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Volume 57 - Issue 2 - May 1998

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Book Reviews—Japan

Japanese/English Code-Switching: Syntax and Pragmatics. By Miwa Nishimura. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. xx, 176 pp. $43.95.

Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868. By Nishiyama Matsunosuke. Edited and translated by Gerald Groemer. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. $49.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

The Defeat of Japan. By David Rees. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1997. x, 219 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan. By Barbara E. Thornbury. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1997. xxi, 203 pp. $17.95.

Enlightenment Embodied: The Art of the Japanese Buddhist Sculptor (7th–14th Centuries). By Washizuka Hiromitsu and Roger Goepper. New York: Japan Society, Inc., 1997. 152 pp. $50.00.

Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity. Edited by Michael Weiner. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1997. xviii, 251 pp. $18.95.

Small Firms in the Japanese Economy. By D. Hugh Whittaker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xii, 238 pp. $49.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent. By Nancy Abelmann. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1996. 467 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the Late Chosŏn Dynasty. By James B. Palais. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. viii, 1279 pp. $65.00.

Chŏng Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism. By Mark Setton. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xv, 232 pp. $47.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Lives of Indian Images. By Richard H. Davis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xviii, 331 pp. $39.50.

Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India. By Matthew H. Edney. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxi, 458 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion. Edited by Anne Feldhaus. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. viii, 281 pp. $19.95 (paper).

Pahari Masters: Court Painters of North India. By B. N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 391 pp. $95.00 (paper).

The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India, 1934–1951. By Amit Kumar Gupta. New Delhi: Manohar, 1996. xiv, 516 pp. Rs. 550.00 (cloth).

Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal. By Brian A. Hatcher. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1996. xx, 307 pp. $29.95 (cloth).

Whose India? The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History. By Teresa Hubel. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. x, 234 pp. $46.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Foreign Policy of India and Her Neighbours. By Ashok Kapur with A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. x, 186 pp. $65.00 (cloth). - Democracy, Security, and Development in India. By Raju G. C. Thomas. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. x, 182 pp. $49.95 (cloth).

Célébrer le pouvoir: Dasaĩ, une fête royale au Népal. Edited by Gisèle Krauskopff and Marie Lecomte-Tilouine. Paris: CNRS, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme de Paris, 1996. 367 pp.

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