Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
The Lyrical and the Epic: Studies of Modern Chinese Literature. By Jaroslav Průšek. Edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. xiii, 268 pp. Appendixes. $22.50.
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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text. Vol. 1: Vols. I and II of the Major Series. By Colin A. Ronan and Joseph Needham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978 (cloth); 1980 (paper), xi, 326 pp. (cloth); 337 pp. (paper). Illustrations, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $29.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
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Henan. By Shanquan. Hong Kong: Zhonghua shuju, 1977. 157 pp. Maps, Photos. N.p.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 588-589
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The People's Republic of China: A Basic Handbook. 2nd ed. Compiled by James R. Townsend and Richard C. Bush. New York: Council on International and Public Affairs, in cooperation with The China Council of the Asia Society, 1981. xii, 112 pp. Maps, Charts, Reference Guides, Note on Pinyin Pronunciation, Romanization Conversion Table. $4.50.
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Book Reviews—Japan
Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan: A Study of Commoners in the Popular Rights Movement. By Roger W. Bowen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. xv, 367 pp. Tables, Maps, Appendixes, Glossary, Index. $25.
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Japan and Its World: Two Centuries of Change. By Marius B. Jansen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981. Illustrations, Bibliographical Notes, Index. 128 pp. $9.50.
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The Quilt and Other Stories by Tayama Katai. Translated by Kenneth G. Henshall. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981. 204 pp. $14.50. (Distributed by Columbia University Press)
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Japanese Journalists and Their World. By Young C. Kim. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1981. 226 pp. Appendix, Index. $15.
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The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of the Man'yōshū, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry. Vol. 1. Translated by Ian Hideo Levy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981. 409 pp. Photographs, Index of Poets. $25.
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Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy, Strategic Illusions, 1936–1941. By Arthur J. Marder. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1981. xxxii, 533 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Index. $49.50.
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The Developing Economies and Japan: Lessons in Growth. By Saburo Okita. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981. 283 pp. Preface, Index. $14.50. (Distributed by Columbia University Press)
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Shinto, Japan's Spiritual Roots. By Stuart D. B. Picken. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1980. 80 pp. Illustrations, Glossary. ¥3,200. $14.50.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 603-605
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Tales of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale. Translated by Mildred M. Tahara. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980. xvi, 318 pp. Appendixes. $15.
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Mask and Sword: Two Plays for the Contemporary Japanese Theater by Yamazaki Masakazu. Translated by J. Thomas Rimer. New York: Columbia University Press (Modern Asian Literature Series), 1980. 221 pp. Illustrations, Interview with Yamazaki Masakazu. $20.
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Book Reviews—South Asia
Rural Organizations in South India: The Dynamics of Laborer and Tenant Unions and Farmer Associations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. By K. C. Alexander. Ithaca, N.Y.: Rural Development Committee, Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1979. v, 101 pp. $3.50 (paper).
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Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom. By Michael Aris. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1979. 345 pp. N.p.
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North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals, and the British, 1720–1801. By Richard B. Barnett. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. xvii, 276 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index, Illustrations, Tables, Maps. $20.
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Catalogus Catalogorum of Bengali Manuscripts. Vol. I. [Bāṁlā puthira t¯alikā samanvaya, prathama khaṇḍal]. By Jatindra Mohan Bhattacharjee. Calcutta: Asiatic Society, 1978. xxiii, 385 pp. N.p.
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An Introduction to Buddhist Esoterism. By Benoytosh Bhattacharyya. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1980. viii, 174 pp. Index. $19 (cloth). Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.)
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Portuguese India in the Mid-Seventeenth Century. By C. R. Boxer. Delhi: Oxford University Press (The 1978 Heras Memorial Lectures), 1980. x, 57 pp. Index. N.p. - Joāo de Barros: Portuguese Humanist and Historian of Asia. By C. R. Boxer. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company (Xavier Centre of Historical Research Studies Series, no. 1), 1981. 159 pp. Bibliography, Index. Rs. 60.
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- 23 March 2011, pp. 614-615
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