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Volume 59 - November 2000

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Book Reviews—Japan

Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions—Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection. By Michiyo Morioka and Paul Berry. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum/University of Washington Press, 1999. 333 pp. $50.00.

An Introduction to Japanese Society. By Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 1997. x, 285 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Japan's Economic Diplomacy With China, 1945–1978. By Yoshihide Soeya. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix, 187 pp. $60.00.

Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Sōseki. By Angela Yiu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. ix, 247 pp. $42.00.

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. By Jennifer Robertson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xvi, 278 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan. By John Whittier Treat. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press1999. xi, 241 pp. $27.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Sculpture of Early Medieval Rajasthan. By Cynthia Packert Atherton. Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology. Continuation of Studies in South Asian Culture. Edited by Jan Fontein. Vol. 21. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997. xiv, 130 pp. $88.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics ofKitasono Katue (1902—1978). Harvard East Asian Monographs 178. By John Solt. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. xiv, 395 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Community Conflicts and the State in India. Edited by Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xi, 287 pp. $29.95(cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu. Compiled, translated, and with an introduction by Makoto Ueda. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 273 pp. $17.50.

Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyō-ha (1300–1700). By S. A. Thornton. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1999. xvi, 290 pp.

Women of the Sacred Groves, Divine Priestesses of Okinawa. By Susan Sered. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya. By Ann Sherif. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. 224 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan. By Kathleen S. Uno. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. x, 237 pp. $47.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Christianity in Meiji Japan: Essays on the Modern Japanese Church. By Yamaji Aizan. Translated by Graham Squires. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. viii, 196 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India. By Niels Brimnes. London: Curzon Press, 1999. viii, 280 pp.

Indian Art Worlds in Contention: Local, Regional and National Discourses on Orissan Patta Paintings. By Helle Bundgaard. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 80. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999. 247 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan. By John Whittier Treat. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi, 241 pp. $27.50.

The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration. By Anne Walthall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 412 pp. $17.00.

Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-century Japan. By Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 263 pp. $60.00.

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