... . By Atsuko Hirai . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2014 . xviii, 433 pp. ISBN: 9780674066823 (cloth). Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō . By Jun'ichi Isomae . Translated by Galen Amstutz...

...Matthieu Felt Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan . By Matthew Fraleigh . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 498 pp. ISBN: 9780674425224 (cloth). The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin...

...Thomas R. Metcalf BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1095 Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy. By JUDITH M. BROWN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xviii, 429 pp. Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading, Index. $29-95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Modernlndia, 1885-1947. By SUMITSARKAR...

...Denzel Carr 444 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES tory from which the reader may discover contemporary significance. ROBERT H. G. LEE State University of New Yor\ Stony Broo\ The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry. BY BURTON RAFFEL. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967. xii, 278 pp...

...Janet A. Walker Approaches to the Modern Japanese Novel . Edited by Kinya Tsuruta and Thomas E. Swann . Tokyo : Sophia University , 1976 . ii, 244 pp. Notes on Contributors. $6.00 Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature . By Makoto Ueda . Stanford : Stanford...

...Frank F. Conlon Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India . Edited by Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner . Bombay : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xxxiii, 298 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Bombay: Mosaic of Modern Culture . Edited by Sujata Patel and Alice Thorner . Bombay : Oxford University...

...Surjit Dulai 164 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Modern Indian Short Stories: An Anthology. EDITED BY SURESH KOHLI. New Delhi: Ar- nold Heinemann (India), 1974. x, 164 pp. $9.95 (Dist. by InterCulture Associates) Modern Indian Poetry. EDITED BY PRITISH NANDY. New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann (India), 1974...

...Maureen Robertson Modern Chinese Poetry: An Introduction . By Julia C. Lin . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1972 . ix, 264 pp. Selected Bibliography, Index, $10.00. Modern Verse from Taiwan . Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Angela Jung Palandri . Foreword...

...Bill Mihalopoulos Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium . Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2014 . ix, 301 pp. ISBN: 9780824837150 (cloth, also available as e-book). Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor...

...Eugene Eoyang Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 . By Michelle Yeh . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1991 . xiii, 252 pp. $27.50. Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry . By Michelle Yeh . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1992 . lv, 241 pp...

...Astri Wright The Integrative Art of Modern Thailand . By Herbert P. Phillips . Berkeley : Lowie Museum of Anthropology, University of California Press . 1992 . x, 138 pp. Modern Art in Thailand: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . By Apinan Poshyananda . Singapore : Oxford...

...Susan Mann Jones Modern Chinese Economic History: Proceedings of the Conference on Modern Chinese Economic History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, August 26–29, 1977 . Edited by Chi-ming Hou and Tzong-shian Yu . Taipei : Institute of Economics , 1979 . xvi, 678 pp...

.... Keller Kimbrough of seventeenth-century sekkyō and ko-jōruri (old jōruri ) preceded by an informative and insightful introduction. It will be of great interest to scholars specializing in early-modern Japanese literature, history, and religion, and would lend itself to inclusion in reading lists for both...

...: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan . By James Mark Shields . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 . x, 404 pp. ISBN: 9780190664008 (cloth, also available as e-book). The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan . By Gavin Walker...

...Veena Talwar Oldenburg The City in South Asia: Pre-Modern and Modern . Edited by Kenneth Ballhatchet and John Harrison . London : Curzon Press (Humanities Press) , 1980 . xiii, 342 pp. Appendix. N.p. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 692 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Paul G. Pickowicz Modern Chinese Fiction: A Guide to Its Study and Appreciation . Edited by Winston L. Y. Yang and Nathan K. Mao . Boston : G. K. Hall , 1981 . 288 pp. Explanatory Notes, Chronological Table of Modern Chinese History, Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Journals, Essays...

...Charlotte Furth Traditional Medicine in Modern China: Science, Nationalism, and the Tensions of Cultural Change . By Ralph C. Croizier . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1968 . xvi, 325 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association...

... with new insights, nor does it skillfully weave together the many events involved. University of California, Riverside MARTIN ORANS Modern Kannada Fiction: A Critical Anthol- ogy. EDITED BY M. G. KRISHNAMURTHI. Madison: Department of Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1967. xxv, 225 pp. $5.00. Rarely...

...Frank Perlin Abstract Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds , edited by J. F. Richards, is a courageous attempt to survey late medieval and early modern monetary history on an appropriately global scale, while simultaneously representing the fragmentation of the present...