Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
China, Taiwan, and the Offshore Islands. By Thomas E. Stolper. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1985. xiii, 170 pp. Map, Abbreviations, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $30.00.
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The Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Reforms: A Historical Perspective. By Tang Tsou. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. xlv, 351 pp. Chronology, Index. $29.95.
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Book Reviews—Japan
Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and Structural Adjustment in the Japanese Economy, 1970–80. By Ronald Dore. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. viii, 278 pp. Bibliography, Index. $32.50.
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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. By John W. Dower. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. xii, 399 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.
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Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo. By Thomas Blenman Hare. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. xiv, 319 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Notes, Annotated Bibliography, Index. $39.50.
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Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar Japan. By Germaine A. Hoston. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xviii, 401 pp. Tables, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $40.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).
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Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905–1960. By Sharon H. Nolte. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xii, 378 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $34.50.
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Policy and Politics in Japan: Creative Conservatism. By T. J. Pempel. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. xix, 330 pp. References, Index. $22.00 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).
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Book Reviews—Korea
Koreanischer Schamanismus: Eine Einführung [Korean shamanism: An introduction]. By Hung-Youn Cho. Hamburg: Im Selbstvertrag Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde. Wegweiser zur Volkerkunde, Heft 27. 1982. 129 pp. Pictures, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. N.p.
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Reciprocity and Korean Society: An Ethnography of Hasami. By Kyung-Soo Chun. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 1984. xviii, 232 pp. Tables, Diagrams, Maps, Photos, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $18.00. (Distributed by University of Hawaii Press)
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Memoirs of a Korean Queen. By Lady Hong. Edited and Translated by Yanghi Choe-Wall. London: KPI, 1985. 127 pp. Photographs, Biographical Index, Maps, Notes. $29.95.
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Naval Surgeon in Yi Korea: The Journal of George W. Woods. By George W. Woods. Edited by Fred C. Bohm and Robert R. SwartoutJr., Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1984. xiv, 137 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $12.00. - An American Advisor in Late Yi Korea: The Letters of Owen Nickerson Denny. By Owen Nickerson Denny. Edited by Robert R. SwartoutJr., Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1984. xii, 195 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $22.50.
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Book Reviews—South Asia
Pakistan Society: Islam, Ethnicity, and Leadership in South Asia. By Akbar S. Ahmed. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1986. xi, 264 pp. Notes, Index. N.p.
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Songs for the Bride: Wedding Rites of Rural India. By William G. Archer. Edited by Barbara Stoler Miller and Mildred Archer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xl, 188 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography of the Writings of William G. Archer, Notes. $27.50.
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Patrons and Performers in Rajasthan. By Joan L. Erdman. Delhi: Chanakya Publications, 1985. 282 pp. Bibliography, Index. N.p.
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Bhagavad Gītā: Translation and Commentary. By Richard Gotshalk. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1985. Translation, Commentary, Notes, Indexes, xvi, 243 pp. $17.50. (Distributed in the U.S. by South Asia Books.) - Modern Indian Interpreters of the Bhagavadgītā. Edited and introduced by Robert N. Minor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Notes, Contributors, Indexes, viii, 273 pp. $39-50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
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The State and Peasant Politics in Sri Lanka. By Mick Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv, 328 pp. Maps, Tables, Glossary, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $44.50.
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Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Gonoshasthya Kendra in Bangladesh. By Jayanta Kumar Ray. Calcutta: Orient Longman, 1986. vii, 104 pp. Notes. Rs. 25 (paper).
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Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics Under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya. By Andre Wink. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. xviii, 417 pp. Glossary, Maps, Diagrams, Key to Selections of Papers from the Records at the East-India House, Bibliography, Index. N.p.
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Religious Healing in the Veda, with Translations and Annotations of Medical Hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and Renderings from the Corresponding Ritual Texts. By Kenneth G. Zysk. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 75, part 7. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1985. xviii, 312 pp. Lists of Illustrations, Hymns, and Verses, Appendixes, Bibliography, Indexes. $30.00 (paper).
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