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Volume 63, Issue 1

February 1, 2004

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ISSN 0021-9118

EISSN 1752-0401

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Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational
Book Reviews—China
Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Book Reviews—Japan
Book Reviews—Korea
Book Reviews—South Asia
Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Obituary
Other Books Received

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Making “Useful Citizens” of Ainu Subjects in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

David L. Howell

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Juvenile Delinquency and the National Defense State: Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937–1945

David R. Ambaras

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Conflict Self-Inflicted: Dispute, Incivility, and the Threat of Violence in an Indian Muslim Community

Brian J. Didier

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A Separate Punishment: Juvenile Offenders in Colonial India

Satadru Sen

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The Political Odyssey of an Intellectual Construct: Peasant Nationalism and the Study of China's Revolutionary History—A Review Essay

Suzanne Pepper

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Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement

Line-Hang T. Nguyen

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Les relations franco-chinoises au vingtième siècle et leurs antécédents

Christopher E. Goscha

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Makers of Contemporary Islam
Islam in a Globalizing World

Michael G. Peletz

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Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and Southeast Asia: Causes, Dynamics, Solutions

Oscar Salemink

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Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century

Steve Phillips

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Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961

Anne L. Foster

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Salaam America: South Asian Muslims in New York

Syed Ali

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Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans

Louisa Schein

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Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

Sukanya Banerjee

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A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

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Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600–1400

T. H. Barrett

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National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage

Dan Bacalzo

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The United States and East Asia: Dynamics and Implications

Qiang Zhai

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Via Peking Back to Manchester: Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China

Kenneth Pomeranz

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Book Reviews—China

Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema

Hongwei Lu

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China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age

Bates Gill

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China and the World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective

Julia Y. Qin

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Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China: Han, Three Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties

Robert Ford Campany

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The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ

Danish H. Bays

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Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
Letters between Two: Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping

Jon Eugene von Kowallis

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Ethnography in China Today: A Critical Assessment of Methods and Results

Michael Szonyi

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China's Long March toward Rule of Law

Jamie Horsley

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Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms

Scott Hurley

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Taiwan: A Political History

Alan M. Wachman

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The Confucian Quest for Order: The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi

Paul R. Goldin

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Timing and Rulership in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lüshi chunqiu)

Grant Hardy

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Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

Peter C. Perdue

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Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China

Alan Fox

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The Animal and the Daemon in Early China

John S. Major

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A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas

Roel Sterckx

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Peony Pavilion Onstage: Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama

Kimberly Besio

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Xu Xiake (1587–1641): The Art of Travel Writing

James M. Hargett

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Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature

Rania Huntington

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

An Historical Atlas of Central Asia

Thomas T. Allsen

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The CIA's Secret War in Tibet

Elliot Sperling

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Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings: Illuminated Manuscripts from The White Beryl of Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho, with the Moonbeams Treatise of Lo-chen Dharmaśrī

Matthew T. Kapstein

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The Afghanistan Wars
The March of Folly in Afghanistan, 1978–2001

Thomas Barfield

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Book Reviews—Japan

Roadblocks on the Information Highway: The IT Revolution in Japanese Education

Nanette Gottlieb

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The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan

Mark Anderson

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The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931–1945

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

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The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan

Melinda Takeuchi

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Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

Atsuko Ueda

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Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art

Miryam Sas

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The Burdens of Survival: Ōoka Shōhei's Writings on the Pacific War

Doug Slaymaker

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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868)

David L. Howell

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Book Reviews—Korea

The Scriptures of Won Buddhism: A Translation of the Wônbulgyo kyojôn, with Introduction

Jin Y. Park

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Contemporary Directions: Korean Folk Music Engaging the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Robert C. Provine

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Narratives of Nation Building in Korea: A Genealogy of Patriotism

Roy Richard Grinker

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Der Mond gespiegelt in tausend Flüssen: Das Leben des Buddha Gautama in Verse gesetzt im Jahre 1447 von König Sejong

Sonja Häuβler; Wilfried Herrmann

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Kojong sidae ŭi chaejomyong

Eugene Y. Park

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Book Reviews—South Asia

On the Banks of the Gangā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River

Abdul Jamil Urfi

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Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience

John H. Mansfield

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Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India

Laurie Cozad

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India-Pakistan in War and Peace

Ayesha Ray

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Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film

Ketu H. Katrak

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Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority Through Myths of Identity

Brenda E. Brasher

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At the Feet of the Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion

Elaine Craddock

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The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating. This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity

Abdul Jamil Urfi

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Silence Unheard: Deathly Otherness in Pātañjala-Yoga.

Lola Williamson

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Water in Nepal

Richard P. Tucker

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Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Development, and Meanings

Ebba Koch

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Pakistan: Nationalism without a Nation?

Farina Mir

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Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy

Amita Shastri

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Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India

Frank J. Korom

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Cultural Rhythms in Emotions, Narratives, and Dance

Malini Srirama

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Everyday Life in South Asia

Elaine Craddock

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Islam and Muslim History in South Asia

Jeffrey M. Diamond

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Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium; A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers

Francine S. Weinbaum

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The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature

Sarah Lamb

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Religious Doctrines in the Mahābhārata

Alf Hiltebeitel

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Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning

René Véron

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Abdurrahman Wahid: Muslim Democrat, Indonesian Presiden; A View from the Inside

William H. Frederick

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Verging on Extra-Vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts, … Showbiz

J. Joseph Errington

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Songs and Gifts at the Frontier: Person and Exchange in the Agusan Manobo Possession Ritual, Philippines

Sally Ann Ness

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Asian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia

Alfred E. Eckes

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Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946–1980

Mia Zamora

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The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand

Clark D. Neher

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Culture, Ritual, and Revolution in Vietnam

Kevin T. McIntyre

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The Philippine Revolution of 1896: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

Paul A. Rodell

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The Encyclopaedia of Iban Studies: Iban History, Society, and Culture

Carol L. Mitchell

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Malaysia: State and Civil Society in Transition

Paige Johnson Tan

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Power and Prowess: The Origin of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak

Dianne Lewis

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Intimate Knowledge: Women and Their Health in North-East Thailand

Rachel M. Safman

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Obituary

Derk Bodde: (March 9, 1909–November 3, 2003)

Wallace Johnson

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Franklin R. Buchanan: (October 18, 1914–October 11, 2003)

Lucien Ellington

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Steven Graw: (August 3, 1946–September 21, 2003)

Philip McMichael

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