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Volume 57 - Issue 1 - February 1998

Book Reviews—China

The Jiangyin Mission Station: An American Missionary Community in China 1895–1951. By Lawrence D. Kessler. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xiv, 212 pp. $24.95 (paper).

The Imperial Style of Inquiry in Twentieth-Century China: The Emergence of New Approaches. Donald J. Munro. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996. xviii, 139 pp. $50.00. (paper).

Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier. By S. C. M. Paine. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. 417 pp. $78.95 (cloth); $31.95 (paper).

Chinese Economic Reform: The Impact on Security. Edited by Gerald Segal and Richard H. Yang. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. ix, 215 pp. $65.00.

Chinese Maps: Images of All Under Heaven. By Richard J. Smith. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii, 88 pp. $19.95.

From Economic Miracle to Privatization Success: Initial Stages of the Privatization Process in Two SOEs on Taiwan. By Agnes Syu. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. xiv, 272 pp. $39.00.

Greater China and Japan: Prospects for an Economic Partnership in East Asia. By Robert Taylor. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. viii, 215 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China: An Emerging Economic Synergy. By Constance Lever Tracy David Ip and Noel Tracy. New York: St. Martin's Press Inc., 1996. xii, 325 pp.

Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China 1000–1700. By Richard von Glahn. Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 1996. xiv, 338 pp. $55.00.

The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937–1941. By Frederic Wakeman Jr. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xi, 227 pp. $49.95.

The Vimalakirti Sutra. Translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 168 pp.

In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China. By Gordon White Jude Howell, and Shang Xiaoyuan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 241 pp. $69.00.

Lost Tai Ch'i Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty. By Douglas Wile. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xviii, 251 pp. $17.00 (paper).

Fiscal Management and Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China. By Christine P. W. Wong Christopher Heady, and Wing T. Woo. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press (for the Asian Development Bank), 1995. xvi, 271 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Chinese Economy: Fighting Inflation, Deepening Reform. By The World Bank. A World Bank Country Study. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1996. xv, 112 pp. $9.95.

Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road. By Sally Hovey Wriggins with a foreword by Frederick W. More. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. xviv, 263 pp. $32.50.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. By Thomas T. Allsen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xv, 137 pp.

Chinesischer und Tibetischer Buddhismus im China der Yüanzeit. By H. Franke. München: Kommission für Zentralasiatische Studien Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997. 207 pp.

The Central Asian States: Discovering Independence. By Gregory Gleason. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. xx, 220 pp. $70.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Russia and the Mongol Yoke. The History of the Russian Principalities and the Golden Horde, 1221–1502. By Leo de Hartog. London and New York: British Academic Press, I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1997. 211 pp. £29.95.

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