Book Reviews

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

Julian Dierkes

URBANIZING CHINA IN WAR AND PEACE: The Case of Wuxi County | By Toby Lincoln

Micah Muscolino

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYSTEM AND ITS LEGACIES: Continuation, Transformation and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific | Edited by Kimie Hara

Ivo Plšek

FROM KING CANE TO THE LAST SUGAR MILL: Agricultural Technology and the Making of Hawai‘i’s Premier Crop | By C. Allan Jones & Robert V. Osgood

Kara Hisatake

“GETTING BY”: Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia | By Donald M. Nonini

Huang Jianli

INDIA’S 2014 ELECTIONS: A Modi-led BJP Sweep | Edited by Paul Wallace

Ronojoy Sen

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

Philip Seaton

MAOISM AT THE GRASSROOTS: Everyday Life in China’s Era of High Socialism | Edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson

Lynn T. White III

THINK TANKS AND NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY: Governance Entrepreneurs in Asia | By Erin Zimmerman

Stéphanie Martel

SAVAGE HARVEST: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | By Carl Hoffman

Shirley Campbell