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Volume 67 - Issue 4 - November 2008

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Book Reviews—Japan

Hirota Kōki: “Higeki no saishō” no jitsuzō [Hirota Kôki: The True Image of the “Tragic Prime Minister”]. By Hattori Ryûji. Tokyo: Chûô Kôron Shinsha, 2008. vii, 296 pp.

Escape from Impasse: The Decision to Open Japan. By Mitani Hiroshi. Translated by David Noble. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2006. xxxiv, 332 pp. $125.00 (cloth).

Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity. By Sharalyn Orbaugh. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xvi. 520 pp. $194.00 (cloth).

Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States. By Mark D. West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. ix, 404 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

P'ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance. By Nathan Hesselink. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv, 1pp. $25.00 (paper).

North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance. By Sung Chull Kim. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xv, 277pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Yi Kwang-su and Modern Korean Literature: Mujŏng. By Ann Sung-Hi Lee. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005. 348pp. $33.50 (paper).

The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea. By Namhee Lee. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. xii, 349pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xi, 291pp. $84.00 (cloth); $30.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India. By Vinayak Chaturvedi. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. xvii, 1pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

The Encounter Never Ends: A Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals. By Isabelle Clark-Decès. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. x, 148pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Global Perspectives. Edited by Debjani Ganguly and John Docker. New York: Routledge, 2007, 272pp. $160.00 (cloth).

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry. By Caitrin Lynch. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. xiii, 281pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Enigma of the Kerala Woman. Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007. xii, 189pp. $70.00 (cloth).

The Socially Involved Renunciate: Guru Nānak's Discourse to the Nāth Yogis. By Kamala Elizabeth Nayar and Jaswinder Singh Sandhu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xvi, 181pp. $60.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics. Edited by Heidi R. M. Pauwels. New York: Routledge, 2007. xvi, 259pp. $160.00 (cloth).

Paradise Lost: State Failure in Nepal. By Ali Riaz and Subho Basu. Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. xx, 220pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age. By Giorgio Shani. New York: Routledge, 2008. xvi, 198pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern: The Postcolonial Politics of Music in South India. By Amanda J. Weidman. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 349pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Indonesia Betrayed: How Development Fails. By Elizabeth Fuller Collins. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. 1pp. $54.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

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