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Guan Yu: The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero. By Barend J. ter Haar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. vi, 285 pp.
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Rethinking Japanese Resistance to Global Capitalist Modernity - Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde. By Samuel Perry. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xii, 228 pp. ISBN: 9780824875190 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). - Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan. By James Mark Shields. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. x, 404 pp. ISBN: 9780190664008 (cloth, also available as e-book). - The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan. By Gavin Walker. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xvi, 245 pp. ISBN: 9780822361411 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 194-204
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Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City. By Isabella Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9781108419680 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 907-909
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Working Class People in Early Twentieth-Century Japan - The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices of Working-Class Japan. By Tatsuichi Horikiri. Edited and translated by Rieko Wagoner. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. xxii, 179 pp. ISBN: 9781442265097 (cloth). - Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan. By James L. Huffman. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xi, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780824872915 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 667-669
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Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire. By Matthew W. King. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xiv, 281 pp. ISBN: 9780231191067 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 909-910
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The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. By Jing Xu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii, 231 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 440-442
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Art and Times of Change - Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images. By Chelsea Foxwell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xiii, 281 pp. ISBN: 9780226110806 (cloth). - The Artist in Edo. Edited by Yukio Lippit. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018. viii, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780300214673 (cloth). - Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention. Edited by Morgan Pitelka and Alice Y. Tseng. London: Routledge, 2016. xii, 187 pp. ISBN: 9781138186613 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 670-676
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Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea. By Juhn Y. Ahn. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. xv, 243 pp. ISBN: 9780295743394 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 204-206
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Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture. By Seth Jacobowitz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xii, 299 pp. ISBN: 9780674088412 (cloth).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 206-208
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Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan. By Maren A. Ehlers. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xiv, 351 pp. ISBN: 9780674983878 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 677-678
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Railroads and the Transformation of China. By Elisabeth Köll. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. x, 396 pp. ISBN: 9780674368170 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 911-912
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The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China. By Guobin Yang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xv, 262 pp.
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Of Silk and Synecdoche: Economic Histories of Yokohama across Historical Scales - Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2017. xx, 255 pp. - The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. By Simon Partner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxii, 291 pp.
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Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide. By Nan Kim. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. xxvii, 255 pp. ISBN: 9780739184714 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 208-210
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Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China. By Li Hsiao-t'i. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2019. x, 365 pp. ISBN: 9780674987166 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 912-914
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Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan. Edited by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xxxvii, 532 pp. ISBN: 9780824872939 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 679-681
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The Foresight of Dark Knowing: Chŏng Kam nok and Insurrectionary Prognostication in Pre-modern Korea. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by John Jorgensen. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. vii, 451 pp. ISBN: 9780824875381 (cloth).
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- 16 August 2019, pp. 681-683
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The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China. By Kate Merkel-Hess. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xiii, 241 pp. ISBN: 9780226383279 (cloth).
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- 03 December 2019, pp. 914-916
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To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History. By Mark Ravina. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiv, 312 pp. ISBN: 9780195327717 (cloth, also available as e-book).
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- 12 March 2019, pp. 210-211
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Monstrous Pasts, Robotic Futures: A Review Essay - Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan. By Miri Nakamura. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xvi, 178 pp. - Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation. By Jennifer Robertson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xv, 260 pp.
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- 10 May 2019, pp. 449-454
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