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sex, Drugs, and Body Counts The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conict EDITED BY PETER A NDREAS AND K ELLY M. GREENHILL
Stop what youre doing and go buy a copy of Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts. Then, sit down in front of your computer and send me an e-mail to thank me for helping to end your enslavement to the dodgy numbers that taint journalism and public policy. Its not just a good book. Its a great book. And it belongs forever on your bookshelf. SLATE.COM
2010 304 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7618-1

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lovesick Japan Sex Marriage Romance Law MARK D. WEST

Love hurts, but it hurts far differently in Japan, as Mark West reveals in this fascinating book. Anyone interested in the incredibly varied ways that sex and marriage can go wrong will devour every alarming detail.L AURA K IPNIS, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
2011 272 pp. Cloth $29.95 $23.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4947-5

imperial Japan at its Zenith The Wartime Celebration of the Empires 2,600th Anniversary K ENNETH J. RUOFF
Kenneth J. Ruoff has done yeomans work in unearthing a vast array of sources and interesting anecdotes that enliven the narrative, serving up a fascinating social history that helps readers today understand what it must have been like to live in wartime Japan, an account that challenges narratives of unrelenting tribulation.THE JAPAN TIMES
2010 288 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4866-9
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Planning for empire Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State JANIS MIMURA
Scholars have long debated whether wartime Japan experienced fascism. Janis Mimura persuades us that elite bureaucrats were at the center of the widespread Japanese embrace of European-style fascist policies. SHELDON GARON, P RINCETON UNIVERSITY
2011 240 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4926-0
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empire of Dogs Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World A ARON HERALD SKABELUND
Whether Japans dogs serve as symbols of imperial violence, messengers in Manchurian battleelds, companions in middle-class living rooms, or peddlers of electrical appliances, they walk through Japans modern experience at every level. BRETT L. WALKER , AUTHOR OF THE LAST WOLVES OF JAPAN
2011 296 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-5025-9
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the rise and Fall of Japans lDP Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions ELLIS S. K RAUSS AND ROBERT J. PEKKANEN
In this excellent book the authors examine the inner workings of the LDP since it was established in 1955, a critically important topic given its dominant role in Japanese politics until 2009. It is a fascinating analysis of the institutions within the LDP and how they evolved over time.THE JAPAN TIMES
2010 344 pp. Paper $26.95 $21.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-7682-2

Changing Politics in Japan IKUO K ABASHIMA AND GILL STEEL

Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel have done it! They have insightfully and forcefully revealed how the Japanese regime change of 2009 was prepared at the grassroots level. Changing Politics in Japan features a vast amount of data from the perspective from below, the citizen/elite and voter/party relationships. This is a very accessible book for understanding the changing Japan. TAKASHI INOGUCHI, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
2010 184 pp Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7600-6

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securing Japan Tokyos Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia RICHARD J. SAMUELS
Samuelss book is a valuable reminder that sovereignty has never been far from the top of Japans national security agenda, even when Japan had hugged the U.S. so closely that it seemed to have become an abnormal country.FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW
2008 296 pp. Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7490-3
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Popular Democracy in Japan How Gender and Community Are Changing Modern Electoral Politics SHERRY L. MARTIN
Sherry L. Martin takes an original approach to examining the divide between citizens and elites in Japanese politics in the last decade or two. Popular Democracy in Japan suggests a new agenda for research on women and the evolution of their political socialization over a lifetime. ROBIN L EBLANC, WASHINGTON AND L EE UNIVERSITY
2011 232 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4917-8

rufans, yakuza, nationalists The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 18601960 EIKO MARUKO SINIAWER
Eiko Maruko Siniawer offers an alternative history of modern Japan written from the perspective of the micropolitics of violence. In this revealing book those who usually stay in the background come to the forefront. VADIM VOLKOV, AUTHOR OF VIOLENT ENTREPRENEURS
2008 288 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4720-4

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Choose and Focus Japanese Business Strategies for the 21st Century ULRIKE SCHAEDE
Choose and Focus provides a sound review of Japanese postwar development and is a good background for Japans development over the last decade. This is a well-written and very interesting book, and we would denitely agree with Schaede that parts of the New Japan are emerging, and the choose and focus strategy is one of the most critical for Japanese corporations in the twenty-rst century. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2008 304 pp. Cloth $29.95 $23.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4706-8

Asias Flying Geese How Regionalization Shapes Japan WALTER F. HATCH

Drawing on the ying geese metaphor, Hatch explains how the lead goose, Japan, deployed its capital, technology and norms to the Asian ock, thereby bolstering its system even as it was becoming increasingly dysfunctional. THE JAPAN TIMES
2010 304 pp. $Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7647-1
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Atomic tragedy Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan SEAN L. MALLOY
Malloy believes Stimsons decision to support the bomb went against his most cherished beliefs and was for many a disappointing conclusion to an outstanding career of public service. This book is highly recommended for all collections.LIBRARY JOURNAL
2010 248 pp. Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7629-7

screening enlightenment Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan HIROSHI K ITAMURA
Winner of the 16th Shimizu Hiroshi Award (Japanese Association for American Studies)

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sorry states Apologies in International Politics JENNIFER L IND

At a time when nations and societies around the world are engaging in remarkable new means to restore comity in the aftermath of violence and brutality, detailed and comparative studies of national successes and failures in reconciliation are sorely needed. Jennifer Linds work will stand as a valued contribution in this humane project. JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES
2010 256 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7628-0
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Kitamura provides vivid glimpses into what qualities in specic American movies appealed to Japanese critics and audiences. He describes how, as the Japanese spirit revived, lively movie discussion groups sprang up in Japan.CHOICE
2010 264 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4599-6
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site Fights Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West DANIEL P. A LDRICH
Site Fights is an impressive book that pushes the reader to reconsider the role of civil society in state policymaking. It is of great interest to scholars in comparative politics and civil society research, activists, and policymakers alike. JAPANESE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
2010 272 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7622-8

Fighting for Foreigners Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy A PICHAI W. SHIPPER
Shippers work offers a good summary of Japanese immigration policy with its racial characteristics and explores how NGOs challenge the abuse of foreigner crime statistics by self-interested politicians and police. CHOICE
2008 232 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4715-0

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think Global, Fear local Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan DAVID L EHENY
David Lehenys book vividly illustrates how vague and not-so-vague fear is pervasive in postCold War and post-9/11 Japanese society. TAKASHI INOGUCHI, CHUO UNIVERSITY
2009 248 pp. Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7534-4

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race for the exits The Unraveling of Japans System of Social Protection L EONARD J. SCHOPPA
For those interested in Japans current social agenda, Leonard Schoppas book offers a masterful view. Schoppa sets the record straight on recent social trends and government policies, and he provides a sophisticated analysis of how the two interact. JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES
2008 272 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-7445-3

Deaf in Japan Signing and the Politics of Identity K AREN NAKAMURA

Winner of the 2008 John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Association for Asian Studies)

Deaf in Japan introduces readers to the largely unknown world of the marginalized minority of the hearing impaired in Japan. This book draws attention to the great sociohistorical changes that have taken place in this area in Japan since the early twentieth century. JOHN WHITNEY H ALL P RIZE CITATION FROM THE A SSOCIATION FOR A SIAN S TUDIES
2006 248 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.60 ISBN 978-0-8014-7356-2

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Japans Postwar History SECOND EDITION GARY D. A LLINSON

2004 240 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.60 ISBN 978-0-8014-8912-9

Women of okinawa Nine Voices from a Garrison Island RUTH A NN K EYSO

2000 208 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.80 ISBN 978-0-8014-8665-4

regime shift Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy T. J. PEMPEL

1998 288 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-8529-9
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Japan Prepares for total War The Search for Economic Security, 19191941 MICHAEL A. BARNHART
1988 296 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-9529-8
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the rules of Play National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure DAVID L EHENY
A 2003 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
2003 208 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4091-5
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Brokered Homeland Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan JOSHUA HOTAKA ROTH

Winner of the 2003 Book Award in Social Science (Association for Asian American Studies)
2002 176 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.80 ISBN 978-0-8014-8808-5
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sanya Blues Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo EDWARD F OWLER

1998 288 pp. Paper $23.95 $19.16 ISBN 978-0-8014-8570-1

notes from toyota-land An American Engineer in Japan DARIUS MEHRI

F OREWORD BY ROBERT PERRUCCI
2005 256 pp. Cloth $26.95 $21.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-4289-6
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Crested Kimono Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family MATTHEWS HAMABATA
1991 204 pp. Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-9975-3

Machiavellis Children Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan RICHARD J. SAMUELS
2005 480 pp. Paper $26.95 $21.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-8982-2

one World of Welfare Japan in Comparative Perspective GREGORY J. K ASZA

2006 208 pp. Cloth $ 38.95 $ 31.16 ISBN 978-0-8014-4420-3
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A Man with no talents Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer OYAMA SHIRO

TRANSLATED BY EDWARD F OWLER
Winner of the Kaiko Takeshi Prize Cowinner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature
2005 160 pp. Cloth $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-4375-6

Japan remodeled How Government and Industry Are Reforming Japanese Capitalism STEVEN K. VOGEL
2006 272 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.80 ISBN 978-0-8014-7371-5
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Walmart in China EDITED BY A NITA CHAN

The secrets of Walmarts success lie in Bentonville, but also in Guangdong. In this groundbreaking book, Anita Chan and others pull back the curtain on the Chinese side of the world-shaping retail model and spotlight its huge implications for the U.S. economy. CHRIS TILLY, UCLA
2011 304 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7731-7
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China 2020 Capitalism without Democracy How Western Business Canand The Private Sector in ShouldInuence Social and Political Contemporary China Change in the Coming Decade K ELLEE S. TSAI MICHAEL A. SANTORO This book provides new evidence that, while
In this great book, Michael A. Santoro adds in signicant and important ways to the dialogue over the economic reforms in China and how these reforms give rise to many complexities in the areas of politics and human rights. DOUG GUTHRIE , NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
2009 184 pp. Cloth $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-4695-5

China may have little interest in democracy, its private entrepreneurs still inuence the political process in signicant ways. THE CHINA QUARTERLY
2007 288 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-7326-5

Privatizing China is an outstanding contribution to the literature on the extraordinary changes taking place in China today. Its In this book, Zhang shows how realtors deploy authors analyze fresh evidence through new and compelling frameworks that capture the national laws and socialist and environmental values, with a sometimes self-interested cyni- often contradictory but always fascinating assemblages that constitute Chinese social, cism that nevertheless also answers to the economic, cultural, and political life. drive to generate a wholesale spatial restructuring of Chinese society and subjectivity. SUSAN GREENHALGH, UC IRVINE MICHAEL HERZFELD, H ARVARD UNIVERSITY
2010 272 pp. Paper $23.95 $19.16 ISBN 978-0-8014-7562-7 2008 296 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7378-4

in search of Paradise Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis L I ZHANG

Privatizing China Socialism from Afar EDITED BY L I ZHANG AND A IHWA ONG

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Maos new World Political Culture in the Early Peoples Republic CHANG-TAI HUNG
Maos New World offers a broad new narrative of the rst decade of Communist rule, focusing on the Partys use of culture in establishing its new political order. Chang-tai Hung provides an expansive, panoramic view of the rst decade of the Peoples Republic that makes clear the central place of the arts in the Partys political strategy. RICHARD K RAUS, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
2010 368 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4934-5

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Chinas longest Campaign Birth Planning in the Peoples Republic, 19492005 TYRENE WHITE
Chinas Longest Campaign is an important contribution to our evolving understanding of that greatest of all social engineering projects of the late twentieth century, Chinas birth planning programme, and it provides the best analysis heretofore of the concrete but far from coherent apparatus through which it was implemented. PACIFIC AFFAIRS
2009 320 pp. Paper $23.95 $19.16 ISBN 978-0-8014-7539-9

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open Hearts open Doors Reections on Chinas Past and Future ELIZABETH GILL L UI A FTERWORD BY I. M. PEI
As with any developing country or region, great swaths of the past are obliterated. Open Hearts Open Doors is a visual and intellectual tour de force aimed at lamenting this vanishing China as well as describing preservation efforts and issuing a call to action. . . . The book is important as China is posed to increasingly affect the rest of the world in this century. ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS ON THE WEB
Simplied Mandarin edition: 2008 250 pp. 160 color photographs Cloth $ 51.95 $41.56 ISBN 978-0-9796165-3-2 Traditional Mandarin edition: 2008 250 pp. 160 color photographs Cloth $ 51.95 $41.56 ISBN 978-0-9796165-0-1
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the river runs Black The Environmental Challenge to Chinas Future SECOND EDITION ELIZABETH C. ECONOMY
Winner of the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in Social Sciences

In this book, Economy concludes that Chinas environment has paid a terrible price as the country has turned from a nation in poverty to an economic power. It is possible, but by no means certain, she says, that it will be able to repair the damage or even to slow the degradation.THE CHRONICLE REVIEW
2010 360 pp. Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7613-6
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Fortifying China The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy TAI MING CHEUNG
This is an important book for the way it takes a policy topic and interprets it in managerial terms. This book provides welldocumented insight into the struggles that China is presently involved in to modernize innovation in the military sector. THE CHINA JOURNAL
2008 296 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4692-4

Chinas Ascent Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics EDITED BY ROBERT S. ROSS AND ZHU F ENG
A 2009 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

A focused and cohesive book in which careful consideration is given to a wide range of international relations theories as they apply to Chinas growing power in the 21st century.CHOICE
2008 336 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7444-6
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Chinas Water Warriors Citizen Action and Policy Change A NDREW C. MERTHA
Chinas Water Warriors not only enriches our understanding of emergent environmental politics in the Peoples Republic of China but also directly takes on the evolution of statesociety relations and policymaking within the context of the Chinese state. ASIAN STUDIES
2010 200 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.80 ISBN 978-0-8014-7668-6

the Military lens Doctrinal Difference and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations CHRISTOPHER P. TWOMEY
The Military Lens makes a strong contribution to the theoretical literature on deterrence and political use of force as well as to an understanding of the historical case studies: the Korean War, the Taiwan issue in the 1950s, and the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. ROBERT S. ROSS, BOSTON COLLEGE
2010 280 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4914-7
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socialist insecurity Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China MARK W. F RAZIER
Socialist Insecurity is a concise and well-written monograph that is grounded in solid empirical research. Frazier makes good use of his rich interview and focus group material, which help him back his institutionalist claims about the political and economic logic of pension reform. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
2010 224 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4822-5

small Works Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China JOHN A. DONALDSON
In Small Works, John A. Donaldson tells a remarkable story of poverty reduction in a province that lagged well behind the rest of China in terms of GDP growth. M ARK W. F RAZIER , UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
2011 240 pp. Cloth $45.00 $ 36.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4968-0

states Gains, labors losses China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 19802000 DOROTHY J. SOLINGER
2010 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title

Chinas regulatory state A New Strategy for Globalization ROSELYN HSUEH

In Chinas Regulatory State, Roselyn Hsueh analyzes how the Chinese government has regulated foreign direct investment under the post-Mao open-door policy. She furthers our understanding of the increasingly complex nature of Chinas evolving economic structure. A NDREW WEDEMAN, AUTHOR OF FROM MAO TO MARKET
2011 320 pp. Paper $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-7743-0

Dorothy Solinger has substantially advanced the state of the eld with this book, which constitutes a rare and admirable attempt by a China specialist to speak directly to broader political science debates through explicitly cross-national comparative research.THE CHINA JOURNAL
2009 264 pp. Cloth $45.00 $ 36.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4777-8

From iron rice Bowl to informalization Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China EDITED BY SAROSH KURUVILLA , CHING KWAN L EE, AND MARY E. GALLAGHER
This timely volume offers the best empirical analysis of the changing landscape of employment relations in China. L EI GUANG, SAN DIEGO S TATE UNIVERSITY
2011 248 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-5024-2
F RANK W. P IERCE M EMORIAL L ECTURESHIP AND C ONFERENCE S ERIES

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Maid to order in Hong Kong Stories of Migrant Workers, SECOND Edition

NICOLE CONSTABLE
2007 280 pp. Paper $19.95 $15.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7323-4

Back-Alley Banking Private Entrepreneurs in China K ELLEE S. TSAI

2004 336 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-8917-4

looking for Chengdu A Womans Adventures in China HILL GATES

1999 272 pp. Paper $25.95 $20.76 ISBN 978-0-8014-8632-6
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China transformed Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience R. BIN WONG
2000 352 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-8327-1

the Politics of Piracy Intellectual Property in Contemporary China A NDREW C. MERTHA

2007 262 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.80 ISBN 978-0-8014-7385-2

Gifts, Favors, and Banquets The Art of Social Relationships in China MAYFAIR MEI-HUI YANG
Winner of the American Ethnological Society Book Prize Honorable Mention, The Victor Turner Ethnographic Writing Prize Honorable Mention, The Leeds Urban Anthropology Prize
1994 394 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-9592-2
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taiwan A Political History DENNY ROY

2002 288 pp. Paper $21.00 $16.80 ISBN 978-0-8014-8805-4

Digital Dragon High-Technology Enterprises in China A DAM SEGAL

2010 200 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7636-5
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Allegoresis Reading Canonical Literature East and West ZHANG L ONGXI

2005 274 pp. Cloth $45.95 $ 36.76 ISBN 978-0-8014-4369-5

Corruption and Market in Contemporary China YAN SUN

2004 272 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-8942-6

internationalizing China Domestic Interests and Global Linkages DAVID ZWEIG

2002 320 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-8755-2

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organizing at the Margins The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States JENNIFER JIHYE CHUN
In an excellent work, Jennifer Jihye Chun compares concrete cases of labour organization by marginalized workers in these two different countries and situates them within the context of broader shifts in power between labour, capital and the state. PACIFIC AFFAIRS
2011 248 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7747-8
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the Making of Minjung Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea NAMHEE L EE
While a few works have been published regarding the political democratization processes in South Korea recently, they fail to achieve the accuracy and in-depth description that Namhee Lee has provided through this meticulous survey of real life experiences of South Korean activists in the 1980s.KOREAN STUDIES
2009 368 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7573-3

Globalizing in Hard times The Politics of Banking-Sector Opening in the Emerging World L EONARDO MARTINEZ-DIAZ
Letting foreigners take over a nations banking system is fraught politics. Simply, it cedes control over a countrys nancial pipeline. In Globalizing in Hard Times, Martinez-Diaz explains how and probes why foreigners were let in. NGAIRE WOODS, UNIVERSITY OF O XFORD
2009 256 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4755-6
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Making and Faking Kinship Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea CAREN F REEMAN
A remarkable book about Chinese Koreans migrations to South Korea, Making and Faking Kinship brings to life the richness of kinship, family, and the nation on the move. I so enjoyed the intellectual and migrant journeys of this outstanding work. N ANCY A BELMANN, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
2011 280 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4958-1

entrepreneurial states Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea YVES TIBERGHIEN
Yves Tiberghien examines the comparative politics of reform in stakeholder systems in this book. Tiberghien analyzes the modern partnership between the state and global capital in attaining structural domestic change, looking at how Korea, France, Japan undertake reforms differently. THE KOREA HERALD
2007 280 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4593-4
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Betting on Biotech Innovation and the Limits of Asias Developmental State JOSEPH WONG
In this groundbreaking book, Joseph Wong asks the most important question for successful Rapid-Innovation-Based economieswhat does the postInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) future hold? DAN BREZNITZ , GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2011 216 pp. Cloth $29.95 $23.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-5032-7

Crisis as Catalyst Asias Dynamic Political Economy EDITED BY A NDREW MACINTYRE, T. J. PEMPEL , AND JOHN R AVENHILL
Crisis as Catalyst is the most authoritative, comprehensive, and systematic study of political economic changes in East Asia since the nancial crisis in 1997. CHUNG-IN MOON, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
2008 336 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7460-6
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Currency and Contest in east Asia The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism WILLIAM W. GRIMES
Winner of the 2010 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award Honorable Mention, 2009 Bernard Schwartz Book Award (Asia Society)

Currency and Contest in East Asia is an invaluable analysis of the evolution of nancial regionalism in East Asia, particularly Japan. William Grimes explains many of the technical nancial issues thoroughly and carefully and asserts that recent developments in the region may be explained by a realist framework. SAORI N. K ATADA , UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN C ALIFORNIA
2008 264 pp. Cloth $ 39.95 $ 31.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-4689-4 | C ORNELL S TUDIES IN M ONEY

Governing Finance East Asias Adoption of International Standards A NDREW WALTER

Walter does excellent work laying out the politico-economic dynamic by which governments navigate between the regulatory neoliberals and domestic pressure groups. One of his conclusions is that this push and pull results in compliance regimes that are highly variable and not likely to converge quickly, if at all, with the stated (and ever changing) ideal of Western-oriented multilateral agencies and Western governments.CHOICE
2008 256 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4645-0
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not Quite shamans Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia MORTEN A XEL PEDERSEN
In northern Mongolia, where the institutions of encompassing social order, both Buddhist and socialist, have collapsed or fragmented into shards, rowdy drunks are almost shamans, jokes are discerning, and elections resemble sances. Not Quite Shamans is a theoretically sophisticated ethnography of one postsocialist hinterland. A NNA TSING, AUTHOR OF FRICTION : AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF GLOBAL CONNECTION
2011 272 pp. Paper $28.95 $23.16 ISBN 978-0-8014-7620-4
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Weapons of the Wealthy Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia SCOTT R ADNITZ
This pioneering book is a major contribution to our understanding of the sources of political mobilization in Central Asia and across other illiberal states where coalitionbuilding and contestation take place outside the formal institutions of the state. A LEXANDER COOLEY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
2010 248 pp. Cloth $ 35.00 $28.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4953-6

eurasias new Frontiers Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures THOMAS W. SIMONS JR.
In this small, spare book, Simons is the rst to address one of the key failings of U.S. Russia policy, although in his gentle nudging he cares less about delivering criticism of the past than he does about offering guidelines for the future.FOREIGN AFFAIRS
2008 200 pp. Cloth $25.00 $20.00 ISBN 978-0-8014-4743-3

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organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond A BDULKADER H. SINNO

This book should be mandatory reading for Afghanistan analysts, counterinsurgency specialists, conict and civil war scholars, and even for the leadership of groups that are engaged in conict. ASIAN POLITICS AND POLICY
2009 352 pp. Paper $24.95 $19.96 ISBN 978-0-8014-7578-8

logics of Hierarchy The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations A LEXANDER COOLEY
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Borrowing from organizational theory applied to the corporate world, Cooley contends that two fundamentally different forms of organization determine the shape and performance of political institutions. FOREIGN AFFAIRS
2008 208 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-7483-5

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2004 288 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-8914-3

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Breaking the Ashes The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka MICHELE RUTH GAMBURD
Michelle Ruth Gamburd has written an engaging and illuminating book on an important topic: the place of alcohol in a Buddhist setting in southern Sri Lanka. Gamburd reviews a range of attempts to do something about problem drinking, from biomedical interventions to vows to the Goddess Kali. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
2008 280 pp. Paper $23.95 $19.16 ISBN 978-0-8014-7432-3

Juki Girls, Good Girls Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lankas Global Garment Industry CAITRIN LYNCH
Juki Girls, Good Girls reminds us that womens empowerment, while a laudable development goal, is far more complicated than many of us suspect.PACIFIC AFFAIRS
2007 296 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-7362-3

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Mobilizing Restraint is a tour de force that will change the way we think about labor and employment relations in the developing worldand beyond. A NDREW SCHRANK , UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
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Drawing on postcolonial theory, especially theories of hybridity, the author argues that the 19th-century imperial encounter with Buddhism reshaped Britain as much as it did Britains colonies CHOICE
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2008 224 pp. Paper $21.95 $17.56 ISBN 978-0-8014-7498-9

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Rudnyckyj brings together the anthropology of development and globalization and the anthropology of the rising Islamic piety movement to show that religious resurgence can be part of globalizing economic development, not necessarily a refuge from it. JOHN BOWEN, AUTHOR OF CAN ISLAM BE FRENCH?
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Muslims and Matriarchs Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism JEFFREY HADLER
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Both elegantly written and meticulously researched, Muslims and Matriarchs presents a rich and compelling political history of a fascinating society as it negotiates the dynamics of Islamic reform, Dutch colonialism, and Indonesian nationalism. MICHAEL G. PELETZ , E MORY UNIVERSITY
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War and Shadows is a fascinating book packed with vibrant stories and lucid exploration of their signicance. Mai Lan Gustafssons account of spirit possession in Vietnam is both nuanced and sympathetic. A NN M ARIE L ESHKOWICH, COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
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Acharya contributes to the history of ideas in Southeast Asian studies, and at the same time insists on its relevance to academic and policy analysis concerning the future organization and security of the Asian region. JOURNAL OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
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no Mans land Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia JUSTIN V. HASTINGS
Engaging and accessible, No Mans Land is a fascinating book on extremely timely and important topicsterrorism, insurgency, and cross-border crime. PETER A NDREAS, BROWN UNIVERSITY
2010 272 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7679-2

the Golden triangle Inside Southeast Asias Drug Trade KO-LIN CHIN
In his latest book, Ko-Lin Chin provides a rare insight into drug production and trafcking in Southeast Asia. Not only does Ko-Lin Chin successfully negotiate this hidden world of northern Burma to do his eld research, but his work is remarkable in placing its drug trade in a geopolitical context. PACIFIC AFFAIRS
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the Making of southeast Asia International Relations of a Region A MITAV ACHARYA

In this new edition of a book rst published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the rst decade of the new century: the aftermath of the nancial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor.
2011 240 pp. Paper $22.95 $18.36 ISBN 978-0-8014-7736-2
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taking southeast Asia to Market Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age EDITED BY JOSEPH NEVINS AND NANCY L EE PELUSO
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