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Volume 80 - Issue 4 - November 2021

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China. By Arunabh Ghosh. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp. ISBN: 9780691179476 (cloth).
Sebastian Veg
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10 January 2022, pp. 1060-1062
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Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. By C. Patterson Giersch. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781503612167 (paper)
Parks M. Coble
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10 January 2022, pp. 1062-1064
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Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility. By Erin Y. Huang. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781478008095 (paper).
Yu Zhang
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10 January 2022, pp. 1064-1065
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Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping. By Sulmaan Wasif Khan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780674977099 (cloth).
Qingfei Yin
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10 January 2022, pp. 1065-1067
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Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires. By Lu Zongli, trans. Wee Kek Koon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi, 371 pp. ISBN: 9781108479264 (cloth).
Paul R. Goldin
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10 January 2022, pp. 1067-1069
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Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. By Jie Li. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781478011231 (paper).
Haiyan Lee
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10 January 2022, pp. 1069-1070
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Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China. By Allison R. Miller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780231196604 (cloth).
Yunxin Li
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10 January 2022, pp. 1071-1072
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Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China. By Alessandro Rippa. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 282 pp. ISBN: 9789048543564 (cloth).
Emily T. Yeh
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10 January 2022, pp. 1072-1074
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Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa. By Brenton Sullivan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780812252675 (cloth).
Max Oidtmann
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10 January 2022, pp. 1074-1078
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Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China. By Wendy Swartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 318 pp. ISBN: 9780674983823 (cloth).
Kay Duffy
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10 January 2022, pp. 1079-1080
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Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang. By David Tobin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. x, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781108488402 (cloth).
Sean R. Roberts
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10 January 2022, pp. 1081-1083
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The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. By Jing Wang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780674980921 (cloth).
Jie Zhang
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10 January 2022, pp. 1083-1085
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Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. By Guojun Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780231191906 (cloth).
Ariel Fox
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10 January 2022, pp. 1085-1087
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A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976. By Felix Wemheuer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 331 pp. ISBN: 9781107123700 (cloth).
Robert Cliver
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10 January 2022, pp. 1087-1088
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Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965. By Yu Zhang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 306 pp. ISBN: 9780472054335 (paper).
Liang Luo
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10 January 2022, pp. 1089-1091
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Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought. By Dennitza Gabrakova. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9789004365919 (paper, also available as e-book).
Koichi Haga
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10 January 2022, pp. 1091-1093
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Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan. By Mire Koikari. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. xii, 196 pp. ISBN: 9781350122512 (cloth, also available as paper and e-book).
Michele M. Mason
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10 January 2022, pp. 1093-1095
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Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crisis of Democracy. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ix, 236 pp. ISBN: 9781108490078 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Robin Le Blanc
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10 January 2022, pp. 1095-1097
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Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left. By Chelsea Szendi Schieder. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. xi, 212 pp. ISBN: 9781478012979 (cloth, also available as paper).
Nick Kapur
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10 January 2022, pp. 1097-1099
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The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown. By Sharon J. Yoon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix, 188 pp. ISBN: 9780197517901 (paper).
Stephen Cho Suh
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10 January 2022, pp. 1099-1101
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China. By Arunabh Ghosh. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp. ISBN: 9780691179476 (cloth).

Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. By C. Patterson Giersch. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781503612167 (paper)

Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility. By Erin Y. Huang. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781478008095 (paper).

Haunted by Chaos: China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping. By Sulmaan Wasif Khan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780674977099 (cloth).

Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires. By Lu Zongli, trans. Wee Kek Koon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xvi, 371 pp. ISBN: 9781108479264 (cloth).

Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era. By Jie Li. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN: 9781478011231 (paper).

Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China. By Allison R. Miller. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii, 348 pp. ISBN: 9780231196604 (cloth).

Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China. By Alessandro Rippa. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 282 pp. ISBN: 9789048543564 (cloth).

Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa. By Brenton Sullivan. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780812252675 (cloth).

Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China. By Wendy Swartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 318 pp. ISBN: 9780674983823 (cloth).

Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang. By David Tobin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. x, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781108488402 (cloth).

The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. By Jing Wang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780674980921 (cloth).

Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. By Guojun Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780231191906 (cloth).

A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976. By Felix Wemheuer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 331 pp. ISBN: 9781107123700 (cloth).

Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965. By Yu Zhang. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 306 pp. ISBN: 9780472054335 (paper).

Book Reviews—Northeast Asia

The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought. By Dennitza Gabrakova. Leiden: Brill, 2018. 210 pp. ISBN: 9789004365919 (paper, also available as e-book).

Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan. By Mire Koikari. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. xii, 196 pp. ISBN: 9781350122512 (cloth, also available as paper and e-book).

Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crisis of Democracy. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ix, 236 pp. ISBN: 9781108490078 (cloth, also available as e-book).

Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left. By Chelsea Szendi Schieder. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2021. xi, 212 pp. ISBN: 9781478012979 (cloth, also available as paper).

The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown. By Sharon J. Yoon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. ix, 188 pp. ISBN: 9780197517901 (paper).

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