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Volume 68 - Issue 2 - May 2009

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Book Reviews—China

The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West. By Larissa N. Heinrich. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xiv, 222 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism. By Barbara Hendrischke. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. x, 410 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China. By Joan Judge. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiii, 400 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

The Story of a Stele: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625–1916. By Michael Keevak. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008. ix, 195 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

City between Worlds: My Hong Kong. By Leo Ou-Fan Lee. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. 332 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age. By Jason McGrath. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xii, 300 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Rightful Resistance in Rural China. By Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvii, 179 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.99 (paper).

Painting Faith: Li Gonglin and Northern Song Buddhist Culture. By An-yi Pan. Sinica Leidensia Series, vol. 77. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxiv, 396 pp. $218.00 (cloth).

The Poetry of He Zhu (1052–1125): Genres, Contexts and Creativity. By Stuart H. Sargent. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiii, 502 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation. By David Shambaugh. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008. xiv, 234 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Beacon Fire and Shooting Star: The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557). By Xiaofei Tian. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 63. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xi, 473 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Brand New China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture. By Jing Wang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xiii, 411 pp. $28.95 (cloth).

Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008. By Xu Guoqi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xi, 377 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Communication in China: Political Economy, Power, and Conflict. By Yuezhi Zhao. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Women in Tibet. Edited by Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xii, 1 pp. $70.50 (cloth); $26.50 (paper).

Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule. By Tubten Khétsun. Translated by Matthew Akester. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xx, 318 pp. $32.50 (cloth).

Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran. By Maria E. Subtelny. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xiv, 411 pp. $139.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Toyota's Assembly Line: A View from the Factory Floor. By Ihara Ryoji. Translated by Hugh Clarke. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2007. xvii, 1 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

Okinawa and the U.S. Military: Identity Making in the Age of Globalization. By Masamichi S. Inoue. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xiii, 296 pp. $48.50 (cloth).

The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan. By Kyu Hyun Kim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xviii, 520 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

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