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Volume 58 - Issue 3 - August 1999

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Sustainable Development in Central Asia. Edited by Shirin Akiner, Sander Tideman, and John Hay. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xx, 239 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
Christopher P. Atwood
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26 March 2010, pp. 825-827
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Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols. By Caroline Humphrey with Urgunge Onon. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv, 396 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Nur Yalman
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26 March 2010, pp. 827-830
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Manchuria: An Ethnic History. Ethnic Studies of Northeast Asia/Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne. By Juha Janhunen. Helsinki: The Fino-Ugrian Society, 1996. xiv, 335 pp.
David C. Wright
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26 March 2010, pp. 830-833
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Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. By Annabel Walker. London: John Murray; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xiv, 393 pp. $19.95 (paper).
David M. Kalivas
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26 March 2010, pp. 833-834
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Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki with Introduction and Commentaries. By Michiko Y. Aoki. Monograph and Occasional Paper Series, Number 53. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 347 pp. $36.00.
Nobuko Miyama Ochner
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26 March 2010, pp. 834-837
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Japan, Internationalism, and the UN. By Ronald Dore. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 192 pp. $24.99.
Kim Reimann
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26 March 2010, pp. 837-838
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Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple. By Louis Fiset. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xvi, 299 pp. $19.95.
Charles Shirō Inouye
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26 March 2010, pp. 838-840
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Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. By Helen Hardacre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Anne Allison
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26 March 2010, pp. 840-843
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The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. By Charles Shirō Inouye. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $40.00.
James O'Brien
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26 March 2010, pp. 843-844
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About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. New York: Routledge, 1997. i, 277 pp. $17.95.
Lisa Yoneyama
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26 March 2010, pp. 844-846
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The Japanese Occupation of Malaya (1941–1945): A Social and Economic History. By Paul H. Kratoska. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xxi, 404 pp. $35.00.
Junko Tomaru
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26 March 2010, pp. 846-848
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The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture; Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Edited by D. P. Martinez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi, 212 pp. $19.95.
Christine R. Yano
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26 March 2010, pp. 848-849
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Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900–1930 Edited by Sharon A. Minichiello. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xiii, 394 pp. $54.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).
Kerry Smith
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26 March 2010, pp. 849-852
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Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941–1945. 2 vols. Edited by Ooi Keat Gin. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1998. xvii, 721 pp. $50.00.
Leigh Wright
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26 March 2010, pp. 852-853
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Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chōmei. By Rajyashree Pandey. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998. xi, 197 pp. $32.95.
Michele Marra
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26 March 2010, pp. 853-855
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Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies. By Helene Bowen Raddeker. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. vi, 282 pp. $85.00.
Nina Cornyetz
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26 March 2010, pp. 855-856
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Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees. By Pamela Rotner Sakamoto. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1998. xvi, 188 pp. $39.95.
David G. Goodman
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26 March 2010, pp. 856-858
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French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan, 1854–95. By Richard Sims. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library-Curzon Press, 1998. vi, 394 pp. $48.00.
Robert Eskildsen
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26 March 2010, pp. 858-859
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Book Reviews—South Asia

The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb. Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State. By Itty Abraham. London: Zed Books, 1998. ix, 180 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Raju G. C. Thomas
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26 March 2010, pp. 859-861
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Girirāj Kiśor's Yātrāem: A Hindi Novel Analyzed. By Theo Damsteegt. Edited by H. W. Bodewitz. Gonda Indological Studies Series, Vol. VI. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997. xiv, 354 pp. Fl. 110 (cloth).
Karine Schomer
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26 March 2010, pp. 861-862
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Sustainable Development in Central Asia. Edited by Shirin Akiner, Sander Tideman, and John Hay. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xx, 239 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the Daur Mongols. By Caroline Humphrey with Urgunge Onon. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. xiv, 396 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Manchuria: An Ethnic History. Ethnic Studies of Northeast Asia/Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne. By Juha Janhunen. Helsinki: The Fino-Ugrian Society, 1996. xiv, 335 pp.

Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. By Annabel Walker. London: John Murray; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. xiv, 393 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki with Introduction and Commentaries. By Michiko Y. Aoki. Monograph and Occasional Paper Series, Number 53. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1997. xii, 347 pp. $36.00.

Japan, Internationalism, and the UN. By Ronald Dore. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 192 pp. $24.99.

Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple. By Louis Fiset. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xvi, 299 pp. $19.95.

Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan. By Helen Hardacre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 310 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. By Charles Shirō Inouye. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $40.00.

About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. New York: Routledge, 1997. i, 277 pp. $17.95.

The Japanese Occupation of Malaya (1941–1945): A Social and Economic History. By Paul H. Kratoska. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xxi, 404 pp. $35.00.

The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture; Gender, Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures. Edited by D. P. Martinez. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi, 212 pp. $19.95.

Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900–1930 Edited by Sharon A. Minichiello. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. xiii, 394 pp. $54.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941–1945. 2 vols. Edited by Ooi Keat Gin. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1998. xvii, 721 pp. $50.00.

Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chōmei. By Rajyashree Pandey. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998. xi, 197 pp. $32.95.

Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies. By Helene Bowen Raddeker. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. vi, 282 pp. $85.00.

Japanese Diplomats and Jewish Refugees. By Pamela Rotner Sakamoto. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1998. xvi, 188 pp. $39.95.

French Policy Towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan, 1854–95. By Richard Sims. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library-Curzon Press, 1998. vi, 394 pp. $48.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb. Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State. By Itty Abraham. London: Zed Books, 1998. ix, 180 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Girirāj Kiśor's Yātrāem: A Hindi Novel Analyzed. By Theo Damsteegt. Edited by H. W. Bodewitz. Gonda Indological Studies Series, Vol. VI. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1997. xiv, 354 pp. Fl. 110 (cloth).

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