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Javanese Voters: A Case Study of Election Under a Hegemonic Party System

John J. MacDougall

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Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations

Sheldon Garon

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Tragedy and Salvation in the Floating World: Chikamatsu's Double Suicide Drama as Millenarian Discourse

Steven Heine

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Traditional Chinese Fiction—The State of the Field

Robert E. Hegel

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A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong's Court: The Meanings of the Fragrant Concubine

James A. Millward

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The Soviet Union's Secret Diplomacy Concerning the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1924–1925

Bruce A. Elleman

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The Interpretation of Thunder

Charles E. Hammond

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Cultural Nationalism in East Asia: Representation and Identity

Stefan Tanaka

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The New Industrializing Economies of East Asia

Dick K. Nanto

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The Politics of Women's Education: Perspectives from Asia, Africa and Latin America

Ruth Hayhoe

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Melodrama and Asian Cinema

Douglas Wilkerson

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British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire

Kevin Gilmartin

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New East Asian Economic Development: Interacting Capitalism and Socialism

Sunwoong Kim

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Human Rights and the New World Order

Peter Van Ness

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To See the Dawn: Baku, 1920—First Congress of the Peoples of the East

Dan Jacobs

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Synthesis of Traditional and Modern in the Evolution of Third World Societies

Gilbert Rozman

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Buddhism and Christianity: Rivals and Allies

Frank J. Hoffman

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How the Peace Was Lost: The 1935 Memorandum

Akira Iriye

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Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870–1940

Sharon Carstens

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The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-State at Bay

Dawa Norbu

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward

Shaoguang Wang

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The Partition of the Steppe: The Struggle of the Russians, Manchus, and the Zunghar Mongols for Empire in Central Asia, 1619–1758. A Study in Power Politics

Elizabeth Endicott-West

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The Market Mechanism and Economic Reforms in China

Barry Naughton

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The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period

Beverly Bossler

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Chinese Arms Transfers: Purpose, Patterns, and Prospects in the New World Order

Eric Hyer

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Shanghai 1927–1937: Municipal Power, Locality and Modernization

Bryna Goodman

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Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince: Huang Tsung-hsi's Ming-i tai-fang lu

Hung-Lam Chu

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Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor

Ming K. Chan

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The Inner Opium War

Marianne Bastid-Bruguiere

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Zweifei am Altertum: Gu Jiegang und die Diskussion über Chinas Alte Geschichte als Konsequenz der “Neuen Kulturbewegung” ca. 1915–1923

Qingjia Edward Wang

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The Political Economy of Chinese Development

Carl Riskin

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The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China

David Bachman

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Bulls in the China Shop and Other Sino-American Encounters

Stanley B. Lubman

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Hong Kong in Chinese History, Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913

David Faure

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Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China

Mary G. Mazur

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Forgotten Traditions of Ancient Chinese Medicine: A Chinese View from the Eighteenth Century

Hsiung Ping-Chen

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From Friend to Comrade: The Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920–1927

Marilyn A. Levine

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The Canon of Supreme Mystery

Sarah A. Queen

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To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York

William Wei

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Book Reviews—Japan

Conversations with Shōtetsu

Thomas H. Rohlich

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Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays

Wayne C. McWilliams

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Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business

Bruce R. Dalgaard

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Postwar Japan as History

Michael A. Barnhart

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Righting a Wrong. Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Donald Teruo Hata, Jr

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The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburō: Modernism in Translation

Roger K. Thomas

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The Organization of Japanese Prosody

Mary E. Beckman

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Academic Freedom and the Japanese Imperial University, 1868–1939

Yoshikuni Igarashi

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Rain and Snow: The Umbrella in Japanese Art

Laura S. Kaufman

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Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Selected Readings
Japanese Religion and Society: Paradigm of Structure and Change

Robert S. Ellwood

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Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment

Judy Tachibana

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Attunement through the Body

Taitetsu Unno

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Voluntary Death in Japan

Eiji Sekine

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Japan's Political Marketplace
The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms

Bai Gao

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Japanese Sense of Self

John Nelson

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The Knowledge-Value Revolution, or, A History of the Future

Naoki Sakai

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Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theatre

M. Cody Poulton

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Book Reviews—Korea

Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel
Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction

Stephen Epstein

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Korea under Roh Tae-woo: Democratization, Northern Policy and Inter-Korean Relations

John Kie-Chiang Oh

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Korea in the 1990s: Prospects for Unification

Kyung Ae Park

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Sherpa of Khumbu: People, Livestock, and Landscape

Donald A. Messerschmidt

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Trade, Tariffs and Empire: Lancashire and British Policy in India, 1919–1939
Colonies and the Empire: India, 1890-1914

Douglas E. Haynes

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Gods, Guardians, and Lovers: Temple Sculptures from North India, A.D. 700—1200

Geri H. Malandra

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Purāṇa Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts

Alf Hiltebeitel

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Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America

Bruce La Brack

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Britain's Persian Connection 1798–1828: Prelude to the Great Game in Asia

Edward B. Jones

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The Traditional Indian Theory and Practice of Music and Dance

Allyn Miner

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New Fiscal and Economic Strategies for Growth in Developing Countries
The Political Economy of Suppressed Markets: Controls, Rent Seeking and Interest Group Behaviour in the Indian Sugar and Cement Industries

Anthony P. D'Costa

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Kabir Legends and Ananta Das's Kabir Parachai

Kenneth E. Bryant

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Dilemmas of National Security and Cooperation in India and Pakistan
Pakistan and Geostrategic Environment: A Study of Foreign Policy

Iftikhar H. Malik

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The Sikhs: History, Religion, and Society

Verne A. Dusenbery

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Das Brahmanische Totenritual Nach der Antyeṣṭipaddhati des Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa

Knut A. Jacobsen

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India's Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in Its Development
The Political Economy of India's Public Sector: Policy and Performance

John Adams

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Pakistan: Political and Economic History Since 1947
Pakistan Under the Military: Eleven Years of Zia ul-Haq

Rasul Bakhsh Rais

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Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947
The World of the Rural Labourer in Colonial India

Tara Sethia

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The Seasons: Kālidāsa's Ṛtusaṃhāra

Martha Ann Selby

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The Pursuit of Urdu Literature: A Select History

Janet M. Powers

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The Faith of Ascetics and Lay Smārtas: A Study of the Śaṅkaran Tradition of Śṛṅgeri

Andrew O. Fort

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On Living in a Revolution and Other Essays

Owen M. Lynch

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Śaṃkara-Mandāra-Saurabha: Eine Legende Über das Leben des Philosophen Śaṃkara

Carl Olson

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Struggle of the Hindu Balinese Intellectuals: Developments in Modern Hindu Thinking in Independent Indonesia

Robert W. Hefner

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Balinese Worlds

J. Stephen Lansing

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The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era

Norman G. Owen

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Fields from the Sea: Chinese Junk Trade with Siam during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Carl A. Trocki

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Development and Social Welfare: Indonesia's Experiences Under the New Order

Dwight Y. King

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Officiële Bescheiden Betreffende de Nederlands-lndonesische Betrekkingen 1945–1950

Paul W. van der Veur

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Earth to Heaven: The Royal Animal-shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires

Robert S. Wicks

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Japanese Cultural Policies in Southeast Asia during World War II

William H. Frederick

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Looking Back on the Vietnam War: A 1990s Perspective on the Decisions, Combat, and Legacies

Edwin E. Moïse

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The Village in Perspective: Community and Locality in Rural Thailand

Nicola Tannenbaum

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Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia

Karl G. Heider

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Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia

Rita Smith Kipp

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Tantri Reliefs on Ancient Javanese Candi

Nancy Dowling

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Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society

Alfred W. McCoy

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The Dynamics of Economic Policy Reform in South-east Asia and the South-west Pacific

Stephen A. Douglas

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Classical Dance and Theatre in South-East Asia

R. Anderson Sutton

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Remittances and Returnees: The Cultural Economy of Migration in Ilocos

Anita Beltran Chen

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The Integrative Art of Modern Thailand
Modern Art in Thailand: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Astri Wright

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Bangkok Slums: Review and Recommendations

Richard A. O'Connor

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Vietnam: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism

David Hunt

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The Novel in Javanese: Aspects of its Social and Literary Character

William H. Frederick

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National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand, 1939–1989

Kennon Breazeale

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Bangsawan: A Social and Stylistic History of Popular Malay Opera

James D. Chopyak

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Variation in Central Javanese Gamelan Music: Dynamics of a Steady State

Roger Vetter

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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume I: From Early Times to c. 1800

Michael Aung-Thwin

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The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia. Volume II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

William H. Frederick

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Forest Monks and the Nation State: An Anthropological and Historical Study in Northeastern Thailand

Ruth-Inge Heinze

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Beyond the Java Sea: Art of Indonesia's Outer Island

Kathleen M. Adams

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Two Worlds of Islam: Interaction between Southeast Asia and the Middle East

William R. Roff

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Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America

John Van Esterik

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Film and Video Reviews

Turnim Hed: Courtship and Music in Papua New Guinea

Lorraine V. Aragon

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The Tale of Genji

Karen L. Brock

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Other Books Received

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Obituary

Peter Ananda (1926–1993)

A. Kohar Rony

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Communication to the Editor

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Film and Video Reviews

Other Books Received

Obituary

Communication to the Editor

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