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Volume 60 - Issue 4 - November 2001

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Book Reviews—China

The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937. By Shu-Mei Shih. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. xiii, 427 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Inventing China Through History: The May Fourth Approach to Historiography. By Q. Edward Wang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xi, 304 pp. $65.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Reform, Legitimacy, and Dilemmas: China's Politics and Society. Edited by Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian. Singapore: Singapore University Press and London: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2000. x, 375 pp. $100.00 (cloth).

The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan. By Teresa Wright. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. vii, 193 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century. By Richard C. Foltz. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. x, 186 pp. $24.95 (paper).

New Light on Manchu Historiography and Literature: The Discovery of Three Documents in Old Manchu Script. By Tatiana A. Pang and Giovanni Stary. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1998. 340 pp. DM 138 (cloth).

In the Service of His Country: The Biography of Dasang Damdul Tsarong, Commander General of Tibet. By Dundul Namgyal Tsarong. Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2000. 149 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Struggle and Purpose in Postwar Japanese Unionism. By Michael H. Gibbs. Japanese Research Monograph. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Center for Japanese Studies, 2000. xii, 322 pp. $20.00 (paper).

History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life. By Harry Harootunian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xiii, 182 pp. $22.50 (cloth).

Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations. By Joseph M. Henning. New York: New York University Press, 2000. xii, 243 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society. By Nam-Lin Hur. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 302 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. By Sharon Kinsella. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. xii, 228 pp. $39.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868–1945. By Michael Lewis. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. xviii, 340 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West, 1860–1930. By Max Put. Leiden: Hotei Press, 2000. 151 pp.

Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū. By Stephen Snyder. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. viii, 195 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Being Modern in Japan: Culture and Society from the 1910s to the 1930s. Edited by Elise K. Tipton and John Clark. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. 244 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Edited by Stephen Vlastos. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. xvii, 328 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Cho Kwang-jo: Silch'ŏnjŏk chisigin ŭi salm, isang kwa hyŏnsil sai esŏ [Cho Kwang-jo: An activist intellectual's life, between ideals and reality], Chǒng Tu-hŭi, Seoul: Ak'anet, 2000. 307 pp. ₩ 18,000

A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World: Yi Hang-no and the West. By Chai-sik Chung. Korea Research Monograph 20. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. ix, 268 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Syncretism: The Religious Context of Christian Beginnings in Korea. By David Chung. Edited by Kang-Nam Oh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xiii, 263 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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