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Volume 45 - Issue 2 - February 1986

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Wei Yuan and China's Rediscovery of the Maritime World. By Jane Kate Leonard. Cambridge: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1984. 276 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $20.

Chūgoku kindai Tōhoku chi-ikishi kenkyū [Research in the history of Northeast China in the modern period]. By Nishimura Shigeo. Kyoto: Hōritsu bunkasha, 1984. x, 490, 7 pp. ¥6,500.

Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology. By E. G. Pulleyblank. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. xix, 268 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography. $39.95.

Trees on the Mountain: An Anthology of New Chinese Writing. Edited by Stephen C. Soong and John Minford. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1984. 402 pp. Illustrations. $35.

The Lotus Boat: The Origins of Chinese Tz'u Poetry in T'ang Popular Culture. By Marsha L. Wagner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. (Studies in Oriental Culture, no. 18.) xviii, 199 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Finding List for Poems, Index. $25.

The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-Century Ch'ing China. By Madeleine Zelin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xviii, 385 pp. Tables, Note on Sources, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $35.

Book Reviews—Japan

Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction. By Paul Anderer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. (Modern Asian Literature Series.) xi, 152 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.

Japan in Transition: Thought and Action in the Meiji Era, 1868–1912. Edited by Hilary Conroy, Sandra T. W. Davis, and Wayne Patterson. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985. 318 pp. Chronology, Notes, Notes on the Contributors. $35.

Japanese Business Law and the Legal System. By Elliott J. Hahn. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 1984. xiv, 168 pp. Figures, Tables, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $35.

Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History. Compiled by Janet E. Hunter. Berkeley and Tokyo: University of California Press and Kodansha, 1984. xiv, 347 pp. Maps, Appendixes, Glossary, Japanese-English Index. $32.50 (cloth); $10.95 (paper).

Ogyū Sorai's Journey to Kai in 1706, with a Translation of the Kyōchūkikō. By Olof G. Lidin. London and Malmō: Curzon Press, 1983. ix, 191 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Maps. N.p.

The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations. By Phyllis I. Lyons. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. xi, 410 pp. Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $38.50.

Lost Innocence: Folk Craft Potters of Onta, Japan. By Brian Moeran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xv, 252 pp. Maps, Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. $30.

Shōwa: An Inside History of Hirohito's Japan. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. New York: Schocken Books, 1985. xiv, 330 pp. Notes, Glossary of Japanese Terms, Index. N.p.

American Samurai: Captain L. L. Janes and Japan. By F. C. Notehelfer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xiv, 386 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography of Works Cited, Index. $30.

U.S.-Japan Strategic Reciprocity: A Neo-Internationalist View. By Edward A. Olsen. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1985. (Hoover Press Publication 307.) xiii, 194 pp. Notes, Index. $24.95.

Book Reviews—South Asia

Sri Lanka: The Crisis of the Anglo-American Constitutional Traditions in a Developing Society. By Radhika Coomaraswamy. New Delhi: Vikas, 1984. 192 pp. Epilogue, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

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Volume 45 - Issue 2 - February 1986

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

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