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Volume 56 - Issue 2 - May 1997

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China. By Robert Ford Campany. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xii, 524 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Democratizing Oriental Despotism: China from 4 May 1919 to 4 June 1989 and Taiwan from 28 February 1947 to 28 June 1990. By C. L. Chiou. New York: St. Martin's Press, xii, 178 pp. $65.00.

Guest People: Hakka Identity in China and Abroad. Edited by Nicole Constable. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. x, 284 pp. $37.00.

Lukang: Commerce and Community in a Chinese City. By Donald R. Deglopper. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1995. xi, 296 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution. By John Fitzgerald. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996. 461 pp. $45.00.

The Sea of Regret: Two Turn-of-the-Century Chinese Romantic Novels. Translated by Patrick Hanan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. x, 206 pp. $32.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

Remapping China: Fissures in Historical Terrain. Edited by Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, Jonathan N. Lipman, and Randall Stross. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xiii, 333 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism. By Peter D. Hershock. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1996. xv, 236 pp. $20.95.

Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages. By Human Rights Watch/Asia. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1996. 394 pp. Distributed by Yale University Press. $25.00 (paper).

Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China. By Nick Knight. Boulder, Colo. Westview Press, 1996. x, 326 pp. $65.00.

Bitter Peaches and Plums: Two Chinese Novellas on the Recent Chinese Student Experience in Australia. By Liu Guande and Huangfu Jun. Translated with an introduction by J. Bruce Jacobs and Ouyang Yu. Australia: Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, 1995. 249 pp.

Silk and Religion. An Exploration of Material Life and the Thought of People A.D. 600–1200. By Xinru Liu. Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii, 235 pp. $22.95.

The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law. By Geoffrey MacCormack. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xvi, 262 pp. $45.00.

The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan since the 1960s. By Robert M. Marsh. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. vii, 409 pp. $27.95.

Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in Early and Mid-Qing China: The Formation of a Tradition. By David Ownby. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xii, 235 pp. $39.50.

Working Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family? By Janet W. Salaff. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, Morningside Edition, with new preface, xli, 317 pp. $17.50 (paper).

Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China. By R. Keith Schoppa. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1995. xii, 322 pp. $40.00.

Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait ofa Village Leader in China, 1923–1995. By Peter J. Seybolt. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. xxvii, 135 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

Village Echoes: The Fiction of Wu Zuxiang. By Philip F. Williams. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993. vii, 303 pp. $39.95.

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Volume 56 - Issue 2 - May 1997

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia