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Efird reviews NEW WORLDS, NEW LIVES: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano and James A. Hirabayashi and SEARCHING FOR HOME ABROAD: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism edited by Jeffery Lesser.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Xia Hai: Ethnographies of Work and Leisure -- Placing Practices: Transnational Network Marketing in Mainland China -- Guiding College Graduates to Work: Social Constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian -- Rock in a Hard Place: Music and the Market in Nineties Beijing -- Part Two Gender, Bodies, and Consumer Culture -- The Consuming Mother: Infant Feeding and the Feminine Body in Urban China -- Foreign Marriage, ''Tradition,'' and the Politics of Border Crossings -- Making Dream Bodies in Beijing: Athletes, Fashion Models, and Urban Mystique in China -- Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang -- Part Three Negotiating Urban Spaces -- Health, Wealth, and the Good Life -- Railway Workers between Plan and Market -- Contesting Crime, Order, and Migrant Spaces in Beijing -- Part Four Expressions of the Urban -- Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption -- Xiaxiang for the '90s: The Shanghai tv Rural Channel and Post-Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl -- Face in the Crowd: The Cultural Construction of Anonymity in Urban China -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index