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Volume 55 - November 1996

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.

The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian. By Stephen W. Durrant. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. xxi, 226 pages. $49.50.

Book Reviews—Asia General

Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government. By Nicholas Thomas. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994. xi, 238 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Scientism and Humanism. Two Cultures in Post-Mao China (1978–1989). By Shiping Hua. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 206 pp. $54.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition: The Quest for Cultural Identity. By Charles Yim-Tze Kwong. Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies, no. 66. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1994. x, 281 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

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.

Down to Earth: The Territorial Bond in South China. Edited by David Faure and Helen F. Siu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. xii, 286 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

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.

Governing China: From Revolution through Reform. By Kenneth Lieberthal. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1995. xix, 498 pages. $30.00.

Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China. Edited by Robert P. Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer. Studies on China 16. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1993. xiv, 437 pp. $50.00.

Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past. By Wilma Fairbank. Foreword by Jonathan Spence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. xiv, 207 pp.

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.

Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-Chih Chi of Lo Ch'in-Shun. By Lo Ch'in-shun. Translated by Irene Bloom. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. ix, 226 pp. $50.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

Confucian Moral Self Cultivation. By Philip J. Ivanhoe. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. xii, 115 pp. $35.95 (cloth).

The Cambridge History of China, vol. 6. Alien Regimes and Border States, 907–1368. Edited by Herbert Franke and Denis Twitchett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xxix, 864 pp.

Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries. By Jacques Gernet. Translated by Franciscus Verellen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. xvii, 440 pp. $42.50.

Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction. By Keith McMahon. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995. xii, 378 pp. $49.95.

La propension des choses: Pour une histoire de l'efficacité en Chine. By François Jullien. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1992. 282 pp. FF 170. - The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China. By François Jullien. Translated by Janet Lloyd. New York: Zone Books, 1995. 318 pp. $24.95.

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.

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