Book Reviews—Japan
Corporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future. By Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001. 360 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1055-1056
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Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey. By Ienaga Saburō. Translated and introduced by Richard H. Minear. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. x, 203 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1057-1058
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Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945–1970. By Yoshikuni Igarashi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 296 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1058-1059
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Coming Out in Japan: The Story of Satoru and Ryuta. By Satoru Ito and Ryuta Yanase. Translated by Francis Conlan. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001. xvii, 337 pp. $29.00 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1060-1061
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Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan. By Terry Kawashima. Harvard East Asian Monographs. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. 325 pp. $39.50 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1061-1063
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Religion and Social Crisis in Japan: Understanding Japanese Society Through the Aum Affair. Edited by Robert J. Kisala and Mark R. Mullins. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. 239 pp. $68.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1063-1064
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No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan. By Daniel Touro Linger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xix, 442 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1065-1066
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The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society. By Pierre François Souyri. Translated by Käthe Roth. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. 336 pp. $37.50.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1066-1067
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Book Reviews—Korea
Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag. By Kang Cholhwan and Pierre Rigoulot. Translated by Yair Reiner. New York: Basic Books, 2001. xvi, 238 pp. $24 (cloth). - The Great North Korean Famine: Famine, Politics, and Foreign Policy. By Andrew S. Natsios. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2001. xxi, 295 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). - North Korea through the Looking Glass. By Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2000. ix, 256 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1068-1069
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Understanding Korean Politics: An Introduction. Edited by Soong Hoom Kil and Chung-In Moon. Korean Studies Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. ix, 355 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1070-1071
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Paekpom Ilchi: The Autobiography of Kim Ku. By Kim Ku. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Jongsoo Lee. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2000. lxxxii, 381 pp. $62.50 (cloth); $44.50 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1071-1073
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Korean Workers: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. By Hagen Koo. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xii, 240 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
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Syngman Rhee: The Prison Years of a Young Radical. By Chong-Sik Lee. Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 2001. xix, 207 pp. ₩10,000 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1074-1076
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North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress. By Hy-Sang Lee. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2000. xiii, 249 pp. $72.50 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1076-1078
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Kugŏ kyŏng'ŏpŏp sayong ŭi chŏllyakchŏk t'ŭksŏng (Strategies in the use of Korean honorifics). By Jungbok Lee (Yi Jongbok). Kugŏhak ch'ongsŏ (Korean Linguistics series) 40. Seoul: T'aehaksa, 2001. 490 pp. ₩20,000.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1078-1079
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Chosŏn sidae kungjung kirokhwa yŏn'gu (Documentary paintings of court ceremonies of the Chosŏn dynasty). By Park Jounghye. Seoul: Ilchisa, 2000. 615 pp. ₩32.000.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1080-1082
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Korea: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. By Keith Pratt and Richard Rutt with additional material by James Hoare. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999. xx, 568 pp., 300 illus. $65.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1082-1083
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Book Reviews—South Asia
Explorations in the History of South Asia: Essays in Honour of Dietmar Rothermund. Edited by Georg Berkemer, Tilman Frash, Hermann Kulke, and Jurgan Lutt. New Delhi: Manohar, 2001. 417 pp.
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1083-1085
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Public Office, Private Interest: Bureaucracy and Corruption in India. By S. K. Das. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001. 252 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1085-1087
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Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment, and British Imperialism in India 1600–1850. By Mark Harrison. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 263 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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- 26 March 2010, pp. 1087-1089
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