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Volume 72 - Issue 2 - May 2013

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Book Reviews—China

Childbirth in Republican China: Delivering Modernity. By Tina Phillips Johnson. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. xliv, 221 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture. By Andrew F. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. 259 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

A Passion for Facts: Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949. By Tong Lam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiii, 263 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. By Gordon Mathews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xi, 242 pp. $62.00 (cloth); $19.00 (paper).

Creativity and Its Discontents: China's Creative Industries and Property Rights Offenses. By Laikwan Pang. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. ix, 299 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China. By Jungnok Park. Edited for publication by Richard Gombrich. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2012. x, 246 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

The Religion of Falun Gong. By Benjamin Penny. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiii, 262 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History. Edited by Dagmar Schäfer. Leiden: Brill, 2012. vii, 394 pp. $182.00 (cloth).

Visionary Journeys: Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China. By Xiaofei Tian. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012. xii, 381 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

A Path for Chinese Civil Society: A Case Study on Industrial Associations in Wenzhou, China. By Jianxing Yu, Jun Zhou, and Hua Jiang. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. xi, 212 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $64.99 (ebook).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Mongol Conquests in World History. By Timothy May. London: Reaktion Books-Globalities, 2012. 319 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Queer Japanese: Gender and Sexual Identities through Linguistic Practices. By Hideko Abe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. x, 199 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan. By Michelle Bigenho. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xii, 248 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture. By Steven T. Brown. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ix, 256 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).

The Demimonde in Japanese Literature: Sexuality and the Literary Karyūkai. By Cynthia Gralla. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2010. 300 pp. $114.99 (cloth).

Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. By Mark Rowe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xv, 258 pp. $91.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara: Koji junrei. By Watsuji Tetsurō. Translated by Hiroshi Nara. Portland, Maine: MerwinAsia, 2012. xxxv, 202 pp. $35.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. By Blaine Harden. New York: Viking, 2012. xvi, 205 pp. $26.95 (cloth). - The Orphan Master's Son. By Adam Johnson. New York: Random House, 2012. 443 pp. $26.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).

Transnational Sport: Gender, Media, and Global Korea. By Rachael Miyung Joo. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. 336 pp. $42.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

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