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Volume 49 - November 1990

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Ili Rebellion: The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinjiang, 1944–1949 By Linda Benson. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xxvii, 265 pp.

Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John. By L. N. Gumilev. Translated by R. E. F. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xx, 403 pp. $54.50.

State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government. by Jean C. Oi. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1989. xxi, 287 pp.

To Open Minds: Chinese Clues to the Dilemma of Contemporary Education. By Howard Gardner. New York: Basic Books Inc., 1989. x, 326 pp. $21.95.

China Changes Face: The Road from Revolution 1949–1989. By John Gittings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xiv, 290 pp. $29.95.

Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music. By Richard Curt Kraus. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. xvi, 288 pp. $36.00.

The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911–1937. By Marie-Claire Bergère. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. x, 356 pp. $59.50. Translated by Janet Lloyd from L'Age d'or de la bourgeoisie chinoise. Paris: Flammarion, 1986.

The Thought of Mao Tse-tung. By Stuart Schram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x, 242 pp. $14.50 (paper).

Foundations of T'ien-t'ai Philosophy: The Flowering of the Two Truths Theory in Chinese Buddhism. By Paul L. Swanson. Nanzan Studies In Religion And Culture Berkeley, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1989. xii, 399 pp. $63.00 (cloth). $20.00 (paper).

Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought. Edited by Peter N. Gregory. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1987. ix, 474 pp. $37.50.

The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China. By Ellen Johnston Laing. Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 1988. x, 194 pp. $55.00.

Policy in Evolution: The U.S. Role in China's Reunification. By Martin L. Lasater. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1989. x, 206 pp. $29.50 (paper).

Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions. Edited by Kathleen Hartford and Steven M. Goldstein. Armonk, N.Y., and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1989. xii, 216 pp. $35.

Learning to be a Sage: Selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, Arranged Topically. By Chu Hsi. Translated with a commentary by Daniel K. Gardner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xii, 218 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).

Hu Yao Bang: A Chinese Biography. By Yang Zhong Mei. Armonk, N.Y., London: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. xxiv, 208 pp.

The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese. By Lau Siu-kai and Kuan Hsin-chi. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1988. xii, 217 pp. $7.50 (paper).

Book Reviews—Japan

Archetypes in Japanese Film: The Sociopolitical and Religious Significance of the Principal Heroes and Heroines. By Gregory Barrett. Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 1989. 252 pp. $47.50.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World. By Pamela Kyle Crossley. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1990. xi, 305 pp. $37.50.

China: A Macro History. By Ray Huang. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. xix, 277 pp. $24.95 (cloth), $12.50 (paper).

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