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...J. S. Gregory Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 VOL. XL, No. 4 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES AUGUST 1981 Obituaries Prescott Clarke (1935-1980) Prescott Clarke, named after the great American historian W. H. Prescott, but known to his friends simply as Pete, died of cancer...

... not technical. It de- serves wide attention. The foreword by Sir George Sansom, British expert on Japanese affairs, does not fit into the book at all. One wonders why it was included. If anything it is a defense, or better an apology, and as that it is not convincing. Clark University S. VAN VALKENBURG ...

.... ,. ,. n, , ,r . Clark University b. VAN VALKENBURG The maker of modern Japan: The life of Tokugawa Ieyasu. BY A. L. SADLER. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937; New York: W . W . Norton, distributors, 1941. 429 p. $4.75. In writing a biography of the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, Pro- fessor Sadler...

... period as a whole. Clark University GEORGE H . BLAKESLEE Far Eastern trade of the United States. BY ETHEL B. DIETRICH. New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1940. xii, 116 p. $1.00. The problem of Japanese trade expansion in the post-war situation. BY MIRIAM S. FARLEY. New York: Institute of Pacific...

... out plans for improvement. Similar studies have probably been made for other provinces and after the war we may expect a complete survey of Chinese land utilization. S. VAN VALKENBURG Clark University ...

...Hugh R. Clark Abstract This article argues that the study of China's history has long been caught in a teleological trap that presumes that history could have had only one evolutionary track. The author explains how he came to recognize the problems inherent in the teleological trap...

... ordination so that he could, rather conspicuously one imagines, farm. Despite these two lacunae, this is obviously an excellent book. ALAN COLE Lewis and Clark College The Natural Philosophy ofChu Hsi, 1130-1200. By KlM Y U N G SlK. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 235. Philadelphia: American...

...?" Dr. Thompson has done a great service in calling our attention to prob- lems we face today and presenting them logically and eloquently. It is a job well done. . , TT . .. Clark University S. VAN VALKENBURG America and Russia in the world community. BY HAROLD H. FISHER. Claremont, California...

... in Southeast Asia; however, their inability to explain why these relationships are changing rapidly seriously limits the practical value of this volume. DAVID M. KUMMER Clark University Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia. Edited by AlHWA O N G and MICHAEL G. PELETZ...

... focus in these two books masterfully illustrates theological, sociopolitical, and historical elements, the sum total of modern Japanese theater has a wider embrace. J O H N K. GILLESPIE Clarke Consulting Group, New York City ...

... whatever integration or contradictions between government and society that state expansion generates. CYNTHIA ENLOE Clark University Sulu and Sabah: A Study of British Policy towards the Philippines and North Borneo from the Late Eighteenth Century. By NICHOLAS TARLING. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University...

... these reservations. But let us hope that this auspicious beginning will serve as inspiration for future endeavors to fill the gaps that have been opened here. J O H N K. GILLESPIE Clarke Consulting Group The Demography of Sociopolitical Conflict in Japan, 1721-1846. By JAMES W . W H I T E . Japan Research Monograph...

... of Plath's suggestions, largely unfulfilled. GERALD FIGAL Lewis and Clark College Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modem Japanese Prose Narrative. By J A M E S A. Fujn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993- xvii, 287 pp. $40.00. In the wake of deconstruction, though belatedly in our field...

..., an analysis that ignores the political context cannot offer a full picture. DAVID M. KUMMER Clark University Ageing in East and South-East Asia. By D A V I D R. PHILLIPS. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. £30.00. There have been a number of useful studies on aging in Asia. In the early 1980s, C. Ikels (Aging...

... about Japan and ourselves over the decades since these important books were published. STEFAN TANAKA Clark University The Cambridge History ofJapan. Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century. Edited by PETER D U U S . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xx, 866 pp. $89.50. This accessible, well-written...

... chastity and suicide have yet to be convincingly explained. PAUL S. R O P P Clark University Transforming Agriculture in Taiwan: The Experience of theJoint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. By JOSEPH A. YAGER. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. xvi, 301 pp. $36.50. If one is to unlock the secrets...

... to further research on the subjects discussed. Overall, the book is a significant addition to the discipline of intellectual history of Japan. MICHIKO Y. AOKI Clark University KOREA The Colonial Origins of Korean Enterprise, 1919-1945- By D E N N I S L. M C N A M A R A . New York: Cambridge University Press...

... workings of Chinese political parties that need not primarily rely on memoirs written many years after the events. MARILYN LEVINE Lewis-Clark State College Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224. By PAUL J . SMITH. Cambridge, Mass...