Book Reviews

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NATURE IN TRANSLATION: Japanese Tourism Encounters the Canadian Rockies | By Shiho Satsuka

David W. Edgington

HIGH-STAKES SCHOOLING: What We Can Learn from Japan’s Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform | By Christopher Bjork

Julian Dierkes

THE LONG DEFEAT: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan | By Akiko Hashimoto

Philip Seaton

DISASTERS AND SOCIAL CRISIS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses | Edited by Mark R. Mullins, Koichi Nakano

Pablo Figueroa

JAPANESE AND RUSSIAN POLITICS: Polar Opposites or Something in Common? | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi

Alexander Bukh

IDENTITY CHANGE AND FOREIGN POLICY: Japan and its ‘others’ | Edited by Linus Hagström

Kyoko Hatakeyama

DV-MADE CHINA: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film | Edited by Zhang Zhen and Angela Zito

Weihong Bao

THE RISE OF CANTONESE OPERA | By Wing Chung Ng

Joseph S.C. Lam

SOUNDING THE MODERN WOMAN: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema | By Jean Ma

S. Louisa Wei

CHINA’S LITERARY COSMOPOLITANS: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters | Edited by Christopher Rea

Richard King