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Book Reviews—Japan
Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan. By Hiroshi Aoyagi. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. xi, 290 pp. $42.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 623-624
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Chinese-Language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics. Edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. vii, 413 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 169-170
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Himalayan Hermitess: The Life of a Tibetan Buddhist Nun. By Kurtis R Schaeffer.. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiii, 232 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 819-820
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On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier. By Kolås Åshild and P. Thowsen Monika. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 417-419
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Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation. By Stephen G. Covell. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. 330 pp. $50.00 (cloth), $25.00 (paper).
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A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. By John R. Perry. Handbook of Oriental Studies, section 8, Central Asia, no. 11. Leiden: Brill, 2005. xvi, 521 pp. $133.00 (cloth).
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The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture. Edited by Christopher Lupke. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. xii, 377 pp. $48.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 170-172
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Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao), 1874–1911. By Patrick Taveirne. Leuven, Belgium.: Leuven University Press and the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, 2004. 684 pp. €52.00 (paper). - Chronique du Toumet-Ortos: Looking through the Lens of Joseph van Oost, Missionary in Inner Mongolia (1915–1921). By Ann Heylen. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press and the Ferdinand Verbiest Foundation, 2004. 409 pp. €39.00 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 820-823
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Earthquaka Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930. By Gregory Clancey. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xiii, 331 pp. $49.95 (cloth).
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The Zen Arts: An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan. By Rupert A. Cox. London: Routledge, 2003. 278 pp. $65.00 (cloth).
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Suzhou: Where the Goods of All the Provinces Converge. By Michael Marmé. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xii, 369 pp. $55.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 172-174
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Discourses of Seduction—History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature. By Hosea Hirata. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. x, 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 626-629
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Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art. Edited by Ellen P Conant.. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. xiii, 292 pp. $49.00 (cloth).
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Rituals of Recruitment in Tang China: Reading an Annual Programme in the Collected Statements by Wang Dingbao (870–940). By Oliver J. Moore. Sinica Leidensia, no. 65. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. vi, 407 pp. $116.00 (cloth).
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Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature. Steven Dodd. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. x, 293 pp. $40.00 (cloth).
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Proving the Way: Conflict and Practice in the History of Japanese Nativism. By Mark McNally. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005. viii, 287 pp. $49.50 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 629-630
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Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. By Ikumi Kaminishi. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. x, 246 pp. $52.00 (cloth).
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Metaphorical Circuit: Negotiations Between Literature and Science in 20th Century Japan. By Joseph A. Murphy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asia Program, 2004. 238 pp. $27.00 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 630-632
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Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia. By Michel Strickmann. Edited by Bernard Faure. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xxx, 218 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 175-177
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Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. By Alexis Dudden. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. 215 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
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- 02 March 2007, pp. 424-425
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