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Volume 78 - August 2019

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution. By Brian James DeMare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii, 258 pp. ISBN: 9781107076327 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions. Edited by Michael Clarke. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xvi, 279 pp. ISBN: 9780190922610 (cloth).

Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy. By Yu Hong. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 225 pp. ISBN: 9780252082399 (paper).

Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China, 1940–1960. By Xiaoping Cong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvi, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781316602614 (paper).

Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet. By Geoffrey Barstow. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xv, 289 pp.

A Short History of the Mongols. By George Lane. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xx, 236 pp. ISBN: 9781780766065 (paper).

Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China. By Jinhua Jia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxxvi, 324 pp. ISBN: 9780231184441 (cloth, also available as e-book).

The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China. By Charlene Makley. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xviii, 324 pp. ISBN: 9781501719646 (cloth).

Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Izumi Nakayama. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. ix, 315 pp. ISBN: 9789888390908 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s–1950s. By Evan N. Dawley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. xxii, 413 pp. ISBN: 9780674237209 (cloth).

Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo. Edited by Gregor Benton. Leiden: Brill, 2015. xvii, 1,269 pp.

State Power in China, 900–1325. Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Paul Jakov Smith. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. ix, 363 pp.

The Chinese Pleasure Book. By Michael Nylan. New York: Zone Books, 2018. 453 pp. ISBN: 9781942130130 (cloth).

Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution. By Brian DeMare. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiii, 221 pp. ISBN: 9781503609518 (paper).

Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937–1949. By Zhao Ma. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xiv, 366 pp. ISBN: 9780674088382 (cloth).

The Buddha Party: How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism. By John Powers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 370 pp. ISBN: 9780199358151 (cloth, also available as e-book).

China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law. By Matthew S. Erie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii, 447 pp.

Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet. By Max Oidtmann. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xvii, 330 pp. ISBN: 9780231184069 (cloth).

Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s–1970s. By Daisy Yan Du. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. xiii, 258 pp. ISBN: 9780824877644 (paper).

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia