Book Reviews—China
Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China. By Eugenia Lean. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xiv, 290 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1062-1065
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Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film. By Sylvia Li-chun Lin. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xi, 240 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1065-1066
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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture. By Sheldon H. Lu. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 264 pp. $56.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1067-1068
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China at War: Regions of China, 1937–1945. Edited by Stephen R. MacKinnon, Diana Lary, and Ezra F. Vogel. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii, 380 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1069-1070
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Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology. By Julia K. Murray. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xii, 194 pp. $58.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1070-1072
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Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity. By Alan M. Wachman. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii, 254 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1072-1074
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The Culture of War: Empire and the Military under the Qing Dynasty. By Joanna Waley-Cohen. London: I. B. Taurus, 2006. xiii, 160 pp. $74.95 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1074-1076
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Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843–1949. By Wen-hsin Yeh. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xiii, 305 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1076-1077
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The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Zhang Zhen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 447 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1077-1079
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Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China. By Yongnian Zheng. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xviii, 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1080-1081
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
The Yuezhi: Origins, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria. By Craig G. R. Benjamin. Louvain: Brepols, 2006. xviii, 245 pp. $72.00 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1081-1084
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Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market. By Ole Bruun. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. x, 249 pp. $64.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1084-1086
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Our Great Qing: The Mongols, Buddhism, and the State in Late Imperial China. By Johan Elverskog. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. 242 pp. $52.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1086-1087
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Unbounded Loyalty: Frontier Crossings in Liao China. By Naomi Standen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. 279 pp. $53.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1088-1089
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Book Reviews—Japan
Science and the Building of a New Japan. By Morris Low. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiv, 259 pp. $69.95 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1089-1091
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Japan-ness in Architecture. By Arata Isozaki. Edited by David B. Stewart. Translated by Sabu Kohso. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. xv, 349 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1091-1093
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JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life. Edited by Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005. xix, 370 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1093-1096
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Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders. Edited by Sven Saller and J. Victor Koschman. London: Routledge, 2007. xvi, 288 pp. $170.00 (cloth), $43.95 (paper).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1096-1098
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War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005. By Franziska Seraphim. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. 409 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95.
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1098-1100
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Book Reviews—Korea
Land and Life: A Historical Geographical Exploration of Korea. By Choe Yeong-jun. Translated by Sara Kim. Fremont, Calif.: Jain Publishing, 2005. xx, 332 pp. $80.00 (cloth).
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- 23 July 2008, pp. 1100-1102
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