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Saeki Yuuichi 1923–1998

R. Bin Wong

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Articles

Of Consorts and Harlots in Thai Popular History

Hong Lysa

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Beyond “Pure” Literature: Mimesis, Formula, and the Postmodern in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki

Matthew C. Strecher

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Merit And Mothering: Women and Social Welfare in Taiwanese Buddhism

Chien-Yu Julia Huang; Robert P. Weller

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Confucian Commentary and Chinese Intellectual History

Daniel K. Gardner

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Lower Strata, Older Races, and Aboriginal Peoples: Racial Anthropology and Mythical History Past and Present

Sumit Guha

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On the Absence of Privately Owned, Publicly Traded Corporations in China: The Kirby Puzzle

J. Ray Bowen, II; David C. Rose

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Communications to the Editor

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Book Reviews—Asia General

Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia

Arif Dirlik

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Spratlys: The Dispute in the South China Sea

Victor Prescott

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Oriental Enlightenment. The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought

Wilhelm Halbfass

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An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1830–1930

Janet Hunter

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Sustaining Export-Oriented Development: Ideas from East Asia

Young-Kwan Yoon

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Rivalry and Revolution in South and East Asia

Šumit Ganguly

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How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings

John Ross Carter

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Asia's Orthographic Dilemma

Nanette Gottlieb

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Democratization in Southeast and East Asia

Clark D. Neher; Robert Dayley

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Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia's Four New Tigers: A Comparative Perspective

Anita Chan

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Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1948–53

James I. Matray

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Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures

Dean W. Collinwood

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Rural Poverty in Developing Asia: Volume 2—Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Philippines and Thailand

Ramdas Menon

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Feminist Nationalism

Ann Cordilia

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Book Reviews—China

Chūgoku shichiya gyōshi

Ronald Suleski

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Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Richard Madsen

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The Soldier and the Citizen, The Role of the Military in Taiwan's Development

Peter W. Colm

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History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth

James L. Hevia

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Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part III. Agro-Industries and Forestry. Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology

Nathan Sivin

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In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record

Madeline K. Spring

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Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927

Julian Chang

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The Pure Land Tradition: History and Development

Paul Nietupski

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Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih

Stuart H. Sargent

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Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai

Ming-Bao Yu

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Taiwan's Security in the Changing International System

T. Y. Wang

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China Briefing: The Contradictions of Change

Suzanne Ogden

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The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants and the Opium Trade

James L. Hevia

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Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform

Shiping Zheng

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The Ways of Confucianism: Investigations in Chinese Philosophy

James D. Sellmann

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Taoism: Growth of a Religion

Livia Kohn

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Salt of the Earth: The Political Origins of Peasant Protest and Communist Revolution in China

Michael Gasster

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High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China

Gregory B. Lee

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In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China

Dali L. Yang

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

The Snow Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet and the Dalai Lama

Janet L. Upton

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Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier

Eva-Maria Stolberg

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Studies in Medieval Inner Asia

Michael R. Drompp

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Die Mongolen in Asien und Europa

Eva-Maria Stolberg

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Book Reviews—Japan

The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan

Bruce A. Coats

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Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism

Barbara Molony

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The Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

Hosea Hirata

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The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents

D. R. Howland

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The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan

W. Miles Fletcher, III

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Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance

Leon Hollerman

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Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends Life and Culture

Robert Borgen

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Hiroshima in History and Memory

Tom Engelhardt

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Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia

Walter Edwards

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Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition

Barbara E. Thornbury

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Sources of Ryūkyūan History and Culture in European Collections

David L. Howell

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Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context

Hiroshi Nara

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A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets

Jeffrey E. Hanes

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Immigration Policy and Foreign Workers in Japan

John Lie

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Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan

Robert Evans, Jr

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Japanese/English Code-Switching: Syntax and Pragmatics

Naomi Hanaoka McGloin

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Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868

Peter Nosco

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The Defeat of Japan

Alvin D. Coox

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The Folk Performing Arts: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan

Laurence R. Kominz

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Enlightenment Embodied: The Art of the Japanese Buddhist Sculptor (7th–14th Centuries)

Donald F. McCallum

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Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity

Karen Kelsky

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Small Firms in the Japanese Economy

Mark Fruin

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Book Reviews—Korea

Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent

Linda S. Lewis

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Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyŏngwŏn and the Late Chosŏn Dynasty

Fujiya Kawashima

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Chŏng Yagyong: Korea's Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism

Don Baker

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Book Reviews—South Asia

Lives of Indian Images

Frederick M. Asher

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Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India

Sumathi Ramaswamy

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Images of Women in Maharashtrian Literature and Religion

Kathleen M. Erndl

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Pahari Masters: Court Painters of North India

Ellen S. Smart

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The Agrarian Drama: The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India, 1934–1951

Walter Hauser

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Idioms of Improvement: Vidyasagar and Cultural Encounter in Bengal

David L. Curley

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Whose India? The Independence Struggle in British and Indian Fiction and History

Lawrence Needham

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Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia
Hope or Despair? Learning in Pakistan's Primary Schools

Nita Kumar

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The Foreign Policy of India and Her Neighbours
Democracy, Security, and Development in India

Srinivas Chary

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Célébrer le pouvoir: Dasaĩ, une fête royale au Népal

Francis Brassard

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Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra

Jules B. Levinson

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The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society

David L. White

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State, Society and Human Rights in South Asia

Chris Toffold

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The Demography of Famines: An Indian Historical Perspective

Marcia J. Frost

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Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement

Ashutosh Varshney

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Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali; A Translation of the Text, with Commentary, Introduction, and Glossary of Key Words

Joy Laine

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Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India

Thomas Metcalf

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Societies and Military Power. India and Its Armies

Douglas M. Peers

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The Dance of Śiva: Religion, Art and Poetry in South India

Karen Pechilis Prentiss

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The Northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu. An Indian Caste in the Process of Change

David Rudner

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Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects

Barbara D. Metcalf

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The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India

Michael D. Rabe

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros

Norman G. Owen

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Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era

Edwin E. Moise

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Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War

William Duiker

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Chinese Politics in Sarawak: A Study of the Sarawak United Peoples Party

Craig A. Lockard

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Shared Hopes, Separate Fears: Fifty Years of U. S.–Indonesian Relations

Stephen A. Douglas

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The Tet Offensive

David Hunt

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Language, Power, and Ideology in Brunei Darussalam

Donald E. Brown

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Madonnas and Martyrs: Militarism and Violence in the Philippines

Patricio N. Abinales

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Loggers, Monks, Students, and Entrepreneurs

E. Paul Durrenberger

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Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace

David Hunt

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Post-Marcos Politics: A Geographic and Statistical Analysis of the 1992 Philippine Elections

Ross Marlay

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Paz Marquez Benitez: One Woman's Life, Letters, and Writings

Helga E. Jacobson

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Sidelines: Writings from Tempo

R. William Liddle

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Vietnam Joins the World

David Rosenberg

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The Politics of Elections in Southeast Asia

James Chin

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Secret Army Secret War: Washington's Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam

Gregory H. Y. Robson

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Political Change in Southeast Asia: Trimming the Banyan Tree

Fred R. von der Mehden

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Militant Labor in the Philippines

Jane Hutchison

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Erratum

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Obituaries

Robert I. Crane 1920–1997

John L. Hill

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John Whitney Hall 1916–1997

Jeffrey P. Mass

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