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Volume 78 - August 2019

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China. By Andrew Schonebaum. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. viii, 283 pp. ISBN: 9780295995182 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Uyghur Community: Diaspora, Identity and Geopolitics. Edited by Güljanat Kurmangaliyeva Ercilasun and Konuralp Ercilasun. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. xv, 189 pp. ISBN: 9781137531445 (cloth).

Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform. By Theresia Hofer. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xv, 286 pp.

Translation as Citation: Zhuangzi Inside Out. By Haun Saussy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi, 150 pp. ISBN: 9780198812531 (cloth).

The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China. By Rebecca E. Karl. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xii, 216 pp.

Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic. By Hongmei Sun. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. ix, 219 pp. ISBN: 9780295743196 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement, 1930–1945. By Gao Hua. Translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2018. xx, 812 pp. ISBN: 9789629968229 (cloth).

In the Circle of White Stones: Moving through the Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet. By Gillian G. Tan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. xxiv, 147 pp. ISBN: 9780295999487 (paper).

China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965. By Philip Thai. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xix, 380 pp. ISBN: 9780231185844 (cloth).

Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands. By Judd C. Kinzley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. ix, 234 pp.

Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet. By Holly Gayley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. xv, 396 pp. ISBN: 9780231180535 (paper).

The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China. By Michael Szonyi. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017. xv, 303 pp. ISBN: 9780691174518 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road. By Susan Whitfield. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xi, 339 pp. ISBN: 9780520281783 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Raising China's Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s–1950s. By Margaret Mih Tillman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xx, 339 pp. ISBN: 9780231185585 (cloth).

The Red Star and the Crescent: China and the Middle East. Edited by James Reardon-Anderson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xi, 327 pp.

Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. By Ming-sho Ho. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. xvi, 269 pp. ISBN: 9781439917077 (paper).

Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone. By I-Hsien Wu. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2017. xxii, 214 pp. ISBN: 9781604979770 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power. Edited by Vivienne Shue and Patricia M. Thornton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi, 321 pp.

The Resurgence of “Buddhist Government”: Tibetan-Mongolian Relations in the Modern World. By Yumiko Ishihama, with Makoto Tachibana, Ryosuke Kobayashi, and Takehiko Inoue. Osaka, Japan: Union Press, 2019. xiv, 242 pp. ISBN: 9784946428890 (cloth).

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