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Volume 59 - Issue 2 - May 2000

Book Reviews—Japan

Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements. By Mark R. Mullins. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. x, 277 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies. By Yuko Ogasawara. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii, 221 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

La Japonésie: Géopolitique et géographie historique de la surinsularité au Japon. By Philippe Pelletier. Paris: CNRS Editions, 1997. 391 pp.

Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland. By Aviad E. Raz. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi, 240 pp.

Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs. By Edith Sarra. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 328 pp. $55.00.

Japan's Economic Diplomacy With China, 1945–1978. By Yoshihide Soeya. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ix, 187 pp. $60.00.

Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics ofKitasono Katue (1902—1978). Harvard East Asian Monographs 178. By John Solt. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. xiv, 395 pp.

Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyō-ha (1300–1700). By S. A. Thornton. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1999. xvi, 290 pp.

Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform in Early Twentieth Century Japan. By Kathleen S. Uno. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. x, 237 pp. $47.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration. By Anne Walthall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xvi, 412 pp. $17.00.

Japanese and American Education: Attitudes and Practice. Edited by Harry Wray. Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. $75.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in South Asia after the Test Ban. Edited by Eric Arnett. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Report No. 14. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ix, 98 pp. $24.50 (cloth).

Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India. By Indrani Chatterjee. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii, 286 pp. $32.00 (cloth).

Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence. By E. Valentine Daniel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xi, 252 pp.

Devi: The Great Goddess. Female Divinity in South Asian Art. By Vidya Dehejia. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad and Prestel Veriag, Munich, 1999. 408 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

A Matter of Time. By Shashi Deshpande. Afterword by Ritu Menon. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999. 269 pp. $21.95 (cloth).

Kin State Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts: Lessons from South Asia. By Rajat Ganguly. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. 267 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Mother of Bliss: Ānandamayī Mā (1896–1982). By Lisa Lassell Hallstrom. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xvi, 299 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

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