Book Reviews—Inner Asia
China's Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands. By Xiuyu Wang. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xv, 291 pp. $84.00 (cloth); $42.99 (paper).
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- 19 September 2013, pp. 716-718
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Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea. By Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland. Washington DC: Peterson Institute For International Economics, 2011. xvii, 182 pp. $23.95 (paper). - Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-Totalitarian Politics. By Patrick McEachern. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiv, 301 pp. $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 210-213
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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).
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- 28 May 2013, pp. 473-475
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Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931–1945. By James R. Brandon. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xiii, 465 pp. $54.00 (cloth).
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- 28 November 2013, pp. 996-999
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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).
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- 28 May 2013, pp. 476-477
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From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan. By Thomas Conlan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiv, 231 pp. $74.00 (cloth).
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- 28 November 2013, pp. 999-1001
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Zeami: Performance Notes. By Tom Hare. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 508 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).
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- 19 September 2013, pp. 718-720
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SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture. By Nathan Hesselink. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiv, 201 pp, 1 audio CD. $75.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 213-215
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In the Tree: Selected Poems of Kim Hyung-Young. Edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Chan E. Park. Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry, vol. 1. Columbus: Foreign Language Publications, The Ohio State University, 2010. 115 pp. (includes DVD insert). $15.95 (paper). - There Remain Words to Say: Selected Poems by Yoo An-Jin. Edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Chan E. Park. Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry, vol. 2. Columbus: Foreign Language Publications, The Ohio State University, 2011. 117 pp. (includes DVD insert) $15.95 (paper).
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On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan. By Hoyt Long. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. viii, 298 pp.
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- 19 September 2013, pp. 720-722
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Language Policy in Japan: The Challenge of Change. By Nanette Gottlieb. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv, 207 pp. $99.00 (cloth).
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- 28 November 2013, pp. 1001-1002
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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).
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- 28 May 2013, pp. 477-480
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Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. By David Barnett Lurie. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. xxiii, 497 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
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- 19 September 2013, pp. 722-724
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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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- 28 May 2013, pp. 480-482
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Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women.” By Joshua D. Pilzer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv, 191 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 217-218
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Soldier of God: MacArthur's Attempt to Christianize Japan. By Ray A. Moore. Portland, Maine: Merwin Asia, 2011, ix, 167 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).
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- 28 November 2013, pp. 1002-1004
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Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868–2000. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer; translations by Toshiko MacCallum. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. x, 516 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).
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- 28 November 2013, pp. 1004-1006
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Beyond North Korea: Future Challenges to South Korea's Security. Edited by Byung Kwan Kim, Gi-Wook Shin, and David Straub. Stanford, Calif.: Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University; Baltimore, Md.: Brookings Institution (distributor), 2011. 281 pp. $28.95 (paper). - The US-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges. Edited by Scott Snyder. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. vii, 293 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
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- 28 May 2013, pp. 482-484
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Books and Boats: Sino-Japanese Relations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Ōba Osamu. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. Portland, Me.: MerwinAsia, 2012. xi, 324 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).
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- 19 September 2013, pp. 725-726
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The Korean State and Social Policy: South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy. By Stein Ringen, Huck-Ju Kwon, Ilcheong Yi, Taekyoon Kim, and Jooha Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii, 137 pp. $52.50 (cloth).
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- 18 March 2013, pp. 219-220
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