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Volume 72 - November 2013

Book Reviews—China

Americans and Macao: Trade, Smuggling, and Diplomacy on the South China Coast. Edited by Paul A. Van Dyke. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012; distributed by Columbia University Press. ix, 251 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885–1924. By Peter Zarrow. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. xiv, 395 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Rethinking Japanese Public Opinion and Security: From Pacifism to Realism? By Paul Midford. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011. xvi, 250 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

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

Long Lives and Untimely Deaths: Life-Span Concepts and Longevity Practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India. By Barbara Gerke. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xviii, 362 pp. $144.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan. By Gene Park. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.2011. xiv, 321 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China

A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture. By Wu Hung. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. 296 pp. $60.00 (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).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Spread of Buddhism among Western Mongolian Tribes between the Thirteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Baatr U. Kitinov. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2010. 324 pp. $139.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2600th Anniversary. By Kenneth J. Ruoff. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. xv, 236 pp. $39.95 (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).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

China's ‘Tibetan’ Frontiers: Sharing the Contested Ground. By Beth Meriam. Leiden: Global Oriental (Brill), 2012. xxii, 330 pp. $121.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

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).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Silk Road: A New History. By Valerie Hansen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv, 304 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Technology of Empire: Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945. By Daqing Yang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2010. xvii, 446 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop. By Michael K. Bourdaghs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xii, 285 pp. $89.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Navel of the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal. By Charles Ramble. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. iv, 394 pp. $89.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

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

Book Reviews—Korea

Kim Ki-duk. By Hye Seung Chung. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. ix, 161 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

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Volume 72 - November 2013

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea