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Volume 59 - Issue 1 - February 2000

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Book Reviews—China

The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility. By Gang Deng. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xiv, 421 pp. $65.00.
R. Bin Wong
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26 March 2010, pp. 148-150
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The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms. Edited by Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. viii, 454 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Thomas B. Gold
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26 March 2010, pp. 150-151
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Ts'ao P'i Transcendent: The Political Culture of Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han. By Howard L. Goodman. Seattle, Wash, and Richmond, Surrey, England: Scripta Serica, 1998. 249 pp.
Charles Holcombe
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26 March 2010, pp. 151-153
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The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China. By David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames. Chicago and Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1999. xii, 267 pp. $34.95.
Robert Cummings Neville
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26 March 2010, pp. 153-154
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Zhongguoren dushu toushi. 1978–1998 dazhong dushu shenghuo bianqian diaocha. (A Perspective on Chinese People's Reading. A Survey of the Changes in the Reading Activity of the Masses from 1978 to 1998). By Kang Xiaoguang, Wu Yulun, Liu Dehuan, and Sun Hui. Nanning: Guangxi Jiaoyu Chubanshe, 1998. 171 pp. RMB 12.00.
Inge Nielsen
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26 March 2010, pp. 154-156
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Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China 1930–1945. By Leo Ou-fan Lee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 409 pp.
David Der-wei Wang
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26 March 2010, pp. 156-158
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Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China. By Melissa Ann Macauley. Law, Society, and Culture in Late Imperial China. Edited by Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 456 pp. $50.00.
Matthew H. Sommer
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26 March 2010, pp. 158-159
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Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs. Edited by Michael Oppitz and Elisabeth Hsu. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum Zürich, 1998. 396 pp.
Laura Hostetler
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26 March 2010, pp. 159-161
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Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels against Modernity in Late Imperial China. By Roxann Prazniak. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. xiii, 305 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Kristin Stapleton
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26 March 2010, pp. 161-162
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Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China. By David Wakefield. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. x, 261 pp. $42.00 (cloth).
Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr
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26 March 2010, pp. 162-164
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Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1945–1965. Edited by Odd Arne Westad. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xxii, 404 pp. $45.00 (cloth).
S. C. M. Paine
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26 March 2010, pp. 164-165
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China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature. Edited by Yingjin Zhang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 307 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19–95 (paper).
Christopher Lupke
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26 March 2010, pp. 165-167
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Tibet: Abode of the Gods, Pearl of the Motherland. By Barbara Erikson. San Francisco, Calif.: Pacific View Press, 1994. xxi, 302 pp. $22.95 (paper).
Gary Tuttle
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26 March 2010, pp. 167-168
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Life Along the Silk Road. By Susan Whitfield. London: John Murray, 1999. xiv, 242 pp. £19.99.
Richard Foltz
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26 March 2010, pp. 168-169
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Book Reviews—Japan

Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption. By John Clammer. Malden Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. x, 181 pp.
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
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26 March 2010, pp. 170-171
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Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Joel R. Cohn. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 41. Cambridge.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. xvii, 253 pp. $40.00.
Adam L. Kern
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26 March 2010, pp. 171-172
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Cooperation, Technology, and Japanese Development: Indigenous Knowledge, the Power of Networks, and the State. By Donna L. Doane. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. xxviii, 226 pp. $55.00.
Carl Mosk
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26 March 2010, pp. 172-174
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Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia: Partners in the 21st Century. Edited by Vladimir I. Ivanov and Karla S. Smith Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xxviii, 343 pp. $69.50.
David Arase
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26 March 2010, pp. 174-175
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A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World. By Katō Shūichi Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang. Berkeley.: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 470 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Guohe Zheng
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26 March 2010, pp. 175-177
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The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e. By Sandy Kita. Honolulu.: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. xii, 412 pp. $42.00.
Karen M. Gerhart
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26 March 2010, pp. 177-179
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Book Reviews—China

The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility. By Gang Deng. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xiv, 421 pp. $65.00.

The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms. Edited by Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. viii, 454 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Ts'ao P'i Transcendent: The Political Culture of Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han. By Howard L. Goodman. Seattle, Wash, and Richmond, Surrey, England: Scripta Serica, 1998. 249 pp.

The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China. By David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames. Chicago and Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1999. xii, 267 pp. $34.95.

Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China 1930–1945. By Leo Ou-fan Lee. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. 409 pp.

Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China. By Melissa Ann Macauley. Law, Society, and Culture in Late Imperial China. Edited by Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 456 pp. $50.00.

Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs. Edited by Michael Oppitz and Elisabeth Hsu. Zürich: Völkerkundemuseum Zürich, 1998. 396 pp.

Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels against Modernity in Late Imperial China. By Roxann Prazniak. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. xiii, 305 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China. By David Wakefield. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. x, 261 pp. $42.00 (cloth).

Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1945–1965. Edited by Odd Arne Westad. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xxii, 404 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature. Edited by Yingjin Zhang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xii, 307 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19–95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Tibet: Abode of the Gods, Pearl of the Motherland. By Barbara Erikson. San Francisco, Calif.: Pacific View Press, 1994. xxi, 302 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Life Along the Silk Road. By Susan Whitfield. London: John Murray, 1999. xiv, 242 pp. £19.99.

Book Reviews—Japan

Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption. By John Clammer. Malden Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. x, 181 pp.

Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction. By Joel R. Cohn. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 41. Cambridge.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. xvii, 253 pp. $40.00.

Cooperation, Technology, and Japanese Development: Indigenous Knowledge, the Power of Networks, and the State. By Donna L. Doane. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998. xxviii, 226 pp. $55.00.

Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia: Partners in the 21st Century. Edited by Vladimir I. Ivanov and Karla S. Smith Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xxviii, 343 pp. $69.50.

A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World. By Katō Shūichi Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang. Berkeley.: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 470 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e. By Sandy Kita. Honolulu.: University of Hawaii Press, 1999. xii, 412 pp. $42.00.

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