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Volume 59 - Issue 2 - May 2000

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Book Reviews—China

Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Gary G. Hamilton. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999. vi, 184 pp.

China, the United Nations, and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance. By Ann Kent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xiii, 328 pp. $22.50 (paper).

One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities. By James Z. Lee and Wang Feng. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999. xii, 248 pp.

Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone. By Dore J. Levy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. ix, 213 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.50 (paper).

After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and “Thought Work” in Reformed China. By Daniel C. Lynch. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 327 pp.

The Enlightened Judgments, Ch'ing-ming Chi, The Sung Dynasty Collection. Translated by Brian E. Mcknight and James T. C. Liu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. xi, 567 pp. $73.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Rural China Takes Off. Institutional Foundations of Economics Reform. By Jean C. Oi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvii, 253 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Property Rights and Economic Reform in China. Edited by Jean C. Oi and Andrew G. Walder. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 354 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921—1991. By Gregory Ruf. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998. xvii, 249 pp.

Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market. By Dorothy J. Solinger. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. xix, 444 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. By Wang Zheng. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xv, 402 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898—1914. By David Wolff. Preface by Nicholas Riasanovsky. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiv, 255 pp. $49.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays. Edited by Karen Brazell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xiv, 561 pp. $52.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan 1890–1930. By Jon Thares Davidann. Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 1998. 207 pp. $37.50.

The Only Woman in the Room. By Beate Sirota Gordon. Tokyo, New York, London: Kodansha International, 1997. vi, 171 pp. $22.00.

Das Bild der Familie in den japanischen Medien. Edited by Hilaria Gössmann. München: Iudicium Verlag, 1998. Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut fur Japanstudien der Philipp Franz von Siebold Stiftung, Vol. 20. 338 pp. DM 98.00.

Of brigands and bravery—Kuniyoshi's heroes of the Suikoden. By Inge Klompmakers. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 1998. 199 pp. $75.00.

Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. By Robin Leblanc. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Pachinko Monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glücksspielindustrie. By Wolfram Manzenreiter. Munich: Iudicium, 1998. 157 pp.

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