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Volume 59 - November 2000

Book Reviews—China

The Culture of Power: The Lin Biao Incident in the Cultural Revolution. By Jin Qiu, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 279 pp.

Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market. By Sucheta Mazumdar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. xx, 657 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).

The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility. By Gang Deng. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xiv, 421 pp. $65.00.

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.

Industrial Reforms and Macroeconomic Instability in China. Edited by Yakyeow Kueh, Joseph C. H. Chai and Gang Fan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii, 325 pp. $75.00.

The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms. Edited by Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. viii, 454 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition. Edited by Sherry J. Mou. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. xxviii, 307 pp. $59.95.

Writing and Women in Modern China. By Wendy Larson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. 267 pp. $51.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Ts'ao P'i Transcendent: The Political Culture of Dynasty-Founding in China at the End of the Han. By Howard L. Goodman. Seattle, Wash, and Richmond, Surrey, England: Scripta Serica, 1998. 249 pp.

Precious Volumes: An Introduction to Chinese Sectarian Scriptures from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By Daniel L. Overmyer. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 49. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. xi, 444 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

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).

China's Military Faces the Future. Edited by James R. Lilley and David Shambaugh. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute/M.E. Sharpe, 1999. xi, 356. $74.95 (cloth); $29.95 (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.

Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism and the Northern Yangzi Delta. By Kathy Le Mons Walker. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. ix, 330 pp. $55.00 (cloth).

The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China. By David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames. Chicago and Lasalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1999. xii, 267 pp. $34.95.

The Discourse of Human Rights in China: Historical and Ideological Perspectives. By Robert Weatherley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. xi, 185 pp. $59.95.

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).

Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. By Hanchao Lu. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvii, 456 pp. $50.00.

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