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Thomas R. H. Havens

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Presidential Address: Something Old, Something New—Tradition and Culture in the Study of Japan

Robert J. Smith

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Hijackers, Bombers, and Bank Robbers: Managerial Style in the Japanese Red Army

Patricia G. Steinhoff

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Vietnamese Kinship: Structural Principles and the Socialist Transformation in Northern Vietnam

Hy van Luong

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Justices and Paṇḍitas: Some Ironies in Contemporary Readings of the Hindu Legal Past

Richard W. Lariviere

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The Once and Future Yogi: Sentiments and Signs in the Tale of a Renouncer-King

Ann Grodzins Gold

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The Political Economy of Post-Independence India—A Review Article

Akhil Gupta

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Legal Pluralism: Toward a General Theory Through Japanese Legal Culture

Taimie L. Bryant

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British Business in Asia Since 1860

Nicholas R. Clifford

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Decentralization: Area Development in Practice in Asia

Carol Henderson

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The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism

Victoria Urubshurow

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Achieving Industrialization in East Asia

Young Whan Kihl

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Thai-Japanese Relations in Historical Perspective

Taketsugu Tsurutani

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Trade and Investment in Services in the Asia-Pacific Region

James E. Vestal

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Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis

Kenneth J. DeWoskin

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Soviet Policy Towards Japan: An Analysis of Trends in the 1970s and 1980s

Joseph A. Yager

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Urban Government and Development in Asia: Readings in Subnational Development

Rodney W. Jones

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Asian Communism: Continuity and Transition

William R. Heaton

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Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General

Michael A. Barnhart

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The City as a Sacred Center: Essays on Six Asian Contexts

Susan Naquin

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Musica Asiatica 5

Bell Yung

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

K'ung-ts'ung-tzu: The K'ung Family Masters' Anthology

Livia Kohn

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Educational Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China

Allen B. Linden

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La Dame-du-bord-de-l'eau

Susan Naquin

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China Under Deng Xiaoping: Political and Economic Reform

Margaret M. Pearson

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Sun Yat-sen's Doctrine in the Modern World

Michael Gasster

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Marxism and Capitalism in the People's Republic of China

John A. Rapp

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Information China: The Comprehensive and Authoritative Reference Source of New China

Timothy Cheek

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The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism

Thomas A. Wilson

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Chinese Defense and Foreign Policy

Steven J. Hood

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Mongolian Rule in China: Local Administration in the Yuan Dynasty

Jing-shen Tao

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Deng Xiaoping

Ross Terrill

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Western Chou Civilization

Robert L. Thorp

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Policy Making in China: Leaders, Structures, and Processes

Joyce K. Kallgren

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Language—Paradox—Poetics: A Chinese Perspective

David Palumbo-Liu

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Chinese Politics and Christian Missions: The Anti-Christian Movements of 1920–28

Suzanne Wilson Barnett

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Sino-Japanese Relations: China's Perspective

William E. Sharp, Jr.

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The Political Economy of Collective Farms

Athar Hussain

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Chinese

James A. Matisoff

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Management and Industry in China

Mary Ann Von Glinow

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The Mandarin and the Cadre: China's Political Cultures

Peter R. Moody, Jr.

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The Indochina Tangle: China's Vietnam Policy, 1975–1979

Mel Gurtov

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Science and Technology in Post-Mao China

Jon Sigurdson

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The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa

Deborah Brautigam

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Democracy Shelved: Great Britain, China, and Attempts at Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong, 1945–1952

Kerrie L. MacPherson

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Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River

Jonathan K. Ocko

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Economic Development in Provincial China: The Central Shaanxi Since 1930

Michael F. Martin

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Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China's Cultural Revolution

Andrew G. Walder

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Book Reviews—Japan

Information, Incentives, and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy

Michael Smitka

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State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis

J. Victor Koschmann

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Neighborhood Tokyo

C. Scott Littleton

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Dōgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation

John R. McRae

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Kipling's Japan: Collected Writings

Marleigh Grayer Ryan

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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal

L. L. Cornell

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Japanese Women Artists

Carolyn Wheelwright

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Hokusai

Timothy T. Clark

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Space and Spirit in Modern Japan

Henry D. Smith, II

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Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home

Raymond A. Jussaume, Jr.

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The Three Jewels

Susan Matisoff

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Defending an Economic Superpower: Reassessing the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance

John Bowen

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Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Paul Anderer

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The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan

Carmi Schooler

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The Male Journey in Japanese Prints

Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton

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Economic and Social Aspects of the Performing Arts in Japan: Symphony Orchestras and Opera

W. J. Baumol

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The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement

Steven J. Ericson

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Matsuri: Festival and Rite in Japanese Life

Richard B. Pilgrim

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Modernization and Beyond: The Japanese Trajectory

Anne Walthall

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Images of Japanese Society

Mary Picone

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The Automobile Industry in Japan: A Study of Ancillary Firm Development

Douglas Ostrom

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Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan

C. Andrew Gerstle

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Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750–1920

James L. McClain

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The Confucian Way of Contemplation

T. James Kodera

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Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation

Shinji Takagi

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Confessions of Love

Yoko McClain

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Le commerce extérieur du Japon: Des origines au XVI^e siècle. [Japanese foreign trade: From its origins to the sixteenth century]

Bernard Bernier

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An Empire in Eclipse: Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System

Bruce Stronach

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Book Reviews—Korea

Economic Relations Between the United States and Korea: Conflict or Cooperation?

John T. Bennett

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A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World

Michael C. Kalton

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Political Change in South Korea

Hagen Koo

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West Goes East: Paul Georg von Möllendorff and Great Power Imperialism in Late Yi Korea

Martina Deuchler

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Form and Freedom in Korean Poetry

Marshall R. Pihl

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Selected Poems of Sŏ Chŏngju

Ann Sung-hi Lee

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Korea: Tradition and Transformation—A History of the Korean People

John B. Duncan

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Over the Mountains Are Mountains

Roger Janelli

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Rural Development Studies

Hanhee Hahm

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Music of Afghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City of Herat

Charles Capwell

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Folktales of India

Larry D. Shinn

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The Indian Women's Search for an Identity

Dulali Nag

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History of Science and Technology in Ancient India—the Beginnings

Ludo Rocher

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Roots of North Indian Shī ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722–1859

Michael H. Fisher

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Modern Indian Responses to Religious Pluralism

Asko Parpola

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Tribal Guerrillas: The Santals of West Bengal and the Naxalite Movement

Christopher V. Hill

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Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America

Arthur W. Helweg

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The Bazaar of the Storytellers

Frances W. Pritchett

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The Way and the Goal: Expressions of Devotion in the Early Śrī Vaiṣṇava Tradition

Tony K. Stewart

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Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism

Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

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Health Status of Kerala: Paradox of Economic Backwardness and Health Development

P. K. B. Nayar

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Hyderabad and British Paramountcy, 1858–1883

Karen Leonard

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Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Pakhtuns: The Independence Movement in India's North-West Frontier Province

David Gilmartin

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Studies in Indian Literature and Philosophy: Collected Articles of J. A. B. van Buitenen

Robert P. Goldman

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In Pursuit of Lakshmi: A Political Economy of the Indian State

James Manor

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Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase
Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885–1985: Ideology, Social Structure, and Political Dominance
Congress in Indian Politics: A Centenary Perspective

Gyan Prakash

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Village Republics: Economic Conditions for Collective Action in South India

Ronald J. Herring

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Indian Diary

Jeffrey Cox

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

From Class to Culture: Social Conscience in Malay Novels Since Independence
Modern Malay Literary Culture: A Historical Perspective

Amin Sweeney

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Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, vol. 3

Ernst Heins

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Decision Against War: Eisenhower and Dien Bien Phu, 1954

John Prados

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The Ceramics of South-East Asia: Their Dating and Identification

H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr.; Louise A. Cort

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Cultural Identity in Northern Peninsular Malaysia

Judith Nagata

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The Army and Politics in Indonesia

Ulf Sundhaussen

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Diplomatie of strijd: Het Nederlands beleid tegenover de Indonesische revolutie, 1945–1947. [Diplomacy or war: Dutch policy toward the Indonesian revolution, 1945–1947]

Audrey R. Kahin

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The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development: Case Studies from Indonesia

John R. Bowen

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The Poems of Hamzah Fansuri

A. H. Johns

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Understanding Islam and Muslims in the Philippines

G. Carter Bentley

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To Be Made Over: Tales of Socialist Reeducation in Vietnam

Dinh-Hoa Nguyen

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Policy Options for the Singapore Economy

W. G. Huff

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A Share of the Harvest: Kinship, Property, and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau

Lynn L. Thomas

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Lan Na Textiles: Yuan hue Lao
Textiles as Texts: Arts of Hmong Women from Laos

Marina Roseman

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Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Spanish Rule

Jean-Paul Dumont

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Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680. Vol. 1: The Lands Below the Winds

David P. Chandler

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Two Essays on Dai-Viet in the Fourteenth Century

K. W. Taylor

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Obituary

Owen Lattimore (1900–1989)

George McT. Kahin

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Annual Volume Contents

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In This Issue

Editor's Note

Articles

Book Reviews—Asia General

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

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