Book Review Samples
Please see book review samples:
Asia General
TAIWAN IN JAPAN’S EMPIRE-BUILDING: An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering. By Hui-yu Caroline Tsai. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. xvii, 323 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$140.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-415-44738-6. (Volume 83, No. 1)
WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION IN ASIA: Obstacles and Challenges. Edited by Kazuki Iwanaga. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008. xviii, 315 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$35.00, paper. ISBN 978-8-776-94016-4. (Volume 82, No. 4)
China and Inner Asia
THE TEAHOUSE: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950. By Di Wang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xvii, 355 pp. (Tables, figures, maps, B&W photos.) US$65.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8047-5843-7. (Volume 83, No. 1)
AXIS OF CONVENIENCE: Moscow, Beijing, and the New Geopolitics. By Bobo Lo. London: Chatham House; Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. xii, 277 pp. (Tables, graphs, maps.) US$32.95, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8157-5340-7. (Volume 83, No. 1)
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Enterprises. By Calvin Chen. Cambridge (MA) and London (UK): Harvard University Asia Center (distributed by Harvard University Press), 2008. xiii, 224 pp. (Figures.) US$39.95, cloth.ISBN 978-0-674-02783-1. (Volume 82, No. 4)
Northeast Asia
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN POST-CRISIS KOREA: European Investors and ‘Mismatched Globalization’. By Judith Cherry. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. xi, 201 pp. (Tables.) US$150.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-415-27006-9. (Volume 83, No. 1)
WAR MEMORY, NATIONALISM AND EDUCATION IN POSTWAR JAPAN, 1945-2007: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges. By Yoshiko Nozaki; foreword by Richard Minear. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. xx, 198 pp. US$150.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-415-37147-6. (Vollume 82, No. 3)
Nation building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy. By Gregg Brazinsky. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 312 pp. (Photos.) US$45.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8078-3120-5. (Volume 81, No. 3)
South Asia
THE POLITICS OF POSTSECULAR RELIGION: Mourning Secular Futures. By Ananda Abeysekara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xvi, 324 pp. US$50.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-231-14290-8. (Volume 83, No. 1)
RETHINKING DEMOCRACY. By Rajni Kothari. London and New York: Zed Books, 2007. vii, 176 pp. US$27.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-84277-946-0. (Volume 83, No. 1)
Southeast Asia
THE CHINESE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND BEYOND: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions. By Ching-Hwang Yen. Singapore, Hackensack (NJ) and London: World Scientific, 2008. vi, 457 pp. US$82.00, cloth. ISBN 978-981-279-047-7. (Volume 83, No. 1)
TEARING APART THE LAND: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand. By Duncan McCargo. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. xxv, 235 pp. (Maps, B&W photos.) US$21.00, paper. ISBN 978-0-8014-7499-6. (Volume 82, No. 4)
CHALLENGING THE SECULAR STATE: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia. By Arskal Salim. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008. xiv, 256 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$52.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8248-3237-7. (Volume 82, No. 4)
Australasia and the Pacific Region
MAKING DEAD BIRDS: Chronicle of a Film. By Robert Gardner; foreword by Phillip Lopate; edited by Charles Warren; designed by Jeannet Leendertse. Cambridge (MA): Peabody Museum Press (Harvard Univ. Press), 2007. xvii, 137 pp. (Photos.) US$35.00, paper. ISBN 978-0-83765-823-2. (Volume 83, No. 1)
THE LAST WHALE. By Chris Pash. Fremantle (AUS): Fremantle Press (exclusively distributed by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, OR), 2008. 218 pp. (B&W photos.). US$29.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-921361-32-6. (Volume 82, No. 4)