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Volume 57 - Issue 3 - August 1998

Book Reviews—China

Massacre in Shansi. By Nat Brandt. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1994. xxii, 336 pp. $34.95.

Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. By Francesca Bray. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1997. xvi, 419 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. By Iris Chang New York: Basic Books, 1997. xi, 290 pp. $25.00 (cloth). - Japan's War Memories: Amnesia or Concealment? By George Hicks. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997. xi, 136 pp. $38.95 (cloth).

Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule: The Economic and Political Implications of Reversion. Edited by Warren I. Cohen and Li Zhao. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. viii, 255 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi): A Rhetorical Reading. By Carine Defoort. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. xiii, 376 pp. $25.95.

A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation. By Chad Hansen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xv, 448 pp. $79.00.

Living Rooms as Factories. Class, Gender, and the Satellite Factory System in Taiwan. By Ping-Chun Hsiung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. x, 182 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Folk Music of China: Living Instrumental Traditions. By Stephen Jones. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xxvii, 422 pp. £48.00.

Welfare Capitalism in Taiwan: State, Economy, and Social Policy. By Yeun-Wen Ku. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. x, 279 pp. $69.95 (cloth).

Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-tsa-tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century China. By Sewall J. Oertling. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1997. viii, 217 pp. $50.00 (cloth).

Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism. Edited by Aihwa Ong and Donald Nonini. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. viii, 343 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).

China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform. By Margaret M. Pearson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. x, 207 pp. $35.00 (cloth).

Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. By Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun. Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1997. xiii, 249 pp. $69.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper).

Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary: Reading and Writing Between the Lines. David L. Rolston. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xiii, 428 pp. $55.00.

Mencius and Early Chinese Thought. By Kwong-loi Shun. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xvi, 295 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

Taiwan's Electoral Politics and Democratic Transition: Riding the Third Wave. Edited by Hungmao Tien. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. xvi, 253 pp. $60.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Chinese Nationalism. Edited by Jonathan Unger. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. xviii, 218 pp. $67.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Spider Eaters: A Memoir. By Rae Yang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. xi, 285 pp. $27.50.

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Book Reviews—China