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Volume 66 - Issue 4 - November 2007

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Book Reviews—China

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. By Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. xvii, 348 pp. $27.00 (paper).

The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. By Thomas Michael. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xii, 170 pp. $64.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China. By Beth E. Notar. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. vii, 186 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).

Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County. By William T. Rowe. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii, 437 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. 3 vols. Edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1637 pp. $175.00 (cloth, boxed set).

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence. By Lothar von Falkenhausen. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006. xxiii, 555 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).

Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Edited by David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 412 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China. By Lingzhen Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii, 280 pp. $58.00 (cloth).

Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850–1910. By Catherine Yeh. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. x, 430 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives. By Anthony C. Yu. Chicago: Open Court Books, 2006. xiv, 192 pp. $18.95 (paper).

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937. By Zhang Zhen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxxiii, 488 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Teaching and Learning in Tibet: A Review of Research and Policy Publications. By Ellen Bangsbo. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2004. viii, 150 pp. $23.00 (paper).

The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: “My Service in the Army,” by Dzengšeo. Translated and edited by Nicola Di Cosmo. London: Routledge, 2006. x, 140 pp. $140.00 (cloth).

Tibetan Treasure Literature: Revelation, Tradition, and Accomplishment in Visionary Buddhism. By Andreas Doctor. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2005. 245 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877. By Hodong Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning. By Kenneth Liberman. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xiii, 323 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan: Étude sur les Khwajas Naqshbandis du Turkestan oriental. By Alexandre Papas. Paris: Librarie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Jean Maisonneuve successeur, 2005. iii, 291 pp. €48.00.

Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland. Edited by S. Frederick Starr. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 484 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $37.95 (paper).

The Phonology of Mongolian. Edited by Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson and Vivan Franzén. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xix, 314 pp. $192.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. By Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 435 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

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