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Chinese Religions: The State of the Field, Part II. Living Religious Traditions: Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam and Popular Religion

Introduction

Daniel L. Overmyer

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Taoism

Franciscus Verellen

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Confucianism

Rodney Taylor; Gary Arbuckle

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Buddhism

John R. McRae

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Islam

Dru C. Gladney

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Popular Religion

Stephen F. Teiser

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Articles

Village-State Relations in Vietnam: The Effect of Everyday Politics on Decollectivization

Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet

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A New Look at Old Southeast Asia

Craig J. Reynolds

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Dying before the Mahābhārata War: Martial and Transsexual Bodybuilding for Aravāṉ

Alf Hiltebeitel

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Narrating Lives: A Mughal Empress, A French Nabob, A Nationalist Muslim Intellectual

Barbara D. Metcalf

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Communications to the Editor

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Conflict and Accommodation in Early Modern East Asia: Essays in Honour of Erik Zürcher

Lynn Struve

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The History and Geography of Human Genes

Brian Chisholm

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Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema

Panivong Norindr

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Mythologies du XXe siècle (Dumézil, Lévi-Strauss, Eliade)

Alf Hiltebeitel

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The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing East Asian Experiences

Alan P. L. Liu

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Buddhist Behavioral Codes and the Modern World: An International Symposium

Paul Nietupski

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Knowledge Across Cultures, Universities East and West

Heidi Ross

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Japan and the Pacific Free Trade Area

Terutomo Ozawa

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Industrial Structures and the Development of Small and Medium Enterprise Linkages: Examples from East Asia

Ming Ivory

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Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies

Janet Contursi

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The Final Confrontation: Japan's Negotiations with the United States. 1941

Michael A. Barnhart

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Taxation and Economic Development Among Pacific Asian Countries

John F. Due

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Telecommunications in the Pacific Basin: An Evolutionary Approach

John Ure

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Technology Diffusion, Productivity Employment, and Phase Shifts in Developing Economies

Bruce L. Reynolds

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The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring

William Wei

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From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union

Jeanne L. Wilson

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Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World

Frank B. Gibney

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Buddhism: A History

Donald K. Swearer

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The Failure of Political Islam

Jean Berlie

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Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

Michael Adas

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Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia

Neville S. Arachchige Don

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Human Development Report 1994

Walter E. Hoadley

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Social Costs of Economic Restructuring in Asia and the Pacific. Development Papers No. 15

John Sidel

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The Dragon, the Lion, and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949–1958

Shizhang Hu

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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Civil Law in Qing and Republican China

Thomas Buoye

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The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China

Susan E. Nelson

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Li Hung-chang and China's Early Modernization

Mary Backus Rankin

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Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752—1835). (The Qing Empire as Vision and Reality: Tibet Seen Through Sung Yun's Career and Writings.)

Gertraude Roth Li

View articletitled, Das Qing-Imperium als Vision und Wirklichkeit: Tibet in Laufbahn und Schriften des Song Yun (1752—1835). (The Qing Empire as Vision and Reality: Tibet Seen Through Sung Yun's Career and Writings.)

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Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to ‘the People’
Traditional Chinese Penal Law

Beatrice S. Bartlett

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The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, 1555–1636

Marsha Weidner

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War and Popular Culture: Resistance in Modern China, 1937–1945

Perry Link

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Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism

Marc Blecher

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Learning from Mt. Hua: A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory

Anne Burkus-Chasson

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Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese Medical Elite

Judith Liu; Donald P. Kelly

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Industrial Reformers in Republican China

Emily Honig

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Taiwan: National Identity and Democratization

John F. Copper

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Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History

Jerry Dennerline

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Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication
The Strategies of Politeness in the Chinese Language

John S. Rohsenow

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Book Reviews—Japan

Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language

David P. Shea

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Japanese Education Since 1945: A Documentary Study
Education Reform in Postwar Japan: The 1946 U.S. Education Mission

Anne B. Imamura

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Humanitarianism and the Emperor's Japan, 1877–1977

Alexis Bray Dudden

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The Actor's Image. Print Makers of the Katsukawa School

David Waterhouse

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A Waka Anthology. Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup

Sarah M. Strong

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Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima

E. Bruce Reynolds

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Japan's First Modern War: Army and Society in the Conflict with China, 1894–1895

Robert John Perrins

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Japan, NAFTA and Europe. Trilateral Cooperation or Confrontation

Baldwin Ranson

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Zenkōji and its Icon

X. Jie Yang

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Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Laurel Rasplica Rodd

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European Power and the Japanese Challenge

Gerald D. Sullivan

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Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachings

Richard W. Anderson

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World War II and the Transformation of Business Systems

Kiyoshi Kawahito

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Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales

William Wayne Farris

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Book Reviews—Korea

White Badge
Silver Stallion

Michael D. Shin

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The Transformation of South Korea: Reform and Reconstruction in the Sixth Republic Under Roh Tae Woo, 1987–1992

Manwoo Lee

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Landownership under Colonial Rule: Korea's Japanese Experience, 1900–1935

Michael A. Schneider

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Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea

Marshall R. Pihl

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State and Society in Contemporary Korea

Roger L. Janelli

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Korean Options in a Changing International Order

Samuel S. Kim

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Asian Flashpoint: Security and the Korean Peninsula

Kongdan Oh

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India
Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India
The Issue at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women's Movement in India

Steve Derné

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The Last Nizam: The Life and Times of Mir Osman Ali Khan

Karen Leonard

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Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia

William S. Sax

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Islam and Indian Regions

James W. Laine

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Transport and Communications in India Prior to Steam Locomotion, Volume 1: Land Transport. In French Studies in South Asian Culture and Society VII

Robert G. Varady

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Forging Identities: Gender, Communities and the State

Alice W. Clark

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Privatization in Bangladesh: Economic Transition in a Poor Country
The Grameen Bank: Poverty Relief in Bangladesh

Robert LaPorte, Jr

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Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795–1895

Pamela Price

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The Life of the Buddha: Ancient Scriptural and Pictorial Traditions

Daphne Lange Rosenzweig

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The Life of a Text; Performing of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas

Velcheru Narayana Rao

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Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture

Peter J. Claus

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The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community

Azim Nanji

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Managing Common Pool Resources: Principles and Case Studies

Arun Agrawal

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Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

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S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947–1977
States, Nations, Sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India and the Tamil Eelam Movement

Steven Kemper

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John Stuart Mill and India
Anticolonialism in British Politics: The Left and the End of Empire, 1918–1964

Dane Kennedy

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia

Carmen Barker Lemay

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Transformation with Industrialization in Peninsular Malaysia

Thomas R. Leinbach

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The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia

Charles Keyes

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Capital and Entrepreneurship in South-East Asia

Mary Somers Heidhues

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The Economic Impact of Demographic Change in Thailand, 1980–2015: An Application of the HOMES Household Forecasting Model

Peter F. Bell

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Southeast Asia in the World Economy: A Regional Geography

Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr

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Village Java Under the Cultivation System, 1830–70

Alfons van der Kraan

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Burmese Crafts: Past and Present

Philip Kitley

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In the Shadow of Change: Women in Indonesian Literature

Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

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When the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam

David Hunt

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Indonesia's New Order: The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Transformation
A Nation in Waiting: Indonisia in the 1990s

Daniel S. Lev

View articletitled, Indonesia's New Order: The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Transformation A Nation in Waiting: Indonisia in the 1990s

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Historical Dictionary of Malaysia

Donna J. Amoroso

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The Making of an Islamic Political Discourse in Southeast Asia

Mark R. Woodward

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Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance, 1940–1945

Benjamin A. Batson

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Malaysian Development: A Retrospective

Colin Barlow

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Nomads of the Borneo Rainforest: The Economics, Politics, and Ideology of Settling Down

Jérôme Rousseau

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Renovating the Vietnamese Communist Party: Nguyen Van Linh and the Programme for Organizational Reform, 1987–91

Carlyle A. Thayer

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Gentle Janus, Merchant Prince: The VOC and the Tightrope of Diplomacy in the Malay World, 1740–1800

Dianne Lewis

View articletitled, Gentle Janus, Merchant Prince: The VOC and the Tightrope of Diplomacy in the Malay World, 1740–1800

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Kinship, Property, and Inheritance in Kerinci, Central Sumatra

Susan Rodgers

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Patterns and Illusions: Thai History and Thought

Katherine A. Bowie

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Singapore Women: Three Decades of Change

Jason Tan

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Macroeconomic Policies, Crises, and Long-Term Growth in Indonesia, 1965–90

Donald R. Snodgrass

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Soul, Spirit, and Mountain: Preoccupations of Contemporary Indonesian Painters

Kenneth M. George

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Other Books Received

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Obituaries

Susan G. Hadden (1945–1995)

Richard W. Lariviere

View articletitled, Susan G. Hadden (1945–1995)

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Jack L. Dull (1930–1995)

Frank F. Conlon

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Charles O. Hucker (1919–1994)

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In This Issue

Editor's Note

Chinese Religions: The State of the Field, Part II. Living Religious Traditions: Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam and Popular Religion

Articles

Communications to the Editor

Book Reviews—Asia General

Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia

Book Reviews—Japan

Book Reviews—Korea

Book Reviews—South Asia

Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Other Books Received

Obituaries

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