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Volume 56 - August 1997

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Book Reviews—Japan

Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View. By S. N. Eisenstadt. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xii, 581 pp. $39.95.

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South of the Clouds: Tales of Yunnan. Edited by Lucien Miller. Translated by Guo Xu, Lucien Miller, and Xu Kun. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1994. v, 328 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese. Edited by Priscilla Wegars. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Company, 1993. xxvi, 430 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $33.75 (paper).

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.

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Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. By Suzanne Pepper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ix, 610 pp. $59.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract. By Akiko Hashimoto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv, 226 pp. $49.95.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture. By Wu Hung. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xviii, 376 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $42.50 (paper).

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.

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Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-century China: The Search for an Ideal Development Model. By Suzanne Pepper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ix, 610 pp. $59.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. By Christopher Howe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxvi, 471 pp. $49.95.

Japan's Trade Policy: Action or Reaction?. By Yumiko Mikanagi. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. 163 pp. £40.00.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender. By Yingjin Zhang. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. xix, 390 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

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From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction. Deborah Lynn Porter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xvii, 284 pp. $24.95.

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.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Zhongguo dang'an wenxian cidian (Bibliography of Chinese primary source material). Compiled by Zhu Jinfu, Chief Compiler, with Ni Daoshan, Cao Xishen, and Yu Yuzhu, Associate Compilers. Beijing: Zhonguo renshi chubanshe, 1994. 536 pp. 80 yuan (USD $9.64).

Book Reviews—Japan

Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto. By Nakano Makiko. Translated with an introduction and notes by Kazuko Smith. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. ill, 304 pp. $45.00(cloth); $15.00(paper).

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From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History, and the Generation of Chinese Fiction. Deborah Lynn Porter. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xvii, 284 pp. $24.95.

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