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Volume 58, Issue 4

November 1, 1999

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ISSN 0021-9118

EISSN 1752-0401

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Articles
Book Reviews—General Asia
Book Reviews—China
Book Reviews—Inner Asia
Book Reviews—Japan
Book Reviews—South Asia
Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
Product Reviews—Video
Other Books Received
Obituaries
Annual Volume Contents
Contributors

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Presidential Address: “I Have Scinde”: Flogging a Dead (White Male Orientalist) Horse

Wendy Doniger

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Body, Discourse, and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Chinese Qigong

Jian Xu

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Guarding Beijing's Food Security in the Qing Dynasty: State, Market, and Police

Lillian M. Li; Alison Dray-Novey

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God Mothers, Good Mothers, Good Lovers, Godmothers: Gender Images in Thailand

James Ockey

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The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature

Margaret H. Childs

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Book Reviews—General Asia

Religious Diversity and Human Rights

Kevin Boyle

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On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History: Van Leur in Retrospect

Jos Gommans

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Going Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy

Rebecca Matthews

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China and India: Economic Performance and Business Strategies of Firms in the Mid-1990s

Richard S. Eckaus

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Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III, Book 1: A Century of Advance

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

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Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad, and Sexy

Matt Thorn

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The Changing Family in Comparative Perspective: Asia and the United States

Ellen Efron Pimentel

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Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edward Friedman

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Die Entzauberung Asiens: Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert

Lynn Zastoupil

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Akhil Gupta

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Feminism and World Religions

Nancy Auer Falk

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Buddhist Women Across Cultures: Realizations

Tessa Bartholomeusz

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Book Reviews—China

National Past-Times: Narrative Representation, and Power in Modern China

William Jankowiak

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The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China

Alexander Des Forges

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Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China

Carol Benedict

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Die Sowjetunion und das kommunistische China, 1945–1950: Der beschwerliche Weg zum Buendniss. (The Soviet Union and Communist China, 1945–1950: The Difficult Road to the Alliance.)

Thomas P. Bernstein

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Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution

Patricia Stranahan

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Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism

Yasuko Shin-Nakagawa

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Controlling From Afar: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824–1826

Peter C. Perdue

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Centre and Provinces: China 1978–1993: Power as a Non-Zero Sum Game

David S. G. Goodman

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The Changing Role of the British Protestant Missionaries in China, 1945–1952

Daniel H. Bays

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Understanding Confucian Philosophy: Classical and Sung-Ming

Bryan W. Van Norden

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Politics and Transcendent Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism

James A. Benn

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Son of Heaven and Heavenly Qaghan; Sui-Tang China and its Neighbors

David C. Wright

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Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism

Ellen R. Judd

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Taiwan: A New History

Alan M. Wachman

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Methods of the Way: Early Chinese Ethical Thought

Robert Eno

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Unstately Power, Volume II. Local Causes of China's Intellectual, Legal and Governmental Reforms

Tony Saich

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No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843–1943.

Nicholas R. Clifford

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Spaces of Their Own. Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China

Barbara Mittler

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Vignettes from the Late Ming: A Hsiao-p'in Anthology

Kenneth J. Hammond

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The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji

Jonathan Pease

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Book Reviews—Inner Asia

Education in Tibet. Policy and Practice Since 1950

A. Tom Grunfeld

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The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet

Matthew T. Kapstein

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Book Reviews—Japan

The Art of Balance in Health Policy

Robert Evans, Jr.

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Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy: Selected Documents

James W. Heisig

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Ghost of War: The Sinking of the Awa Maru and Japanese-American Relations, 1945–1995

Gregory Smits

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In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army

Akira Iriye

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Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko

J. Cohn

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Concerned Theatre Japan: The Graphic Art of Japanese Theatre 1960–1980

William A. Marotti

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Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha

Paul Varley

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The Legend of Gold and Other Stories

Marleigh Grayer Ryan

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Japan's Postwar Party Politics

Ray Christensen

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An Anti-Classical Political Economic Analysis: A Vision for the Next Century

Koichi Hamada

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Storied Lives: Japanese-American Students and World War II

Franklin Odo

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Japaner in der Neuen Welt: Eine teilannotierte Bibliographie von Werken zu Japanischen Einwanderern in Nordamerika in europaishcne Sprachen

Harumi Befu

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Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336–1573)

Gregory P. Levine

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Moving Mountains: Japanese Educational Reform

Mark Lincicome

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Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography

Elizabeth Horton Sharf

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Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Sarah E. Thompson

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Book Reviews—South Asia

South Asia

Douglas E. Haynes

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She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety

Steve Derné

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The Indian Economy: Major Debates Since Independence
India's Economic Reforms and Development: Essays for Manmoban Singh
Counting the Poor—Where Are the Poor in India?

Ira N. Gang

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Religions in Conflict: Ideology, Cultural Contact and Conversion in Late Colonial India

Tessa Bartholomeusz

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Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies

Joyce P. Jacobsen

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India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years

Amit Gupta

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The Lives of the Jain Elders

John E. Cort

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Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia

Paola Bacchetta

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Econometric Applications in India

Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

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Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus

Douglas M. Peers

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Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia

D. R. Sardesai

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Gender, Law, and Resistance in India

Ann Grodzins Gold

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The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849–194?

Pradeep Barua

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Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta

I. Bruce Watson

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Colonial Political Economy: Recruitment and Underdevelopment in the Punjab

Robert Nichols

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Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891—1970

Srilata Raman Müller

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Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora

Sunaina Maira

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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India. The Bengal Jute Industry

Madhavi Kale

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Indian Society through Personal Writings
Village, Caste, Gender and Method

Lawrence A. Babb

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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia

Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines

Alfred W. McCoy

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Rituals of National Loyalty: An Anthropology of the State and the Village Scout Movement in Thailand

Nicola Tannenbaum

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New Laos, New Challenges

Leedom Lefferts

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Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines

Helga E. Jacobson

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The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature and Music

Marc Jason Gilbert

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Palabas: Essays on Philippine Theater History

Vicente L. Rafael

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Face of Empire: United States-Philippine Relations, 1898–1946

Patricio N. Abinales

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Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives

Steve Lansing

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Language, Identity and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba

Susan Rodgers

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Imperial Imaginings: The Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection of the Philippines, 1890–1913

Robert L. Youngblood

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The Architecture of South-East Asia Through Travellers' Eyes

Nora A. Taylor

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Product Reviews—Video

Jose Rizal

Vincent Kelly Pollard

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Other Books Received

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Obituaries

David C. Evans 1940–1999

Mark R. Peattie

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A. Thomas Kirsch 1930–1999

Richard A. O'Connor

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Annual Volume Contents

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