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Volume 51 - Issue 4 - November 1992

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Making of Hong Kong Society: Three Studies of Class Formation in Early Hong Kong. By Chan Wai Kwan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. viii, 251 pp. $59.00.

Schools into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang and the National Labor University in Shanghai 1927–1932. By Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991. 339 pp. $47.50.

Politics of Disillusionment: The Chinese Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping. By Hsi-Sheng Ch'i. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1991. xvii, 328 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. By Craig Clunas. Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1991. x, 218 pp. $39.95. Distributed by the University of Illinois Press.

East Asian Art and American Culture. By Warren I. Cohen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. 252 pp. $32.50.

Lettrés et Pouvoirs: Un Procès Littéraire dans la Chine Impériale [Literati and Powerholders: a Literary Case in Imperial China]. By Pierre-Henri Durand. Preface by Jaques Gernet. Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1992. 468 pp. F200.00.

Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Prose. By Edward Gunn. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991. vii, 361 pp. $39.50.

Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China. By David Holm. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. ix, 405 pp. $69.00.

Zhongguo Gudai Suanming Shu [The Divinatory Arts of Ancient China]. By Hong Pimo and Jiang Yuzhen. Shanghai: The People's Publishing House, 1990. Revised edition, iv, 277 pp. RMB 3.25 (HK $17.00; Joint Publishing Company)

Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy. By Richard Curt Kraus. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. xii. 208 pp. $24.95.

From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China. By Hong Yung Lee. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xvi, 437 pp. $48.50.

Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China: The Control of Foreign Direct Investment under Socialism. By Margaret M. Pearson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991. xiv, 335 pp. $39.50.

Art and Political Expression in Early China. By Martin J. Powers. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992. xiv, 438 pp. $50.00.

Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu. By Vera Schwarcz. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992. 256 pp. $30.00.

The Kuomintang Left in the National Revolution, 1924–1931: The Leftist Alternative in Republican China. By So Wai-chor. Hong Kong: East Asian Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 1991. xii, 290 pp. $250.00 HK.

The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History. By B. J. ter Haar. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1992. ix, 343 pp. Gld. 170.00; $97.25.

The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia. By Derek Waller. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, viii, 327 pp. $30.00.

The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West. By Jing Wang. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 1992. x, 347 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia