Northeast Asia

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DOWN AND OUT IN LATE MEIJI JAPAN | By James L. Huffman

Simon Partner

K-POP IDOLS: Popular Culture and the Emergence of the Korean Music Industry | By Dal Yong Jin and Hark Joon Lee

Seung-Ah Lee

GENDER AND CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH KOREA: Intersectionality and Transnationality | Edited by Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie, and Laura C. Nelson

Jinsook Kim

FROM FACTORY GIRLS TO K-POP IDOL GIRLS: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea’s Popular Music Industry | By Gooyong Kim; Foreword by Douglas Kellner

Hyejin Jo

DIPLOMACY, TRADE, AND SOUTH KOREA’S RISE TO INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE | By Dennis Patterson and Jangsup Choi

Seung-Whan Choi

LIMINALITY OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan | By Hiroko Matsuda

Evan Dawley

JAPAN’S CARNIVAL WAR: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 | By Benjamin Uchiyama

A. Carly Buxton

AESTHETIC LIFE: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan | By Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit

Janice Brown

THE INTERROGATION ROOMS OF THE KOREAN WAR: The Untold History | By Monica Kim

Eun Hee Woo

NATION-EMPIRE: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies | By Sayaka Chatani

Michael Wert