Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Volume 39, 2017

ARTICLES

• The Overlooked Neglect of ‘Civility/Civilization’ (Wén) in Mencius
  UFFE BERGETON

• Defining War & Its Criminals: Dictionaries in Japan, 1943–72
  CHRISTOPHER M. MAYO

• Shimoda Utako’s Ryōsai Kenbo: A Patriotic Japanese Woman’s View of the West
  MASAKO RACEL

• A Sacrifice for Chinese Unity: The Sino-Vietnamese War through Domestic Media
  ZACHARY N. REDDICK

• Yū Miri’s Country of Masks & the Debates about Japan’s Wartime Past
  ERIK ROPERS

• Yuan Shu: Chinese Special Service Agent & Spy, 1931–45
  JOSEPH K.S. YICK

ESSAYS & IDEAS

• The Third Cry of the Gibbon: A Translation of Xu Wei’s Mulan
  LI-LING HSIAO & DAVID A. ROSS

• Expressing Ambivalent Identities through Popular Music: Socio-Cultural Analysis of Japanese Writing Systems
  YUKI MATSUDA

• Lin Fengmian’s Descent into the Dark: His Late Paintings of Crucifixion & Apocalypse
  DAVID A. ROSS

BOOK REVIEWS

Asia

• Francis R. Bradley, Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of
  Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia.
  JARROD W. BROWN
• Justin Jacobs, Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State.
  David Brophy, Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier.
  RICHARD B. RICE
• Jonathan Goldstein, Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia.
  JOAN G. ROLAND

China

• Michael Puett & Cristine Gross-Loh, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life.
  UFFE BERGETON
• D.E. Mungello, The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity.
  THOMAS A. BRESLIN
• Xiaoming Zhang, Deng Xiaoping’s Long War: The Military Conflict: Between China and Vietnam, 1979–1991.
  ZACHARY N. REDDICK

Japan

• Katrina L. Moore, The Joy of Noh: Embodied Learning and Discipline in Urban Japan.
  JAN BARDSLEY
• Matt Goulding, Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels through Japan’s Food Culture.
  STEVEN E. GUMP
• Mark Teeuwen & John Breen, A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital.
  STEVEN E. GUMP
• Daniel A. Métraux, How Journalists Shaped American Foreign Policy: A Case Study of Japan’s Military Seizure of Korea in 1905.
  WILLIAM P. HEAD
• Chris Uhlenbeck et al., Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900 to 1960 (Selections from the Nihon no hanga Collection, Amsterdam).
  DAVID A. ROSS