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Volume 73 - Issue 2 - May 2014

The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 73 - Issue 2 -

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Book Reviews—China

Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880–1950. Edited by Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, Charles F. McKhann, and Margaret Byrne Swain. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. xii, 300 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).
Fa-ti Fan
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Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village. By Anna Lora-Wainwright. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. 323 pp. $52.00 (cloth).
Nick Bartlett
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04 June 2014, pp. 529-530
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Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres. Edited by Kam Louie. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xi, 298 pp. $25.00 (paper); $60.00 (cloth).
Richard Jean So
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04 June 2014, pp. 531-532
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From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China. By Matthew W. Mosca. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiii, 398 pp. $60.00 (cloth).
Xiuyu Wang
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Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China's New Rich. By John Osburg. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. 234 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper); $22.95 (e-book).
Marc L. Moskowitz
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04 June 2014, pp. 534-535
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Photography and China. By Claire Roberts. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 200 pp. $29.95 (paper).
Roberta Wue
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04 June 2014, pp. 535-537
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Confucian Prophet: Political Thought in Du Fu's Poetry (752–757). By David K. Schneider. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2012. xiv, 245 pp. $109.99 (cloth).
Anthony DeBlasi
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04 June 2014, pp. 537-538
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Friends of Sir Robert Hart: Three Generations of Carrall Women in China. By Mary Tiffen. Crewkerne, U.K.: Tiffania Books in association with Queen's University Belfast, 2012. xviii, 333 pp. £14.99 (paper).
Georgia A. Mickey
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04 June 2014, pp. 539-540
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The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong (501–531) and His Circle. By Ping Wang. Leiden: Brill, 2012. x, 309 pp. €110.00 (cloth).
Thomas Jansen
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Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan. By Chün-fang Yü. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. ix, 243 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).
Hillary K. Crane
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04 June 2014, pp. 542-543
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Volume 73 - Issue 2 - May 2014

Book Reviews—China

Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880–1950. Edited by Denise M. Glover, Stevan Harrell, Charles F. McKhann, and Margaret Byrne Swain. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. xii, 300 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village. By Anna Lora-Wainwright. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. 323 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Eileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres. Edited by Kam Louie. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xi, 298 pp. $25.00 (paper); $60.00 (cloth).

From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China. By Matthew W. Mosca. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiii, 398 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality among China's New Rich. By John Osburg. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. 234 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper); $22.95 (e-book).

Photography and China. By Claire Roberts. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 200 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Confucian Prophet: Political Thought in Du Fu's Poetry (752–757). By David K. Schneider. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2012. xiv, 245 pp. $109.99 (cloth).

Friends of Sir Robert Hart: Three Generations of Carrall Women in China. By Mary Tiffen. Crewkerne, U.K.: Tiffania Books in association with Queen's University Belfast, 2012. xviii, 333 pp. £14.99 (paper).

The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong (501–531) and His Circle. By Ping Wang. Leiden: Brill, 2012. x, 309 pp. €110.00 (cloth).

Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan. By Chün-fang Yü. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. ix, 243 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha. By Donald S. Lopez Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 289 pp. $26.00 (cloth).

Tibet in the Western Imagination. By Tom Neuhaus. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ix, 264 pp. £55.00/$80.00 (cloth).

The Dunhuang Region During Tibetan Rule (787–848): A Study of the Secular Manuscripts Discovered at Dunhuang. By Gertraud Taenzer. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012. xiii, 450 pp., 4 maps, 3 plates. €98.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan. By Martin Dusinberre. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. xiv, 247 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

History and Repetition. By Karatani Kojin. Translated and edited by Seiji M. Lippit. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 239 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain. By Andrew L. Maske. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. xxi, 273 pp. $119.95/£70.00 (cloth).

3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan. By Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xv, 274 pp. $29.95/£18.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier. By Theodore Hughes. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xi, 271 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Voice from the North: Resurrecting Regional Identity through the Life and Work of Yi Sihang (1672–1736). By Sun Joo Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. 242 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security, and Institutional Rebalancing. By Jongryn Mo and Barry R. Weingast. Harvard East Asian Monographs 362. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. 218 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

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