The Newsletter | No.53 | Spring 2010
The Review 27
New for review General Chaban, Natalia and Holland, Martin and Ryan, Peter, eds. 2009 The EU through the Eyes of Asia Volume II: New Cases, New Findings World Scientific. pp. 254, tables, 978 981 4289 81 8 Lim, Bliss Cua. 2009 Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic and Temporal Critique Durham and London: Duke University Press., ill., 978 0 8223 4510 7 Powers, John and Prebish, Charles S., eds. 2009 Destroying Mara Forever: Buddhist Ethics Essays in Honor of Damien Keown New York: Snow Lion Publications. pp. 293, 978 1 55939 341 6
Duara, Prasenjit. 2009 The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation London and New York: Routledge. pp. 253, 978 0 415 48290 5
Ng, Maria N. 2009 Pilgrimages: Memories of Colonial Macau and Hong Kong Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 144, ill., 978 962 209 208 2
Reitan, Richard M. 2010 Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 229, 978 0 8248 3294 0
Idema, Wilt L. 2009 Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250-1450 USA: World Scientific., ill., 978 981 4277 01 3
Riemenschnitter, Andrea and Madsen, Deborah L., eds. 2009 Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism Hong Kong: Hong Kong Univesity Press. pp. 285, colour ill., 978 962 209 080 4
Korea
King, Richard, ed. 2010 Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward: Two Stories Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 132, 978 0 8248 3436 4
Yongnian, Zheng. 2010 The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor: Culture, Reproduction and Transformation London and New York: Routledge. pp. 251, tables, 978 0 415 55965 2
Marat, Erica. 2010 The Military and the State in Central Asia: From Red Army to Independence London and New York: Routledge. pp. 160, 978 0 415 49347 5
Sherman, Taylor C. 2010 State Violence and Punishment in India London and New York: Routledge. pp. 246, 978 0 415 55970 6
Ostrowski, Wojciech. 2010 Politics and Oil in Kazakhstan London and New York: Routledge. pp. 206, 978 0 415 48580 7
Assandri, Friederike and Martins, Dora, eds. 2009 From Early Tang Court Debates to China’s Peaceful Rise Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 158, 978 90 5356 795 1 Barman, Charles. Edited by Barman, Ray. 2009 Resist to the End: Hong Kong, 1941-1945 Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 308, ill., 978 962 209 976 0 Bickers, Robert and Yep, Ray, eds. 2009 May Days in Hong Kong: Riot and Emergency in 1967 Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 222, tables, 978 962 209 999 9 Clart, Philip and Crowe, Paul, eds. 2009 The People and the Dao: New Studies in Chinese Religions in Honour of Daniel L. Overmeyer Nettetal: Sankt Augustin. pp. 542, ill., 978 3 8050 0557 9 Dijk, Meine Pieter van, ed. 2009 The New Presence of China in Africa Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. pp. 222, tables, 978 90 8964 136 6
Sinha, Jagdish N. 2008 Science, War and Imperialism: India in the Second World War Leiden: Brill. pp. 278, 978 90 04 16645 5 De Kloet, Jeroen. 2010 China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music Amsterdam: IIAS/Amsterdam University Press., ill., pp. 255, 978 90 8964 162 5
Kwong, Bruce Kam-kwan. 2010 Patron-Client Politics and Elections in Hong Kong London and New York: Routledge. pp. 156, tables, 978 0 415 55142 7 Lin, Xiaoping. 2010 Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press. pp. 312, ill., 978 0 8248 3336 7 McMahon, Keith. 2010 Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 215, 978 0 8248 3376 3 Moskowitz, Marc L. 2010 Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and its Cultural Connotations Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 165, ill., 978 0 8248 3369 5
The Korean Insitute of Traditional Landscape Architecture. 2009 Korean Traditional Landscape Architecture Seoul: Hollym. pp. 472, colour ill., 978 1 56591 252 6 Kim, Yung-Hee. transl. 2010 Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 233, 978 0 8248 3409 8
South Asia Banerjee, Debdas and Goldfield, Michael, eds. 2008 Labour, Globalization and the State: Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism London and New York: Routledge. pp. 262, tables, 978 0 415 55890 7
Indian Ocean Isles
Zehou, Li. 2010 The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 257, 978 0 8248 3307 7 Zhan, Mei. 2009 Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 240, ill., 978 0 8223 4384 4 Zhang, Yingjin. 2010 Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China Honolulu: University o of Hawai’I Press. pp. 257, ill., 978 0 8248 3337 4
East Asia Fu-Sheng, Renata and Franke, Wolfgang, eds. 2009 Otto Franke, ‘Sagt an, ihr fremden Lande’: Ostasienreisen. Tagebucher und Fotografien (1888-1901) Nettetal: Steyler Verlag. pp. 527, ill., German, 978 3 8050 0562 3 Vovin, Alexander. 2010 Korea-Japonica: A Re-Evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin Honolulu: university of Hawai’I Press. pp. 273, 978 0 8248 3278 0
Evan Ellis, R. 2009 China in Latin America: The Whats & Wherefores. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. pp. 329, 978 1 58826 650 7
Ciotti, Manuela. 2010 Retro-modern India: Forging the Low-Caste Self London, New York and Delhi: Routledge. pp. 292. 978 0 415 56311 6
Mukherjee, Sumita. 2010 Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-returned London and New York: Routledge. pp. 181, 978 0 415 55117 5
Central Asia
China
Abelmann, Nancy. 2010 The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 201. 978 0 8223 4615 9
Um, Nancy. 2009 The Merchant House of Mocha: Trade & Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port Seattle and London: University of Washington Press., ill., 978 0 295 98911 2
Indonesia Coen, J.G. Holtzappel & Martin Ramstedt, eds. 2009 Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Implementation and Challenges Singapore: ISEAS/IIAS. pp. 432, 978 981 230 820 7 Drooglever, Peter. 2009 An Act of Free Choice: Decolonization and the Right to Self-Determination in West-Papua Oxford: One World. pp. 854, 978 1 85168 715 2
Japan Brisset, Claire-Akiko. 2009 A la croisee du texte et de l’image: paysages cryptiques et poemes chaches (ashide) dans le Japon classique et medieval Paris: College de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises. pp. 548, colour ill., French, 978 2 913217 20 1
India
Lee, Yeounsuk. 2010 The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. pp. 262, 978 0 8248 3305 3
Chakrabarty, Bidyut and Kujur, Rajat Kumar. 2010 Maoism in India: Reincarnation of ultra-left wing extremism in the twenty-first century London and New York: Routledge. pp. 250, maps & tables, 978 0 415 54486 3
Mauclaire, Simone. 2009 Le Nom, L’Ecrit, Le Non-Dit: Mentalites rurales et ‘culture intermediaire’ dans le Japon medieval Paris: College de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises. pp. 349, French, 978 2 913217 23 2
Synnott, Hilary. 2009 Transforming Pakistan: Ways out of Instability London and New York: Routledge. pp. 198, 978 0 41556 260 7
Southeast Asia Barnett, Louise. 2010 Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia: Trial by Army Oxford and New York: Routledge. ill., pp. 277, 978 0 415 55640 8 Gonzalves, Theodore S. 2010 The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora Philadelphia: Temple University Press. pp. 215, 978 1 59213 729 9 McDaniel, Justin Thomas. 2008 Gathering Leaves & Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. pp. 358, ill., 978 0 295 98849 8 Tarling, Nicholas. 2010 Southeast Asia and the Great Powers London and New York: Routledge. pp. 272. 978 0 415 55238 7