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Volume 7 - July 2010

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Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay. By Ashwini Tambe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. xxvii + 179. ISBN 10: 081665137X; 13: 9780816651375.

Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan. By Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 318. ISBN 10: 0824832051; 13: 9780824832056.

Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience of Shanghai. By Mark Swislocki. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi + 304. ISBN 10: 0804760128; 13: 978-0804760126.

The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan. By Ken C. Kawashima. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. x + 297. ISBN 10: 0822344173; 13: 9780822344179.

Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan. By William Wayne Farris. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2009. Pp. ix + 137. ISBN 10: 1929280491; 13: 9781929280490.

Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan. By R. Keller Kimbrough. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan: 2008. Pp. xiii + 374. ISBN 10: 1929280483; 13: 9781929280483.

Hikaku keizai hatten ron: rekishiteki apurōchi 比較経済発展論：歴史的アプローチ (Theory of Comparative Economic Development: An Historical Approach). By Saitō Osamu 斉藤修. Iwanami Shoten, 2008. Pp. xiv + 334. ISBN 10: 4000099159; 13: 9784000099158.

The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir. By Lawrence J. McCrea, Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 71. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 470. ISBN 10: 0-674-03273X; 13: 978-0-674-032736.

Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China. By Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, and Richard Smith, eds. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008. Pp. xi + 414. ISBN 10: 9004167765; 13: 9789004167766.

The Power of the Buddhas: The Politics of Buddhism During the Koryŏ Dynasty (918–1392). By Sem Vermeersch. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. Pp. xxii + 485. ISBN 10: 0674031881; 13: 9780674031883.

The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan. By Scott O'Bryan. Honolulu, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 261. ISBN 10: 0824832827; 13: 9780824832827.

The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900–1950. By Di Wang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiii + 355. ISBN 10: 0804758433; 13: 9780804758437.

Criminal Justice in China: A History. By Klaus Mühlhahn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 365. ISBN 10: 067403323X; 13: 9780674033238.

Memory Maps: the State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan. By Mariko Asano Tamanoi. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. Pp. 211. ISBN 10: 0824832671; 13: 9780824832674.

Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian Business in the Colonial Era. By Claude Markovits. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xii + 292. ISBN 10: 0230205984; 13: 9780230205987.

The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class. By Daria Berg and Chloë Starr, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xvi + 299. ISBN 10: 0415545412; 13: 9780415545419.

The Middle Mekong River Basin: Studies in Tai History and Culture.* Edited by Constance M. Wilson. Dekalb, IL.: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, 2009. Pp. 412. ISBN 10: 1891134302; 13: 9781891134302.

Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900. By Seema Alevi. Houndmills, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xiii + 384. ISBN 10: 0230554385; 13: 9780230554382.

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The Modernity of Sanskrit. By Simona Sawhney. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. xi + 213. ISBN 10: 0816649960; 13: 9780816649969.

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