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Volume 39 - Issue 1 - November 1979

Book Reviews—China

The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era. By Lin Yü-sheng. Foreword by Benjamin I. Schwartz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979, xiv, 201 pp. Bibliography, Character List, Index. $20.00.

The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911–1927. By Angus W. McDonaldJr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xii, 369 pp. Notes, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $17.50.

China and the World since 1949: The Impact of Independence, Modernity, and Revolution. By Wang Gungwu. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977. viii, 190 pp. Map, Chronological Table, Notes and Guide to Further Reading, Selected Bibliography, Index. $16.95 cloth; $4.95 paper.

A Chinese/English Dictionary of China's Rural Economy. By Kieran Broadbent. Slough, England: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1978. xiii, 406 pp. Map, Diagrams, Bibliography, Key Character Index, English Index, Index of Scientific Names. £30.00 UK; £35.00 abroad.

Economic Development of Taiwan, 1860–1970. By Samuel P. S. Ho. New Haven and London: Yale University Press (A Publication of the Economic Growth Center), 1978. xx, 461 pp. Notes, Tables, Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $27.50.

Foreign Relations of the United States. Volume VIII. The Far East: China. Washington, D.C.: Department of State, United States Government Printing Office, 1978. vi, 1327 pp. Index. $13.75.

Poetry and Politics: The Life and Works of Juan Chi (A.D. 210–263). By Donald Holzman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions), 1976. xi, 316 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Finding List, Index. $21.95.

Kao Shih. By Marie Chan. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. (Twayne's World Authors Series No. 476), 1978. 176 pp. Appendixes, Notes, References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $9.95.

Selected Papers from the Hall of Harmonious Wind. With a preface by P. Demiéville. By Liu Ts'un-yan. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. ix, 452 pp. N.p.l.

Wu Ching-tzu. By Timothy C. Wong. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. (Twayne's World Authors Series No. 495), 1978. vi, 161 pp. Chronology, Appendix, Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index. $11.95.

Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin. By John Blofeld. Boulder: Shambhala, 1978. 158 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Glossary. $3.95.

Philosophy of Painting by Shih T'ao: A Translation and Exposition of his Hua-P'u (Treatise on the Philosophy of Painting). By Earl J. Coleman. The Hague, Paris, and New York: Mouton (Studies in Philosophy No. 19), 1978. 147 pp. Notes, Bibliography. D.Glds. 37.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Japanese. By Edwin O. Reischauer. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. 443 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Suggested Reading, Index. $15.00.

From Court to Capital: A Tentative Interpretation of the Origins of the Japanese Urban Tradition. By Paul Wheatley and Thomas See. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. xii, 242 pp. Figures, Notes and References, Index. $ 15.00.

Science and Culture in Traditional Japan: A.D. 600–1854. By Masayoshi Sugimoto and David L. Swain. Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1978. xxxiv, 399 pp. Appendix: Chronological Charts, Bibliography, Index. $39.95.

Pacifism in Japan: The Christian and Socialist Tradition. Edited by Nobuya Bamba and John F. Howes. Foreword by Robert N. Bellah. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1978. xx, 300 pp. Japanese Personal Names, Contributors, Notes, Index. $22.00 cloth; $9.50 paper.

Amaeru: The Expression of Reciprocal Dependency Needs in Japanese Politics and Law. By Douglas D. Mitchell. Boulder: Westview Press (A Westview Replica Edition), 1976. 228 pp. Bibliography. $17.50.

Six Lives Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan. By Robert J. Lifton, Shūichi Katō, and Michael R. Reich. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. xiii, 305 pp. Illustrations, Note on Names and Historical Periods, Bibliography, Index. $16.95.

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