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Volume 45 - August 1986

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Tengu Child: Stories by Kikuo Itaya. Edited and Translated by John Gardner and Nobuko Tsukui. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. xxv, 214 pp. $15.95.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Lotus Boat: The Origins of Chinese Tz'u Poetry in T'ang Popular Culture. By Marsha L. Wagner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. (Studies in Oriental Culture, no. 18.) xviii, 199 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Finding List for Poems, Index. $25.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Bakufu in Japanese History. Edited by Jeffrey P. Mass and William B. Hauser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. xvi, 264 pp. Map, Tables, Notes, Index. $34.

Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyūkai Kyōdan. By Helen Hardacre. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984. xviii, 267 pp. Illustrations, Figures, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $35.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K'ang-hsi, 1666–1687. By John E. Wills Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1984. (East Asian Monographs 113.) xii, 303 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20.

The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China. By Madeleine Zelin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xviii, 385 pp. Tables, Note on Sources, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $35.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. By Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xxii, 570 pp. Illus., Principal Immediate Sources, Index. $55.

Bureaucrats and Ministers in Contemporary Japanese Government. By Yung H. Park. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, 1986. (Japan Research Monograph 8). xii, 192 pp. Notes, Abbreviations. $15 (paper).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Journey to the West. Vols. 1, 2, 3, and 4. Translated and edited by Anthony C. Yu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977–1983. N.p.

Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. By Margery Wolf. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. viii, 285 pp. Tables, Notes, Index. $21.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction. By Paul Anderer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. (Modern Asian Literature Series.) xi, 152 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.

The Roots of Wisdom: Saikontan. By Hung Ying-ming. Translated by William Scott Wilson. New York: Kodansha International, 1985. 160 pp. Notes, Bibliography. $15.95.

The Diary of Kido Takayoshi. Vol. 2: 1871–1874. Translated by Sidney DeVere Brown and Akiko Hirota. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1985. xxxix, 449 pp. Index. $47.50 (Distributed by Columbia University Press.)

Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868–1912. Edited by Hilary Conroy, Sandra T. W. Davis, and Wayne Patterson. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985. 318 pp. Chronology, Notes, Notes on the Contributors. $35.

Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By William W. Kelly. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xvi, 322 pp. Notes, Figures, Tables, Maps, Appendix, Character List, References, Index. $31.50.

Book Reviews—Korea

Politics and Policies in Divided Korea: Regimes in Contest. By Young Whan Kihl. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1984. xvi, 307 pp. Maps, Tables, Figures, Appendix, Notes, List of Abbreviations, Bibliography, and Index. $32.50 (hard cover); $11.95 (paper).

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Volume 45 - August 1986

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

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Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea