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Volume 57 - Issue 2 - May 1998

Book Reviews—China

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.

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama. By Melvyn C. Goldstein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997. xiii, 152 pp. $19.95.

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

Studies in Medieval Inner Asia. By Denis Sinor. Aldershot, Hampshire and Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Co., 1997. x, 340 pp. $99.95.

Die Mongolen in Asien und Europa. Edited by Kieler Werkstücke. Reihe F: Beiträge zur osteuropäischen Geschichte 4. Frankfurt A.M.: Peter Lang, 1997. 244 pp.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan. By Kendall H. Brown. University of Hawaii Press, 1997. viii, 247 pp. $52.00 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism. By Sandra Buckley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 324 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

The Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity. By Kevin Michael Doak. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xlii, 197 pp. $40.00.

The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents. Edited with an introduction by Peter Duus. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. xii, 226 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $8.50 (paper).

The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan. By Steven J. Ericson. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1996. xvii, 506 pp. $42.00.

Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance. By Walter Hatch and Kozo Yamamura. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv, 281 pp. $69.95.

Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends Life and Culture. Edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa. Folkestone, Kent, UK: Global Books Ltd., 1997. ix, 284 pp. £16.50.

Hiroshima in History and Memory. Edited by Michael J. Hogan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 238 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia. By Keiji Imamura. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. x, 246 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition. By Laurence R. Kominz. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1995. xiii, 282 pp. $42.95 (cloth).

Sources of Ryūkyūan History and Culture in European Collections. Edited by Josef Kreiner. Monographien aus dem Deutschen Institut für Japanstudien der Philipp-Franz-von-Siebold-Stifung, volume 13. Munich: Iudicium, 1996. 396 pp.

Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context. By Senko K. Maynard. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. xiii, 253 pp. $46.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets. By Brian Moeran. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996. xi, 322 pp. $19.95.

Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan. By Hiromi Mori. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. xiii, 227 pp. $65.00.

Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan. By Carl Mosk. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xxi, 156 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

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Volume 57 - Issue 2 - May 1998

Book Reviews—China

Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan