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Volume 59 - Issue 4 - November 2000

Book Reviews—Japan

Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Japanese Poetry. By Steve Rabson. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998. ix, 287 pp. $36.95.

Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan. By Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe Jr. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. xii, 303 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in Eighteenth-century Tosa. By Luke S. Roberts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xv, 251 pp. $59.95.

The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes. By Karen E. Sandness. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Japanese Studies, 1999. viii, 264 pp. $32.95.

The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship. By Karen A. Smyers. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. viii, 271 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

An Introduction to Japanese Society. By Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 1997. x, 285 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan. By John Whittier Treat. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press1999. xi, 241 pp. $27.50.

Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu. Compiled, translated, and with an introduction by Makoto Ueda. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 273 pp. $17.50.

Christianity in Meiji Japan: Essays on the Modern Japanese Church. By Yamaji Aizan. Translated by Graham Squires. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. viii, 196 pp.

Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-century Japan. By Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv, 263 pp. $60.00.

The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance. By Shoko Yoneyama. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xx, 287 pp. $85.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Culture and State in Late Chosŏn Korea. Edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush and Martina Deuchler. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 182; Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. xii, 304 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by Sŏn Monk Kihwa). Translated and with an introduction by A. Charles Muller. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xi, 329 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

My Very Last Possession and Other Stories. By Pak Wansŏ. Translated by Chun Kyung-Ja et al. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xiii, 220 pp. $45 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. By Soon-Woon Park. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 181; Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. xiv, 223 pp. $42.50 (cloth).

The Ilse: First-Generation Korean Immigrant in Hawai'i, 1903–1973. By Wayne Patterson. Hawai'i Studies on Korea, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. ix, 275 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Korean War: An International History. By William Stueck. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. xi, 469 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper, 1997).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval and Modern India. Edited by Mandakranta Bose. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. xxi, 346 pp. $70.00 (cloth).

The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity. By Darius Cooper. Cambridge Studies in Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 260 pp. £14.95 (paper); £40.00 (cloth).

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