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Volume 67 - Issue 4 - November 2008

Book Reviews—China

Amid the Clouds and Mist: China's Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700. By John E. Herman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xiii, 344 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644–1862. By Christopher Mills Isett. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2006vii, 418 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific. By Daphne P. Lei. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. xi, 348 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

Fighting Famine in North China: State, Market, and Environmental Decline, 1690s–1990s. By Lillian M. Li. Stanford. Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xix, 520 pp. $78.00 (cloth).

Democracy's Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan. By Richard Madsen. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2008. xxvi, 191 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China. Edited by Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. $87.00 (cloth); $30.95 (paper).

China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929–1937. By Tomoko Shiroyama. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xvii, 325 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War. By Robert G. Sutter. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. viii, 439 pp. $79.00 (cloth); $32.95 (paper).

Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement. By Xiaobing Tang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xi, 300 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Disciplining the State: Virtue, Violence, and State-Making in Modern China. By Patricia M. Thornton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. ix, 247 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China. By Kellee S. Tsai. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. xiv, 228 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).

Disorganizing China: Counter-Bureaucracy and the Decline of Socialism. By U Eddy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. ix, 276 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy. By Bryan W. Van Norden. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 412 pp. $90.00 (cloth).

Shaping the Lotus Sutra, Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. By Eugene Yuejin Wang. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. xxiv, 487 pp., ill. 119 b/w, 21 color, $60 (cloth).

Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema. By Gary G. Xu. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xii, 175 pp. $72.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Temples et monastères de Mongolie-intérieure. By Isabelle Charleux. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques; Institut national d'historie de l'art, 2006. 1 pp. CD-ROM. €72.20 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. By David R. Ambaras. Berkeley and Los Angeles.: University of California Press, 2006. xii, 1 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. By Kataryzna J. Cwiertka. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 240 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

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Volume 67 - Issue 4 - November 2008

Book Reviews—China

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