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Guidebook on Trading with the People's Republic of China. By the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. [New York: United Nations, 1993 (4th ed.). xxv + 584 pp. 75.00. ISBN;. 0–92–119641–3.] - Profile of China Markets: Complete Market Data on Spending Patterns of 1.1 Billion Consumers in China. Compiled by Hessler Lee. [Vancouver: Hercules Publishing House, 1994. 256 pp. Can$59.50, US$45.50. ISBN 1–896229–00–8.]
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Women in China – Imprisoned and Abused for Dissent. By Amnesty International. [London: Amnesty International, 28 June 1995. 27 PP.]
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Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community. By Ellen Oxfeld. [Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. 291 pp. Hard cover £46.75, ISBN 0-8014-2593-X; paperback $18.95, ISBN 0-8014-9908-9.] - Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude and Escape. Edited by Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers. [Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press; and London: Zed Books, 1994. xxv + 294 pp. Hard cover 39.95, 59.95; paperback £16.95, $25.00. ISBN (Hong Kong) paperback 962–209–361–2; (UK) hard cover 1-85649-125-0, paperback 1-85649-126-9.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 210-212
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Inherited Rivalry: Conflict Across the Taiwan Straits. Edited By Tun-Jen Chenk and Samuel S.G. Wu.. [Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner, 1995. 277 pp. £25.00. ISBN 1––55587–551–8 - Bridging the Strait: Taiwan, China, and the Prospects for Reunification. By Hsin-Hsing Wu. [Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1994. 346 pp. £32.50. ISBN 0–19–58765–8
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 212-214
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II risveglio del drago. La nuova Cina sfida I'Occidente: è possibile un capitalismo comunista? By Luca Romano [Milano: Sterling & Kupfer, 1995. 238 pp. + 8 plates. Lire 24,500. ISBN 88–200–1918–3.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 215-216
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China and Global Change: Opportunities for Collaboration. By the National Research Council. [Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1992. 228 pp. ISBN 0–309–04841–9.]
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China in World Politics. By John R. Faust and Judith F. Kornberg. [Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1995. ix + 281 pp. Hard cover $48.00, ISBN 1–55587–413–4; paperback $19.95, ISBN 1–55587– 427–4.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 216-217
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U.S. China Policy: Building a New Consensus. Introduced by Gerrit W. Gong [Washington, D.C.: The Center for Strategic and International [ Studies, 1994. ix + 105 pp. $10.95. ISBN 0–89206–303–3.]
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Post-Cold War Security Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region. Edited by Colin McInnes and Mark G. Rolls [Ilford, Essex: Frank Cass –7146–4574–5; paperback £15.00, ISBN 0-7146-4131-6.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 218-219
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Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China. By Mark A. Allee. [Stanford:Stanford University Press, 1994. xii + 347 pp. £35.00, $45.00. ISBN 0–8047–2272–2.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 221-222
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Imperial China's Last Classical Academies. Social Change in the Lower Yangzi, 1864–1911. By Barry C. Keenan [Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies. University of California (China Research Monograph 42), 1994. xii+ 199 pp. $16.00. ISBN 1–55729–041–5.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 222-224
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Ming History: An Introductory Guide to Research. Compiled by Edward L. Farmer, Romeyn Taylor and Ann Waltner. [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Department of History, Ming Studies Research Series No. 3, 1994. 451 pp. $36.00. ISBN 1–886108–02–1.]
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Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850–1850. Edited by Marsha Weidner. [Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, in association with University of Hawaii Press, 1994. 481 pp. + 32 plates. Hard cover $48.00. ISBN 0–8248– 1661–7;paperback $34.00. ISBN 0–8248–166–25.] - Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. By Jacques Gernet, translated by Franciscus Verellen. [New York:Columbia University Press, 1995. xxvi + 440 pp. £29.95, $42,50. ISBN 0–231–07380–1.]
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Divination, Mythology, and Monarchy in Han China. By Michael Loewe. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xix + 351 pp. £45.00. ISBN 0–521–45466–2.]
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The China Quarterly - Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China. By R. Keith Schoppa [BerkeleyUniversity of California Press, 1995. xii + 322 pp. £33.00, $40.00. ISBN 0–520–20015–2.]
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The Formation of Modern Chinese Lexicon and Its Evolution Toward a National Language: The Period from 1840 to 1898. By Federico Masini [Berkeley: Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series No. 6, 1993. 295 pp. $12.50 (individual), $17.50 (institution).]
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The Story of the Western Wing. By Wang Shifu, edited and translated with an introduction by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema. [Berkeley: University of California Press,1995. xvi + 328 pp. £11.95, $15.00. ISBN 0–520–20184–1.]
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 231-232
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Die merkwurdige Geschichte der Sai Jinhua. Historisch-philologische Untersuchung zur Entstehung und Verbreitung einer Legende aus der Zeit des Boxeraufstands, mit einer Ubersetzung von Xia Yan: Sai Jinhua. By Stephen von Minden. [Stuttgart:Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994. 350 pp. DM 118. ISBN 3–515–06615–2.]
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Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation
Quarterly Chronicle and Documentation
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- 12 February 2009, pp. 238-260
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