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Volume 41 - Issue 2 - February 1982

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

China Under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy. By Melvin Gurtov and Byong-Moo Hwang. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. xi, 260 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $22.95.

1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline. By Ray Huang. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. xii, 278 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. $19.95.

The Drowning of an Old Cat and Other Stories. By Hwang Chunming. Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. xiv, 271 pp. Translator's Preface, Introduction, Bibliographic Note. $27.50.

Building China: Studies in Integrated Development. Edited by John F. Jones. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1980. xx, 138 pp. Glossary, List of Contributors. $14.95. (Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle).

Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia, 500–1500. By Luc Kwanten. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. xv, 352 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Appendixes, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. $18.

The Hanlin Academy: Training Ground for the Ambitious. By Adam Yuen-chung Lui. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1981. xviii, 286 pages. Appendixes, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography. $25.

P'i Jih-hsiu. By William H. Nienhauser Jr. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1979. 161 pp. Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Finding List of Translations of P'i Jih-Hsiu's Works in this Volume, Index. N.p.

Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845–1945. By Elizabeth J. Perry. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. xiii, 262 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Character List, Index. N.p.

Manchu Chinese Colonial Rule in Northern Mongolia. By M. Sanjdorj. Translated by Urgunge Onon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. xvi, 118 pp. Map, Tables, Notes, Appendixes, Glossary, Select Bibliography, Index. $19.95.

A Madman of Ch'u: The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent. By Laurence A. Schneider. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. x, 270 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $17.50.

The International Energy Relations of China. By Kim Woodard. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. xxi, 717 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Tables. $50.

The Poetry of Wang Wei: New Translations and Commentary. By Pauline Yu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (Chinese Literature in Translation Series), 1980. xiii, 274 pp. Appendixes, Selected Bibliography, Index of Poem Titles, Index of Proper Names and Terms. N.p.

Zhongguo nongmin zhanzheng shi yanjiu [Research on the history of Chinese peasant wars], jikan [Periodical]. No. 1. (Zhongguo nongmin zhanzheng shi yanjiu hui [Research conference on the history of Chinese peasant wars].) Shanghai: Shanghai: Shanghai Renmin Chuban She, 1979, 235 pp.

Book Reviews—Japan

Police and Community in Japan. By Walter L. Ames. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981. xiv, 247 pp. Introduction, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $22.50.

Working Women in Japan. By Alice H. Cook and Hiroko Hayashi. Ithaca, N.Y.: New York State School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Cornell University, 1980. 124 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. N.p.

Rural Society in Japan. By Tadashi Fukutake. Translated by the staff of the Japan Interpreter. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1980. 281 pp. Tables, Preface, Index. $14.50.

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