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Volume 55 - Issue 3 - August 1996

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600–1400. By Valerie Hansen. New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1995. xiv, 285 pp. $30.00.

Authority and Benevolence: Social Welfare in China. By Joe C. B. Leung and Richard C. Nann. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xxix, 198 pp. $39.95.

Visions of Sukhāvatī: Shan-tao's Commentary on the Kuan Wu-Liang-Shou-Fo Ching. By Julian F. Pas. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xviii, 452 pp . $24.95.

Prescriptions for Saving China: Selected Writings of Sun Yat-sen. Edited by Julie Lee Wei, Ramon H. Myers, and Donald G. Gillin. Translated by Julie Lee Wei, E-Su Zen, and Linda Chao. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1994. xlv, 328 pp. $42.95.

Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China. By Thomas A. Wilson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xi, 376 pp. $49.50.

Limits to Autocracy: From Sung Neo-Confucianism to a Doctrine of Political Rights. By Alan T. Wood. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xvi, 264 pp. $35.00.

Book Reviews—Japan

Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995. xxxviii, 422 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War. Edited by Frank Gibney. Translated by Beth Cary. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. xii, 327 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Alms and Vagabonds: Buddhist Temples and Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan. By Janet R. Goodwin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. viii, 181 pp. $27.00.

Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology. By Hidenobu Jinnai. Translated by Kimiko Nishimura. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xii, 236 pp. $40.00.

The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality: Tax Politics in Japan. By Junko Kato. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiii, 327 pp. $39.50.

Social Stratification in Contemporary Japan. Edited by Kenji Kosaka. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1994. xvi, 220 pp. $76.50.

The Japanese Theater, From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism. By Benito Ortolani. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xv, 375 pp. $19.95.

The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan. By J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances M. Rosenbluth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xviii, 223 pp. $54.95.

The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750–1920. By Kären Wigen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. xvi, 336 pp. $42.50.

The Battle for Okinawa. By Colonel Hiromichi Yahara. Translated By Roger Pineau and Masatoshi Uehara, with an introduction and commentary by Frank B. Gibney. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1995. xxv, 245 pp. $24.95.

Book Reviews—Korea

China's Road to the Korean War: the Making of the Sino-American Confrontation. By Chen Jian. Columbia University Press, 1994. ill, 352 pp. $37.50.

Women Struggling for a New Life: The Role of Religion in the Cultural Passage from Korea to America. By Ai Ra Kim. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1996. xi, 233 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—South Asia

Women Under the Bō Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. By Tessa Bartholomeusz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xx, 284 pp. $59.95 (cloth).

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