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Volume 71 - Issue 4 - November 2012

Book Reviews—Japan

The Sino-Japanese War and the Birth of Japanese Nationalism. By Makito Saya. Translated by David Noble. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2011. xxv, 184 pp. ¥2,000 (cloth).

Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsurō's Shamon Dōgen. By Tetsurō Watsuji. Translated by Steve Bein. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011. xvi, 174 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Regional and Urban Policy and Planning on the Korean Peninsula. By Chang-Hee Christine Bae, Harry W. Richardson, and Eric J. Heikkila. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2011. ix, 265 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Crisis of Gender and the Nation in Korean Literature and Cinema: Modernity Arrives Again. By Kelly Y. Jeong. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xix, 124 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging. By Eleana J. Kim. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. xviii, 320 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era. By Kyung Hyun Kim. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. xviii, 255 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South Korea. Edited by Byung-Kook Kim and Ezra Vogel. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. vii, 744 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

One Alliance, Two Lenses: U.S.-Korea Relations in a New Era. By Gi-Wook Shin. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010. xv, 276 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock. Edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence J. McCrea. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies, 2011. xix, 403 pp. $35.00 (paper).

Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular. By Bishnupriya Ghosh. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. xiii, 383 pp. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Portraiture in Early India: Between Transience and Eternity. By Vincent Lefèvre. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. xix, 219 pp. $135.00 (cloth).

Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City. By Gyan Prakash. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. xi, 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History. By Tariq Rahman. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011. xix, 456 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India. By Davesh Soneji. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiii, 313 pp. $72.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka. By Sharika Thiranagama. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xvi, 296 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar: Cultural Narratives, Colonial Legacies, and Civil Society. By Juliane Schober. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011. xi, 207 pp. $49.00 (cloth).

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Volume 71 - Issue 4 - November 2012

Book Reviews—Japan

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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