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Volume 53 - Issue 3 - August 1994

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Chinese Industrial Firms Under Reform. Edited by William A. Byrd. New York: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank. 1992. 438 pp. $39.50.

The Great Wall in Ruins: Communication and Cultural Change in China. By Godwin C. Chu and Yanan Ju. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1993. xiv, 365 pp. $18.95.

First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot. By Kenneth Dean and Brian Massumi. Autonomedia New Autonomy Series. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1992. 208 pp.

Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937–1945. By Poshek Fu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. 261 pp. $35.00.

Speaking of Monks: Religious Biography in India and China. By Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara. Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1992. viii, 232 pp.

China Considers the Middle East. By Lillian Craig Harris. London: I. B. Tauris, 1993. xx, 345 pp.

La propension des choses: pour une histoire de l'efficacité en Chine. By François Jullien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992. 286 pp. 170F.

The Rise of a Refugee God: Hong Kong's Wong Tai Sin. By Graeme Lang and Lars Ragvald. Hong Kong, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. x, 204 pp. $58.00.

Nature and Heaven in the Xunzi: A Study of the Tian Lun. By Edward J. Machle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xiv, 224 pp. $16.95.

Political Reform in Post-Mao China: Democracy and Bureaucracy in a Leninist State. By Barrett L. McCormick. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xiii, 222 pp.

Ma Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes. By Julia K. Murray. London: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 256 pp. $95.00.

Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China. Edited by Susan Naquin and Chün-fang Yü. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1992. xi, 445 pp. $50.00.

Law and Morality in Ancient China: The Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao. By R. P. Peerenboom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. xvi, 380 pp.

Ancient Sichuan and the Unification of China. By Steven F. Sage. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. xvi, 320 pp.

La sociologie de la Chine: Matériaux pour une histoire, 1748–1989 [The sociology of China: Materials for a history, 1748–1989]. By Georges-Marie Schmutz. Bern: Peter Lang, 1993. 357 pp. (Etudes asiatiques suisses: Monographies Volume 14). Paper.

Chinese Rural Society in Transition: A Case Study of the Lake Tai Area, 1368–1800. By James C. Shih. Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1992. vii, 217 pp. $15.00.

Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen. By David Der-wei Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992. vii, 367 pp. $45.00.

Jindai Zhong-Ri wenhua jiaoliu shi [A History of Modern Sino-Japanese Cultural Interactions (ca. 1840–1919)]. By Wang Xiaoqiu. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1992. 562 pp. RMB 14.60.

Book Reviews—Japan

The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 1: Ancient Japan. Edited by Delmer M. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxvi, 602 pp. $110.00.

Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain. By Philip C. Brown. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993. xxi, 312 pp. $45.00.

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