...Deepti Misri The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India . By Shefali Chandra . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2012 . 275 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 It will be our...

...Carlos Rojas The Impotence Epidemic: Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China . By Everett Yuehong Zhang . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2015 . 304 pp. ISBN: 9780822358565 (paper, also available in cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Rachel Rinaldo Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam, and Queer Selves . By Sharyn Graham Davies . London and New York : Routledge , 2010 . xvii, 257 pp. $148.00 (cloth); $42.95 (paper). Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia . By Evelyn...

... (alternately acknowledged and disavowed), and gender assimilationist pressures are either internalized or manifested in the behavior, choices, and affect of the subjects. Refining these inquiries in a sociological study, Nemoto accounts for the way desire is inflected by racial and class differences...

...Jim Reichert Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 . By Gregory M. Pflugfelder . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2000 . xi, 399 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 224 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Anjali Arondekar Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality . By Jyoti Puri . New York : Routledge , 1999 . 224 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $17.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 270 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Tomi Suzuki Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū . By Stephen Snyder . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2000 . viii, 195 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1197...

...Joseph Parker Figures of Desire: Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays . By Etsuko Terasaki . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 38. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2002 . xvii , 329 pp...

...Nora A. Taylor Between Sacrifice and Desire: National Identity and the Governing of Femininity in Vietnam . By Ashley Pettus . New York : Routledge , 2003 . xi , 244 pp. $79.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 256 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T...

...Hu Ying Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber . By Anthony C. Yu . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1997 . xi, 344 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA 179 read...

...Mary Scott Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China . By Martin Huang . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2001 . 347 pp. $39.50 (cloth). 1028 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES themes), but the details...

.... WILDER University of Durham Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things . By Ann Laura Stoler . Durham, N. C : Duke University Press , 1995 . xiv, 237 pp. $49.95 (cloth...

...Evelyn Blackwood BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 915 in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia more broadly, as well as to the anthropological literature on kinship and matrilineal societies. SUZANNE BRENNER University of California, San Diego The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java...

...Robert A. Hueckstedt Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 Domains of Fear and Desire: Urdu Stories . Edited by Muhammad Umar Memon . Translated by M. U. Memon , Faruq Hassan , C. M. Naim , and others. Toronto : tsar Publications , 1992 . vii, 264 pp...

...Takao Hagiwara Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds . By Ken k. Ito . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1991 . viii , 305 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 673 One of the few seeming successes of Japan's cultural...

...Louis Golomb Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance . By Carol Laderman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xvi, 366 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Martha Ann Selby Abstract In general, readers, commentators, translators, and reviewers are bound to see shadows of themselves or of their own concerns in a poem. A poem is, in fact, a “patch” between desire and reality. Like a dream, a poem can be viewed as “reality encoded” (Skura 1981, 126...

...Pauline Yu Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire . By Stephen Owen . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1989 . vi, 220 pp. $29.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 129 Later on a woman author...

...–1930 , ed. Bell Anne Olivier . London : Hogarth Press . Desire and the Prince: New Work on Genji monogatari A Review Article MARK MORRIS OWARD THE END of a diary entry for Sunday, June 14, 1925, the writer reminds herself to "answer Gerald Brenan, & read the Genji; for tomorrow I make...

...Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce and Desire . By Maria Platt . London : Routledge , 2017 . xii, 158 pp. ISBN: 9780415662611 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Maria...