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Volume 74 - Issue 3 - August 2015

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Book Reviews—China

Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire. By Aaron William Moore. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. vi, 378 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

In a Sea of Bitterness: Refugees during the Sino-Japanese War. By Keith R. Schoppa. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 346 pp. $36.50 (cloth).

Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity. By Qin Shao. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. xviii, 307 pp. $79.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper); $28.99 (e-book).

Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook. Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J. C. Choo. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxii, 720 pp. $120.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).

Merry Laughter and Angry Curses: The Shanghai Tabloid Press, 1897–1911. By Juan Wang. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012. x, 232 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $35.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia. By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 314 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $32.50 (paper); $7.00 to $30.00 (e-book).

Book Reviews—Japan

Taiko Boom: Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion. By Shawn Bender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 280 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan. By W. Puck Brecher. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. 267 pp. $42.00 (cloth).

The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries. By Stanleigh H. Jones. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. 303 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle. By Mark Metzler. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xvii, 312 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo. By Ian Jared Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 352 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931–1945. By Aaron Stephen Moore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xii, 314 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction. By Takakazu Yamagishi. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. xvi, 189 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era. Edited by Christopher P. Hanscom, Walter K. Lew, and Youngju Ryu. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. xxi, 230 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea. By Nicholas Harkness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xx, 314 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945. By Todd A. Henry. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. vii, 299 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer. By Young Kyun Oh. Leiden: Brill, 2013. x, 300 pp. €123.00/$136.59 (cloth).

Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity. By Hyung Il Pai. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. 298 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea: Economy and Society. By The Organization of Korean Historians. Edited by Michael D. Shin. Translated by Edward Park and Michael D. Shin. Leiden: Global Oriental, 2014. xviii, 296 pp. $128.25 (cloth).

Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Korean Diaspora. Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2013. 231 pp. $25.00 (paper).

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