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Editorial

 
 

Editorial Foreword

KMG

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 877-880
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001891 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Research Articles

 
 

Bandits and Kings: Moral Authority and Resistance in Early Colonial India

Anand A. Yang

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 881-896
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha and the Question of Truth

Rosinka Chaudhuri

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 897-918
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001246 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Tracking the Goddess: Religion, Community, and Identity in the Durga Puja Ceremonies of Nineteenth-Century Calcutta

Tithi Bhattacharya

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 919-962
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Out of Tradition: Master Artisans and Economic Change in Colonial India

Tirthankar Roy

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 963-991
doi:10.1017/S002191180700126X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Taxes, the Local Elite, and the Rural Populace in the Chinju Uprising of 1862

Sun Joo Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 993-1027
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Masculinizing the Nation: Gender Ideologies in Traditional Korea and in the 1890s–1900s Korean Enlightenment Discourse

Vladimir Tikhonov

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1029-1065
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001283 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Law and Custom under the Chosŏn Dynasty and Colonial Korea: A Comparative Perspective

Marie Seong-Hak Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1067-1097
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001295 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

 
 

Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin. By Rustom Bharucha. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxiv, 236 pp. $35.00/Rs 820 (cloth).

Ketu H. Katrak

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1099-1101
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001301 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Anthropology of Christianity. Edited by Fenella Cannell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. ix, 373 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Deirdre de la Cruz

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1101-1103
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World. Edited by Victor H. Mair. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. ix, 310 pp. $57.00 (cloth).

Bo Lawergren

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1103-1105
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001325 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History. Edited By Norman Yoffee and Bradley L. Crowell. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. vi, 352 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Rowan Flad

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1105-1107
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001337 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—China

 
 

Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model. Edited by Robert Ash and J. Megan Greene. New York: Routledge, 2007. xvi, 304 pp. $145.00 (cloth).

Murray Rubinstein

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1107-1108
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001349 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724. By Liam Matthew Brockey. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. xi, 496 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

John Delury

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1109-1110
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001350 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895–1937. By Peter J. Carroll. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. xvi, 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1110-1112
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001362 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China. By Frank Dikötter. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. xv, 382 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Joshua Goldstein

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1112-1114
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Everyday Modernity in China. Edited by Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Goldstein. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. vii, 344 pp. $30.00 (paper).

Rebecca Nedostup

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1114-1115
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001386 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel. By Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. viii, 304 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Weijie Song

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1116-1117
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001398 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Selfless Offspring: Filial Children and Social Order in Medieval China. By Keith Nathaniel Knapp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2005. x, 300 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Maram Epstein

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1117-1119
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001404 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation. Edited by Ching Kwan Lee. New York: Routledge, 2007. xii, 251 pp. $135.00 (cloth); $35.95 (paper).

Mark W. Frazier

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1119-1120
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001416 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. By Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. xvii, 348 pp. $27.00 (paper).

Mark Csikszentmihalyi

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1121-1122
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001428 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. By Thomas Michael. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xii, 170 pp. $64.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

James Miller

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1122-1124
doi:10.1017/S002191180700143X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China. By Beth E. Notar. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. vii, 186 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper).

David J. Davies

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1124-1126
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County. By William T. Rowe. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii, 437 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

John W. Dardess

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1126-1127
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang. 3 vols. Edited by Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1637 pp. $175.00 (cloth, boxed set).

Brook Ziporyn

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1128-1129
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001465 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence. By Lothar von Falkenhausen. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006. xxiii, 555 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).

Edward L. Shaughnessy

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1129-1132
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001477 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History. Edited by David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 412 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Kuei-fen Chiu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1132-1134
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China. By Lingzhen Wang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii, 280 pp. $58.00 (cloth).

Christopher Lupke

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1134-1137
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001490 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850–1910. By Catherine Yeh. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. x, 430 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Alexander Des Forges

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1137-1139
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001507 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives. By Anthony C. Yu. Chicago: Open Court Books, 2006. xiv, 192 pp. $18.95 (paper).

Blaine Gaustad

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1139-1140
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001519 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937. By Zhang Zhen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxxiii, 488 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

Yiman Wang

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1141-1142
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001520 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

 
 

Teaching and Learning in Tibet: A Review of Research and Policy Publications. By Ellen Bangsbo. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2004. viii, 150 pp. $23.00 (paper).

Emily T. Yeh

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1143-1144
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001532 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China: “My Service in the Army,” by Dzengšeo. Translated and edited by Nicola Di Cosmo. London: Routledge, 2006. x, 140 pp. $140.00 (cloth).

David A. Graff

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1145-1146
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001544 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Tibetan Treasure Literature: Revelation, Tradition, and Accomplishment in Visionary Buddhism. By Andreas Doctor. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2005. 245 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

Alexander Gardner

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1146-1148
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864–1877. By Hodong Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Gardiner Bovingdon

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1148-1150
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001568 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture: An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal Reasoning. By Kenneth Liberman. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xiii, 323 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Joseph McClellan

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1150-1152
doi:10.1017/S002191180700157X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Soufisme et politique entre Chine, Tibet et Turkestan: Étude sur les Khwajas Naqshbandis du Turkestan oriental. By Alexandre Papas. Paris: Librarie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Jean Maisonneuve successeur, 2005. iii, 291 pp. €48.00.

Nathan Light

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1152-1156
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001581 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland. Edited by S. Frederick Starr. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 484 pp. $99.95 (cloth); $37.95 (paper).

Ildikó Bellér-Hann

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1156-1157
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001593 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Phonology of Mongolian. Edited by Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson and Vivan Franzén. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xix, 314 pp. $192.00 (paper).

Mikael Thompson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1158-1160
doi:10.1017/S002191180700160X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—Japan

 
 

The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. By Dixee R. Bartholomew-Feis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 435 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

David J. Ulbrich

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1160-1161
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001611 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Fairness, Globalization, and Public Institutions: East Asia and Beyond. Edited by Jim Dator, Dick Pratt, and Yongseok Seo. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. x, 399 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Benny Teh Cheng Guan

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1162-1163
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001623 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. By Peter Gabriel. Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press, 2006. 224 pp. $ 48.00 (cloth).

Gérard Siary

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1163-1167
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001635 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 312 pp. $38.00 (cloth).

Yoshikuni Igarashi

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1167-1169
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001647 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity. By Karen Nakamura. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. 248 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Douglas C. Baynton

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1169-1174
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001659 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. Edited by Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 1,392 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Sarah M. Strong

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1174-1176
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001660 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—Korea

 
 

A History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, Together with an Annotated Translation of the Paekche Annals of the Samguk Sagi. By Jonathan W. Best. Harvard East Asian Monographs 246. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University East Asia Center, 2007. 555 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Richard D. McBride

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1176-1177
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001672 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Book of Korean Poetry: Songs of Shilla and Koryŏ. Translated and edited by Kevin O'Rourke. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 122 pp. $15.95 (paper).

Michael J. Pettid

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1178-1179
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001684 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea. By Keith Pratt. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 320 pp. $34.95 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period through the Nineteenth Century. By Michael J. Seth. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 257 pp. $27.95 (paper).

Michael E. Robinson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1179-1181
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001696 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Lamentation as History: Narratives by Koreans in Japan, 1965–2000. By Melissa L. Wender. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2005. 272 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Janice C. H. Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1181-1183
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001702 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—South Asia

 
 

Sorrow and Joy among Muslim Women: The Pukhtuns of Northern Pakistan. By Amineh Ahmed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix, 199 pp. $90.00 (cloth).

Karuna Sharma

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1183-1185
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001714 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Make Me a Man! Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India. By Sikata Banerjee. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ix, 181 pp. $71.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Deepa S. Reddy

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1185-1187
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001726 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre. By Vasudha Dalmia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiii, 366 pp. $39.95/Rs1080 (cloth).

Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947. By Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. xix, 456 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Nandi Bhatia

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1187-1191
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001738 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching as Performance in Sri Lanka. By Mahinda Deegalle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. xiii, 241 pp. $65.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper).

Ryan R. Overbey

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1192-1193
doi:10.1017/S002191180700174X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Life of Hinduism. Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. xiii, 324 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Robin Rinehart

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1193-1195
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001751 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, and Controversies. Edited by Sarah Hodges. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006. ix, 264 pp. Rs 620 (cloth).

Sunil K. Khanna

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1195-1197
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001763 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

South Asian Folklore: A Handbook. By Frank J. Korom. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006. vii, 223 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Sally Steindorf

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1197-1199
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001775 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan. By Daniel Neuman and Shubha Chaudhuri, with Komal Kothari. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2006. xx, 320 pp. $370.00/Rs 1495 (cloth).

Joan L. Erdman

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1199-1201
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001787 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. By Tejaswini Niranjana. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. x, 271 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Tina K. Ramnarine

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1201-1203
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001799 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Construction of Hinduism, 1793–1900. By Geoffrey A. Oddie. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006. 376 pp. $79.95 (cloth); $36.95 (paper).

Richard King

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1204-1206
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001805 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building. By Laura A. Ring. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 211 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Maggie Ronkin

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1206-1208
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Birth of the Khalsa: A Feminist Re-Memory of Sikh Identity. By Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xxvi, 230 pp. $78.50 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Gene Thursby

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1208-1210
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001829 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Learning Politics from Sivaram: The Life and Death of a Revolutionary Tamil Journalist in Sri Lanka. By Mark P. Whitaker. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pluto Press, 2006. xiv, 251 pp. $90.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper).

Michele Ruth Gamburd

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1210-1211
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001830 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

 
 

Art as Politics: Re-Crafting Identities, Tourism and Power in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. By Kathleen Adams. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006. xi, 286 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Janet Hoskins

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1212-1214
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001842 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. By Warwick Anderson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. ix, 355 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Smita Lahiri

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1214-1216
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001854 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia. By Tom Boellstorff. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii, 282 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Carla Jones

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1217-1220
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001866 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891–1903. By Matthew Isaac Cohen. Ohio University Research in International Studies Southeast Asia Series No. 112. Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, 2006. 473 pp. xviii, $30.00 (paper).

Budi Susanto S. J.

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1220-1222
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001878 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Việt Nam: Borderless Histories. Edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran. and Anthony Reid. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. ix, 386 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Ann Marie Leshkowich

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1222-1224
doi:10.1017/S002191180700188X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

Miscellaneous

 
 

Book Review Correspondence

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1225-1226
doi:10.1017/S002191180700191X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
 

In Tribute

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 04, November 2007, pp 1227-1234
doi:10.1017/S0021911807001908 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 29 Oct 2007
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