Book Reviews

Books reviewed: China Edward Friedman and Barrett L. McCormick (eds), What if China Doesn' t Democratize? Implications for War and Peace Shaohua Hu, Explaining Chinese Democratization S. A. Smith, A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai 1920–1927 Maram Epstein, Competing Discourses: orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction Japan, Korea Brian J. McVeigh, Wearing Ideology: state, Schooling and Self‐Presentation in Japan Alison McQueen Tokita, Kiyomoto‐bushi. Narrative Music of the Kabuki Theatre Timothy J. Craig, Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture Bert Edstrom (ed), The Japanese and Europe: images and Perceptions South, West and Central Asia Siri Gamage and I. B. Watson (eds), Conflict and Community in Contemporary Sri Lanka: “Pearl of the East” or…