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Volume 56 - Issue 4 - November 1997

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Book Reviews—Japan

Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View. By S. N. Eisenstadt. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 581 pp. $39.95.

The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. By Akiko Hashimoto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv, 226 pp. $49.95.

The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. By Christopher Howe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxvi, 471 pp. $49.95.

Japan's Trade Policy: Action or Reaction?. By Yumiko Mikanagi. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. 163 pp. £40.00.

Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto. By Nakano Makiko. Translated with an introduction and notes by Kazuko Smith. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. ill, 304 pp. $45.00(cloth); $15.00(paper).

The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations. Edited By Frank-Jurgen Richter. London: Routledge, 1996. xiii, 208 pp. $69.95.

North Koreans in Japan Today: Language, Ideology, and Identity. By Sonia Ryang. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. xix, 248 pp. $19.95 (paper).

The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing. Edited By Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet Walker. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xx, 511 pp. $60.00(cloth); $22.50(paper).

The Dilemma of the Modern In Japanese Fiction. Dennis Washburn. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xi, 314 pp.

Foreign Direct Investment in Japan. Edited by Masaru Yoshitomi and Edward M. Graham. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1996. xvi, 231 pp. £49.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Translated and with an introduction and annotation by Jahyun Kim Haboush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 372 pp.

The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security. Edited by Taehwan Kwak and Edward Olsen. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1996. 261 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity. By F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996. xvi, 184 pp. $37.50 (cloth); $15–95 (paper).

Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India. By Stuart Blackburn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xvi, 291 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India. By Steve Derné. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xiii, 232 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

The Religious World of Kirtī Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka. By John Clifford Holt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x, 147 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language. Edited by Jan E. M. Houben. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. x, 501 pp. $158.25 (cloth).

Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India. By Stephanie W. Jamison. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xvi, 340 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper).

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