... of cultural superiority blocked their interest in Japanese art. Park's expertise in Chinese art books, painting manuals, and prints is of great value in a chapter on Chosŏn artists’ misinformation and misapprehension. As scholars have noted, such misunderstanding, a critical part of cross-cultural...

... of the half-black Korean singer-actor Insooni (Park, p. 213). Masculinity, another underexplored topic thanks to its supposedly hegemonic status in Korean society, is scrutinized in Cultures of Yusin by Ihre Sohn, whose deep dive into the underworld of “Techniscope action cinema” discovers a surprising...

...Ethan Mark While still retaining considerable influence among the general public, the ideological edifices of Orientalism and culturalism that once thus bracketed off Japan's modern experience from that of both “the West” and “the rest” have both come under heavy scholarly siege, and are by now...

... on issues of ethnicity, identity, and cultural hegemony in China as few works have done. Cultural Exclusion in China: State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference . By Lin Yi . London and New York : Routledge , 2008 . x, 176 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association...

... information on the environment, method of data collection, and means of making calculations. Rappaport and Vayda are proponents of placing cultural ecology within the general framework of ecology as it is viewed by the biological scientists. According to Rappaport: "The cultures of human populations, like...

...Richard A. Frasca 384 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES are trends that they see in all civilizations. Their comparative treatment of civilizations as organismic cultural entities draws from Toynbee a drive to personify each civilization; chart its moments of rise, crisis, and decay; and find...

... (Tsou 1986). One of the tremendous changes occurred in the cultural realm. In the mid and late 1980s thousands of Chinese cultural intellectuals, from well-known professors to junior university students, were caught up in a nonofficially initiated cultural movement, which has been widely called...

...M. K. F. Des Chene High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism . By Sherry B. Ortner . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1989 . xxiv, 245 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 260...

... approach that is not easily mastered. SHARON CARSTENS Portland State University The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-State at Bay. Edited by C R A W F O R D Y O U N G . Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. xi, 305 pp. The contributors to this impressive volume show how relevant...

...William H. Frederick Japanese Cultural Policies in Southeast Asia during World War II . Edited by Grant Goodman . New York : St Martin's Press . 1991 . xi, 223 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 628 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Japanese...

...Stefan Tanaka Cultural Nationalism in East Asia: Representation and Identity . Edited by Harumi Befu . Berkeley : Institute of East Asian Studies , viii, 197 pp. $17.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 Book Reviews ASIA GENERAL Cultural Nationalism...

...Anita Beltran Chen Remittances and Returnees: The Cultural Economy of Migration in Ilocos . Edited by Raul Pertierra . Quezon City : New Day Publishers . 1992 . Distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. xvii, 162 pp. $10.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994...

...Eun Mee Kim Making Capitalism: The Social and Cultural Construction of a South Korean Conglomerate . By Roger L. Janelli with Dawnhee Yim . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1993 . xiii, 265 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Douglas R. Reynolds Jindai Zhong-Ri wenhua jiaoliu shi . [A History of Modern Sino-Japanese Cultural Interactions (ca. 1840–1919)] . By Wang Xiaoqiu . Beijing : Zhonghua Shuju , 1992 . 562 pp. RMB 14.60. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Huang Shu-min The Great Wall in Ruins: Communication and Cultural Change in China . By Godwin C. Chu and Yanan Ju . Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press , 1993 . xiv, 365 pp. $18.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 910 THE JOURNAL...

...Audrey R. Kahin Indonesian Political Biography: In Search of Cross-Cultural Understanding . Edited by Angus McIntyre . Clayton, Victoria : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Paper No. 28, Monash University , 1993 . xi, 327 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Madeline Y. Hsu Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900–1936 . By Adam McKeown . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2001 . xi , 349 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 194...

...Jeffrey Johnson Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism . By Miryam Sas . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1999 . xiv , 250 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 265 understand...

...David Desser Cinema and Cultural Identity: Reflections on Films from Japan, India, and China . Edited by Wimal Dissanayake . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 1988 . viii, 214 pp. $27.50 (cloth); $15.75 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989...

... Xiaoping zhuanji . [Down with Liu Shaoqi and down with Deng Xiaoping special collection], 116 –19. Guiyang : Guizhou Wuchanjieji Geming Zaofan Zong Zhihuibu . Chunming Jin . 1980 a. “Guanyu ‘wenhua da geming’ de jige wenti” [On some questions concerning the “Great Cultural Revolution...