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Volume 70 - Issue 3 - August 2011

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Book Reviews—China

The Art of Doing Good: Charity in Late Ming China. By Joanna Handlin Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiii, 405 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

Smokeless Sugar: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy. By Emily M. Hill. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010. x, 318 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China. By David G. Johnson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. 450 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945. By Michael Shiyung Liu. Asia Past & Present, no. 3. Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2009. x, 286 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge. Edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xiii, 370 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China. By Eugenio Menegon. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2009. xxii, 450 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Drink Water but Remember the Source: Moral Discourse in a Chinese Village. By Ellen Oxfeld. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. xviii, 312 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

The Great Wall: A Cultural History. By Carlos Rojas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. xv, 213 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China. Edited by Helen F. Siu. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xii, 375 pp. $59.50 (cloth).

Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China. By Phillip Stalley. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 296 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

The Diamond Sutra: The Story of the World's Earliest Dated Printed Book. By Frances Wood and Mark Barnard. London: British Library, 2010. 112 pp. $32.50 (cloth).

Rising China and World Order. By Zhang Yunling. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010. 220 pp. $88.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier. By Uradyn E. Bulag. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. xv, 281 pp. $79.00 (cloth).

Tibetan Rituals. Edited by José Ignacio Cabézon. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 304 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Introduction to Altaic Philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu. By Igor de Rachewiltz and Volker Rybatzki, with the collaboration of Hung Chin-fu. Handbook of Oriental Studies, Volume 20, Section 8. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xx, 446 pp., xxxix, texts on 45 plates, 25 figures. $225.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Making Japanese Heritage. Edited by Christoph Brumann and Rupert Cox. London: Routledge, 2010. xiii, 226 pp. $42.95 (paper).

Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism. By William W. Grimes. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. xvi, 248 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan. By Hiroshi Kitamura. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. xiv, 264 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan. By Lori Meeks. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 408 pp. $50.00.

Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan. By Marvin D. Sterling. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. xiv, 299 pp. $84.94 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

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