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Volume 60 - August 2001

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Book Reviews—Japan

Goddesses, Priestesses, and Sisters: Mind, Gender, and Power in the Monarchic Tradition of the Ryukyus. By Arne Røkkum. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1998. xviii, 281 pp. $43.95 (cloth).

Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society. By Nam-Lin Hur. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 302 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Early Korean Literature: Selections and Introductions. By David R. McCann. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xiii, 185 pp. $49.50 (cloth), $18.50 (paper).

The Record of the Black Dragon Year. Translated with an Introduction by Peter H. Lee. Seoul and Honolulu: Institute of Korean Culture, Korea University, and Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i. 2000. x, 224 pp. $25.00.

Constructing Korean “Origins”: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories. By Hyung-Il Pai. Harvard-Hallym Series on Korea. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2000. xxxii, 543 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata. By Roy Starrs. Surrey: Japan Library, 1998. 247 pp. $49.00

Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society. By Sharon Kinsella. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. xii, 228 pp. $39.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development. By John Kie-chiang Oh. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. xii, 257 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Spirit of Independence: A Primer of Korean Modernization and Reform. By Syngman Rhee. Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Han-Kyo Kim. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. xvii, 305 pp. $52.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Korean Adoption and Inheritance: Case Studies in the Creation of a Classic Confucian Society. By Mark A. Peterson. Cornell East Asia Series: 80. Ithaca: N.Y.: Cornell University East Asian Program, 1996. xii, 267 pp. $23.80 (cloth); $14.45 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan. By John W. Traphagan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 225 pp. $62.50 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).

Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868–1945. By Michael Lewis. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. xviii, 340 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

The 100 Years of Modern Korean Literature. Seoul: Seoul National University Institute for Research on Information System in the Humanities, 2000. CDROM.

Book Reviews—Japan

Gender is Fair Game: (Re)thinking the (Fe)male in the Works of Oba Minako. By Michiko Niikuni Wilson. Armonk, NY.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xii, 207 pp. $51.95 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Korea

Generals and Scholars: Military Rule in Medieval Korea. By Edward J. Shultz. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. xii, pp. 254. $55.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Plunder and Pleasure: Japanese Art in the West, 1860–1930. By Max Put. Leiden: Hotei Press, 2000. 151 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū. By Stephen Snyder. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000. viii, 195 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Korea

Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War. By Roy Richard Grinker. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xix, 316 pages (cloth); $18.95 (paper, 2000).

Colonial Modernity in Korea. Edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Harvard East Asian Monographs: 184/Harvard-Hallym Series on Korean Studies, xiii, 466 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

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