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Volume 56 - Issue 2 - May 1997

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine. By Dali L. Yang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. 351 pp.

Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context. Edited by Bell Yung, Evelyn S. Rawski, and Rubie S. Watson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xii, 323 pp. $49.50.

How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People. By Kate Xiao Zhou Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. xxviii, 275 pp. $59.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan—Poems, Letters, and Other Writings. By Ryūichi Abé and Peter Haskel. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xvi, 306 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).

Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism. By Bernard Faure. Translated from the French by Phyllis Brooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xvi, 329 pp. $45.00.

Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama. By Money L. Hickman et al. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996. 320 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon. By Irmela Hijiya-Kirschmereit. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xxiv, 373 pp. $42.00 (paper).

Unmasking Japan: Myths and Realities About the Emotions of the Japanese. By David Matsumoto. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xvi, 179 pp. $29.50.

Book Reviews—Korea

Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity. By Laurel Kendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xiii, 259 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper).

Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula: International Penetrations, Regional Dynamics, and Domestic Structure. By Chung-in Moon. Seoul: Yonsei University Press, 1996. 327 pp. $15.00.

Press Law in South Korea. By Kyu Ho Youm. Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University Press, 1996. xviii, 438 pp. $39.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Tigers of the Snow and other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan Encounters. By Vincanne Adams. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. xv, 304 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

The Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770–1830. By Seema Alavi. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xvi, 315 pp. Rs. 390; $38.00 (cloth).

The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States. By F. R. Allchin with George Erdosy, R. A. E. Coningham, D. K. Chakrabarti, and Bridget Allchin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xviii, 371 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Born to Work: Child Labour in India. By Neera Burra. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxvi, 285 pp. $24.95 (cloth).

Merchants, Politics and Society in Early Modern India; Bihar, 1733–1820. By Kumkum Chatterjee. Leiden: EJ. Brill, xii, 273 pp. $89.25 (cloth).

The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire c. 1710–1780. By Jos J. L. Gommans. Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1995. xviii, 219 pp. $77.00 (cloth).

India's Rise to Power in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. By Sandy Gordon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. xxi, 414 pp. $59-95 (cloth).

Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel. By Inderpal Grewal. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996. x, 286 pp. $45.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

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