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Volume 70 - November 2011

Book Reviews—Japan

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

Book Reviews—South Asia

South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan. Edited by Itty Abraham. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. 222 pp. $24.95 (paper); 240 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598. By Kenneth M. Swope. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xxiv, 398 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. By Barak Kushner. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. 244 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paperback).

In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art. By Alicia Volk. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. 308 pp., with 16 pages of color plates. $49.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India. By Ron Barrett. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xxii, 216 pp. $39.99 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

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

The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics. By Robin M. LeBlanc. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. xix, 229 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India. Edited by Sanjib Baruah. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009. viii, 383 pp. $55.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

The Kiso Road: The Life and Times of Shimazaki Tōson. By William E. Naff. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2011. 664 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

Business–Government Relations in Prewar Japan. By Peter von Staden. New York: Routledge, 2008. xiii, 181 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human. Edited by Frenchy Lunning. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 287 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries between Sacred and Profane in India's Art. By Vidya Dehejia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xii, 238 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan. By Richard M. Reitan. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010. xvi, 229 pp. $48.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs. By Jinhee Choi. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010. xii, 252 pp. $27.95 (paper)

Book Reviews—Japan

Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West. By Shoji Yamada. Translated by Earl Hartman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii, 290 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Admonitions on Governing the People: Manual for All Administrators. By Chŏng Yagyong. Translated by Choi Byonghyon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 1,133 pp. $95.00 (cloth)

Book Reviews—South Asia

Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter. By Finbarr B. Flood. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. 366 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Crucible Bodies: Postwar Japanese Performance from Brecht to the New Millennium. By Tadashi Uchino. London, New York, and Calcutta: Seagull Books (distributed by University of Chicago Press), 2009. 224 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895–1904. By Urs Matthias Zachmann. London: Routledge, 2009. x, 238 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

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Volume 70 - November 2011

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Japan