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Volume 58 - Issue 2 - May 1999

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Book Reviews—China

China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. By R. Bin Wong. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997. x, 327 pp. $39.95.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Making of Modern Tibet. By A. Tom Grunfeld. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. 247 pp. $72.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women. By Phyllis Birnbaum. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xvii, 240 pp. $24.95.

Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest. By Jeffrey Broadbent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xviii, 418 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600–1945. By John S. Brownlee. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1997. 256 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Women's Gidayū and the Japanese Theatre Tradition. By A. Kimi Coaldrake. New York: Routledge, 1997. (Nissan Institute Routledge Japanese Studies Series), xxix, 262 pp, 68 minute CD. $74.99.

Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film. By Darrell William Davis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. viii, 304 pp. $17.50.

Japanese Culture in Comparative Perspective. By Hayashi Chikio and Kuroda Yasumasa. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997. xvi, 154 pp. $55.00.

Armed Martial Arts of Japan. By G. Cameron Hurst, III. New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1998, x, 243 pp. $30.00.

Japan and the Wider World: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present. By Akira Iriye. London and New York: Longman, 1997. viii, 213 pp. $45.75 (cloth); $13.50 (paper).

The Modern Epidemic: A History of Tuberculosis in Japan. By William Johnston. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. xvii, 432 pp. $45.00.

Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy. By Rikki Kersten. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. xiv, 289 pp. $69.95.

The Chrysanthemum Throne. A History of the Emperors of Japan. By Peter Martin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. xi, 175 pp. $24.95.

The History of Japan. By Louis G. Perez. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1998. xix, 244 pp. $35.00.

Media and Politics in Japan. Edited by Susan J. Pharr and Ellis S. Krauss. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xv, 389 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. By Joan R. Piggott. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997. 434 pp. $55.00.

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On: Yukiyukite shingun. By Jeffrey Ruoff and Kenneth Ruoff. England: Flicks Books, 1998. 57 pp.

Breeze Through Bamboo: Kanshi of Ema Saikō. By Hiroaki Sato. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xvi, 246 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $15.50 (paper).

Narrative as Counter-memory: A Half Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan. By Reiko Tachibana. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xiv, 345 pp. $21.95.

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