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Volume 75 - Issue 4 - November 2016

Book Reviews—China

Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethics of Child Rearing in Contemporary China. By Teresa Kuan . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. 255 pp. ISBN: 9780520283480 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County. By Toby Lincoln . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. ix, 268 pp. ISBN: 9780824841003 (cloth).

Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China. By Manling Luo . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii, 242 pp. ISBN: 9780295994147 (cloth, also available in paper).

China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy. By Daniel C. Lynch . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2015. 252 pp. ISBN: 9780804794190 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

The Rise of Cantonese Opera. By Wing Chung Ng . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. 288 pp. ISBN: 9780252039119 (cloth, also available as e-book).

The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China. By David A. Pietz . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. xi, 367 pp. ISBN: 9780674058248 (cloth).

Chinese Village, Global Market: New Collectives and Rural Development. By Tony Saich and Biliang Hu . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xvii, 215 pp. ISBN: 9781137035141 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film. By Bert M. Scruggs . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 205 pp. ISBN: 9780824851620 (cloth).

Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. By Brett Sheehan . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. 327 pp. ISBN: 9780674967601 (cloth).

Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. By Bryan Tilt . New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xv, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780231170109 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China. By Stuart H. Young . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. viii, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780824841201 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924: Buddhism, Socialism, and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building. By Ivan Sablin . London: Routledge, 2016. xii, 220 pp. ISBN: 9781138952201 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—Japan

Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture. By Thomas R. Havens . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. 227 pp. ISBN: 9780824841010 (cloth).

Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan. By Michael Wert . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780674726703 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Movie Migrations: Transnational Genre Flows and South Korean Cinema. By Hye Seung Chung and David Scott Diffrient . New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2015. vii, 291 pp. ISBN: 9780813569987 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea. By Henry H. Em . Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. xi, 265 pp. ISBN: 9780822353577 (cloth, also available in paper).

Berlin Koreans and Pictured Koreans. By Frank Hoffmann . Vol. 1 of Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950, edited by Andreas Schirmer. Vienna: Praesens, 2015. xi, 241 pp. ISBN: 9783706908733 (paper, also available as e-book).

God Pictures in Korean Contexts: The Ownership and Meaning of Shaman Paintings. By Laurel Kendall , Jongsung Yang , and Yul Soo Yoon . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. ix, 160 pp.. ISBN: 9780824847647 (cloth, also available in paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts. By Sudeshna Guha . New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015. xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9789351501640 (cloth, also available as e-book).

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Volume 75 - Issue 4 - November 2016

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia