lambah and Alka Patel. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2006. 116 pp. $66.00 (cloth).

Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India. By Christian Lee Novetzke. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xxii, 309 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Kriyāviṉ taṟkālat tamiḻ akarāti (tamiḻ-tamiḻ-āṅkilam): Cre-A Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil (Tamil-Tamil-English). 2nd ed. Edited by S. Ramakrishnan. Chennai: Cre-A Publishers, 2008. lxiii, 1328 pp. Rs. 495 (paper).

Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramānand's Poetry. By A. Whitney Sanford. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2008. ix, 207 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat. By Ornit Shani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 215 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).

Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy. By Pritam Singh. New York: Routledge, 2008. xviii, 223 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

Śāstrārambha: Inquiries into the Preamble in Sanskrit. Edited by Walter Slaje. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. xv, 255 pp. €64.00 (paper).

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