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Volume 63 - Issue 4 - November 2004

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Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion. By Hugh B. Urban. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xvi, 372 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—China

Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in Twentieth-Century China. By Braester Yomi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, 2003. xii, 264 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China. By Benjamin A. Elman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000. xlii, 847 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation. By Gerth Karl. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. xv, 445 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. Edited by Gold Thomas, Guthrie Doug, Wank David. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 275 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $21.99 (paper).

Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era. By Huang Yasheng. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xx, 383 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Linguistic Engineering: Language and Politics in Mao's China. By Fengyuan Ji. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. viii, 350 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Policies, Prospects, and Possibilities. Edited by Marsh Christopher and Dreyer June Teufel. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2003. xvi, 179 pp. $24.95 (paper).

A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography. By Schaberg David. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 205. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. xvi, 503 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History. By Seiwert Hubert. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xvi, 548 pp. $118.00 (cloth).

Chinese Magical Medicine. By Strickmann Michel. Edited by Faure Bernard. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xii, 418 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue). By Rudolf G. Wagner. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. viii, 261 pp. $81.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition. By Hui Wang. Edited by Huters Theodore. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi, 239 pp. $22.95 (cloth).

The Chinese Garden as Lyric Enclave: A Generic Study of the Story of the Stone. By Chi Xiao. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 93. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies Publications, University of Michigan, 2001. xii, 286 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Chinese Cinema during the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System. By Zhu Ying. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. xii, 230 pp. $64.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse of the Shangpa Masters. Compiled by Zangpo Ngawang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2003. 411 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Identity, Ritual, and State in Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundations of Authority in Gelukpa Monasticism. By Martin A. Mills. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xxi, 404 pp. $114.95 (cloth).

Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century: The Capital of the Dalai Lamas. Edited by Pommaret Françoise. Translated By Solverson Howard Brill's Tibetan Library, no. 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xvi, 245 pp. $86.00 (cloth).

The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Edited by Thurgood Graham and Randy J. LaPolla. Routledge Language Family Series, no. 3. London: Routledge, 2003. xxii, 727 pp. $295.00 (cloth).

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