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Volume 64 - Issue 2 - May 2005

Book Reviews—China

A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking. By François Jullien. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. x, 202 pp. $22.00 (paper).

The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture. By John Kieschnick. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. viii, 343 pp. $67.50 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Fictions of Enlightenment: Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber. By Qiancheng Li. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xii, 250 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

The Troublesome Legacy of Commissioner Lin: The Opium Trade and Opium Suppression in Fujian Province, 1820s–1920s. By Joyce A. Madancy. Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 227. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. xvi, 430 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites in Eighteenth-Century China. By Iona Man-Cheong. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii, 298 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China: The Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family. By Ning Qiang. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xv, 178 pp. $44.00 (cloth).

Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia. By Marilyn Rhie. Handbook of Oriental Studies, section 4, China, no. 12. Pt. 2, 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1999–2002. 1,200 pp. $351.00 (cloth).

The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious Culture. By Richard von Glahn. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xii, 385 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China. By David Der-Wei Wang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. vii, 402 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

On Sacred Grounds: Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius. Edited by Thomas A. Wilson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2002. xiv, 424 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Mongolian Historical Writing from 1200 to 1700. By Shagdaryn Bira. Translated by John Krueger. Studies on East Asia, no. 24. 2nd ed. Bellingham: Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 2002. xxii, 249 pp. $40.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan's Economy. By Richard A. Colignon and Chikako Usui. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR, 2003. viii, 224 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan. By James Dobbins. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xvi, 259 pp. $25.00 (cloth).

Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan. By Hiroshi Komai. Translated by Wilkinson Jens. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2001. xiv, 230 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Kazuo Ohno's World: From Without and Within. By Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno. Translated by John Barnett. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. 344 pp. $34.00 (cloth).

The Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan. By Brian D. Ruppert. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. xviii, 505 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Janine Sawada. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. xi, 387 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan, and the Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century. Edited by Mark Selden and Alvin Y. So. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. vii, 293 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

New Times in Modern Japan. By Stefan Tanaka. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. x, 225 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

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Book Reviews—China

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