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Volume 50, Issue 2
May 1, 1991
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ISSN 0021-9118
EISSN 1752-0401
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50th Year of Publication 1941–1991

In This Issue
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Articles

Policy Implementation in the People's Republic of China: Authoritative Decisions versus Individual Interests
Melanie Manion
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Municipal Reform and Urban Social Conflict in Late Ming Jiangnan
Richard von Glahn
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Temples, Donors, and Gifts: Patterns of Patronage in Thirteenth-Century South India
Cynthia Talbot
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The Marriage Squeeze on High-Caste Rajasthani Women
Michael S. Billig
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Book Reviews—Asia General

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World
M. A. McDowell
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Education and Social Transition in the Third World
Ruth Hayhoe
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The Political Economy of Rural Poverty: The Case for Land Reform
Hung-chao Tai
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U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China and India: Economic Reform in the Three Giants
Leszek Buszynski
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New Directions for American Policy in Asia
Holly M. Carter
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Images of the West: Third World Perspectives
Akbar Ahmed
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Transformation and Survival: In Search of Humane World Order
Michael Haas
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International Human Rights: Universalism Versus Relativism
Daniel Little
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Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality
H. C. Erik Midelfort
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period
Gregory Lee
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Hidden Treasures and Secret Lives: A Study of Pemalingpa (1450–1521) and the Sixth Dalai Lama (1683–1706)
Robert A. F. Thurman
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China's Rural Industry: Structure, Development, and Reform
Wen Fang Tang
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History and Legend: Ideas and Images in the Ming Historical Novels
Ellen Widmer
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Party-Military Relations in the PRC and Taiwan: Paradoxes of Control
June Teufel Dreyer
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The Brush and the Spur: Chinese Culture and the Cockfight
Charles H. Egan
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Marxism and the Chinese Experience
Tony Saich
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Rebellion and Factionalism in a Chinese Province: Zhejiang, 1966–1976
Andrew J. Nathan
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Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China
John Knoblock
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To the People: James Yen and Village China
Roger R. Thompson
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China's Universities and the Open Door
Mary Louise Buley-Meissner
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China's “Opening” To The Outside World: The Experiment With Foreign Capitalism
Randall Stross
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France and the Exploitation of China: A Study in Economic Imperialism
Frank H. H. King
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Unofficial China: Popular Culture and Thought in the People's Republic
Chang-tai Hung
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National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China
Prasenjit Duara
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Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam-Builders Don't Want You to Know
Edward Friedman
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Literacy in China: The Effect of the National Development Context and Policy on Literacy Levels, 1949–1979
Alexander Woodside
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Almost a Revolution
Judy Polumbaum
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Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture
Stephen R. Bokenkamp
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Men of the Cliffs and Caves, The Development of the Chinese Eremitic Tradition to the End of the Han Dynasty
Jay Sailey
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Search for Modern Nationalism: Zhang Binglin and Revolutionary China, 1869–1936
Edmund S. K. Fung
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From Revolution to Politics, Chinese Communists on the Long March
Peter J. Seybolt
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Book Reviews—Japan

Biotechnology in Japan
Pamela J. Asquith
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Japanese Models of Conflict Resolution
Anne Walthall
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Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fred H. Martinson
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The World Economic Crisis and Japanese Capitalism
Richard D. Leitch, Jr.
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The Cambridge History of Japan
Takashi Fujitani
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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution
Janine A. Sawada
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Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan
Thomas T. Winant
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Continuous Improvement: Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry
Alexander Dean McLeod
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The Paper Door and Other Stories
A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-one Stories from the Japanese
Tamae Prindle
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Target: Pearl Harbor
Wayne C. McWilliams
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Japanese Art: Masterpieces in the British Museum
Patricia J. Graham
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Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen's Understanding of Temporality
Shigenori Nagatomo
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Constructs for Understanding Japan
Jonathan Wolff
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Factory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan
L. L. Cornell
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The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity
Gary L. Ebersole
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Managing Industrial Enterprise: Cases from Japan's Prewar Experience
Susan B. Weiner
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Book Reviews—Korea

The Korean Banking System and Foreign Influence
Jong A. Park
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The Rise of the Korean Economy
Jene K. Kwon
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Book Reviews—South Asia

Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope
Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture
Eugene F. Irschick
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The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
Catherine B. Asher
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Imagining India
Lata Mani
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The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence
Lawrence Ziring
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The New Cambridge History of India: Sorio-Religious Reform Movements in British India
Gail Minault
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Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
The Expedient Utopian: Bandaranaike and Ceylon
Shantha K. Hennayake
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A General Guide to the India Office Records
James H. Nye
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Women, Work and Marriage in Urban India: A Study of Dual- and Single-Earner Couples
Women, Poverty and Resources
Susan Seymour
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The Third World and Other Stories
Richard J. Cohen
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Census of India: Census Atlas, National Volume, 1981
Joseph E. Schwartzberg
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

After Duwagan: Deforestation, Succession, and Adaptation in Upland Luzon, Philippines
Bruce Koppel
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Muslim Separatism: The Moros of Southern Philippines and the Malays of Southern Thailand
Raymond Scupin
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Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam
Marilyn B. Young
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Lao Peasants Under Socialism
Charles F. Keyes
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Semelai Culture and Resin Technology
Lynn Thomas
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Refugees as Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese in America
The Boat People and Achievement in America: A Study of Family Life, Hard Work, and Cultural Values
Joel M. Halpern
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Unity and Diversity: Regional Economic Development in Indonesia Since 1970
Thomas R. Leinbach
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Vietnam's Intervention in Cambodia in International Law
Ben Kiernan
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Bugis Weddings: Rituals of Social Location in Modern Indonesia
Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
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U.S.-Thailand Relations in a New International Era
Danny Unger
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Dô'i Mó'i: Economic Reforms and Development Policies in Vietnam
William J. Duiker
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Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860–1910
Sharon Carstens
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Japanese Relations with Vietnam: 1951–1987
Tsuneo Akaha
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An Age in Motion: Popular Radicalism in Java, 1912–1926
Bernhard Dahm
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Reading Southeast Asia: Translation of Contemporary Japanese Scholarship on Southeast Asia
William H. Frederick
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Ethics, Wealth, and Salvation: A Study in Buddhist Social Ethics
Grant A. Olson
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Mother of Writing: The Origin and Development of a Hmong Messianic Script
David Strecker
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Lost Years: My 1, 632 Days in Vietnamese Reeducation Camps
Dinh-Hoa Nguyen
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Sex, Money and Morality: Prostitution and Tourism in Southeast Asia
Pasuk Phongpaichit
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The Political Economy of Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia
Evelyn Colbert
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Book Reviews—Video and Film Review

How to Behave
James M. Freeman; Nguyễn Đình Hūʾu
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Erratum

Erratum
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Obituary

Sukhamoy Chakravarty (1934–1990)
George Rosen
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