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Editorial

 
 

Editorial Foreword

KMG

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1139-1144
doi:10.1017/S002191180800171X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Editor's Note

Kenneth M. George

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1145-1146
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001721 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Research Articles

 
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Reclaiming the Chinese Revolution

Elizabeth J. Perry

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1147-1164
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001733 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
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Rethinking the History of Medicine in Asia: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine

Joseph S. Alter

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1165-1186
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001745 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

“Pioneers of Overseas Japanese Development”: Japanese American History and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan

Eiichiro Azuma

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1187-1226
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001757 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Hindu Bonds at Work: Spiritual and Commercial Ties between India and Bali

Martin Ramstedt

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1227-1250
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001769 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Bali, the Camera, and Dance: Performance Studies and The Lost Legacy of the Mead/Bateson Collaboration

Sally Ann Ness

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1251-1276
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001770 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

The Modern Burmese Woman and the Politics of Fashion in Colonial Burma

Chie Ikeya

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1277-1308
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001782 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Splitting Hairs: History and the Politics of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Suzanne G. O'Brien

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1309-1339
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001794 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Ravidass Deras and Social Protest: Making Sense of Dalit Consciousness in Punjab (India)

Ronki Ram

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1341-1364
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001800 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Dalit Revolution? New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh, India

Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1365-1396
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001812 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Review Essay—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

 
 

The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation. By Shafique N. Virani. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xx, 301 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

The Life and Times of Shaikh Nizam-u'd-Din Auliya. By Khaliq Ahmad Nizami. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007 [originally published 1991]. xvi, 238 pp. Rs. 525 (cloth).

The Shrine and Cult of Mu'in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer. By P. M. Currie. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006 [originally published 1989]. xii, 220 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Thomas Gibson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1397-1400
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001824 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Review Essay—Japan

 
 

Shrinking Population Economics: Lessons from Japan. By Akihito Matsutani. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2006. xiv, 200 pp. ¥1429 (paper).

Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Ageing. Edited by Keimi Kaizua and Anne Krueger. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xvi, 222 pp. $85.00 (cloth).

Population Decline and Ageing in Japan—The Social Consequences. By Florian Coulmas. New York: Routledge, 2007. viii, 167 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

The Care of the Elderly in Japan. By Youngmei Wu. New York: Routledge. 2004. xv, 224 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

Social Welfare in Japan: Principles and Applications. By Kojun Furkawa. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2008. xi, 425 pp. $109.95 Aus (cloth).

John Creighton Campbell

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1401-1406
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001836 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews—China

 
 

How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. By Tonio Andrade. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 1407 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Also available online at http://www.gutenberg-e.org.

Paul Van Dyke

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1407-1408
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001848 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

The Boxers, China, and the World. Edited by Robert Bickers and R. G. Tiedemann. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xxviii, 231 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $28.95 (paper).

Jennifer Rudolph

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1409-1410
doi:10.1017/S002191180800185X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Lies That Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths. By Susan D. Blum. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. vii, 233 pp. $58.65 (cloth); $23.76 (paper).

Jennifer Hubbert

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1411-1412
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001861 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

The Politics of Mourning in Early China. By Miranda Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xiv, 205 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Andrew Chittick

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1412-1414
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001873 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Some Assembly Required: Work, Community and Politics in China's Rural Enterprises. By Calvin Chen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xii, 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Marc Blecher

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1414-1416
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001885 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History. Edited by Charlotte Furth, Judith T. Zeitlin, and Ping-chen Hsiung. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xi, 331 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Maram Epstein

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1416-1418
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001897 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China. By Amy Hanser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. viii, 235 pp. $55 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Tiantian Zheng

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1418-1420
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001903 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Jodi L. Weinstein

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1420-1422
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001915 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Thomas Buoye

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1422-1424
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001927 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Joshua Goldstein

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1424-1426
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001939 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

David Faure

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1426-1428
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001940 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

C. Julia Huang

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1428-1429
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001952 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Cui Shuqin

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1430-1433
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001976 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Brett Sheehan

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1433-1435
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001988 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Allen Carlson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1435-1436
doi:10.1017/S002191180800199X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Ellen Johnston Laing

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1437-1438
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002003 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Bruce J. Dickson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1438-1440
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1440-1442
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Barrett L. McCormick

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1442-1443
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Manyul Im

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1444-1446
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Sarah E. Fraser

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1447-1448
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002052 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Gao Yunxiang

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1448-1450
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002064 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Kouduo richao: Li Jiubiao's Diary of Oral Admonitions, A Late Ming Christian Journal. Translated, with introduction and notes, by Erik Zürcher. 2 vols. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series LVI/1, 2. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica; Brescia: Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana, 2007. 862 pp. €80.00 (cloth).

The Chinese Face of Jesus Christ. Volume 3b. Edited by Roman Malek. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series L/3b. Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica and China Zentrum, 2007. xii, 429 pp. €60.00 (cloth).

John W. Witek

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1450-1453
doi:10.1017/S0021911808001964 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Christopher P. Atwood

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1453-1455
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Brian Bergstrom

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1455-1457
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002088 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Samuel Hideo Yamashita

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1457-1459
doi:10.1017/S002191180800209X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Love after “The Tale of Genji”: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince. By Charo B. D'Etcheverry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xiv, 220 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan. By John R. Wallace. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005. xi, 325 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Thomas H. Rohlich

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1460-1464
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002106 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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.

Tosh Minohara

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1464-1466
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002118 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Noell Wilson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1466-1468
doi:10.1017/S002191180800212X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Adrienne Carey Hurley

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1469-1471
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002131 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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).

Ilhyung Lee

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1471-1473
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002143 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews—Korea

 
 

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

Sun Hee Koo

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1473-1474
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Patrick McEachern and Molly Boyd

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1475-1476
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Janet Poole

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1477-1478
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Janice C. H. Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1478-1480
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002180 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Haeng-Ja Sachiko Chung

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1480-1482
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002192 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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, 1 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Sumit Guha

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1482-1484
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002209 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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, 148 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Anand Pandian

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1484-1485
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Ron Large

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1485-1487
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002222 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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, 281 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Michele Ruth Gamburd

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1487-1489
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Nisha Kommattam

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1489-1491
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002246 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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, 181 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Robin Rinehart

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1491-1492
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Christian Lee Novetzke

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1492-1494
doi:10.1017/S002191180800226X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Genevieve Lakier

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1494-1496
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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

Gurinder Singh Mann

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1496-1497
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002283 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

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, 349 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Sindhumathi Revuluri

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1498-1499
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002295 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

 
 

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

Budi Susanto

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1500-1502
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002301 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Mantels of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh. By David W. Fraser and Barbara G. Fraser. Bangkok: River Books, 2005. 288 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Jill Forshee

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1503-1505
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Naming the Witch. By James Siegel. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii, 253 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

David Hicks

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1505-1507
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002325 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of the Wayang in Central Java. By Sarah Weiss. 2006. Leiden: KITLV Press. viii, 187 pp., CD-ROM. $35.00 (paper).

Judith Becker

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1507-1509
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002337 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia. By Andrew C. Willford. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. xiii, 346 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Joel S. Kahn

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1509-1511
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002349 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
 

Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism: Culture, Politics, and Development at Angkor. By Tim Winter. New York: Routledge, 2007. xxii, 170 pp. $150.00 (cloth).

Christina Kreps

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 67, Issue 04, November 2008, pp 1511-1514
doi:10.1017/S0021911808002350 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 10 Nov 2008
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