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Volume 52 - February 1993

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Revolution in the Village: Tradition and Transformation in North Vietnam, 1925–1988. By Hy. V. Luong. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992. xxiii, 272 pp. $38.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Songs of the Saints of India. By John Stratton Hawley. Translations by J. S. Hawley and Mark Juergensmeyer. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii, 244 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $9.75 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Breakdown of the Sino-Vietnamese Alliance, 1970–1979. By Anne Gilks. Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1992. vii, 270 pp. $17.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India. By Achin Vanaik. New York: Verso, 1990. xi, 302 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Textiles and the Tai Experience in Southeast Asia. By Mattiebelle Gittinger and H. Leedom LeffertsJr. Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 1992. 264 pp.

The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862–1874. By Mark W. McLeod. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991. xvii, 171 pp. $39.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Pakistan's Security Under Zia, 1977–1988: The Policy Imperatives of a Peripheral Asian State. By Robert G. Wirsing. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. viii, 216 pp. $49.95.

Social Structures of Indian Villages: A Study of Rural Bihar. By Hetukar Jha. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991. 202 pp. $27.50.

Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India. By Kenneth G. Zysk. Oxford University Press, 1991, 200 pages.

The Presence of the Past: Chronicles, Politics, and Culture in Sinhala Life. By Steven Kemper. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv, 244 pp. $29.95.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942–1992. By Jane Hamilton-Merritt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xviii, 608 pp. $29.95.

Fleurs de Paroles: Histoire Naturelle Palawan. Vol. I: Les Dons de Nägsalad. 374 pp. plus plates. Vol. II: La Maîtrise d'un Savoir et l'Art d'une Relation. By Nicole Revel. Paris: Editions Peeters, 1990.

Local Politics in Rural Malaysia: Patterns of Change in Sungai Raya. By Marvin L. Rogers. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1992. xiii, 150 pp. $29.95.

Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier, and W. van der Molen. Leiden: Vakgroup Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, 1992.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Autobiographie. By Georges Boudarel. Paris: Jacques Bertoin, 1991. 436 pp. - Cent Fleurs Ecloses dans la Nuit du Vietnam: Communisme et Dissidence 1954–1956. By Georges Boudarel. Paris: Jacques Bertoin, 1991. 302 pp.

The Nāradasmṛti. Part One: Text; Part Two: Translation. Edited and translated by Richard W. Lariviere. Philadelphia: Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989. Part One: xx, 328 pp. Part Two: xxxii, 250 pp.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Cognation and Social Organization in Southeast Asia. Edited by Frans Hüsken and Jeremy Kemp. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1991. 221 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Crossing the Industrial Divide: State, Society, and the Politics of Economic Transformation in Malaysia. By Alasdair Bowie. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. xvi, 222 pp. $40.00.

Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British India and Orientalism. By Javed Majeed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 225 pp. $55.00.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Tiger in the Barbed Wire: An American in Vietnam 1952–1991. By Howard R. Simpson. New York: Brassey's (U.S.), Inc., 1992. xvii, 243 pp. $23.00.

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