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Volume 39 - August 1980

Book Reviews—China

The China Difference: A Portrait of Life Today inside the Country of One Billion. Edited by Ross Terrill. New York and London: Harper and Row (The Asia Society), 1979. xiv, 335 pp. Map, Photos, Index. $12.95.

Popular Media in China: Shaping New Cultural Patterns.Edited by Godwin C. Chu. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, East-West Center. 1978. x, 263 pp. Notes, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $12.00.

Chinese Legal Tradition under the Mongols: The Code of 1291 as Reconstructed. By Paul Heng-chao Ch'en. Princeton: Princeton University Press (Studies in East Asian Law, Harvard University), 1979. xix, 205 pp. Chinese text, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $19.50.

Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China. By Sui-lun Wong. London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul (International Library of Sociology), 1979. xii, 147 pp. Charts, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.75.

Economic Growth and Distribution in China. By Nicholas R. Lardy. Cambridge, London, and New York: Cambridge University Press. 1978. x, 244 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. N.p.l.

Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652–1853. By Sarasin Viraphol. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University (Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 76), 1977. xx, 419 pp. Map, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $15.00.

The Chinese Economy: Problems and Policies. By Jan S. Prybyla. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 1978. xiv, 258 pp. Notes, Maps, Tables, Index. $14.95 (cloth); $5.95 (paper).

Law Without Lawyers: A Comparative View of Law in China and the United States. By Victor H. Li. Boulder: Westview Press, 1978. xii, 102 pp. Illustrations, Reader's Guide. $11.75 (cloth); $6.50 (paper).

Cambridge History of China. Volume 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800–1911, Part I. Edited by John K. Fairbank. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1978. xvi, 713 pp. Maps, Bibliographical Essays, Bibliography, List of Chinese and Japanese publishers, Genealogical Chart, Glossary, Index. $45.00.

The Death of Woman Wang. By Jonathan Spence. New York: The Viking Press, 1978. xx, 169 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Map. $10.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper; New York: Penguin Books).

Mercenaries and Mandarins: The Ever-Victorious Army in Nineteenth Century China. By Richard J. Smith. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1978. xxiii, 271 pp. Notes, Abbreviations, Bibliography, Glossary for Chinese and Japanese Sources, Glossary, Index. $19.95.

The Outsiders: The Western Experience in India and China. By Rhoads Murphey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1977. ix, 299 pp. Figure, Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $16.50.

A Concise Manchu-English Lexicon. By Jerry Norman. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1978. xii, 324 pp. Appendix, Selected Bibliography. $20.00.

The Home Base of American China Missions, 1880–1920. By Valentin H. Rabe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 75), 1978. x, 299 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $15.00.

Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Edited by David C. Buxbaum. Seattle: University of Washington Press (Asian Law Series No. 3), 1978. viii, 553 pp. Notes, Tables, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20.00.

Perspectives on a Changing China: Essays in Honor of Professor C. Martin Wilbur on the Occasion of His Retirement. Edited by Joshua A. Fogel and William T. Rowe. Boulder: Westview Press, 1979. xiv, 325 pp. Notes, Bibliography of the Publications of C. Martin Wilbur, Index. $18.50.

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