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Volume 59 - Issue 3 - August 2000

Book Reviews—China

Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market. By Sucheta Mazumdar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. xx, 657 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).

Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition. Edited by Sherry J. Mou. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. xxviii, 307 pp. $59.95.

Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Daniel L. Overmyer. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 49. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi, 444 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism and the Northern Yangzi Delta. By Kathy Le Mons Walker. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. ix, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical and Ideological Perspectives. By Robert Weatherley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xi, 185 pp. $59.95.

Alternate Civilities: Democracy and Culture in China and Taiwan. By Robert P. Weller. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xvi, 172 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. By Gang Yue. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. 447 pp. $64.95 (cloth); $20.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia. Vol. 1, Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire. By David Christian. London: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. 472 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia. By John Glenn. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999 and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xii, 198 pp. $65.00 (cloth).

Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Edited by Melvyn C. Goldstein and Matthew T. Kapstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. x, 207 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

The Struggle for Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. By Melvyn Goldstein, William Siebenschuh, and Tashi Tsering. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. xi, 207 pp. $27.95.

The Secret History of the Mongols. The Origin of Chingis Khan. (Expanded Edition). An Adaptation of the Yüan Ch'ao Pi Shih, Based Primarily on the English Translation by Francis Woodman Cleaves. By Paull Kahn. Boston: Cheng and Tsui Company, 1998. xxiv, 201 pp. $19-95 (paper).

The Camel's Load in Life and Death: Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figures from Han to Tang and Their Relevance to Trade along the Silk Routes. By Elfriede Regina Knauer. Zürich: Akanthus Verlag für Archäologie, 1998.

Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Berichts über den persönlichen Feldzug des Kangxi Kaisers gegen Galdan (1696–1697). By Borjigidai Oyunbilig. Tunguso-Sibirica 6. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999. 163 pp.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History. By Gary D. Allinson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 259 pp. $45.00.

A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice. Edited by Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Chambers. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998. xi, 191 pp. $42.95 (cloth).

Japan Today. Third edition. By Roger Buckley. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 218 pp. $49.95.

Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia. By Peter Dauvergne. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997. x, 308 pp. $22.00 (paper).

The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. By Honda Katsuichi. Edited by Frank Gibney, translated by Karen Sandness. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1999. xxvii, 367 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. By Mark J. Hudson. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. ix, 323 pp. $31.95 (paper).

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Volume 59 - Issue 3 - August 2000

Book Reviews—China

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