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CHINA SUSAN BROWNELL and JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM (eds). Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities: a Reader. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 460 pp. US$24.95, paper. LEO T. S. CHING. Becoming “Japanese”: colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. xii, 251 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index. US$18.95, paper. PAMELA KYLE CROSSLEY. A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 361 pp. US$45.00, hardcover. STEPHANIE HEMELRYK DONALD, MICHAEL KEANE and YIN HONG (eds). Media in China: consumption, Content and Crisis. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. 240 pp. Tables, figures, notes on contributors, bibliography, index. £55.00, hardcover. EDMUND S. K. FUNG. In Search of Chinese Democracy: civil Opposition in Nationalist China, 1929–1949. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 352 pp. A$125.00, hardcover. FEI FEI LI, ROBERT SABELLA and DAVID LIU (eds). Nanking 1937 : memory and Healing. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Foreword by Perry Link, index. 278 pp. US$23.95, paper. DAVID SHAMBAUGH (ed). Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors. Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. £35.37, hardcover; £18.95, paper. YANG LIAN. Yi. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. Copenhagen, Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2002. 361 pp. US$14.95, paper. YANG LIAN. Notes of a Blissful Ghost. Translated from the Chinese by Brian Holton. Shatin, Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks, 2002. 160 pp. US$14.95, paper. XUEPING ZHONG, WANG ZHEN and BAI DI (eds). Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 208 pp. US$58.00, hardcover; US$22.00, paper. JAPAN AND KOREA NOREEN JONES. Number 2 Home: story of Japanese Pioneers in Australia. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2002. 224 pp. A$24.95, paper. MARK McLELLAND. Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: cultural Myths and Social Realities. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. 268 pp. £17.99, paper. LINDA S. LEWIS. Laying Claim to the Memory of May: a Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. US$19.95, paper. HENRY SCOTT‐STOKES and LEE JAI‐EUI (eds). The Kwangju Uprising: eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2000. US$37.50, hardcover; US$18.95, paper. SOUTHEAST ASIA MARC ASKEW. Bangkok: place, Practice and Representation. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. US$90.00, hardcover; US$26.95, paper. ANTHONY MILNER. The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii, 328 pp. Map, index and select bibliography. A$49.95, paper. SHIGEHARU TANABE and CHARLES F. KEYES (eds). Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. xii, 312 pp. Index. £55.00, hardcover. C. J. W‐L. WEE (ed). Local Cultures and the “New Asia”: the State, Culture and Capitalism in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2002. x, 245 pp. US$ 49.90/S$ 73.90, hardcover; US$ 25.90/S$ 39.90, paper. GENERAL ASIA TANI BARLOW (ed). New Asian Marxisms. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 422 pp. US$27.95, paper; US$79.95, hardcover. T. FUJITANI, GEOFFREY M. WHITE and LISA YONEYAMA (eds). Perilous Memories: the Asia‐Pacific War(s). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. 462 pp. US$59.95, hardcover; US$19.95, paper. MARGARET JOLLY and KALPANA RAM (eds). Borders of Being: citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 326 pp. US$59.50, cloth; US$24.95, paper. RAJINI SRIKANTH and ESTHER Y. IWANAGA (eds). Bold Words: a Century of Asian‐American Writing. New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 442 pp. US$59.00, hardcover; US$25.00, paper. OUYANG YU. Two Hearts, Two Tongues, and Rain‐Coloured Eyes. Broadway, NSW: Wild Peony Press, 2002. 119 pp. No price given, paper. ZIJIE PAN. Vostok/This Could Have Happened to You. Broadway, NSW: Wild Peony Press, 2002. 94 pp. No price given, paper.