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Volume 51 - Issue 4 - November 1992

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Book Reviews—South Asia

The Epic of Pābūjī: A Study, Transcription, and Translation. By John D. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 513 pp. $69.50.
Ann Grodzins Gold
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23 March 2011, pp. 967-968
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A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. By Jonathan Spencer. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990. xvi, 285 pp. $29.95.
Patrick Peebles
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23 March 2011, pp. 968-969
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Texts in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia. Edited by Jeffrey R. Timm. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. viii, 324 pp.
Joanne Punzo Waghorne
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23 March 2011, pp. 970-971
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Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle. By Chögyam Trungpa. Edited by Sherab Chödzin. Boston: Shambhala, 1991. ix, 184 pp. $13.00.
Daniel Perdue
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23 March 2011, pp. 971-972
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Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States and the War. Edited by Douglas Allen and Ngo Vinh Long. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991. x, 350 pp. $46.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
David P. Chandler
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23 March 2011, pp. 972-974
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Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community. By Giséle L. Bousquet. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991. 208 pp. $24.95.
David G. Marr
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23 March 2011, pp. 974-975
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The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Sri Lanka and Malaysia. By Henry J. Bruton. New York: Oxford University Press. A World Bank Comparative Study, 1992. xiv, 422 pp.
Milton J. Esman
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23 March 2011, pp. 975-977
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The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution Since 1945. By David P. Chandler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xiii, 396 pp. $35.00.
Michael Leifer
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23 March 2011, pp. 977-978
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Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–1949. By Robert Cribb. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xiii, 222 pp. $32.00 cloth.
Rudolf Mrázek
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23 March 2011, pp. 978-979
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Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia. By Richard F. Doner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xv, 371 pp. $39.95.
Andrew MacIntyre
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23 March 2011, pp. 979-981
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The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch, and the Cultivation System. By Cornelis Fasseur. Translated from the Dutch by R. E. Elson and Ary Kraal. Edited by R. E. Elson. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. 266 pp.
Robert Van Niel
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23 March 2011, pp. 981-982
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Indonesia: Crisis and Transformation 1965–1968. By Marshall Green. Washington, D.C.: The Compass Press, 1990. xiv, 172 pp.
Donald Hindley
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23 March 2011, pp. 982-984
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Ku Daeng—Thirty Years Later: A Village Study in Northern Thailand 1954—1984. By Konrad Kingshill. De Kalb, III.: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Special Report No. 26, 1991. ix, 314 pp. $20.00.
Katherine A. Bowie
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23 March 2011, pp. 984-985
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Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialization in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. By Linda Y. C. Lim and Pang Eng Fong. Paris: Development Centre of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1991. 196 pp.
Charles W. Lindsey
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23 March 2011, pp. 985-987
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The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. By Alfred W. McCoy. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991. xv, 634 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Michael C. Williams
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23 March 2011, pp. 987-988
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Southeast Asian Capitalists. Edited by Ruth McVey. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. 219 pp.
Danny Unger
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23 March 2011, pp. 988-990
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The Vietnamese Experience in America. By Paul James Rutledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 173 pp. $29.25 (cloth); 10.95 (paper).
David W. Haines
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23 March 2011, pp. 990-991
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Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. By Martin Smith. London: Zed Books, 1991. xviii, 492 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).
James F. Guyot
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23 March 2011, pp. 991-992
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The Legend and Cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia. By John S. Strong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiii, 390 pp. $45.00.
Grant A. Olson
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23 March 2011, pp. 992-994
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Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution. By Hue-Tam Ho Tai. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. x, 325 pp. $34.95.
William J. Duiker
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23 March 2011, pp. 994-995
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Book Reviews—South Asia

The Epic of Pābūjī: A Study, Transcription, and Translation. By John D. Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiii, 513 pp. $69.50.

A Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble: Politics and Change in Rural Sri Lanka. By Jonathan Spencer. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990. xvi, 285 pp. $29.95.

Texts in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia. Edited by Jeffrey R. Timm. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. viii, 324 pp.

Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle. By Chögyam Trungpa. Edited by Sherab Chödzin. Boston: Shambhala, 1991. ix, 184 pp. $13.00.

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States and the War. Edited by Douglas Allen and Ngo Vinh Long. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991. x, 350 pp. $46.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community. By Giséle L. Bousquet. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991. 208 pp. $24.95.

The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Sri Lanka and Malaysia. By Henry J. Bruton. New York: Oxford University Press. A World Bank Comparative Study, 1992. xiv, 422 pp.

The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution Since 1945. By David P. Chandler. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xiii, 396 pp. $35.00.

Gangsters and Revolutionaries: The Jakarta People's Militia and the Indonesian Revolution, 1945–1949. By Robert Cribb. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. xiii, 222 pp. $32.00 cloth.

Driving a Bargain: Automobile Industrialization and Japanese Firms in Southeast Asia. By Richard F. Doner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. xv, 371 pp. $39.95.

The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch, and the Cultivation System. By Cornelis Fasseur. Translated from the Dutch by R. E. Elson and Ary Kraal. Edited by R. E. Elson. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. 266 pp.

Indonesia: Crisis and Transformation 1965–1968. By Marshall Green. Washington, D.C.: The Compass Press, 1990. xiv, 172 pp.

Ku Daeng—Thirty Years Later: A Village Study in Northern Thailand 1954—1984. By Konrad Kingshill. De Kalb, III.: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Special Report No. 26, 1991. ix, 314 pp. $20.00.

Foreign Direct Investment and Industrialization in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. By Linda Y. C. Lim and Pang Eng Fong. Paris: Development Centre of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1991. 196 pp.

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. By Alfred W. McCoy. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, 1991. xv, 634 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Southeast Asian Capitalists. Edited by Ruth McVey. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. 219 pp.

The Vietnamese Experience in America. By Paul James Rutledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 173 pp. $29.25 (cloth); 10.95 (paper).

Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. By Martin Smith. London: Zed Books, 1991. xviii, 492 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

The Legend and Cult of Upagupta: Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia. By John S. Strong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. xiii, 390 pp. $45.00.

Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution. By Hue-Tam Ho Tai. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. x, 325 pp. $34.95.

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