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The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp f1-f10
doi:10.1017/S0021911809991525 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

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The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp b1-b30
doi:10.1017/S0021911809991537 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

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The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 675-679
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990696 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
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Wink on Pink: Interpreting Japanese Cute as It Grabs the Global Headlines

Christine R. Yano

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 681-688
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
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Rewriting Collaboration: China, Japan, and the Self in the Diaries of Bai Jianwu

Marjorie Dryburgh

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 689-714
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Murakami Haruki in Greater China: Creative Responses and the Quest for Cosmopolitanism

Margaret Hillenbrand

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 715-747
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Early Twentieth-Century Intra–East Asian Literary Contact Nebulae: Censored Japanese Literature in Chinese and Korean

Karen L. Thornber

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 749-775
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
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Base Cultures: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Occupied Japan

Sarah Kovner

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 777-804
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990052 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
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Suffragist Women, Corrupt Officials, and Waste Control in Prewar Japan: Two Plays by Kaneko Shigeri

Mariko Asano Tamanoi

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 805-834
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990064 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Politics and Pageantry in Protectorate Korea (1905–10): The Imperial Progresses of Sunjong

Christine Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 835-859
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Everyday Life as Critique in Late Colonial Korea: Kim Namch'ŏn's Literary Experiments, 1934–43

Sunyoung Park

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 861-893
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990088 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Word Is Mightier than the Throne: Bucking Colonial Education Trends in Manchukuo

Andrew Hall

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 895-925
doi:10.1017/S002191180999009X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—Asia: Comparative and Transnational

 
 

Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America. By Bamo Ayi, Stevan Harrell, and Ma Lunzy. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xiv, 330 pp. $30.00 (paper).

Magnus Fiskesjö

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 927-928
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990118 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—China

 
 

Death by a Thousand Cuts. By Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, and Gregory Blue. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xi, 1 pp. $22.95 (cloth).

James Hevia

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 929-930
doi:10.1017/S002191180999012X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368–1644. By Craig Clunas. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. 288 pp. $59.00 (cloth).

Julia K. Murray

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 930-932
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990131 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China. By David Faure. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiii, 464 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Sucheta Mazumdar

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 932-934
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990143 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation. By Antonia Finnane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xvii, 359 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Robert Culp

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 934-936
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

China Forever: Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema. Edited by Poshek Fu. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. vii, 270 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Stephen Teo

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 936-937
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan: Science Policy and the Quest for Modernization. By J. Megan Greene. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xx, 224 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Xin Zhang

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 937-939
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the “Old Schools” during Late Qing and Early Republican China. By Jon Eugene von Kowallis. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2006. xvi, 299 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Daniel Bryant

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 939-940
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990180 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Chinese among Others: Emigration in Modern Times. By Philip A. Kuhn. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xi, 431 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Adam McKeown

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 941-942
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990192 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds. By David M. Lampton. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xiii, 361 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

Andrew Scobell

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 942-944
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990209 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China. By Stephen R. MacKinnon. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 182 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

R. Keith Schoppa

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 944-945
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990210 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Social History of the Chinese Book: Books and Literati Culture in Late Imperial China. By Joseph R. McDermott. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006. xiv, 294 pp. $57.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).

R. Kent Guy

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 945-947
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990222 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China. By Anne E. McLaren. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. x, 209 pp. $54.00 (cloth).

Christian de Pee

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 947-949
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990234 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change. By Andrew C. Mertha. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvii, 168 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Jeremy T. Paltiel

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 949-950
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990246 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China. By Zhiru Ng. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007. xiii, 305 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Jinhua Chen

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 951-952
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990258 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368–1644). Edited by David M. Robinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. xii, 432 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

Sarah Schneewind

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 952-954
doi:10.1017/S002191180999026X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China. By Ruth Rogaski. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xiv, 401 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Tong Lam

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 954-956
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990271 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Words Well Put: Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition. By Graham Sanders. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. 316 pp. $44.95 (cloth).

Anna M. Shields

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 956-958
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990283 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

China's Tibet? Autonomy or Assimilation. By Warren W. Smith Jr. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. xxi, 313 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Elliot Sperling

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 958-959
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990295 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing. By Chloë F. Starr. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xxvi, 294 pp. $155.00 (cloth).

Margaret B. Wan

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 960-961
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990301 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century. By Xudong Zhang. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. x, 346 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Carlos Rojas

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 961-963
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

 
 

Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition. By Douglas S. Duckworth. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. 1 pp. $80.00 (cloth).

Derek F. Maher

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 963-965
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990325 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

On the Cultural Revolution in Tibet: The Nyemo Incident of 1969. By Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. xvi, 234 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

Benno Ryan Weiner

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 965-966
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990337 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia: Discovery, Reconstruction and Appropriation, by Tjalling H. F. Halbertsma. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xxix, 356 pp. $178.00 (cloth).

Christopher P. Atwood

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 967-968
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990349 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

A Political and Diplomatic History of Afghanistan, 1863–1901. By M. Hassan Kakar. Leiden: Brill, 2006. 259 pp. $111.00 (cloth).

Christine Noelle-Karimi

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 968-970
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990350 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Tibetans. By Matthew T. Kapstein. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. xxiv, 360 pp. $31.95 (cloth).

Toni Huber

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 970-972
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990362 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. By James A. Millward. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xix, 440 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Ildikó Bellér-Hann

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 972-974
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990374 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Nomads of Eastern Tibet: Social Organization and Economy of a Pastoral Estate in the Kingdom of Dege. By Rinzin Thargyal; edited by Toni Huber. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xii, 222 pp. $107.00 (cloth).

Geoff Childs

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 974-975
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990386 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Body and Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings. Edited by Laila Williamson and Serenity Young. New York: American Museum of Natural History in association with the University of Washington Press, 2009. 264 pp. $45.00 (paper).

Frances Garrett

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 975-977
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990398 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—Japan

 
 

Kitano Takeshi. By Aaron Gerow. London: British Film Institute, 2007. 1 pp. $25.95 (paper).

Daniel Johnson

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 977-980
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990404 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism. By Gregory Golley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. ix, 394 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Jonathan Zwicker

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 980-982
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990416 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture. By Sari Kawana. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. x, 271 pp. $67.50 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

Mark Silver

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 982-985
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990428 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan. By Elizabeth Oyler. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003. xi, 218 pp. $51.00 (cloth).

Michael S. Laver

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 986-987
doi:10.1017/S002191180999043X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2006. 485 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).

Ellen Van Goethem

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 988-990
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose. By Kenneth B. Pyle. New York: Public Affairs, 2007, x, 433 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Tosh Minohara

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 990-993
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990453 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. By Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. ix, 277 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

John Feffer

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 993-995
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990465 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion. Edited by Bernhard Scheid and Mark Teeuwen. New York: Routledge, 2006. xvii, 397 pp. $180.00 (cloth).

Christopher Harding

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 995-997
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990477 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937. By Mark Silver. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. xiii, 217 pp. $52.00 (cloth).

Satomi Saito

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 998-1000
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Meiji Constitution: The Japanese Experience of the West and the Shaping of the Modern State. By Takii Kazuhiro. Translated by David Noble. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2007. xix, 180 pp. ¥1,905.

Kyu Hyun Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1000-1003
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990490 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—Korea

 
 

Modern Korean Society: Its Development and Prospect. Edited by Hyuk-Rae Kim and Bok Song. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2006. viii, 1 pp. $20.00 (paper).

Eun Mee Kim

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1003-1005
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990507 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyŏngnae Rebellion of 1812. By Sun Joo Kim. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xiii, 304 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Eugene Y. Park

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1005-1007
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990519 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—South Asia

 
 

Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India. By Peggy Froerer. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2007. xx, 1 pp. $89.95 (cloth).

Mathew N. Schmalz

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1007-1009
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990520 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan. By Sikandar Hayat. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxi, 386 pp. $22.00 (cloth).

Philip Oldenburg

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1009-1010
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990532 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Architecture of the Indian Sultanates. Edited by Abha Narain Lambah and Alka Patel. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2006. 116 pp. $66.00 (cloth).

Robert L. Brown

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1011-1012
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990544 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India. By Christian Lee Novetzke. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xxii, 309 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Davesh Soneji

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1012-1014
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Kriyāviṉ taṟkālat tamiḻ akarāti (tamiḻ-tamiḻ-āṅkilam): Cre-A Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil (Tamil-Tamil-English). 2nd ed. Edited by S. Ramakrishnan. Chennai: Cre-A Publishers, 2008. lxiii, 1328 pp. Rs. 495 (paper).

Sascha Ebeling

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1014-1015
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990568 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramānand's Poetry. By A. Whitney Sanford. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2008. ix, 207 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Michael J. Gressett

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1015-1017
doi:10.1017/S002191180999057X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat. By Ornit Shani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 215 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).

Howard Spodek

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1017-1019
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990581 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Federalism, Nationalism and Development: India and the Punjab Economy. By Pritam Singh. New York: Routledge, 2008. xviii, 223 pp. $170.00 (cloth).

Karna Basu

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1019-1021
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990593 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Śāstrārambha: Inquiries into the Preamble in Sanskrit. Edited by Walter Slaje. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008. xv, 255 pp. €64.00 (paper).

Lawrence McCrea

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1021-1023
doi:10.1017/S002191180999060X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880–1900: An Economic and Social History. By Roland Wenzlhuemer. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xxii, 336 pp. $148.00 (cloth).

John D. Rogers

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1023-1024
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990611 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

 
 

Performing Political Identity: The Democrat Party in Southern Thailand. By Marc Askew. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2008. xvi, 1 pp. $30.00 (paper).

Pattana Kitiarsa

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1025-1027
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990623 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State. By Elizabeth F. Drexler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 287 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

David Hicks

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1027-1029
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990635 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia. Edited by Eva-Lotta E. Hedman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2008. 304 pp. $23.95 (paper); $46.95 (cloth).

Elizabeth F. Drexler

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1030-1032
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990647 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Virtual Thailand: The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. By Glen Lewis. New York: Routledge, 2006. xiii, 227 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Contentious Journalism: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore. By Cherian George. Singapore: Singapore University Press in association with University of Washington Press, 2006. 278 pp. $27.50 (paper).

Meredith L. Weiss

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1032-1036
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990659 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. By Tamara Lynn Loos. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006. xii, 240. $41.95 (cloth).

Judith Henchy

The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 68, Issue 03, August 2009, pp 1036-1038
doi:10.1017/S0021911809990660 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
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