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Volume 55 - Issue 1 - February 1996

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

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.

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.

Ritual and Scripture in Chinese Popular Religion. Five Studies. Edited by David Johnson. Berkeley, Calif.: Chinese Popular Culture Project, 1995. xv, 265 pp. $15.00.

Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. By Livia Kohn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xii, 281 pp. $39.50.

Growing out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993. By Barry Naughton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. x, 379 pp. $49.95.

Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in the Tiger's Jaws. Edited and translated by Lynn A. Struve. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1993. x, 303 pp. $40.00.

The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today. Edited by Tu Wei-ming. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. xvi, 295 pp. $37.50.

Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1943–1992: Uncertain Friendships. By Nancy Bernkopf Tucker. Twayne's International History Series. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994. xviii, 337 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Chinese Awakenings: Life Stories from the Unofficial China. By James and Ann Tyson. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 1995. xi, 327 pp. $19.95.

Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. By Lothar von Falkenhausen. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1993. xxvi, 481 pp. $70.00.

Book Reviews—Japan

Hokusai Paintings: Selected Essays. Edited by Glan Carlo Calza with the assistance of John T. Carpenter. Venice: The International Hokusai Research Centre, University of Venice, 1994. 319 pp.

Meiji Revisited—The Sites of Victorian Japan. By Dallas Finn. New York: Weatherhill, 1995. ix, 276 pp. $45.00.

Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890–1905. By Andrew Fraser, R. H. P. Mason, and Philip Mitchell. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. vii, 279 pp.

Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path. Compiled and edited by Dennis Hirota. Fremont, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1995. 384 pp. $30.00.

Nitobe Inazô: Japan's Bridge Across the Pacific. Edited by John F. Howes. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. xviii, 331 pp. $49.95.

Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education. By Catherine C. Lewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii, 249 pp. $16.95.

Diversity in Japanese Culture and Language. Edited by John C. Maher and Gaynor Macdonald. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1995. xvi, 327 pp. $76.50.

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Book Reviews—Asia General

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