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Volume 20 - Issue 3 - May 1961

Book Reviews

Nien-chü ko-yao [Folk songs about the Nien Army]. Collected and edited by Li Tungshan and others. Shanghai: Wen-i ch'u-pan she, 1960. 142.

Mei Lan-fang: Leader of the Pear Garden. By A. C. Scott. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1959. Distributed through the Oxford University Press. 139. Illustrated, Index. $4.95.

A History of Modern Japan. By Richard Storry. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd., 1960. 287. Bibliography, Index. 4 shillings.

Warera nihonjin [We Japanese]. Compiled by the editorial section, Heibonsha. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1960. 5 vols., approx. 190 pp. each. Illustrated. Yen 420 per vol. (paper).

Nihon no atsuryoku dantai [Pressure Groups in Japan.]The Annals of the Japanese Political Science Association. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1960. 266. Yen 440.

Korea's Syngman Rhee: An Unauthorized Portrait. By Richard C. Allen (pseudonym). Rutland and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1960. 259. Illustrated, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $3.75.

Kungmunhak chŏnsa. [A Complete History of (Korean) National Literature]. By Yi Pyŏng-gi and Paek Ch'ŏl. Seoul: Singu Munhwasa, 1957. (Third printing, 1959). 557. Index. 3,300 hwan.

Kranich am Meer: Koreanische Gedichte. Translated and edited by Peter H. Lee. Munchen: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1959. 130. Biographical summaries.

Marxism in Southeast Asia: A Study of Four Countries. Edited by Frank N. Trager. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1959. 381. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.50

Nusantara: A History of Indonesia. Revised edition. By Bernard H. M. Vlekke. Chicago: Quadrangle Books; The Hague: W. Van Hoeve, 1960. Sponsored by the Institute of Pacific Relations, viii, 479. Notes, Chronological Epitome, Index.

Financing Economic Development. The Indonesian Case. By Douglas Paauw. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1960. For the Center For International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Introduction by Benjamin Higgins. xxxiv, 474. Tables, Appendix, Index. $6.75.

The Emergence of the Modern Indonesian Elite. By Robert Van Niel, The Hague and Bandung: W. Van Hoeve; Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1960, vii, 314. $6.75.

Bali: Studies in Life, Thought, and Ritual. A Symposium. Edited by J. L. Swellengrebel et al. Selected Studies on Indonesia, Vol. 5. The Hague: W. van Hoeve, 1960. Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations, xii, 434. Maps, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $6.50.

Social Status and Power in Java. By Leslie Palmier. London School of Economics, Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 20. New York: The Humanities Press, 1960, viii, 171. Maps, Tables, References, Index. $5.00.

Upper Nankin Street Singapore. A Sociological Study of Chinese Households Living in a Densely Populated Area. By Barrington Kaye. Singapore: University of Malaya Press, 1960, xvi, 439. Appendices, References, Index, Illustrated. 50s.

The Role of Indian Minorities in Burma and Malaya. By Usha Mahajani. Bombay: Vora & Co., 1960. Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations, xxx, 344. Foreword by Pandit H. N. Kunzru. Tables, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 20.

The Annexation of Upper Burma. By D. P. Singhal. Singapore: Donald Moore for Eastern Universities Press, 1960, vii, 129. Map, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. M$ 3.50.

The Eurasian Population in Burma. By John Clement Koop. Cultural Report Series No. 6. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1960. 66. Tables, References. Distributed by the Cellar Bookshop, Detroit, Michigan.

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