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Volume 53 - Issue 1 - February 1994

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Madame Mao: The White-boned Demon. By Ross Terrill. New York: Simon and Schuster, Touchstone Book. 1992 edition, with new postscript by author. 452 pp. $13.00.

Inside a Service Trade: Studies in Contemporary Chinese Prose. By Rudolph Wagner. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1992. x, 558 pp. $35.00.

Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origin of the Chinese Civil War, 1944–1946. By Odd Arne Westad. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. x, 260 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $16.50 (paper).

Art of the Bedchamber. The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics including Women's Solo Meditation Texts. By Douglas Wile. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. 293 pp. $59.50 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917. By Michelle Yeh. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xiii, 252 pp. $27.50. - Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry. By Michelle Yeh. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992. lv, 241 pp. $33.00.

Salt Production Techniques in Ancient China: The Aobo Tu. By Yoshida Tora. Translated and revised by Hans Ulrich Vogel. Leiden, New York, Köln: E. J. Brill, 1993. xxv, 309 pp. GLD 135.00; $77.14.

Book Reviews—Japan

Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan. Edited by Gary Allinson and Yasunori Sone. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. xii, 311 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).

Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan. By William M. Bodiford. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993. xxi, 343 pp. $35.00.

The Challenge of Japan Before World War II and After. By Nazli Choucri, Robert C. North, and Susumu Yamakage. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992. xxix, 383 pp. $59.95.

Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum. By Timothy Clark. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press with the British Museum, 1992. 256 pp. $39.95.

Japan's Foreign Policy after the Cold War: Coping with Change. Edited by Gerald L. Curtis. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharp, 1993. xxvi, 382 pp. $22.50.

Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500–1300. By William Wayne Farris. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. xvi, 486 pp. $37.00.

Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity: Work and Education in a Multicultural Age. By Walter Feinberg. New York: Routledge, 1993. viii, 216 pp. $25.00.

Japanese Cities in the World Economy. Edited by Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. xi, 311 pp. $44.95.

Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies. By Joy Hendry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix, 200 pp. $39.95.

Japan's Pseudo-Democracy. By Peter J. Herzog. New York: New York University Press, 1993. 279 pp. $40.00.

The Mechanism of Economic Development: Growth in the Japanese and East Asian Economies. By Ken-Ichi Inada Sueo Sekiguchi and Yasutoyo Shoda. Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1992. ix, 331 pp.

The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality. By Sumiko Iwao. New York: Free Press, 1993. xii, 304 pp. $24.95.

Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. By Karatani Kōjin.Translation edited by Brett de Bary. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. xx, 219 pp.

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