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Volume 73 - August 2014

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Book Reviews—Japan

The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Maki Fukuoka. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012. xi, 272 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Time at a Standstill: Chosŏn's Taebodan and the Threshold of the Modern. By Seung Bum Kye . Seoul: Sogang University Press, 2011. 298 pp. $16.95/KRW18,000 (cloth).

Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development. Edited by Jae-Jung Suh. New York: Lexington Books, 2013. 184 pp. $80.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China

Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television. By Ying Zhu. New York: New Press, 2012. x, 291 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 1910–1945. Edited by Hong Yung Lee , Yong-Chool Ha , and Clark W. Sorensen . Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. 350 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan. By Emanuel Pastreich. Seoul: Seoul University Press, 2011. 366 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Religious Bodies Politics: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism. By Anya Bernstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvii, 258 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India. By Indrani Chatterjee. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 451 pp. ₹ 1,025.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

The Making of Korean Christianity: Protestant Encounters with Korean Religions, 1876–1915. By Sung-Deuk Oak . Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2013. 437 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. By Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xxi, 311 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease. By Alexander R. Bay. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2012. x, 230 pp. $95.00/£60.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society. By David Lewis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii, 233 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).

Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India. By Cecilia Van Hollen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xi, 288 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Rising Sun, Divided Land: Japanese and South Korean Filmmakers. By Katie E. Taylor-Jones . London: Wallflower Press, 2013. 224 pp. $85.00/£58.50 (cloth); $28.00/£19.50 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

The People's Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010. By Patricia L. Maclachlan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. 358 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Anime's Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan. By Marc Steinberg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. vii, 336 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Keith Vincent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2012. ix, 233 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Province of the Book: Scholars, Scribes, and Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu. By A. R. Venkatachalapathy. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2012. xvii, 292 pp. ₹795 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline. Edited by Peter Matanle and Anthony S. Rausch with The Shrinking Regions Group. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2011. 564 pp. $139.99 (cloth); $41.99 (ebook).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India. By Indrani Chatterjee . New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013. xiv, 451 pp. ₹1,025 (cloth).

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

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