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Volume 71 - Issue 1 - February 2012

The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 71 - Issue 1 -

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Herdsman to Statesman: The Autobiography of Jamsrangiin Sambuu of Mongolia. By Jamsrangiin Sambuu. Translated by Mary Rossabi. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. vii, 159 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $64.99 (electronic).
Paula L.W. Sabloff
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16 February 2012, pp. 247-249
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Buddhism and Empire: The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet. By Michael L. Walter. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxvii, 311 pp. $182.00 (cloth).
Cameron David Warner
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16 February 2012, pp. 249-252
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Japan and the Specter of Imperialism. By Mark Anderson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. ix, 254 pp. $90.00 (cloth).
Bill Mihalopoulos
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16 February 2012, pp. 252-254
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Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan. By Philip C. Brown. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. xv, 268 pp. $52.00 (cloth).
Kären Wigen
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16 February 2012, pp. 254-256
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Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture. Edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiii, 338 pp. $145.00 (cloth); $44.95 (paper).
Miri Nakamura
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16 February 2012, pp. 256-257
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Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan. By Michael Como. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. xxii, 306 pp. $48.00 (cloth). - Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture. By Isomae Jun'ichi. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2010. viii, 181 pp. $95.00 (cloth); 32.95 (paper).
Gary L. Ebersole
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16 February 2012, pp. 258-260
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So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers. By Donald Keene. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 216 pp. $24.95 (cloth)
Samuel Hideo Yamashita
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16 February 2012, pp. 260-262
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The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan. Edited by P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2010. ix, 279 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).
Michelle Osterfeld Li
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16 February 2012, pp. 263-266
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A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900–1930. By M. Cody Poulton. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. xv, 280 pp. $56.00 (cloth), $29.00 (paper).
Charles Exley
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16 February 2012, pp. 266-267
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Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. By Chimako Tada. Translated by Jeffrey Angles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xi, 163 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Lee Friederich
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16 February 2012, pp. 268-269
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Book Reviews—Korea

The Korean War: A History. By Bruce Cumings. New York: Modern Library, 2010. xix, 288 pp. $24.00 (cloth).
Charles R. Kim
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16 February 2012, pp. 270-272
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Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance. Edited by Laurel Kendall. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 258 pp. $46.00 (cloth).
Laura C. Nelson
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16 February 2012, pp. 272-274
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Long Road Home. Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor. By Kim Yong with Kim Suk-Young. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x, 168 pp. $30.50 (cloth).
Seung Hye Suh
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16 February 2012, pp. 274-276
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To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield., 2010, xiii, 201 pp. $ 34.95 (cloth); $33.99 (electronic).
Peipei Qiu
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16 February 2012, pp. 276-277
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A History of Korea: From Antiquity to the Present. By Michael J. Seth. Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. xi, 573 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). - A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present. By Michael J. Seth. Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. vii, 295pp. $90.00 (cloth); $30.95 (paper).
Andre Schmid
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16 February 2012, pp. 278-279
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Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea. By Jane Jeong Trenka. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2009. 192 pp. $16.00 (paper).
Catherine Ceniza Choy
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16 February 2012, pp. 279-281
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Book Reviews—South Asia

Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism. By Johannes Bronkhorst. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. viii, 293 pp. $169.00 (cloth).
Oliver Freiberger
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16 February 2012, pp. 281-283
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Indian Female Gurus in Contemporary Hinduism: A Study of Central Aspects and Expressions of Their Religious Leadership. By Marie-Thérèse Charpentier. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2010. 394 pp. €56,25.
Ellen Goldberg
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16 February 2012, pp. 283-285
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A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. By Preeti Chopra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxiv, 293 pp. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).
Frank F. Conlon
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16 February 2012, pp. 285-286
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On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan. By Jamal J. Elias. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2011. xv, 252 pp. $45.00 (paper).
Joanna Kirkpatrick
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16 February 2012, pp. 287-288
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Herdsman to Statesman: The Autobiography of Jamsrangiin Sambuu of Mongolia. By Jamsrangiin Sambuu. Translated by Mary Rossabi. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. vii, 159 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $64.99 (electronic).

Buddhism and Empire: The Political and Religious Culture of Early Tibet. By Michael L. Walter. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. xxvii, 311 pp. $182.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Japan and the Specter of Imperialism. By Mark Anderson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. ix, 254 pp. $90.00 (cloth).

Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan. By Philip C. Brown. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. xv, 268 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture. Edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiii, 338 pp. $145.00 (cloth); $44.95 (paper).

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers. By Donald Keene. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 216 pp. $24.95 (cloth)

The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan. Edited by P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2010. ix, 279 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper).

A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900–1930. By M. Cody Poulton. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. xv, 280 pp. $56.00 (cloth), $29.00 (paper).

Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. By Chimako Tada. Translated by Jeffrey Angles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xi, 163 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Korean War: A History. By Bruce Cumings. New York: Modern Library, 2010. xix, 288 pp. $24.00 (cloth).

Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance. Edited by Laurel Kendall. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 258 pp. $46.00 (cloth).

Long Road Home. Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor. By Kim Yong with Kim Suk-Young. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x, 168 pp. $30.50 (cloth).

To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield., 2010, xiii, 201 pp. $ 34.95 (cloth); $33.99 (electronic).

Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea. By Jane Jeong Trenka. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press, 2009. 192 pp. $16.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism. By Johannes Bronkhorst. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. viii, 293 pp. $169.00 (cloth).

Indian Female Gurus in Contemporary Hinduism: A Study of Central Aspects and Expressions of Their Religious Leadership. By Marie-Thérèse Charpentier. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2010. 394 pp. €56,25.

A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. By Preeti Chopra. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxiv, 293 pp. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan. By Jamal J. Elias. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2011. xv, 252 pp. $45.00 (paper).

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