Book Reviews

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THE REAL MODERN: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea | By Christopher P. Hanscom

Chul Kim

FROM FU MANCHU TO KUNG FU PANDA: Images of China in American Film | By Naomi Greene

Stacilee Ford

ON THE MARGINS OF EMPIRE: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan | By Jeffrey Paul Bayliss

Sidney Xu Lu

CHINA’S CIVIL WAR: A Social History, 1945-1949 | By Diana Lary

Matt Galway

CARS, CONDUITS, AND KAMPONGS: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960 | Edited by Freek Colombijn, Joost Coté

Christopher Silver

SOUTH KOREA’S RISE: Economic Development, Power and Foreign Relations | By Uk Heo and Terence Roehrig

Hyung-Gu Lynn

NEGOTIATING CHINA’S DESTINY IN WORLD WAR II | Edited by Hans van de Ven, Diana Lary, and Stephen R. MacKinnon

Bruce A. Elleman,

LAND’S END: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier | By Tania Murray Li

Jonathan Rigg

THE FIRST NAXAL: An Authorised Biography of Kanu Sanyal | By Bappaditya Paul

Alpa Shah

JAPANESE AND KOREAN POLITICS: Alone and Apart from Each Other | Edited by Takashi Inoguchi

Seung Hyok Lee