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Volume 49 - Issue 1 - February 1990

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Book Reviews—Japan

The Road Through Miyama. By Leila Philip. New York: Random House, 1989. xii, 264 pp. $17.95 (cloth); $7.50 (Viking, paper).

Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan. By Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989. x, 238 pp. $24.95.

An American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall. By Richard Rubinger. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. xviii, 89 pp. $11.00.

Unkept Promises, Unclear Consequences: U.S. Economic Policy and the Japanese Response. Edited by Ryuzo Sato and John A. Rizzo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. x, 200 pp. $29.95.

Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan. By J. A. A. Stockwin, Alan Rix, Aurelia George, James Horne, Daiichi Itō, and Martin Collick. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. $36.00.

The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture. Edited by George J. TanabeJr., and Willa Jane Tanabe. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1989. xii, 239 pp. $25.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Korean-American Relations: Documents Pertaining to the Far Eastern Diplomacy of the United States. Vol. 3: The Period of Diminishing Influence, 1896–1905. Edited by Scott S. Burnett. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. xiv, 304 pp. $24.00.

Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965–1982. By Ivan Light and Edna Bonacich. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. xii, 495 pp. $45.00.

The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910. By Wayne Patterson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. xi, 274 pp. $30.00.

Explorations in Korean Syntax and Semantics. By Seok Choong Song. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1988. 378 pp.

The Republic of Korea: Economic Transformation and Social Change. By David I. Steinberg. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. xvi, 218 pp. $34.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom. By Nicholas B. Dirks. Cambridge South Asian Studies 39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xxxvi, 458 pp. $49.50.

Marriage Among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan. By Hastings Donnan. Delhi: Hindustan Publishing, 1988. xiv, 231 pp. $52.50. (Distributed by E. J. Brill)

Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners. By D. N. Kakar. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1988. xiv, 195 pp. Rs 125.00.

Nityasumaṅgalī: Devadasi Tradition in South India. By Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. xxii, 226 pp. $24.00.

Building Construction in Mughal India: The Evidence from Painting. By Ahsan Jan Qaisar. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988. 72 pp. $19.95.

The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village. By Gloria Goodwin Raheja. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. xiv, 286 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Hindu Gītā: Ancient and Classical Interpretations of the Bhagavadgītā. By Arvind Sharma. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1986. $28.95. - The Universal Gītā: Western Images of the Bhagavad Gītā, a Bicentenary Survey. By Eric C. Sharpe. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1985. $26.95.

Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India. By Lee Siegel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xviii, 497 pp. $35.00.

Political Regimes, Public Policy, and Economic Development: Agricultural Performance and Rural Change in the Two Punjabs. By Holly Sims. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1988. 206 pp. $26.00.

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