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Volume 75 - Issue 3 - August 2016

Book Reviews—China

Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination. By Paize Keulemans . Harvard East Asian Monographs 369. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii, 338 pp. ISBN: 9780674417120 (cloth).

Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. By Wai-yee Li . Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 92. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. vii, 638 pp. ISBN: 9780674492042 (cloth).

The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics. By Liang Luo . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xviii, 367 pp. ISBN: 9780472072170 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600. By Joseph P. McDermott . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi, 466 pp. ISBN: 9781107046221 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing. By Charles D. Musgrove . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. ix, 316 pp. ISBN: 9780824836283 (cloth).

Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China. By C. Pierce Salguero . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 245 pp. ISBN: 9780812246117 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China. By Lisa Tran . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. viii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781442245891 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China. By Hans van de Ven . New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xiv, 396 pp. ISBN: 9780231137386 (cloth; also available in paper).

Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. By Xu Guoqi . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. xiii, 352 pp. ISBN: 9780674052536 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Tongzhi Living: Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China. By Tiantian Zheng . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 244 pp. ISBN: 9780816691999 (cloth; also available in paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China: A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation. By Peter Schwieger . New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xx, 352 pp. ISBN: 9780231168526 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

Reclaiming the Forest: The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya. Edited by Åshild Kolås and Yuanyuan Xie . New York: Berghahn, 2015. xiv, 198 pp. ISBN: 9781782386308 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—Japan

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushidō in Modern Japan. By Oleg Benesch . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. viii, 284 pp. ISBN: 9780198706625 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book).

The Princess Nun: Bunchi, Buddhist Reform, and Gender in Early Edo Japan. By Gina Cogan . Harvard East Asian Monographs 366. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xvi, 309 pp. ISBN: 9780674491977 (cloth).

The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan. By Katsuya Hirano . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. viii, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780226060569 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book).

The “Greatest Problem”: Religion and State Formation in Meiji Japan. By Trent E. Maxey . Harvard East Asian Monographs 365. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. xiii, 330 pp. ISBN: 9780674491991 (cloth).

Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake. By Gregory Smits . Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. x, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824838171 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

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Volume 75 - Issue 3 - August 2016

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea