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Volume 39 - Issue 3 - May 1980

Book Reviews—Japan

Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879. By Noel Perrin. Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1979. xii, 122 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Illustrations. $8.95.

And Then. By Natsume Sōseki. Translated by Norma Moore Field. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. 290 pp. Bibliography, $14.95.

Parties out of Power in Japan, 1931–1941. By Gordon Mark Berger. Princeton: Princton Universtity Press, 1977. xv, 413 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $20.00.

The Whaling Issue in U.S.-Japan Relations. Edited by John R. Schmidhauser and Geroge O. Totten, III. Boulder: Westview Press, (A Westview Replica Edition), 1978. x, 275 pp. List of Tables and Figures. $17.00.

The Japanese Challenge: The Success and Failure of Economic Success. By Herman Kahn and Thomas Pepper, III. London and Sydney: Harper & Row; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1978. 162 pp. $10.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

U.S. Policy Toward Korea: Analysis, Alternatives, and Recommendations. By Nathan N. White. Boulder: Westview Press (A Westview Replica Edition), 1979. ix, 220 pp. Appendix, Figures, Exhibits. $17.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

“Language” in Indian Philosophy and Religion. Edited by Harold G. Coward. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press (SR Supplements No. 5), 1978. x, 93 pp. $4.00 (paper).

The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism. By Rune E. A. Johansson. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 37), 1979. References, Index of technical terms, Index of quotations from Nikāya texts. £4.75 (paper).

Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real: Buddhist Meditation and the Middle View. From the Lam rim Chen mo of Tson-kha-pa. Translated by Alex Wayman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. xii, 512 pp. Notes, Glossaries, Bibliography, Index. $25.50.

The Hindu Religious Tradition: A Philosophical Approach. By Pratima Bowes. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978. xii, 322 pp. Notes, Index. $18.95.

Islamic Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Mawlana Sayyid Abul Acla Mawdudi. Edited by Khurshid Ahmad and Zafar Ishaq Ansari. Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, U.K., in association with Saudi Publishing House, Jeddah, 1979. xvii, 394 pp. Notes, Index. N.p.l.

Sacred and Profane Dimensions of Love in Indian Traditions as Exemplified in the Gītagovinda of Jayadeva. By Lee Siegel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xii, 324 pp. Appendix, Bibliography of Works Cited, Index. $21.00.

Monolithic Jinas: The Iconography of the Jain Temples of Ellora. By José Pereira. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1977. xviii, 186 pp. Appendixes, Plans, Figures, Index. Rs. 40.

Realm and Region in Traditional India. Edited by Richard G. Fox. Durham: Duke University, Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia (Monograph and Occasional Papers Series No. 14), 1977. xxv, 307 pp. Tables, Maps. N.p.l.

Hyderabad during the Residency of Henry Russell, 1811–1820. A Case Study of the Subsidiary Alliance System. By Zubaida Yazdani. Oxford: printed for the author at Oxford University Press, 1976. xiv, 141 pp. Bibliography. N.p.l.

The Beginning of the Great Game in Asia, 1828–1834. By Edward Ingram. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xv, 361 pp. Bibliography, Index. $29.00.

The Great Mutiny: India, 1857. By Christopher Hibbert. New York: The Viking Press, 1978. 472 pp. Plates, Glossary, Chronological Table, Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. $15.95.

Agrarian Unrest in North India: The United Provinces, 1918–22. By Majid Hayat Siddiqi. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1978. xxii, 247 pp. Appendixes, Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. N.p.l.

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Book Reviews—Japan

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