Book Reviews—China
China: Its Environment and History. By Robert B. Marks. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. xxi, 345 pp. $42.95 (cloth).
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Places of Memory in Modern China: History, Politics, and Identity. Edited by Marc Andre Matten. Leiden: Brill, 2012. x, 285 pp. $151.00 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 185-187
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Politicized Society: The Long Shadow of Taiwan's One-Party Legacy. By Mikael Mattlin. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2011. xiv, 303 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $32.00 (paper).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 187-188
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Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China. By Michael Nylan. New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 2011. 148 pp. $34.00 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 188-190
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Going Private in China: The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform. Edited by Jean C. Oi. Stanford, Calif.: Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, distributed by the Brookings Institution Press, 2011. xxiv, 295 pp. $28.95 (paper).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 190-191
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Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and Leisure Life in Late Ming China. By J.P. Park. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. xii, 309 pp., 16 color plates, 99 black and white illus. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 191-193
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Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei. By Benjamin L. Read. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. xvi, 356 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds. Edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf and Sienna R. Craig. Epistemologies of Healing, vol. 10. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. xiii, 371 pp. $100.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). - Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice. Edited by Laurent Pordié. Needham Institute Research Series. London: Routledge, [2008] 2011. xvi, 271 pp. $188.00 (cloth); $44.95 (paper).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 194-198
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Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax. Edited by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler. Leiden: Brill, 2011. viii, 322 pp. $154.00 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 199-200
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Book Reviews—Japan
Japan's Siberian Intervention, 1918–1922: “A Great Disobedience against the People.” By Paul E. Dunscomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. xiii, 249 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).
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Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? By Paul Midford. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011. xvi, 250 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan. By Gene Park. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.2011. xiv, 321 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2600th Anniversary. By Kenneth J. Ruoff. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
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Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. By Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xvii, 446 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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Book Reviews—Korea
Kim Ki-duk. By Hye Seung Chung. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. ix, 161 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).
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Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea. By Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland. Washington DC: Peterson Institute For International Economics, 2011. xvii, 182 pp. $23.95 (paper). - Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics. By Patrick McEachern. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiv, 301 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture. By Nathan Hesselink. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv, 201 pp, 1 audio CD. $75.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 213-215
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In the Tree: Selected Poems of Kim Hyung-Young. Edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Chan E. Park. Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry, vol. 1. Columbus: Foreign Language Publications, The Ohio State University, 2010. 115 pp. (includes DVD insert). $15.95 (paper). - There Remain Words to Say: Selected Poems by Yoo An-Jin. Edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Chan E. Park. Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry, vol. 2. Columbus: Foreign Language Publications, The Ohio State University, 2011. 117 pp. (includes DVD insert) $15.95 (paper).
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Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women.” By Joshua D. Pilzer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv, 191 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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The Korean State and Social Policy: South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy. By Stein Ringen, Huck-Ju Kwon, Ilcheong Yi, Taekyoon Kim, and Jooha Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii, 137 pp. $52.50 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 219-220
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