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Volume 55 - Issue 2 - May 1996

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Scientism and Humanism. Two Cultures in Post-Mao China (1978–1989). By Shiping Hua. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 206 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Richard P. Suttmeier
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26 March 2010, pp. 438-439
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Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity. By Charles Yim-Tze Kwong. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 66. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1994. x, 281 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).
Sujane Wu
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26 March 2010, pp. 440-441
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Governing China: From Revolution through Reform. By Kenneth Lieberthal. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1995. xix, 498 pages. $30.00.
R. Keith Schoppa
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26 March 2010, pp. 441-442
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Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-Chih Chi of Lo Ch'in-Shun. By Lo Ch'in-shun. Translated by Irene Bloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. ix, 226 pp. $50.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).
Stephen C. Angle
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26 March 2010, pp. 442-444
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Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction. By Keith McMahon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 378 pp. $49.95.
Jeannette L. Faurot
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26 March 2010, pp. 444-445
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Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969–1989. By Robert S. Ross. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. ix, 349 pp. $35.00.
Qiang Zhai
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26 March 2010, pp. 445-447
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Greater China: The Next Superpower? Edited by David Shambaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ix, 310 pp. $24.00.
Andrew Wedeman
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26 March 2010, pp. 447-448
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China's Republican Revolution. Edited by Eto Shinkichi and Harold Z. Schiffrin. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. xviii, 279 pp. $59.50.
Roger B. Jeans
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26 March 2010, pp. 448-450
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The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976–1992. By Yan Sun. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 352 pp. $18.95.
Adam H. Arkel
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26 March 2010, pp. 450-451
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Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. By Arland Thornton and Hui-Sheng Lin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ix, 456 pp. $29.95.
Stevan Harrell
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26 March 2010, pp. 451-453
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Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913. By Tsai Jung-Fang. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiii, 375 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
Man-kong Wong
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Book Reviews—Japan

The Rise of Modern Japan: Political, Economic and Social Change since 1850. Second Edition. By W. G. Beasley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xi, 322 pp. $14.95.
Michael Lewis
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26 March 2010, pp. 454-455
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Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives. Edited by Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxiii, 334 pp. $14.95.
Christine R. Yano
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26 March 2010, pp. 455-457
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Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society and the State in a Japanese Fishery. By David L. Howell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 246 pp. $38.00.
Mitchell Bernard
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26 March 2010, pp. 457-458
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The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan. By Daikichi Irokawa. Translated by Mikiso Hane and John K. Urda, with a foreword by Carol Gluck. New York: The Free Press, 1995. xv, 163 pp. $25.00.
Sharon A. Minichiello
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26 March 2010, pp. 458-459
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Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. By Marilyn Ivy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xi, 270 pp. $17.95.
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
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26 March 2010, pp. 460-461
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Warrior Rule in Japan. Edited by Marius Jansen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xviii, 280 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Suzanne Gay
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26 March 2010, pp. 461-462
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Contemporary Politics in Japan. By Masumi Junnosuke. Translated by Lonny E. Carlile. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. xi, 514 pp.
Jonathan R. Strand
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26 March 2010, pp. 462-463
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Japanese Classical Theater in Films. By Keiko I. McDonald. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. 355 pp. $48.50.
Darrell William Davis
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26 March 2010, pp. 463-465
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Lectures on Modern Japanese Economic History: 1926–1994. By Takafusa Nakamura. Tokyo: LTCB International Library Foundation, 1994. - The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and Structure, 1937–1994. By Takafusa Nakamura. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Eleanor M. Hadley
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26 March 2010, pp. 465-466
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Scientism and Humanism. Two Cultures in Post-Mao China (1978–1989). By Shiping Hua. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 206 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity. By Charles Yim-Tze Kwong. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 66. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1994. x, 281 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Governing China: From Revolution through Reform. By Kenneth Lieberthal. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1995. xix, 498 pages. $30.00.

Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-Chih Chi of Lo Ch'in-Shun. By Lo Ch'in-shun. Translated by Irene Bloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. ix, 226 pp. $50.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction. By Keith McMahon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 378 pp. $49.95.

Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969–1989. By Robert S. Ross. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. ix, 349 pp. $35.00.

Greater China: The Next Superpower? Edited by David Shambaugh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. ix, 310 pp. $24.00.

China's Republican Revolution. Edited by Eto Shinkichi and Harold Z. Schiffrin. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. xviii, 279 pp. $59.50.

The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976–1992. By Yan Sun. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 352 pp. $18.95.

Social Change and the Family in Taiwan. By Arland Thornton and Hui-Sheng Lin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ix, 456 pp. $29.95.

Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913. By Tsai Jung-Fang. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xiii, 375 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—Japan

The Rise of Modern Japan: Political, Economic and Social Change since 1850. Second Edition. By W. G. Beasley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xi, 322 pp. $14.95.

Japan in Traditional and Postmodern Perspectives. Edited by Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxiii, 334 pp. $14.95.

Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society and the State in a Japanese Fishery. By David L. Howell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xiv, 246 pp. $38.00.

The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan. By Daikichi Irokawa. Translated by Mikiso Hane and John K. Urda, with a foreword by Carol Gluck. New York: The Free Press, 1995. xv, 163 pp. $25.00.

Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan. By Marilyn Ivy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xi, 270 pp. $17.95.

Warrior Rule in Japan. Edited by Marius Jansen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xviii, 280 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Contemporary Politics in Japan. By Masumi Junnosuke. Translated by Lonny E. Carlile. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. xi, 514 pp.

Japanese Classical Theater in Films. By Keiko I. McDonald. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1994. 355 pp. $48.50.

Lectures on Modern Japanese Economic History: 1926–1994. By Takafusa Nakamura. Tokyo: LTCB International Library Foundation, 1994. - The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its Development and Structure, 1937–1994. By Takafusa Nakamura. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

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