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Volume 81 - Issue 1 - February 2022

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre By Erin L. Brightwell. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2020. xiii, 320 pp. ISBN: 9780674247819 (cloth).

Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday By Ksenia Chizhova. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii, 272 pp. ISBN: 9780231187800 (cloth).

The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea By Hwisang Cho. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xiii, 276 pp. ISBN: 9780295747804 (paper).

Transforming Gender and Emotion: The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea By Sookja Cho. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. xi, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780472130634 (cloth).

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea By Hyaeweol Choi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv, 237 pp. ISBN: 9781108487436 (cloth).

Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster By Rachel DiNitto. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. ix, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780824877972 (cloth).

Foreign Friends: Syngman Rhee, American Exceptionalism, and the Division of Korea By David P. Fields. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2019. vi, 254 pp. ISBN: 9780813177199 (cloth).

Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905–1945 By Su Yun Kim. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xi, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781501751882 (cloth).

Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan By Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 332 pp. ISBN: 9780674975163 (cloth).

The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age By Hoyt Long. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 376 pp. ISBN: 9780231193511 (paper).

A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata By Yuki Miyamoto. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2021. xvi, 167 pp. ISBN: 9781793643605 (cloth).

Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place By Youjeong Oh. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2018. xi, 238 pp. ISBN: 9781501730719 (paper).

Soju: A Global History By Hyunhee Park. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9781108842013 (paper).

Kim Jong-un's Strategy for Survival: A Method to Madness By David W. Shin. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2021. xviii, 463 pp. ISBN: 9781793608208 (cloth).

On the Margins of Urban South Korea: Core Location as Method and Praxis Edited by Jesook Song and Laam Hae. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xi, 195 pp. ISBN: 9781487503352 (cloth).

Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World By Benjamin R. Young. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. x, 232 pp. ISBN: 9781503627635 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi By Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 264 pp. ISBN: 978478011200 (paper).

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