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The Newsletter | No.55 | Autumn/Winter 2010The Review 33

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GENERAL

Homay King, 2010Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic SignifierDuke University Press, 232 pp., hardback ISBN 978 0 8223 4743 9

Terence Wesley-Smith & Jon Goss, 2010 Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning across Asia and the PacificUniversity of Hawaii Press, 272 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8248 3321 3

CHINA & HONG KONG

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, 2010Adapted for the Screen: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and FilmUniversity of Hawaii Press, 256 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8248 3454 8

Ho-fung Hung, 2009China and the Transformation of Global CapitalismJohns Hopkins University Press, 222 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8018 9308 7

Kerry Brown, 2009Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of ChinaAnthem Press, 224 pp, paperbackISBN 978 1 84331 781 4

Zhang Li, 2010 In Search of Paradise: Middle-class Living in a Chinese MetropolisCornell University Press, 272 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8014 7562 7

Rebecca Karl, 2010Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise HistoryDuke University Press, 208 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8223 4795 8

Dai Yingcong , 2009 Sichuan Frontier and Tibet, The: Imperial Strategy in the Early QingUniversity of Washington Press, 368 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 295 98952 5

JAPAN

Mark Driscoll, 2010Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895-1945Duke University Press, 352 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 8223 4740 8

T. R. Sareen, 2010 Conspiracy of Silence: Japanese Prisoners of War in India 1942-1946Life Span Publishers, 382 pp., hardbackISBN 978 81 83690287

Ken Tadashi Oshima, 2009International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai KenshikuUniversity of Washington Press, 320 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 295 98944 0

William Wayne Farris, 2009Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic HistoryUniversity of Hawaii Press, 264 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 8248 3325 1

Frances McCall Rosenbluth & Michael F. Thies, 2010Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic RestructuringPrinceton University Press, 280 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 691 13591 5

Kawano Satsuki, 2010 Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death RitesUniversity of Hawaii Press, 240 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 8248 3372 5

Cynthea J. Bogel, 2010With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icons and Early Mikkyo VisionUniversity of Washington Press, 496 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 295 98920 4

SOUTH ASIA

Vanita Seth, 2010 Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500-1900Duke University Press, 312 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8223 4764 4

Mukulika Banerjee, 2009Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in IndiaIndiana University Press, 192 pp., hardbackISBN 978 0 253 35341 2

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Christina SchwenkelThe American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and RepresentationIndiana University Press, 280 pp., paperback ISBN 978 0 253 22076 9

Jan Ovesen & Ing-Britt Trankell, 2010 Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial CambodiaNIAS Press, 336 pp., paperbackISBN 978 87 7694 058 4

Tony Day & Maya Ht Liem, 2010Cultures at War: The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast AsiaCornell Southeast Asia Program, 301 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 877 27751 4

Anne L. Foster, 2010 Projections of Power: The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919-1941Duke University Press, 264 pp., paperbackISBN 978 0 8223 4800 9

Mark Frost, Ravinder Balasingamchow & Yu-Mei, 2010Singapore: A BiographyEditions Didier Millet, 456 pp., hardback ISBN 978 988 802 817 7

Robert Pringle, 2010Understanding Islam in IndonesiaUniversity of Hawaii Press, 220 pp., paperback ISBN 978-0-8248-3415-9

Budy P. Resosudarmo & Frank Jotzo, 2009Working with Nature Against Poverty: Development, Resources and the Environment in Eastern IndonesiaInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies, paperback ISBN 978 981 230 959 4

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