University of Hawaii Press

Book Reviews

• Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture (David R. McCann)
  Volume 1: 2008; Volume 8: 2015
• Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade (Tansen Sen)
  The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600-1400
• *The Carnal Prayer Mat (Li Yu)
  - the classic Chinese erotic novel
• *The Culture of Sex in Ancient China (Paul Rakita Goldin)
  - copulation imagery, Confucianism, and the politics of sexuality
• The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi (Okamoto Kido)
  - detective stories set in Edo Japan
• Darwin's Laboratory (Roy McCleod, Philip F. Rehbock)
  Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific
• The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui)
  - stories from the dark side of 1970s South Korea
• The Emergence of a National Economy (Howard Dick et al.)
  An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000
• Falling in Love (Patrick Hanan)
  Stories From Ming China
• **Historical Atlas of Indonesia (Robert Cribb)
  - learned and lavish
• *A History of the New Zealanders (James Belich)
  Making Peoples; Paradise Reforged
• Ideogram (J. Marshall Unger)
  Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning
• *Imperfect Paradise (Shen Congwen)
  - short stories paint a portrait of China before the Revolution
• Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (Peter G. Riddell)
  - theology, exegesis, and religious thinkers
• Japan to 1600 (William Wayne Farris)
  A Social and Economic History
• *Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies (Samuel Hideo Yamashita)
  Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
• National Integration in Indonesia (Christine Drake)
  - spatial analysis of the 1980 census
• *On Thrones of Gold (James R. Brandon)
  Three Javanese Shadow Plays
• Questioning Minds (Yung-Hee Kim)
  Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers
• The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea (Fulton, Fulton)
  - stories by Pak Wan-so, O Chong-hui and Im Ch'or-u
• **Regional Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution (Audrey Kahin)
  - an unusually appealing essay collection on 1945-50
• Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures (William Wayne Farris)
  Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan
• Shinto (Thomas P. Kasulis)
  The Way Home
• Southern Exposure (Michael Molasky, Steve Rabson)
  Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
• A Tale of False Fortunes (Enchi Fumiko)
  - love and politics in 10th century Japan
• *Trees on a Slope (Hwang Sun-won)
  - a novel of the Korean war
• We, the Navigators (David Lewis)
  The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific