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Volume 56 - Issue 1 - February 1997

Book Reviews—Asia General

Understanding the Developing World: Thirty-jive Years of Area Studies at the IDE. Edited by Hiroichi Yamaguchi and Hiroshi Sato. Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1996. 198 pp. $64.00.

Global Change and the Commonwealth. Edited by Yue-Man Yeung. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. xix, 465 pp.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Notions et perceptions du changement en Chine. Préparés pour la publication Viviane Alleton et Alexeï Volkov. Paris: Collège de France—Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 1994. xxvi, 267 pp.

Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China. Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton, and Elizabeth Perry. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. ix, 449 pp. $59.95.

Human Rights and Chinese Values: Legal, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives. Edited by Michael C. Davis. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1995. x, 216 pp. HK$95 (paper).

Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. By Prasenjit Duara. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. x, 276 pp. $32.00.

China's Legalists, The Earliest Totalitarians and their Art of Ruling. By Zhengyuan Fu. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. x, 177 pp. $21.95.

Court Art of the T'ang. By Patricia Eichenbaum Karetsky. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. xxvii, 342 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper).

Imperial China's Last Classical Academies: Social Change in the Lower Yangzi, 1864–1911. By Barry C. Keenan. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1994. xii, 199 pp. $16.00.

Agricultural Instability in China, 1931–1991. By Y. Y. Kueh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. xxv, 387 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

The Taiwan-China Connection: Democracy and Development Across the Straits, by Tse-Kang Leng. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. xiv, 156 pp. $59.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

China's Energy Strategy: Economic Structure, Technological Choices, and Energy Consumption. By Xiannuan Lin. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996. xv, 203 pp. $65.00.

Contemporary China in the Post–Cold War Era. Edited by Bih-Jaw Lin and James T. Myers. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 427 pp. $39.95.

Religions of China in Practice. Edited by Donald S. LopezJr.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi, 499 pp. $19.95.

Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction. By Tonglin Lü. Stanford University Press, 1995. ix, 235 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Gentlemanly Interests and Wealth on the Yangtze Delta. By John Meskill. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 1994. viii, 206 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).

The End of the Chinese ‘Middle Ages’: Essays in Mid-Tang Literary Culture. By Stephen Owen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 209 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Women in Hong Kong. Edited by Veronica Pearson and Benjamin K. P. Leung. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvii, 301 pp. $27.00 (cloth).

The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic. By Haun Saussy. In the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series. Edited by Werner Hamacher and David E. Wellbery. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. xvi, 296 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Iron and Steel in Ancient China. By Donald B. Wagner. Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1993. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Vierte Abteilung. Band 9.

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Volume 56 - Issue 1 - February 1997

Book Reviews—Asia General

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia