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Volume 80 - Issue 2 - May 2021

The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 80 - Issue 2 -

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950. By Huaiyin Li. London: Routledge, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781138362451 (paper).
Weiting Guo
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17 May 2021, pp. 458-460
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Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State. By Luzhou Li. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780262043175 (cloth).
Lotus Ruan
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17 May 2021, pp. 460-462
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To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959. By Xiaoyuan Liu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 401 pp. ISBN: 9780231195263 (cloth).
Lei Duan
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17 May 2021, pp. 462-464
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Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine. Edited by William A. McGrath. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xx, 372 pp. ISBN: 9789004404441 (cloth).
Jan M. A. van der Valk
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17 May 2021, pp. 464-466
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Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia. By Orhon Myadar. New York: Routledge, 2021. xii, 119 pp. ISBN: 9780367361662 (cloth).
Baasanjav Terbish
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17 May 2021, pp. 466-468
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Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History. By Wayne Soon. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781503611931 (cloth).
Emily Baum
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17 May 2021, pp. 469-470
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Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area. By Emilia Roza Sulek. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 326 pp. ISBN: 9789462985261 (cloth).
Bianca Horlemann
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17 May 2021, pp. 470-472
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Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960. By Gina Anne Tam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781108478281 (cloth).
Shelly Chan
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17 May 2021, pp. 472-473
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The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier. By Benno Weiner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xx, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781501749391 (cloth).
James Leibold
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17 May 2021, pp. 474-475
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The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. By Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi, 311 pp. ISBN: 9781108478120 (cloth).
Evan N. Dawley
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17 May 2021, pp. 475-477
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. By Allison Alexy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780226699653 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
Suma Ikeuchi
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17 May 2021, pp. 477-479
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24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. viii, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781789202670 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Marvin D. Sterling
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17 May 2021, pp. 479-481
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Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913. By Ann Marie L. Davis. London: Lexington Books, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9781498542142 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
Miriam Wattles
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17 May 2021, pp. 481-483
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The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction. By William O. Gardner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. viii, 223 pp. ISBN: 9781517906245 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
Ikuho Amano
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17 May 2021, pp. 483-485
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Queer Korea. Edited by Todd A. Henry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. xi, 388 pp. ISBN: 9781478002901 (cloth).
Jamie J. Zhao
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17 May 2021, pp. 485-489
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The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War. By Daniel Y. Kim. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781479805365 (cloth).
Gregg A. Brazinsky
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17 May 2021, pp. 489-491
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Reframing Disability in Manga. By Yoshiko Okuyama. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xxi, 238 pp. ISBN: 9780824882365 (cloth, also available in paper).
Jennifer S. Prough
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17 May 2021, pp. 491-493
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The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media. By Nathan Shockey. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231194280 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Paul Clark
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17 May 2021, pp. 493-495
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Hanguk Hip Hop: Global Rap in South Korea. By Myoung-Sun Song. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ix, 198 pp. ISBN: 9783030156961 (cloth).
Hye Eun Choi
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17 May 2021, pp. 495-496
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Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s. By Serk-Bae Suh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxx, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781938169069 (cloth).
Cindi Textor
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17 May 2021, pp. 496-498
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Volume 80 - Issue 2 - May 2021

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950. By Huaiyin Li. London: Routledge, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781138362451 (paper).

Zoning China: Online Video, Popular Culture, and the State. By Luzhou Li. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2019. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780262043175 (cloth).

To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959. By Xiaoyuan Liu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 401 pp. ISBN: 9780231195263 (cloth).

Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine. Edited by William A. McGrath. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xx, 372 pp. ISBN: 9789004404441 (cloth).

Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia. By Orhon Myadar. New York: Routledge, 2021. xii, 119 pp. ISBN: 9780367361662 (cloth).

Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History. By Wayne Soon. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 328 pp. ISBN: 9781503611931 (cloth).

Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area. By Emilia Roza Sulek. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. 326 pp. ISBN: 9789462985261 (cloth).

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–1960. By Gina Anne Tam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781108478281 (cloth).

The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier. By Benno Weiner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xx, 283 pp. ISBN: 9781501749391 (cloth).

The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. By Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi, 311 pp. ISBN: 9781108478120 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. By Allison Alexy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xii, 248 pp. ISBN: 9780226699653 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

24 Bars to Kill: Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins. By Andrew B. Armstrong. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. viii, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781789202670 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850–1913. By Ann Marie L. Davis. London: Lexington Books, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9781498542142 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction. By William O. Gardner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. viii, 223 pp. ISBN: 9781517906245 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Queer Korea. Edited by Todd A. Henry. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. xi, 388 pp. ISBN: 9781478002901 (cloth).

The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War. By Daniel Y. Kim. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 336 pp. ISBN: 9781479805365 (cloth).

Reframing Disability in Manga. By Yoshiko Okuyama. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020. xxi, 238 pp. ISBN: 9780824882365 (cloth, also available in paper).

The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media. By Nathan Shockey. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 9780231194280 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Hanguk Hip Hop: Global Rap in South Korea. By Myoung-Sun Song. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ix, 198 pp. ISBN: 9783030156961 (cloth).

Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s. By Serk-Bae Suh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. xxx, 222 pp. ISBN: 9781938169069 (cloth).

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