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Volume 40 - August 1981

Book Reviews—Japan

Dōgen's Formative Years in China: An Historical Study and Annotated Translation of the Hōkyō-ki. By Takashi James Kodera. Boulder, Colo.: Prajñā Press, 1980. xx, 258 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Chinese text. $25.00.

Book Reviews—Korea

Politics and Policy in Traditional Korea. By James B. Palais. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. 286 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. No price.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain. By Muhammad Anwar. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979. x, 278 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $29.95.

The British in India: A Study in Imperialism. By K. K. Aziz. Islamabad: National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research (Historical Studies, Muslim India No. 1), 1976. xiv, 415 pp. Notes, Appendixes, Note on Books, Index. Rs. 100, U.S. $15.00.

Another Lonely Voice: The Urdu Short Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto. By Leslie A. Flemming. Berkeley: Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California (Monograph No. 18), 1979. ix, 133 pp. Bibliography, Index. $10.75. (Distributed by Cellar Bookshop, Detroit, Michigan.)

The Nepalese Pagoda: Origins and Style. By Ronald M. Bernier. New Delhi: S. Chang, 1979. xx, 219 pp. Plates, Bibliography. Rs 125.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Art of Kabuki: Famous Plays in Performance. Translated with commentary by Samuel L. Leiter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. xxi, 319 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $16.95.

Encounter at Shimoda: Search for a New Pacific Partnership. Edited by Herbert Passin and Akira Iriye. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press (Special Studies on China and East Asia), 1979. xii, 257 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Figures, Appendixes. $17.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

“If I am Assassinated…” By Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing, 1979. xxxvi, 240 pp. Index. $12.50. (Distributed in the United States by Advent Books, New York, N.Y.)

Kinship in Bangladesh. By K. M. Asraful Aziz. Dacca: International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Monograph Series, No. 1, 1979. xviii, 228 pp. Tables, Appendixes, Notes, References, Index. $10.00 (paper).

Land Tenure and Peasant in South Asia. Edited by Robert Eric Frykenberg. New Delhi: Orient Longman for the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, 1977. x, 312 pp. Maps, List of References, Glossary, and Index. $15.

India: Population, Economy, Society. By R. H. Cassen. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1978. xiv, 419 pp. Notes, Bibliographies, Index. $29.50.

Rajput Art and Architecture. By Hermann Goetz. Edited by Jyotindra Jain and Jutta Jain-Neubauer. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag (Schriftenreihe des Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 26), 1978. xxi, 229 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index. DM36

Changing Political Leadership in an Indian Province: The Central Provinces and Berar, 1919–1939. By D. E. U. Baker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. xi, 233 pp. Bibliography, Index. $11.95.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata, and Mishima. By Gwen Boardman Petersen. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1979. xi, 366 pp. Bibliography, Index. $14.95.

Long Engagements: Maturity in Modern Japan. By David W. Plath. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. 235 pp. Notes. $17.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Businessmen and Politics: Rising Nationalism and a Modernising Economy in Bombay, 1918–1933. By A. D. D. Gordon. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1978. xvi, 323 pp. Graph, Maps, Diagram, Tables, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 50.

The Andhra Cyclone of 1977: Individual and Institutional Responses to Mass Death. By Stephen P. Cohen and C. V. Raghavulu. New Delhi, India: Vikas Publishing, 1980. 118 pp. Appendixes, Index. $15 (cloth).

Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. By Mary Boyce. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. xxi, 252 pp. Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $21.50.

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