... to the scholarship on communication, youth culture, social movements, and Korean studies, but they are not without limitations. Jin's Smartland Korea offers a historical account of South Korea's rise to digital powerhouse and its impact on the communicative culture of young Koreans through a political economy...

...Amin Sweeney From Class to Culture: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence . By David J. Banks . Monograph Series 29. New Haven : Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies , 1987 . x, 200 pp. $17.00 (paper). Modern Malay Literary Culture: A Historical Perspective...

...Joseph W. Esherick Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 Popular Culture in Late Imperial China . Edited by David Johnson , Andrew J. Nathan , and Evelyn S. Rawski . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1985 . xvii, 449 pp. Glossary...

...Joseph Pittau Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 The Japanese Mind: Essentials of Japanese Philosophy and Culture . Edited by Charles A. Moore . Honolulu : East-West Center Press, University of Hawaii Press , 1967 . 357 pp. $9.50. BOOK REVIEWS 173 nasal...

...Donald Hindley Social Commitment in Literature and the Arts: The Indonesian “Institute of People's Culture” 1950–1965 . By Keith Foulcher . Clayton, Victoria, Australia : Monash University, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies , 1986 . vi, 234 pp. $8.00 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Martha Ann Selby Cool Fire: Culture Specific Themes in Tamil Short Stories . By Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi . Edition Herodot Monographica 3. Göttingen : Rader Verlag , 1983 . viii, 365 pp. $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 BOOK...

...Bruce Stronach The Occupation of Japan: Arts and Culture . Edited by Thomas W. Burkman . Norfolk, Va. : Liskey Lithograph , 1988 . viii , 262 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 609 guidance? Since Gao was in some sense Pu's...

...Sarah M. Bekker Zo History: With an Introduction to Zo Culture, Economy, Religion, and Their Status as an Ethnic Minority in India, Burma, and Bangladesh . By Vumson . Published by the author, 1987 . 334 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS...

...William J. Tyler Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture . By J. Thomas Rimer . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1988 . xii , 146 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 625 Pilgrimages: Aspects of Japanese...

... understanding of China and provide us with a new stimulus. For this reason alone, Fogel deserves our profound thanks. J O H N LEE St. Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia Chinese Culture and Mental Health. Edited by WEN-SHING TSENG and DAVID Y. H. Wu. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1985. xxiii, 412 pp...

... and her husband, who manage to do justice to small bronzes, the most tricky of all subjects. JOANNA WILLIAMS University of California, Berkeley Food, Society and Culture: Aspects in South Asian Foods Systems. Edited by R. S. KHARE and M. S. A. RAO. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1986. viii, 336 pp...

... that may prove to be not nearly so "dark" as had been thought. Most of the opacity can be dispelled by holding up the right lights in order to view it. WILLIAM R. LAFLEUR University of California, Los Angeles Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan. By EMIKO OHNUKI-TIERNEY. New York: Cambridge University...

...Benjamin J. Fleming 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). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This volume...

...Oliver Tappe Spirits of the Place is an accessible and comprehensive study that comprises different disciplines such as religious studies, history, anthropology, and culture politics. With his well-informed book, John C. Holt puts Laos on the map of Buddhist studies and provides...

... the opportunities and temptations available in the capital to the samurai from all over Japan. The books ends with a chapter in which Vaporis argues that the samurai of these daimyo processions were not just the recipients of an Edo culture ready-made to be taken back to their home domains. Instead, they were...

... practices taken by these Japanese firms. Americanizing Japanese Firms: The Institutionalization of Corporate Philanthropy and Volunteerism in American Communities . By Yukio Yotsumoto . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2010 . 146 pp. $32.00 (paper). Going Global: Culture, Gender...

...David Curtis Wright Military Culture in Imperial China . Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2009 . x, 445 pp. $46.50 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Military history is an important...

...Tulasi Srinivas History, Culture and the Indian City . By Rajnarayan Chandavarkar . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . 270 pp. $80.25 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 This posthumously published collection of nine brilliant...

...J. Victor Koschmann Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shūzō and the Rise of National Aesthetics . By Leslie Pincus . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xii, 271 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Joseph W. Esherick Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Ming China . By Alastair Iain Johnston . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1995 . xii, 317 pp. $39.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 769 through...