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Volume 57 - November 1998

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Book Reviews—China

Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform. By Cheng Li., Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1997. xxvi, 353 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era. By David Zweig. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. xiii, 365 pp. $62.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Taiwan's Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition: Riding the Third Wave. Edited by Hungmao Tien. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xvi, 253 pp. $60.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins with a foreword by Frederick W. More. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. xviv, 263 pp. $32.50.

Chinese Nationalism. Edited by Jonathan Unger. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. xviii, 218 pp. $67.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. By Thomas T. Allsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 137 pp.

Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary, A Translation and Study of Jigme Lingpa's Dancing Moon in the Water and Dākki's Grand Secret-Talk. By Jig-med-glin Pa; translated by Janet Ġyatso. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xxiv, 360 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China

The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy. By David S. Nivison, edited with an introduction by Bryan W. Van Norden. Chicago and La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1996. xiv, 339 pp. $46.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Les habitants du toit du monde. Études recueillies en hommage à Alexander W. Macdonald. Edited by Samten Karmay and Philippe Sagant. Nanterre: Societé d'Ethnologie, 1997. 747 pp.

Book Reviews—China

Taoism: Growth of a Religion. By Isabelle Robinet, translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xx, 296 pp.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Chinesischer und Tibetischer Buddhismus im China der Yüanzeit. By H. Franke. München: Kommission für Zentralasiatische Studien Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997. 207 pp.

Book Reviews—China

Spider Eaters: A Memoir. By Rae Yang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. xi, 285 pp. $27.50.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. By Donald S. LopezJr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. 283 pp. $25.00.

The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence. By Gregory Gleason. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. xx, 220 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—China

Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China. By Ralph A. ThaxtonJr., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1997. xix, 425 pp. $65.00.

High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China. By Jing Wang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. x, 399 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Through the Ocean Waves: The Autobiography of Bazaryn Shirendev; By Bazaryn Shirendev; translated by Temujin Onon. Bellingham, Wash.: Center for East Asian Studies at Western Washington University, 1997. liv, 231 pp. $40.00 (paper).

Russia and the Mongol Yoke. The History of the Russian Principalities and the Golden Horde, 1221–1502. By Leo de Hartog. London and New York: British Academic Press, I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. 211 pp. £29.95.

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