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The article reviews the book "Paper Sons and Daughters: Growing up Chinese in South Africa: A Memoir," by Ufrieda Ho.

A review of the book "Epic Undertakings: Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference," vol. 2, edited by Robert Goldman and Muneo Tokunaga is presented.

Reviews the book "Southeast Asian Paper Tigers? From Miracle to Debacle and Beyond," by Jomo K. S.

The article reviews the book "Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China," by Christopher M.B. Nugent, part of the "Harvard-Yenching Monograph Series."

Reviews the book "Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel," by Christopher Hamm.

Reviews the book 'South Asian Archaeology 1985: Papers from the Eighth International Conference of South Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe held at Mosegaard Museum, Denmark, 1-5 July 1985,' edited by Karen Frifelf and Per Sorensen.

What these four quite different books broadly share is a focus on the role of the state in Myanmar society. Current scholarship describes the authoritarian state in Myanmar, which has been controlled by the army since 1962, as either dominantly present or neglectfully absent. Censorship and the repression of autonomous spaces in society, on the one hand, and the failure of the state to enforce efficient health and environmental policies, on the other, are keywords in these works that illustrate the double-faced appearance of the state's existence and role in society. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A review of the book "Eating Rice From Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan 1920-2000," by Jacob Eyferth is presented.

A review of the book "Sociology and Anthropology in Twentieth-Century China: Between Universalism and Indigenism," part of The Formation and Development of Academic Disciplines in Twentieth-Century China series, edited by Arif Dirlik, Guannan Li, and Hsiao-Pei Yen is presented.

A review of the book "Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire," edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Morris Rossabi, and William Honeychurch is presented.

A review of the book "South Asian Texts in History: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock," edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence J. McCrea is presented.

The article reviews several books including "Vietnam: Rethinking the State," by Martin Gainsborough, "Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City," by Erik Harms, and "The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrances and Representation," by Christina Schwenkel.

A review of the book "Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China," edited by Helen F. Siu is presented.

The article presents reviews of the books "New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development and Women Workers in China," by Yan Hairong and "Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China," by Tiantian Zheng.

A review of the book "Gathering Leaves & Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos & Thailand," by Justin Thomas McDaniel is presented.

A review of the book "Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology, and Syntax," edited by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China," by Wenkai He.

A review of the book "Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers," by Jana Fortier is presented.

A review of the book "Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit," by Dominik Wujastyk is presented.

A review of the book "SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture," with an audio CD, by Nathan Hesselink, is presented.

A review of the book "Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor," by Priya Srinivasan is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture," edited by Yoshio Sugimoto.

The article reviews the book "Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism," edited by David Bandurski and Martin Hala.

The article reviews the book "Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia," by Sunil S. Amrith.

The article reviews the book "Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society," by Avron Boretz.

A review of the book "Rethinking Hindu Identity," by Dwijendra Narayan Jha is presented.

A review of the book "Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies," edited by Allen Carlson, Mary E. Gallagher, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Melanie Manion is presented.

A review of the book "Southeast Asia in World History," by Craig A. Lockard is presented.

A review of the book "Television, Japan & Globalization," edited by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Eva Tsai and Jung-Bong Choi is presented.

A review of the book "A Cultural History of Modern Science in China," by Benjamin A. Elman is presented.

The article reviews the fourth edition of the book "A History of Cambodia" by David Chandler" and the book "At the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler" edited by Anne Ruth Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood.

A review of the book "Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter With Tibet," by Gordon T. Stewart is presented.

A review of the book "Conflict & Social Order in Tibet & Inner Asia," edited by Fernanda Pirie and Toni Huber is presented.

A review of the book "The First Samurai: The Life & Legend of the Warrior Rebel Taira Masakado," by Karl F. Friday is presented.

A review of the book "Patron & Painter: Situ Panchen & the Revival of the Encampment Style," by David P. Jackson, with an essay by Karl Debreczeny, is presented.

The article reviews two books, "The Kurillian Knot: A History of Japanese-Russian Border Negotiations" by Hiroshi Kimura, translated by Mark Ealey, and "Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Åland Experience: Untying the Kurillian Knot," edited by Kimie Hara and Geoffrey Jukes.

The article presents a review of the book "Compassion and Moral Guidance," by Steve Bein, volume 23 in the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Monograph Series.

The article reviews the book "Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity," by Sheng-mei Ma.

The article reviews the book "The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism: Saigon, 1916–1930," by Philippe M. F. Peycam.

The article reviews the book "Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea," by Caren Freeman.

The article reviews the book "Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China," by Andrew Wedeman.

The article reviews the book "The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition.," by Li Zehou, translated by Maija Bell Samei.

The article reviews the book "The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900–1200 CE," by William M. Reddy.

A review of the book "Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara: Koji junrei," by Watsuji Tetsurō, translated by Hiroshi Nara, is presented.

A review of the book "Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese 'Comfort Women,'" by Joshua D. Pilzer, is presented.

A review of the book "Roots of the State: Neighborhood Organization and Social Networks in Beijing and Taipei," by Benjamin L. Read, is presented.

A review of the book "Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China," by Rui Kunze, is presented.

A review of the book "Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy: From 'Tribute System' to 'Peaceful Rise'," edited by John E. Wills, Jr. is presented.

The article reviews the books "On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories From Colonial Korea," translated by Sunyoung Park and Jefferson J.A. Gatrall, and "A Moment's Grace: Stories From Korea in Transition," translated by John Holstein, both of which are volumes in the Cornell East Asia Series.

A review of the book "Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Bashō," edited and translated by Steven D. Carter is presented.