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Editor's Note

David D. Buck

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In This Issue

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Institutional Change and Economic Growth in China: The View from the Villages

Victor Nee; Su Sijin

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Sri Lanka

Introduction

Stanley J. Tambiah

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Colonization and Ethnic Conflict in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

Patrick Peebles

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The Material Basis for Separatism: The Tamil Eelam Movement in Sri Lanka

Amita Shastri

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The Political Construction of Defensive Nationalism: The 1968 Temple-Entry Crisis in Northern Sri Lanka

Bryan Pfaffenberger

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Structures of. Patriarchy: The State, the Community, and the Household in Modernising Asia

Gail Minault

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Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy

Yuriko Saito

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Conflict and Cooperation Between Contemporary Religious Groups

Delwin Byron Schneider

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The Revival of Values Education in Asia and the West

Benjamin C. Duke

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Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems

James J. Wrenn

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Philosophy in World Perspective: A Comparative Hermeneutic of the Major Theories

Carl Becker

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Monks and Magicians: Religious Biographies in Asia

Janet B. Gyatso

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Rethinking Scripture: Essays from a Comparative Perspective

Carl W. Ernst

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The Politics of Tourism in Asia

Belinda A. Aquino

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Pacific-Asian Economic Policies and Regional Interdependence

Brij B. Khare

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Social Values and Development: Asian Perspectives

Hirotsugu Yamauchi

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Security Within the Pacific Rim
East Asian Conflict Zones: Prospects for Regional Stability and Deescalation
The Strategic Defense Initiative: Its Implications for Asia and the Pacific

Robert E. Bedeski

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Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States

June M. Patterson

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Equity in Public Employment Across Nations

John A. Martin

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Origins of Chinese Communism

Lucien Bianco

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China's Ibsen: From Ibsen to Ibsenism

Mau-sang Ng

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Last Chance in Manchuria: The Diary of Chang Kia-ngau

R. Edward Glatfelter

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China's Regional Development

Gaye Christoffersen

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Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John

Peter B. Golden

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Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music

Jeffrey C. Kinkley

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The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China

Julia F. Andrews

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Policy in Evolution: The U.S. Role in China's Reunification

James C. Hsiung

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The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese

Graham E. Johnson

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Changes in China: Party, State, and Society

Kevin J. O'Brien

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Morning Breeze: A True Story of China's Cultural Revolution

Susan H. Marsh

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Mi-Lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desire

Pauline Yu

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China's Science Policy in the Eighties
Closing the Gap: Computer Development in the People's Republic of China

James Reardon-Anderson

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The Great Black Dragon Fire: A Chinese Inferno

Nailene Chou Wiest

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Xiang Lake—Nine Centuries of Chinese Life

Pierre-Étienne Will

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The Political Economy of Chinese Socialism

Peter Van Ness

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The Question of Hu

Nicolas Standaert

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Yang Tingyun, Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China: His Life and Thought

Benjamin A. Elman

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Daughters Of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860–1930

Maria H. A. Jaschok

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The Economic Geography of China

Kam Wing Chan

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The Ghost Festival in Medieval China

Terry F. Kleeman

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The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China

John F. Copper

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The Tso chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History

Ronald C. Egan

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Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China

Herman Mast, III

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China Eyes Japan

Donald W. Klein

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Seeking the Common Ground: Protestant Christianity, the Three-Self Movement, and China's United Front

Kathleen L. Lodwick

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Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918–1955

Paul R. Spickard

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Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920–1927

Parks M. Coble

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Book Reviews—Japan

Protohistoric Yamato: Archaeology of the First Japanese State

Fumiko Ikawa-Smith

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Education in Japan: A Sourcebook

Donald F. Wheeler

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Gedatsu-kai and Religion in Contemporary Japan: Returning to the Center

Yutaka Tisdall-Yamada

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Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return of the Gods
Five Plays by Kishida Kunio

John K. Gillespie

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A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dōgen Zen

David Pollack

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The United States and Japan in the Postwar World

Kazuo Sato

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The Pleasures of Japanese Literature

Kinya Tsuruta

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Lordship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: A Study of the Kamakura Sōryō System

Janet R. Goodwin

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A Wild Sheep Chase

Cecilia Segawa Seigle

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Political Protest and Social Control in Pre-War Japan: The Origins of Buraku Liberation
The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan, 1910–1923

Richard H. Mitchell

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Between MITI and the Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology

M. B. Williamson

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The Road Through Miyama

Jill Kleinberg

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Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan

John Creighton Campbell

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An American Scientist in Early Meiji Japan: The Autobiographical Notes of Thomas C. Mendenhall

James R. Bartholomew

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Unkept Promises, Unclear Consequences: U.S. Economic Policy and the Japanese Response

Koji Taira

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Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan

Haruhiro Fukui

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The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture

Carl Bielefeldt

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Book Reviews—Korea

Korean-American Relations: Documents Pertaining to the Far Eastern Diplomacy of the United States

Robert R. Swartout, Jr

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles, 1965–1982

Kyeyoung Park

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The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii, 1896–1910

Edward J. Shultz

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Explorations in Korean Syntax and Semantics

Ho-min Sohn

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The Republic of Korea: Economic Transformation and Social Change

Eun Mee Kim

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Book Reviews—South Asia

The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

Robert Eric Frykenberg

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Marriage Among Muslims: Preference and Choice in Northern Pakistan

Gregory C. Kozlowski

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Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners

Roger Jeffery

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Nityasumaṅgalī: Devadasi Tradition in South India

Kay K. Jordan

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Building Construction in Mughal India: The Evidence from Painting

Surojit M. Gupta

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The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village

Susan S. Wadley

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The Hindu Gītā: Ancient and Classical Interpretations of the Bhagavadgītā
The Universal Gītā: Western Images of the Bhagavad Gītā, a Bicentenary Survey

Kees W. Bolle

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Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India

Richard W. Lariviere

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Political Regimes, Public Policy, and Economic Development: Agricultural Performance and Rural Change in the Two Punjabs

Ravi Arvind Palat

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A Social and Economic Atlas of India

Gerard Rushton

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Sanskrit Studies of M. B. Emeneau: Selected Papers

Rosane Rocher

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The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine

Mitchell G. Weiss

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Indonesian Marine Capture Fisheries

Richard B. Pollnac

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Fugitive Dreams: An Anthology of Dutch Colonial Literature

James A. Boon

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West Papua: The Obliteration of a People

Lisabeth Ryder

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Philippine Foreign Policy Toward the U.S., 1972–1980: Reorientation?

Belinda A. Aquino

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Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976–1977

John Marston

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Development and Displacement: Women in Southeast Asia

Diane L. Wolf

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Ethnic Conflict in Buddhist Societies: Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Burma

Charles F. Keyes

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Lisu Religion

Deborah Tooker

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Political Struggles in Laos (1930–1954): Vietnamese Communist Power and the Lao Struggle for National Independence

Arthur J. Dommen

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Towards a Blue Revolution: Socioeconomic Aspects of Brackishwater Pond Cultivation in Java

Mike Skladany

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The War for South Vietnam, 1954–1975

Edwin E. Moise

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ASEAN and China: An Evolving Relationship

Evelyn Colbert

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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

David Joel Steinberg

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Histoire du Vietnam: Des origines à 1858. [History of Vietnam: From its origins to 1858]

Hue-Tam Ho Tai

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The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899–1902

Bruce Cruikshank

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Postwar Vietnam: Dilemmas in Socialist Development

William J. Duiker

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Spectator Society: The Philippines Under Martial Rule

David Kowalewski

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State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring an Industrial Society

Linda Lim

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The Hidden Light: The First Filipino Priests

Vicente L. Rafael

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Manufacturing Industry, 1870–1942

Robert Van Niel

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Environmental Management in Southeast Asia: Directions and Current Status

John A. Dixon

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A Culture in Search of Survival: The Phuan of Thailand and Laos

Brian L. Foster

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Thai-Malay Relations: Traditional Intra-regional Relations from the Seventeenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

Louis Golomb

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Sociology of “Developing Societies”: Southeast Asia

Hans-Dieter Evers

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Through Travellers' Eyes: An Approach to Early Nineteenth Century Thai History

David K. Wyatt

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Sri Lanka

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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