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Volume 54 - August 1995

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Unsettled Settlers: Migrant Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Calcutta. By Arjan de Haan. Hilversum: Verolren, 1994. 299 pp. f 55.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433 By Louise Levathes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. 252 pp. $23.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Auspicious Wisdom: The Texts and Traditions of Śrī Vidyā Śākta Tantrism in South India. By Douglas Renfrew Brooks. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. xx, 301 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—Asia General

Social Costs of Economic Restructuring in Asia and the Pacific. Development Papers No. 15. Bangkok: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1992. vii, 568 pp.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains. By Kendall W. Folkert. Edited by John E. Cort. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993. xxvii, 451 pp. $89.95 (cloth); $59.95 (paper).

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760. By Richard M. Eaton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvii, 359 pp. $50.00.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Cambridge History of China, Volume 15, The People's Republic, Part 2: Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966–1982 Edited by Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xxv 1, 108 pp.

Book Reviews—Asia General

The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949–1958. By Qiang Zhai. The Kent State University Press, 1994. 284 pp. $32.

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Civil Law in Qing and Republican China. Edited by Kathryn Bernhardt and Philip C. C. Huang. Standford: Standford University Press, 1994. xii, 340 pp. $45.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian Working Class of Durban, 1910–1990. Social History of Africa Series. By Bill Freund. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1995. xv, 133 pp. $22.95 (paper).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Central Asia Reader: The Rediscovery of History Edited by H. B. Paksoy. Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1994. ix, 240 pp. $60.00(cloth); $21.95(paper).

Cowboys and Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia By Burton Pasternak and Janet W. Salaff Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993. 272 pp. $48.95.

The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. By James Cahill. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xi, 187 pp. $32.50.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Social Ecology. Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Edited by Ramachandra Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. x, 398 pp. $28.00.

The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942–1945. By Peter Ward Fay. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. ix, 573 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

The History of Cartography. Vol. 2, Bk. 1, Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. Edited by J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xxiv, 579 pp. 40 color plates, 355 halftones. $125.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Economic Contract Law of China: Legitimation and Contract Autonomy in the PRC By Pitman B. Potter Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1992. x, 246 pp. $50.00.

Book Reviews—South Asia

The Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757–1857. Edited by Michael H. Fisher. Oxford in India Readings. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 313 pp. $23.00 (cloth).

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Li Hung-chang and China's Early Modernization. Edited by Samuel C. Chu and Kwang-ching Liu. Armonk, New York and London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. xi, 308 pp. $49.50 (hardcover); $22.50 (paperback).

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Book Reviews—South Asia

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Book Reviews—Asia General

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