Book Reviews

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Books reviewed in this article:Chiu–Yee Cheung, Lu Xun: the Chinese “Gentle” NietzschePamela Kyle Crossley, The ManchusGloria Davies (ed.), Voicing Concerns: Contemporary Chinese Critical InquiryAndrew F. Jones, Yellow Music—Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz AgeKam Louie, Theorising Chinese MasculinityLung–Kee Sun, The Chinese National Character: From Nationhood to IndividualityMichael Lewis, Becoming Apart: National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868–1945Michael Molasky and Steve Rabson (eds.), Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from OkinawaRajyashree Pandey, Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: the Works of the Poet–Priest Kamo no ChōmeiTakamizawa Junko, My Brother Hideo KobayashiI. Qadeer, K. Sen and K. Nayar, Public Health and the Poverty of ReformJaved Ahmad Khan, India and West Asia: Emerging Markets in the Liberalisation EraPhilip J. Eldridge, The Politics of Human Rights in Southeast AsiaKasian Tejapira, Commodifying Marxism. The Formation of Modern Thai Radical Culture, 1927–1958Nicholas Tarling, A Sudden Rampage: the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945B. A. Hussainmiya, The Brunei Constitution of 1959: an Inside HistoryDavid E. Pollard, The Chinese EssayEva Hung (ed), City Women: Contemporary Taiwan Women WritersP. J. Moore, A Concise History of Dutch Mauritius, 1598–1710: a Fruitful and Healthy LandHenry Yuhuai He, Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of ChinaWilliam Duiker, Historical Dictionary of VietnamRizal Sukma, Indonesia and China: the Politics of a Troubled RelationshipNicholas Tarling (ed), Indonesia after SoehartoRoy Davis Linville Jumper, Orang Asli Now: the Orang Asli in the Malaysian Political WorldLiang Xiaosheng, Panic and Deaf: two Modern SatiresLeo Douw, Cen Huang and Michael R. Godley (eds), Qiaoxiang Ties: Interdisciplinary Approaches to ‘Cultural Capitalism’ in South ChinaCyril Birch, Scenes for Mandarins: the Elite Theatre of the MingJi Giles Ungpakorn, Thailand: Class Struggle in an Era of Economic CrisisJi Ungpakorn, The Struggle for Democracy and Social Justice in Thailand