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Volume 61 - Issue 1 - February 2002

Book Reviews—Japan

Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism. By Miryam Sas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 250 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature. Edited by Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiii, 333 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. By Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. vi, 266 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

Seijigaku jiten (Encyclopedia of political science). Edited by Inoguchi Takashi, Osawa Masachi, Ōkazawa Norio, Yamamoto Yoshinobu, and Steven R. Reed. Tokyo: Kōbundō, 2000. lxii, 1327 pp. ¥18,500 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Armed Forces of North Korea. By Joseph S. BermudezJr. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv, 375 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

The North Korean System in the Post-Cold War Era. Edited by Samuel S. Kim. New York: Palgrave (St. Martin's Press), 2001. 264 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Hangugin ŭi sobi wa yŏgasaenghwal (Consumption and leisure among Koreans). Edited by Mun Ok-p'yo. Sŏngnam: Hanguk chŏngshin munhwa yŏnguwŏn, 1997. vii, 399 pp. ₩ 7900 (paper).

Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea. By Laura C. Nelson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xviii, 224 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.50 (paper).

Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin. By Sonia Ryang. New York: Routledge, 2000. x, 229 pp. $90.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India. Edited by Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 316 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Liberalization and Industrial Transformation: Sri Lanka in International Perspective. By Prema-Chandra Athukorala and Sarath Rajapatirana. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 248 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka. Edited by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and Chandra R. de Silva. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1998. viii, 212 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Advertising in Rural India: Language, Marketing Communication, and Consumerism. By Tej K. Bhatia. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2000. 333 pp.

New Nukes: India, Pakistan, and Global Nuclear Disarmament. By Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik. With an introduction by Arundhati Roy. Oxford: Signal Books, 2000. xxix, 312 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

The Devī Gītā: The Song of the Goddess: A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary. By C. Mackenzie Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xiii, 404 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Stages of Meditation: Eastern Classics. By the Dalai Lama XIV. Translated by Venerable G. Jordhen, Losang C. Ganchenpa, and Jeremy Russell. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2001. 210 pp. $22.95 (cloth).

Tradition, Pluralism, and Identity: In Honour of T. N. Madan. Edited by Veena Das, Dipankar Gupta, and Patricia Uberoi. Contributions to Indian Sociology, Occasional Studies 8. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999. 476 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Justice for Indian Women. By Madhu Kishwar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 290 pp. Rs. 765.00, $29.95 (cloth).

Bengalen im Umbruch: Die Herausbildung des britischen Kolonialstaates, 1754–1195. By Michael Mann. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. 469 pp. DM 148.

Freedom Through Inner Renunciation: Śankara's Philosophy in a New Light. By Roger Marcaurelle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. xvii, 269 pp. $60.50 (cloth); $20.95 (paper).

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Volume 61 - Issue 1 - February 2002

Book Reviews—Japan

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