Oct 13 Samurai to Soldier Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan by D. Colin Jaundrill (review)
Oct 13 Book Reviews - Science and Civilisation in China. Volume VI, Biology and Biological Technology. Part 4, Traditional Botany An Ethnobotanical Approach (translated by Janet Lloyd). By Georges Métailié. Cambridge_ Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. xli + 748 pp., illus.
Oct 13 Screen of Kings Royal Art and Power in Ming China by Craig Clunas, and Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court by David M Robinson (review)
Oct 13 Selling Women Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan by Amy Stanley (review)
Oct 13 Self-Struggles of a Martyr Memories, Dreams, and Obsessions in the Extant Diary of Huang Chunyao