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Volume 56, Issue 4

November 1, 1997

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ISSN 0021-9118

EISSN 1752-0401

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Articles
Communications to the Editor
Book Reviews—Asia General
Book Reviews—China
Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Book Reviews—Japan
Book Reviews—Korea
Book Reviews—South Asia
Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Books Received
Erratum
Obituaries
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Culture, Virtue, And Political Transformation In Contemporary Northern Viet Nam

Shaun Kingsley Malarney

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House/Daughter/Nation: Interiority, Architecture, and Historical Imagination in Janaki Majumdar's “Family History”

Antoinette Burton

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Philippine politics in Town, District, and Province: Bossism in Cavite and Cebu

John T. Sidel

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Corruption in Eighteenth-Century China

Nancy E. Park

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For Humanity. For the Sinhalese. Dharmapala as Crusading Bosat

Michael Roberts

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Communications to the Editor

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Self and Deception: a Cross-Cultural Philosophical Inquiry

Vera Schwarcz

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The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behaviour Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination 1750–1918

Srinivas Aravamudan

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The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan

Robert Harrist

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The Roles of the United States, Russia, and China in the New World Order

Elizabeth Wishnick

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Book Reviews—China

Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947–1958

Harry Harding

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A Ming Society: T'ai-ho County, Kiangsi, in the Fourteenth the Seventeenth Centuries

Timothy Brook

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Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893–1945

Philip F. Williams

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H. B. Morse: Customs Commisioner and Historian of China

Stephen R. MacKinnon

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Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto

Linda Benson

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The Kuomintang and the Democratization of Taiwan

John F. Copper

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Civil Justice in China: Representation and Practice in the Qing

William C. Jones

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To Rebel Is Justified: A Rhetorical Study of China's Cultural Revolution Movement, 1966–1969

Michael Schoenhals

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The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China

Maris Gillette

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American Images of China, 1931–1949

Edward Rhoads

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Print and Politics: Shibao and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China

Roxann Prazniak

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Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms

Bates Gill

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Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874–1917

Lawrence Kessler

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China's Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration since 1912

James Millward

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The Shanghai Green Gang: Politics and Organized Crime, 1919–1937

Parks M. Coble

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A Monetary History of China

Hans Ulrich Vogel

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From Chronicle to Canon: The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn, according to Tung Chung-shu

Gary Arbuckle

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China and Other Matters

Stephen Durrant

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Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China

Joseph Bosco

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Hong Kong, 1997. The Politics of Transition
Hong Kong: China's Challenge

Ming K. Chan

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Manchus

Laura E. Hess

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Recognizing Reality. Dharmakīrti's Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

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Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers

June Teufel Dreyer

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The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York)

Virginia Danielson

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Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations

Dawa Norbu

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Book Reviews—Japan

Regent Redux: A Life of the Statesman-Scholar Ichijō Kaneyoshi

Eleanor Kerkham

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Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting 1868–1968

Gennifer Weisenfeld

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An Empire of Schools: Japan's Universities and the Molding of a National Power Elite

Gail R. Benjamin

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The Moral and Political Naturalism of Baron Katō Hiroyuki

George M. Wilson

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Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View

Gilbert Rozman

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The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract

Susan Orpett Long

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The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy

Richard Rice

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Japan's Trade Policy: Action or Reaction?

Terutomo Ozawa

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Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyoto

Barbara Hamill Sato

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The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations

Leonard H. Lynn

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North Koreans in Japan Today: Language, Ideology, and Identity

Vipan Chandra

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The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing

Janice Brown

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The Dilemma of the Modern In Japanese Fiction

Brett De Bary

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Foreign Direct Investment in Japan

Walter Hatch

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Book Reviews—Korea

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea

David R. McCann

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The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security

Sheldon W. Simon

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual
Hierarchy and Its Discontents: Culture and the Politics of Consciousness in Caste Society

Steven Kemper

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The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity

Mattison Mines

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Inside the Drama-House: Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

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Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, India

Sandria B. Freitag

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The Religious World of Kirtī Śrī: Buddhism, Art, and Politics in Late Medieval Sri Lanka

Deborah Winslow

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Ideology and Status of Sanskrit: Contributions to the History of the Sanskrit Language

Robert P. Goldman

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Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: Women, Ritual, and Hospitality in Ancient India

Ellison Banks Findly

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India's Persistent Dilemma: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform
Agrarian Questions

Ronald J. Herring

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Unmaking the Nation: The Politics of Identity and History in Modern Sri Lanka

Dennis B. McGilvray

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The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and Conflict

E. Valentine Daniel

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Praises to a Formless God: Nirguṇī Texts from North India

Philip Lutgendorf

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Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham

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Painters, Paintings and Books: An Essay on Indo-Persian Technical Literature, 12–19th Centuries

Catherine B. Asher

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Indus Age: The Writing System

J. Mark Kenoyer

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The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott

Tessa Bartholomeusz

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Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870–1920

David Gilmartin

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Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast

Douglas E. Haynes

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Myths, Saints and Legends in Medieval India

Sagaree Sengupta

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

The Revolution Falters: The Left in Philippine Politics After 1986

Joel Rocamora

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Industrialization in Malaysia: Import Substitution and Infant Industry Performance

Milton J. Esman

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Indonesia Assessment 1995: Development in Eastern Indonesia

Dwight Y. King

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Borneo Log: The Struggle for Sarawak's Forests

James Chin

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Eight Prison Camps: A Dutch Family in Japanese Java

Jean Gelman Taylor

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Health Care in Java: Past and Present

Robert van Niel

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Alternative Perspectives in Third World Development: The Case of Malaysia

Martin Rudner

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The Loyal Opposition: Americans in North Vietnam, 1965–1972

Marilyn B. Young

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Southeast Asian Security in the New Millennium

Evelyn Colbert

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From Plan to Market: The Economic Transition in Vietnam

Gary Larsen

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Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography

Joel Kuipers

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Towards an Anthropology of Prayer: Javanese Ethnolinguistic Studies

Matthew Isaac Cohen

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The Thread of Life: Toraja Reflections on the Life Cycle

Roxana Waterson

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The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century

J. Norman Parmer

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“Male” and “Female” in Developing Southeast Asia

Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

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Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: A Case Study of Community-based Weaving Industry in West Java

Hans Antlöv

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Elephants of Thailand in Myth, Art and Reality

Robert L. Brown

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Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia

Michael G. Peletz

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Cooking, Care and Domestication: A Culinary Ethnography of the Tai Yong, Northern Thailand

Nicola Tannenbaum

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Books Received

Other Books Received

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Erratum

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Obituaries

Robert Lyons Danly 1947–1997

Ken K. Ito; Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

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J. D. Pearson 1911–1997

Raymond Lum

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