Volume 84 – No. 4

Asia General

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STATE, SOCIETY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN ASIA: Reality and Challenges. Edited by M. Parvizi Amineh.
Reviewed by John D. Ciorciari

TRADE AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Case Studies and Lessons from Low-Income Communities. Edited by Andrew Stoler, Jim Redden, and Lee Ann Jackson.
Reviewed by Saman Kelegama

China & Inner Asia

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ECONOMIC OPENNESS AND TERRITORIAL POLITICS IN CHINA. By Yumin Sheng.
Reviewed by Ray Yep

CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POLITICS: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies. Edited by Allen Carlson et al.
Reviewed by Elizabeth J. Remick

FAITHS ON DISPLAY: Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State. Edited by Tim Oakes and Donald S. Sutton
Reviewed by Shuk-wah Poon

PATRON-CLIENT POLITICS AND ELECTIONS IN HONG KONG. By Bruce Kam-kwan Kwong.
Reviewed by Ngok Ma

Northeast Asia

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THE MAKING OF NORTHEAST ASIA. By Kent Calder and Min Ye.
Reviewed by Brock F. Tessman

THE RISE AND FALL OF JAPAN’S LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions. By Ellis S. Krauss and Robert J. Pekkanen.
Reviewed by Ray Christensen

PARTY POLITICS AND DECENTRALIZATION IN JAPAN AND FRANCE: When the Opposition Governs. By Koichi Nakano.
Reviewed by Dimitri Vanoverbeke

WOMEN AND FAMILY IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN. By Susan D. Holloway.
Reviewed by Cherylynn Bassani

NEITHER MONK NOR LAYMAN: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism. By Richard M. Jaffe.
Reviewed by Levi McLaughlin

TRESPASSES: Selected Writings. By Masao Miyoshi. Edited and with an introduction by Eric Cazdyn.
Reviewed by Kyu Hyun Kim

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga. By Jennifer S. Prough.
Reviewed by Alwyn Spies

BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy. By Sondra Fraleigh.
Reviewed by Brianne Waychoff

BABYLON EAST: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan. By Marvin D. Sterling.
Reviewed by Debra J. Occhi

ABSOLUTE EROTIC, ABSOLUTE GROTESQUE: The Living, Dead and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945. By Mark Driscoll.
Reviewed by Sang Mi Park

JAPAN AND IMPERIALISM, 1853-1945. By James L. Huffman.
Reviewed by Jonathan Dresner

SOUTH KOREA UNDER COMPRESSED MODERNITY: Familial Political Economy in Transition. By Chang Kyung-Sup.
Reviewed by Kyoung-Ho Shin

LITIGATION IN KOREA. Edited by Kuk Cho.
Reviewed by Patricia Goedde

THE NORTHERN REGION OF KOREA: History, Identity and Culture. Edited by Sun Joo Kim.
Reviewed by Michael Robinson

SOLDIERS ON THE CULTURAL FRONT: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy. By Tatiana Gabroussenko. Reviewed by Keon De Ceuster

A HISTORY OF KOREA: From Antiquity to the Present. By Michael J. Seth
Reviewed by Anders Karlsson

South Asia & the Himalayas

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SOUTH ASIA’S WEAK STATES: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament. Edited by T.V. Paul.
Reviewed by Sanjib Baruah

THE VERNACULARISATION OF DEMOCRACY: Politics, Caste and Religion in India. By Lucia Michelutti.
Reviewed by Philippa Williams

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY INDIA. Edited by Neil DeVotta.
Reviewed by Alf Gunvald Nilsen

RETRO-MODERN INDIA: Forging the Low-Caste Self. By Manuela Ciotti.
Reviewed by Clarinda Still

THE SIKH SEPARATIST INSURGENCY IN INDIA: Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements. By Jugdep S. Chima
Reviewed by Pritnam Singh

ATTRACTING THE HEART: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture. By Jeffrey Samuels.
Reviewed by Michael Carrithers

Southeast Asia

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SOUTHEAST ASIA IN WORLD HISTORY. By Craig A. Lockard.
Reviewed by Jim Placzek

A STORY OF VIET NAM. By Truong Buu Lâm.
Reviewed by David G. Marr

CAMBODIANS AND THEIR DOCTORS: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia. By Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell
Reviewed by Jenna Grant

A CERTAIN AGE: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals. By Rudolf Mrázek.
Reviewed by David Chandler

FALLING INTO THE LESBI WORLD: Desire and Difference in Indonesia. By Evelyn Blackwood.
Reviewed by Martin F. Manalansan IV

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

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GOSSIP AND THE EVERYDAY PRODUCTION OF POLITICS. By Niko Besnier.
Reviewed by Alan Jones

STEADFAST MOVEMENT AROUND MICRONESIA: Satowan Enlargements Beyond Migration. By Lola Quan Bautista.
Reviewed by Laurel A. Monnig

ANTHROPOLOGY’S GLOBAL HISTORIES: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935. By Rainer F. Buschmann.
Reviewed by Doug Dalton

FROM LAND TO MOUTH: The Agricultural “Economy” of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands. By Paul Sillitoe.
Reviewed by Alex Golub

GRASS-CLEARING MAN: A Factional Ethnography of Life In the New Guinea Highlands. By Paul Sillitoe, Jackie Sillitoe.
Reviewed by Michael Goddard

DREAMS, MADNESS, AND FAIRY TALES IN NEW BRITAIN. By Andrew Lattas.
Reviewed by Naomi M. McPherson