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Volume 78 - August 2019

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea. By Sungyun Lim. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xi, 173 pp. ISBN: 9780520302525 (paper).

The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan's Global Engagement, 1933–1964. By Jessamyn R. Abel. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. ix, 331 pp.

Figuring Korean Futures: Children's Literature in Modern Korea. By Dafna Zur. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii, 286 pp. ISBN: 9781503601680 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos. By Sarah Schneewind. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xviii, 360 pp. ISBN: 9780674987142 (cloth).

Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History. Edited by Sebastian Veg. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. vi, 244 pp. ISBN: 9789888390762 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. By Rebecca Corbett. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. x, 189 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions. By Roald Maliangkay. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xii, 247 pp. ISBN: 9780824866655 (cloth).

Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration. By Ji-Yeon O. Jo. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2017. xiv, 248 pp.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China: Geography, Cartography, and Literature. By Ao Wang. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2018. ix, 359 pp. ISBN: 9781604979411 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

At the Edge of the Nation: The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity. By Paul B. Richardson. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xvi, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780824872625 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World. By Robert Desjarlais. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780226355733 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Robert Tuck. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxxv, 280 pp. ISBN: 9780231187343 (cloth).

Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists. By Kim Chul. Translated by Yoon Hye-Joon. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018. xix, 129 pp.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism. By Ka-ming Wu. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xv, 186 pp. ISBN: 9780252081408 (paper).

Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories. Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2018. 354 pp. ISBN: 9780472053728 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. By Rajeev Kinra. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xix, 371 pp. ISBN: 9780520286467 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea. By Mark A. Nathan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xii, 193 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

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Volume 78 - August 2019

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Book Reviews—South Asia