Book Reviews

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WHALING IN JAPAN: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy | By Jun Morikawa

Anny Wong

QUEST FOR HARMONY: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life | By Chuan-Kang Shih

Elisabeth Hsu

DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF A WHITE AUSTRALIA: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation in the Mid-twentieth Century | By Catriona Elder

Jeanine Leane

BETWEEN FRONTIERS: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland. Research in International Studies | By Noburo Ishikawa

Alexander Horstmann

NUCLEUS AND NATION: Scientists, International Networks and Power in India | By Robert S. Anderson

M.V. Ramana

THE FAILURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan | By Akihiro Ogawa

Victoria Lyon Bestor

A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO MAO | Edited by Timothy Cheek

Xueping Zhong

QUESTIONING COLLAPSE: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire | Edited by Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee

James L. Flexner

HAWAI’I AT THE CROSSROADS OF THE U.S. AND JAPAN BEFORE THE PACIFIC WAR | Edited by Jon Thanes Davidann

Glenn Petersen

SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS: Village Industry in Indonesia | By S. Ann Dunham; Edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper; with a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng and an afterword by Robert W. Hefner

Ward Keeler